Richard Florida

Leading Urbanist, Economist & Author of "The Rise of the Creative Class"

The Great Reset: How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work

Ray Kurzweil

Chairman of Kurzweil Technologies, Inventor & Futurist; Author of "How to Create a Mind"

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

Jimmy Wales

Founder of Wikipedia & Wikitribune

Graham Hill

Founder of Life Edited & TreeHugger.com

Parag Khanna

Managing Partner at FutureMap; Strategic Advisor to Governments & Global Companies; Bestselling Author; TED Speaker

Jason Clay

Senior Vice President of Food & Markets at WWF

Seth Berkley

Global Health Expert and Epidemiologist; Senior Advisor to Brown University Pandemic Center

Seth Berkley - 3ie Evidence Dialogues Interview Series

Clay Shirky

Expert on New Technology & Social Media, & How They Shape Culture; Professor & Distinguished Writer in Residence, NYU

Kurt Andersen

Host of "Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC" & Author

Anna Deavere Smith

Award-Winning Actress, Playwright & Social Commentator

Eric Schmidt

Co-Founder of Schmidt Futures and Former Executive Chairman at Alphabet Inc. & Former CEO of Google

Dean Kamen

Founder of FIRST; President of DEKA Research & Development Corporation

Van Jones

CEO of REFORM Alliance, CNN host, Emmy Award-winning Producer & NY Times Best-Selling Author

Paola Antonelli

Senior Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in the Department of Architecture & Design

Tiffany Shlain

Founder of The Webby Awards; Emmy-Nominated Filmmaker, Bestselling Author, Internet Pioneer & Futurist

Robert Bryce

Energy Expert, Veteran Journalist & Acclaimed Author

Calvin Trillin

Author, Columnist, Humorist & Political Satirist

Joseph Stiglitz

American Economist, Professor at Columbia University & Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2001

Peter Rojas

Co-founder of Gizmodo and of Engadget

Robert Hormats

Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates Inc.

Esther Dyson

Executive Founder of Way to Wellville

Peter Diamandis

Founder & Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation; Author; Named One of The World's 50 Greatest Leaders

Glenn Roberts

Wheat and Rice Farmer; Owner of Anson Mills

Brian Hoffstein

Contributing Writer

Cody Adams

Managing Editor of The Floating University.

Jeffrey Israel

Author & Jewish Studies Professor at Williams College

Shashi Tharoor

Diplomat & Author; Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General

Bill Gates

Co-Founder of Microsoft; Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation