Lera Boroditsky is a cognitive researcher and professor. She currently works at UCSD and is the Editor in Chief of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology. Prior to her recent roles, Boroditsky was a professor at MIT and Stanford. Boroditsky’s innovative research answers questions about the mind, world, and language. She has won several awards for her work, including the NSF Career... read full bio
Silicon Valley tech CEO Lew Cirne is currently the long-standing Founder of New Relic, a software analytics company. Known as the Coding CEO, Cirne was an innovator of application performance management (APM) software technology as the founder and CEO of Wily Technology. As a forerunner in the development of APM, Cirne holds nineteen patents in this field. Cirne was a... read full bio
Lex Sokolin, a well-known futurist and businessman, is actively influencing the direction of financial services. Lex is actively involved in developing the infrastructure and applications required for a decentralized future in her role as Head Economist and Global Fintech Co-Head at ConsenSys, a prominent blockchain technology startup. His areas of expertise include public and private blockchains, digital assets, protocol crypto-economics,... read full bio
Lindy Elkins-Tanton is a National Academy of Sciences member, a world-renowned planetary scientist, and an educator. She is the Vice President for the Interplanetary Initiative at Arizona State University, one of the leading Earth and planetary science research institutions in the US, the Principal Investigator of NASA's Psyche project, and a co-founder of the educational startup Beagle Learning. In addition, she... read full bio
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Lisa Randall is a notable theoretical physicist from the United States who has made significant contributions to particle physics and cosmology. She was raised in Queens, New York City, and began an exceptional academic career, graduating from Harvard University with an AB in physics and a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics. Randall currently serves as the physics department's Frank B.... read full bio
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Dr. Lyle Ungar assists businesses in comprehending how machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and computer automation are transforming their markets and our way of life. He specializes in using machine learning and text mining techniques to extract important information from big volumes of text by merging two distinct fields of study — computer and information science with psychology and neuroscience. Dr.... read full bio
M. Sanjayan is the lead scientist for The Nature Conservancy & was recently named Science and Environmental Contributor to CBS News. On-air, Sanjayan provides insight into a broad range of scientific and environmental topics across multiple platforms including contributing to CBS News broadcasts, CBS This Morning and CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley. As lead scientist at The Nature Conservancy,... read full bio
Maia Brenner is an enthusiastic economist and data scientist with a background in mathematics and statistics, good programming abilities, and experience in the public sector and consultancy. She uses her expertise in social sciences and econometrics along with her proficiency in Python and machine learning in her role as a data scientist at Tryolabs. Among other things, Maia's consulting experience includes... read full bio
Manoush Zomorodi is an author, podcast host, and examiner of the human condition. As the host and managing editor of Note to Self, a WNYC Studios podcast, Zomorodi helps audiences understand the changes occurring in our modern world. This podcast has been named the Best Tech Podcast by the Academy of Podcasters. Zomorodi has published a book titled Bored and... read full bio
A designer and innovator, Manuel Lima is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has been nominated by Creativity magazine as “one of the 50 most creative and influential minds”. Lima is the founder of VisualComplexity.com, Design Lead of Codecademy, and a regular teacher of data visualization at Parsons School of Design. Lima wrote Visual Complexity: Mappings patterns... read full bio
Dr. Marc Rosenberg is a world-renowned speaker and expert in knowledge management, performance development, organizational learning, eLearning, and training. E-Learning and Beyond E-Learning are two of his best-selling books. From 2010 to 2018, his 100 monthly columns, "Marc My Words," were published in Learning Solutions magazine by The eLearning Guild. They are still accessible online. Marc is an eLearning Guild... read full bio
Marc Saltzman is one of North America's most recognizable and trusted tech experts. As a syndicated columnist, Saltzman specializes in consumer electronics, Internet trends and video games. Marc Saltzman contributes three times each week to the popular USA Today blog, Game Hunters, and USAToday.com's Technology Live! blog. His daily blog, Sync, has won the award for Best Canadian Sci-Tech Blog.... read full bio
Marc Tarpenning is an American engineer and entrepreneur who has been the co-founder of Tesla Inc. alongside Martin Eberhard. Tarpenning was born in Sacramento, California, and he has earned his B.A. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. After earning his degree, Tarpenning began working for Textron in Saudi Arabia before going on to develop software and firmware... read full bio
Marcus Hutchins, a respected authority on cybersecurity, is credited with thwarting the WannaCry ransomware campaign, one of the biggest cyberattacks in history. Marcus discovered and activated the hidden "death switch" contained within the malicious software's code, stopping the global danger and "saving the internet" as it was contaminating and erasing the data on hundreds of thousands of machines around the... read full bio
Etsy is a happening little company with a lot of promise. The three-year-old site, where people buy and sell homemade arts and crafts, last year sold $27 million in goods with very little marketing. Its secret Hitting a chord with people who are tired of the ordinary and the mass produced. Thomas' job is to let more people aware that... read full bio
Maria Zuber is the Vice President of Research and E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics at MIT, as well as Principal Investigator of NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission- an effort to map the Moon’s gravitational field. She is the first woman to head an MIT science department and the first to lead a NASA planetary mission. She... read full bio
The electricity grid, our stock exchanges, our nuclear weapons sites and even a few renowned museums have all been protected for nearly thirty years by Mark Graff, one of the first to realize the need of keeping us secure from cyberattack. He most recently held the position of Chief Information Security Officer for NASDAQ for three years. As the founder and... read full bio
Mark Ostach assists individuals in developing the bravery to connect. Ostach is an internationally renowned speaker on digital wellbeing who is regularly featured in USA Today. He has published two books, given two TED presentations, and encouraged thousands of people to embrace a spirit of courage through vulnerability. Mark Ostach is interested in behavioral neuroscience and holds degrees in technology and... read full bio
