Syed Karim is founder and CEO of Outernet, expert on information access and satellite communication, and a global TED speaker. Karim earned his B.A. in Social Entrepreneurship from Lake Forest College and earned his Master’s Degree in Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After graduating, he started his career as a research assistant at University of Illinois... read full bio
Steven Spear is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and at the Engineering Systems Division at MIT. Spear is a leading expert on how certain organizations achieve complex development, design and delivery efforts to produce unparalleled rates of internally generated, broad-based advancement and innovation. His research focuses on how the resulting leadership on reliability, agility, cost,... read full bio
Dr. Shefali Tsabary is an award-winning author, clinical psychologist and international speaker. Her award-winning first book, “The Conscious Parent”, was endorsed by Oprah as one of the most profound books on parenting she ever read. She has since released two more book, “Out of Control” and “The Awakened Family”. When Dr. Shefali is not authoring exceptional literature, she presents at... read full bio
Sons of an Illustrious Father are an alternative-indie band that consists of members Lilah Larson, Josh Aubin and Ezra Miller, the latter of which is also a popular actor. Miller and Larson went to high school together and came together later on to form a band. They put out a call for a touring bassist and later on Aubin ended... read full bio
Simon Pierro is a German magician and television presenter who is known as the iPad Magician. When he was 15, Pierro grew a passion for magic after being conned out of 20 dollars by a street magician in New York City. He has since be an accomplished magician having videos posted on YouTube, appearing on the German television series “Menschen... read full bio
Sasheer Zamata is an American comedian, actress and writer who is best known for previously being a cast member on “Saturday Night Live”. As a comedian, Zamata has performed at Just for Laughs, SXSW, New York Comedy Festival, Brooklyn Comedy Festival, Clusterfest, Outside Lands, and more. She has been featured in Time Out New York’s list of Top 10 Funniest... read full bio
Seth Mattison’s primary interest is in workforce trends and his generation—the Millennials. Seth’s presentations focus on creating a better understanding of the generation gaps between younger and older workers today, how to repair them, and how bridging them can lead to greater creativity, productivity, and worker satisfaction. As one of the millions of Millennials/Gen Years around the world trying to... read full bio
Sarah McBride is an American author, National Press Secretary of the Human Rights Campaign, and transgender rights activist from Wilmington, Delaware. McBride gained attention after making national headlines for coming out as transgender in her college’s newspaper while she was serving as student body president at American University. After coming out, McBride was featured in outlets such as The Huffington... read full bio
Sun-kyun Lee, or Lee Sun-kyun, is a South Korean actor from Seoul, South Korea. He started his career in musical theatre making his acting debut as Brad Majors in the stage musical ‘The Rocky Horror Show’. Sun-kyun graduated from the School of Drama at Korea National University of Arts. On screen, Sun-kyun made his film debut playing Rad in “Lakewood... read full bio
Steve Beuerlein is an American former professional football quarterback who is currently an NFL and college football analyst for CBS. Steve was born in Hollywood, California and he began his football career while at Servite High School. From there, Steve started playing college football at the University of Notre Dame and after graduating was drafted in the fourth round of... read full bio
Sugaray Rayford is an American electric blues singer-songwriter from Smith County, Texas. When Rayford was only 7 years old he began singing at the Bethel Temple Church of God In Christ in Tyler, Texas. During this time he also began playing drums at the church before moving to San Diego, California after the loss of his mother. While in San... read full bio
Sebastian Plano is an Argentinian composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. Plano’s music is a mixture of contemporary and modern classic music and he can play instruments such as the cello, piano and is also a percussionist. Plano started playing the cello when he was only 7 years old and by the time he was only 12,... read full bio
Shinjiro Koizumi is a Japanese politician who is the Minister of the Environment and is a member of the House of Representatives of the Liberal Democratic Party. Koizumi grew up in Yokosuka and studied at Kanto Gakuin University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Economics degree. He also went on to earn his Master’s Degree in Political Science from... read full bio
Sidney Charles is a producer and DJ from Germany. Charles began his career when he was only 15 years old and began mixing up genres such as funk, soul, and hip-hop. This led him to finding a love of house and techno music and he began producing his own music from there. Charles has released music through labels such as... read full bio
Steve Fredette is the President and co-founder of Toast, which is an all-in-one restaurant technology platform that was built specifically for restaurants in mind. Fredette woks to build restaurant software, hardware, services and support, and changing the restaurant technology landscape. Fredette began his career as an engineering intern at Precision Optics Corporation. From there, he became co-founder of Klick Mobile... read full bio
Scott Galit is the CEO of Payoneer, which is an Internet-based payment company that establishes viable solutions for payments in prepaid credit cards through the Internet via their own prepaid Payoneer credit card. Payoneer empowers their customers to grow their business by enabling them to pay and get paid easily. Payoneer is currently being used by millions of entrepreneurs, professionals,... read full bio
Suneera Madhani is the CEO and founder of Fattmerchant, which is a payment technology company who makes it easy and affordable for any business to accept modern forms of payment, track data, and stay competitive. Madhani has studied Business Administration abroad in Italy at Saint John’s University. She has also earned her degree in Finance from the University of Florida... read full bio
Sweet Lizzy Project is a latin pop group from La Habana, Cuba, that consists of members Lisset Diaz, Miguel Comas Damas, Angel Luis Millet Barlet, Alejandro Gonzalez Labrada, and Wilfredo Gatell Guevara. The group performs a mixture of American indie pop-rock with a Latin flair. Over the years, the group has released two albums; “Heaven” and “Technicolor”. Some of their... read full bio
Sydel Curry-Lee is an American entrepreneur, tastemaker, and athlete who is a former college volleyball player who has played for the Elon Phoenix women’s volleyball team of the CAA Conference. Sydel was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and she is the younger sister of NBA basketball stars, Steph Curry and Seth Curry. Sydel began playing volleyball at only five years... read full bio
Shane Mosley, also known as “Sugar”, is an American former professional boxer who has competed in lightweight, welterweight, and light middleweight divisions. Mosley has held multiple world championships in the three weight classes including the IBF lightweight title, the WBA (super) and WBC welterweight titles; the WBA (Super), WBC and Ring magazine light middleweight titles. He has also been a... read full bio
