This entrepreneur and American engineer founded companies like Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theatre. Nolan Bushnell is an innovator of his time. Starting his engineering background from the University of Utah College of engineering where he gained his degree in electrical engineering. With colleague Ted Dabney, they were able to build the very popular arcade games. The... read full bio
Noramay Cadena is a former nonprofit leader, engineer, investor, and entrepreneur. She works as a managing partner at Supply Change Capital, a venture capital business that makes investments at the nexus of technology, culture, and food. Noramay is also a managing partner of MiLA Capital, a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm that makes technological investments. Noramay led sizable teams developing novel,... read full bio
Oona Horx-Strathern is an international speaker, author, trend expert and consultant and futurist. Horx-Strathern found her love of the future during her childhood trip to India where she visited Chandigarh and the Taj Mahal. She went on to study at the Holland Park Comprehensive School before going on to earn her B.A. in Human Geography from Bristol University. While earning... read full bio
Uber Co-Founder, Oscar Salazar is also a founder of the medical start-up Pager, and VP of Technology at the tech start-up, Ride. He has raised more than $25 million in funding for current ventures. Ride is a carpooling app, which companies sign up for to advertise to their employees. This revolutionary ride-sharing app uses algorithms to group employees together based... read full bio
Pablos has significantly advanced technology as a hacker, inventor, and futurist. He has created useful tools that are influencing the future thanks to his amazing ability to make complicated technological concepts simple. Pablos has been at the forefront of ground-breaking projects all throughout his career. He invented cryptocurrency use in the 1990s, recognizing its potential years before it became widely accepted. He... read full bio
"Technology industry veteran Pat Gelsinger is a businessman in the technology industry who serves as the CEO of VMWare. Prior to his time at VMWare, Pat was president and COO of EMC’s Infrastructure Products, and he worked for Intel for 30 years and served as the company’s first CTO, helping develop crucial technology such as Wi-Fi and USB connection. Pat... read full bio
Patrick Collison is an Irish entrepreneur, who co-founded Stripe, The Paypal of the Mobile Era", with his younger brother, John. The brothers are now worth at least $1.1 billion each after Stripe raised $150 million, funded by the likes of Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Sequoia Capital. Patrick attended MIT for some time, before establishing the software company Shuppa, with... read full bio
Patrick Lee is a serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple companies and startups. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Rotten Tomatoes, an extremely popular entertainment site that largely focuses on movie reviews; it is one of the top 600 most trafficked sites in the world. He has also co-founded Hobo Labs, a creator of casual mobile games. He... read full bio
Patrick Schwerdtfeger is a distinguished futurist and expert on technology trends including big data, artificial intelligence and social media. Through his work, Patrick strives to provide insight into the technological forces driving the transformation of businesses around the globe. Hes the CEO & Founder of Trend Mastery, a strategic consulting agency where he helps his clients identify groundbreaking business opportunities.... read full bio
Paul Hill was the Director of Mission Operations at the NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. Hill obtained his Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering, worked in military satellite operations in the Air Force, and achieved the rank of Captain in the force. Hills job duties included monitoring mobile satellite communications, providing missile launch and nuclear detonation detection, and... read full bio
Paulina Bozek started her career in video games in public relations at Ubisoft after being born in Poland and reared in Canada. She transitioned into project management in 1999 and began working for Gameloft, a company that at the time was only focused on online multiplayer. After leaving the business to travel throughout Europe, she traveled to London to get... read full bio
Pedro Domingos, author of 2040 and The Master Algorithm, is an emeritus professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. Two of the greatest accolades in data science and artificial intelligence, the SIGKDD Innovation Award and the IJCAI John McCarthy Award, have been given to him. In addition to becoming a Fellow of the AAAS and AAAI,... read full bio
Swedish entrepreneur Peter Arvai is currently CEO and co-founder of Prezi, a cloud-based presentation software company whose investors include TED Conference. An elite tech speaker, Peter most prestigious keynotes have been at Plugg, TEDx, SXSW, UC Berkeley, NEXT Berlin, Web Summit, DLD Conference, Stanford E-Week, and The Economist Information Forum. Peter also founded omvard.se in Sweden, and was a developer... read full bio
Peter Fingar is a cloud computer & technology expert, thought-leader and best-selling author. He is an internationally recognized expert on business strategy, globalization and business process management. As an author, his book “Business Process Management: The Third Wave” has been used for the BPM trend in the 21st century. Fingar has worked with companies such as GTE Data Services, American... read full bio
Peter Hinssen is a serial entrepreneur, adviser and keynote speaker on the topics of radical innovation, leadership and the impact of all things digital on society and business. He highlights the consumer adoption of technology, the impact of the networked digital society, and the connection between business and IT. He has delivered several keynotes across the globe, including for Google... read full bio
Best selling author of A Thousand Barrels a Second, published by McGraw-Hill, Peter Tertzakian is the Chief Energy Economist of ARC Financial Corporation, one of the world's leading energy investment firms. Peter's background in geophysics, economics and finance, combined with his entrepreneurial spirit, helped him rise from the trenches of hands-on oil exploration fieldwork to become an internationally recognized, top-ranked... read full bio
Philip DeFranco, most noted for The Philip DeFranco Show on YouTube, is the creator behind the most watched Entertainment and News shows on the web. A way to fight boredom from his college bedroom turned into DeFranco Inc. - a multi platform media outlet that presents the news in an entertaining format targeted at the younger generation. Philip is also... read full bio
Phyllis Newhouse is a pioneering businesswoman, coach, and cybersecurity and leadership expert. She is the CEO of a top cybersecurity company based in Atlanta, Georgia, and has successfully led two businesses to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. Phyllis, who founded the ShoulderUP family office and is an active tech investor, is dedicated to innovation and transformation. Building her... read full bio
Pieter Abbeel is an Belgian Professor who is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Berekeley Robot Learning Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also co-director of the Berkeley AI Research Lab at Berkeley. Abbeel has also been co-founder of covariant.ai, which is a start-up that teaches robots skills. As a businessman,... read full bio
Scientist and inventor Pranav Mistry. Mistry's work in Wearable Computing, Augmented Reality, and Gestural Computing puts him in an elite group of digital pioneers. Mistry has won many international prizes for advancing digital computing technologies. Popular Science named him 2009's Inventor of the Year. He's one of MIT's TR35 outstanding innovators under 35. He was named to Creativity 50 in 2010.... read full bio
