Milenko Matanovic

A Community Builder & Visual Artist, and a Founding Director of Pomegranate Center

Multiple Victories: Pomegranate Center's Art of Creating Community-Crafted Gathering Pl...

Erik Hersman

Blogger & CEO of BRCK

Jake Barton

Principal & Founder of Local Projects

Michael Zimbalist

Vice president of research & development operations at The New York Times Company

Lukas Biewald

Founder and Chief Data Scientist of Weights & Biases

Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson

Fifth President of the Republic of Iceland

Jason Silva

Emmy-nominated TV Personality; Futurist; Host of National Geographic Channel’s “Brain Games”

Cesar Kuriyama

Director, Producer & TED Speaker; Known for 1 Second Everyday

Thomas Thwaites

Thomas Thwaites is a designer \"of a more speculative sort,\" he says.

Ben Goldacre

Physician; Best-Selling Academic & Science Writer

Bunker Roy

Founder of Barefoot College

Harald Haas

Communications Technology Innovator & Chair of Mobile Communications at the University of Edinburgh

Justin Hall-Tipping

The Energy Evangelist, Justin Hall-Tipping works on nano-energy startups -- mastering the electron to create power.

Marco Tempest

Cyber-Illusionist

Beau Lotto

Neuroscientist, Entrepreneur & Author of "Deviate"

The Neuroscience of Creativity, Perception, and Confirmation Bias

Daniel Kraft, M.D.

Physician-Scientist; Founder of Exponential Medicine; Chair for Medicine & Neuroscience at Singularity University

Sir Richard Branson

Businessman & Founder of Virgin Group

Dan Ariely

Behavioral Economist; Professor at Duke University; Author; Founding Member of The Center for Advanced Hindsight

Tal Golesworthy

Tal Golesworthy is an engineer and entrepreneur, working in research and development of combustion and air pollution control -- until he decided to innovate in his own health.

Apollo Robbins

Sleight-of-Hand Artist and Self-Described Gentleman Thief & Deception Specialist

Bart Knols

Scientist, Author, Entrepreneur

Don Levy

Media, Entertainment, and Technology Executive & Advisor

Mitch Resnick

Mitchel Resnick is LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, Director of the Okawa Center, and Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab.

Bruno Maisonnier

CEO and Founder of Aldebaran Robotics

Bastian Schaefer

Aircraft engineer

Scott Dinsmore

Founder of Live Your Legend

Bernie Krause

Natural sounds legend; records the sounds of endangered biospheres.

Yaron Herman

Reflective and precise, Yaron Herman plays piano jazz.

Tim Exile

Musician and software designer Tim Exile mixes interactivity into performance with his crowdsourced sonic creations.

Raffaello D'Andrea

Entrepreneur, Engineer, Artist, Professor of Dynamic Systems and Control