Alexander Blass, now 36, is an acclaimed entrepreneur and the youngest grand prize winner of the Daily Record's Top Innovator of the Year Award. Today he is one of the most sought after, inspirational, and dynamic keynote speakers to an array of audiences worldwide. He is also founder and inventor of the "eBay of Giving" and "Facebook Meets Pocketbook."... read full bio

Andrew Mason is the founder and CEO of Groupon, a Chicago-based website offering users deep discounts on local businesses. He graduated from Northwestern University in 2003 with a degree in music. After graduating from Northwestern, he worked in web design for Chicago entrepreneur Eric Lefkofsky. Mason stopped working with Lefkofsky in order to attend the University of Chicago's Harris School... read full bio

Ben Mezrich has created his own highly addictive genre of nonfiction, chronicling the amazing stories of young geniuses making tons of money on the edge of impossibility, ethics, and morality. He has authored eleven books, including the wildly successful Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions." His latest book, "The Accidental... read full bio

Dom Sagolla helped create Twitter in 2006, and shipped his first book, 140 CHARACTERS: Style Guide for Short Form, in October of 2009.In the digital age, it has become increasingly important - crucial, even - to harness the power of the short form. Dominic Sagolla's 140 CHARACTERS: Style Guide for Short Form aims to do for the short form what... read full bio

Eric Koester is the VP of Operations and General Counsel at Appature Inc., a technology company providing relationship marketing software, and a former attorney at Cooley LLP (previously with Heller Ehrman LLP's Venture Law Group) with a practice focused on emerging technology companies, venture capital firms and investment banks, with particular emphases on venture capital and bank financings, corporate partnerships,... read full bio

Author Frank Warren is the creator of the blog phenomenon The PostSecret Project, a collection of highly personal and artfully decorated postcards mailed anonymously from around the world, displaying the soulful secrets we never voice. The website for PostSecret is one of the most popular on the web. Forbes listed Frank Warren as the 4th most influential person on the... read full bio

Computer programmer and entrepreneur, Jack Dorsey is best known as the creator of Twitter. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and was fascinated by the technological challenge of coordinating taxi drivers, delivery vans and other fleets of vehicles that needed to remain in constant, real-time communication with one another. When he was 15, Dorsey wrote dispatch software that is... read full bio

Former Head of Marketing for Facebook and current CEO of Zuckerberg Media, Randi Zuckerberg makes it her business to stay several steps ahead of the next big thing. As one of the early employees at Facebook, Randi created and ran the social media pioneer's marketing program. Since starting Zuckerberg Media, she has hosted social productions and led the development of... read full bio

Terry Brock is an internationally recognized speaker and trainer in the areas of technology, the Internet and marketing. He has worked with professionals from organizations in many different fields including real estate, accounting, architecture, banking, sales, marketing, computers and others. He is a speaker in demand because of his practical, easy-to-understand manner and style. Brock is a regular columnist for... read full bio

Designer Yves Behar has produced some of the new millennium's most coveted objects, like the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset, and the XO laptop for One Laptop per Child. Over the past decade, Yves Behar and his firm fuseproject have become the design group that companies turn to for a game-changing idea. Take the re-invention of the Bluetooth headset, for... read full bio