Barbara Rae-Venter is an American genetic genealogist and retired patent attorney who is best known for helping find the Golden State Killer. Barbara was born in Auckland, New Zealand and earned both her BA and doctorate from University of California at San Diego. She also studied law at University of Texas at Austin where she earned her J.D. Barbara gained... read full bio
Dr. Barry Asmus is a senior economist with the National Center for Policy Analysis. He is a speaker, writer, and consultant who works with issues facing American both politically and business wise. Asmus has gone around the world speaking on issues such as, the tax system and social security. Some policies he stands for include, low tax, protected property rights,... read full bio
Beena is currently in charge of Deloitte's Trustworthy AI/Ethical Technology and Global Deloitte AI Institute. She was Hewlett Packard Enterprise's CTO-AI before this. She was General Electric's Vice President of Innovation and Data Science prior to joining HPE. Additionally, she has had leadership and technical positions with a variety of Silicon Valley firms as well as Thomson Reuters, British Telecom,... read full bio
Dr. Ben Goertzel is an author, entrepreneur, and multidisciplinary scientist. He moved his main base of operations to a rural island close to Seattle in 2020 after spending a considerable amount of time in Hong Kong. He was born in Brazil to American parents. He is the head of the AGI Society, which organizes the yearly Artificial General Intelligence... read full bio
Ben Horowitz, co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, is a businessman, blogger, investor, and author. He also was the co-founder, CEo, and president of the software company Opsware, which was later acquired by Hewlett-Packard. He also authored a book entitled The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, which was published... read full bio
Ben Rooney is the former Co-Editor in Chief of Informilo, and Technology Editor at The Wall Street Journal Europe. While with The Wall Street Journal, he wrote for both print and digital editions of the newspaper, and pioneered a new section providing news, commentary and analysis on technology business activity in Europe, as well as start-ups, digital entrepreneurship, and gadget... read full bio
Bernard Marr was raised in Germany, close to Hamburg, where he was born. After that, he relocated to Cambridge, England, where he finished his degrees in computer technology, engineering, and business. Subsequently, he became a research fellow at the Cambridge Judge Business School and afterwards at the Cranfield School of Management. Bernard departed from the world of business schools to... read full bio
Bertalan Mesko is The Medical Futurist and is the Director of The Medical Futurist Institute, where he helps to analyze how technologies in science can help with reality in medicine as well as healthcare. Mesko is also an author and speaker and he has given talks for numerous organizations and governments which include universities such as Harvard, Stanford and Yale.... read full bio
"Bess Ho serves as partner at Archimedes Labs, a Palo Alto-based startup incubator for seed stage startup. A popular conference speaker, Bess has presented at the GSMA Mobile Asia Conference, Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC-SV), WIT Women Technology Summit, Android Open, Web20 Expo, Where 20, Silicon Valley China Wireless Conference (SVCW), and Silicon Valley Code Camp (SVCC), among others. She... read full bio
Bill Reinert is the former National Manager of Advanced Technology for Toyota Motor Sales, USA. His primary function was to coordinate Toyotas various research, development and marketing activities related to alternative-fueled vehicles and emerging technologies. He worked on several advanced hybrid electric products, direct hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, reformed fuel approaches for hydrogen, full-featured electric vehicles, city electric vehicles, plug-in... read full bio
Bing Gordon is a leading expert in gaming technology, with his most notable contributions to the industry including his position as the former Chief Creative Officer at Electronic Arts (EA), and as an investor/ director at the video game developer Zynga. Now, Bing is the Chief Product Officer at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he leads an innovative and... read full bio
Data, story, and profound human insight were all brilliantly combined in Bonny McClain's recent talk at the Museum of Science, which was nothing short of a transformative event. McClain is a well-known quantitative storyteller who possesses the unique capacity to transform intricate environmental issues into stories that are both intellectually and emotionally captivating. Our audience was enthralled by her examination... read full bio
Brad Templeton is a businessman, developer, and commentator who has been the founder of ClariNet, the director and chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the software developer leader of USENET and the Professor of Computing at Singularity University. Templeton was born in Canada and began to gain attention after he became founder and CEO of ClariNet Communications, which was one... read full bio
Formerly the CEO of Oculus VR, a Facebook-owned virtual reality company, Brendan Iribe transitioned into a role leading the companys PC VR group, returning to his roots and passion for engineering and product development. Brendan began his career as a game programmer, working on the user interface of Civilization IV. Subsequently, he co-founded Scaleform, a user interface technology provider for... read full bio
Brian Christian is a well-known author and academic whose study examines how computer science affects people. His most well-known works include The Most Human Human, Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem, which have all achieved great success. Nineteen different languages have been used to translate Christian's writing, which has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired,... read full bio
Dr. Brian Hare is a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, founder of the Hominoid Psychology Research Group, and founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center. Dr. Hares empirical articles regarding human evolution have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals like Current Biology and Nature Neuroscience. As well, his research has been featured in national and international publications like... read full bio
Bruce Babbitt served as Secretary of the Interior, Governor of Arizona, and as Attorney General of Arizona. With degrees in geology, geophysics and law, Babbitt was elected to statewide office as Attorney General on his first foray into elective politics. As Governor, Babbitt brought environmental and resource management to the forefront in Arizona. Appointed Secretary of the Interior by President... read full bio
Bryce Austin is a technology executive, keynote presenter, and best-selling author. He started his career working on a Commodore 64 computer and working with a cassette tape drive, which started his love in technology. Since his early work, Austin now is a leading voice on technology and cybersecurity and CEO of TCE Strategy. He has a CISM cerification and is... read full bio
Futurist Byron Reese is the former Chief Innovation Officer for Demand Media, overseeing research and development. He penned the book Infinite Progress: How Technology Will End Ignorance, Disease, Hunger, Poverty, and War. Byron is skilled in envisioning the future, as well as how to profit from it. As both a successful serial entrepreneur and an award-winning futurist, he has the... read full bio
For almost ten years, Caleb Wojcik has been intermittently producing videos. During that time, he has captured footage for the NHL, MLB, NCAA basketball and football, weddings, advertisements, book trailers, and a ton of online training videos. He founded Fizzle.co, The Sparkline blog, and The Fizzle Show with other people. He also teaches solo web video production at CalebWojcik.com and... read full bio
