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
Edward O. Wilson, the legendary biologist, is widely considered the father of the modern environmental movement. Named one of America's 25 Most Influential People by TIME magazine, and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he has made a giant contribution to our understanding of the rich spectrum of Earth's biodiversity. In his lectures, he makes a persuasive, eloquent plea to government,... read full bio
Global education and exploration have undergone a revolution thanks to Robert Ballard, a true pioneer and visionary. He has used the effectiveness of distant learning to involve more than 1 million students and 25,000 educators each year, not just in the US but all over the world, through the celebrated JASON Project. This outstanding curriculum has transformed schools and stimulated... read full bio
Jared Diamond teaches geography to UCLA undergraduates; doing field research on the birds of New Guinea and other Southwest Pacific islands; writing books about human societies, aimed at the broad public; and promoting sustainable environmental policies, as a director of the international environmental organizations World Wildlife Fund and Conservation International. ... read full bio
Jason Silva is a Venuzuelan-American media artist, futurist, philosopher, keynote speaker and TV personality. He is the creator of Shots of Awe, a short film series of ""trailers for the mind"" that serve as philosophical espresso shots exploring innovation, technology creativity, futurism and the metaphysics of the imagination. Shots of Awe has received more than 13 million views on YouTube.... read full bio
Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. He is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. Nir founded two tech companies and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. Nir is also an advisor to several Bay Area start-ups, venture... read full bio
Best known as the creator of Google Ventures’ sprint process, Jake Knapp has advised over 100 startups including Nest, Slack, 23andMe, and Flatiron Health. During his time at Google he created Google Hangouts. Previously, he worked for Microsoft where he led design on Encarta. He has been featured in Fast Company, TechCrunch, and LifeHacker and is the author of Sprint:... read full bio
Tim Urban, the creator of the popular Wait But Why blog, is known for his head-spinning thinking, quirky graphics and signature stick figures within his speeches. He has written countless viral articles on subjects ranging form why we procrastinate to why we haven’t yet encountered alien life forms. But Wait Why has topped ten million unique visitors during peak months... read full bio
Avinash Kaushik is the “Digital Marketing Evangelist” for Google and the author of two bestsellers: Web Analytics 2.0, and Web Analytics: An Hour a Day. All of the proceeds from both books benefit The Smile Train, Doctors Without Borders and Ekal Vidyalaya. Kaushik is also the Co-Founder and Chief Education Officer of Market Motive. He is celebrated for his dynamic,... read full bio
Dr. David Ferrucci is an award-winning Artificial Intelligence researcher who most notably formed the IBM Watson team. He led the team from its creation all the way to its illustrious success when Watson conquered the greatest Jeopardy players of all time. In this history-making moment for AI, Watson delivered remarkable results that surpassed all expectations. Dr. Ferrucci went on to... read full bio
Thomas Frey is a speaker and American futurist. He is founder and Executive Director and Senior Futurist at the Westminster, Colorado DaVinci Institute. He has previously been an engineer with IBM for over 15 years. As a speaker, Frey has given speeches to NASA, Fortune 500 companies such as AT&T, Capital One, Boeing, Visa, Ford Motor Company, and many more.... read full bio
Rajat Paharia was the founder and Chief Product Officer of Bunchball, Inc. He is known as the father of gamification and founded Bunchball, which launched the social gaming and gamification industries. Paharia graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a B.A. in computer science. He then went on to earn his M.S. in computer science from Stanford University. Paharia started his career... read full bio
Jill Tarter is an American astronomer who is best known for her work on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. She is the former director of the Center for SETI Research and holds the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI at the SETI Institute. She has been featured in Discover magazine as one of the 50 most important women in science.... read full bio
Yossi Vardi is an Israeli entrepreneur and investor who is one of Israel’s first high-tech entrepreneurs. He has founded and helped build numerous tech companies in fields such as software, energy, mobile, water technology, electro-optics and Internet. Vardi graduated from the Technion in Haifa with a B.Sc. in industrial management engineering and went on to earn his M.Sc in Operations... read full bio
Hugh Herr is an American biophysicist, engineer, and rock climber. Growing up, Herr was a prodigy rock climber and by only 8 years old he had scaled the face of the Mount Temple in the Canadian Rockies and at only 17, he was known to be one of the best climbers in the United States. After getting caught in a... 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
Joseph F. Coughlin is Director of the MIT AgeLab and expert on Disruptive Demographics. He provides insights on how demographic change, technology, social trends and consumer behavior will converge to drive future innovations in business and government. Coughlin is the author of the online publication Disruptive Demographics at MIT. He has been featured in Fast Company Magazine’s “100 Most Creative... 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
Dr. Ayana Elizbaeth Johnson is a policy expert, marine biologist, strategist, and is founder and CEO of Ocean Collectiv as well as founder of Urban Ocean Lab. Ocean Collectiv is a consulting firm that focuses on conservation solutions and Urban Ocean Lab is a think tank for coastal cities. Johnson earned her B.A. from Harvard University in Environmental Science and... read full bio
Dr. Fei-Fei Li, a world-renowned expert on computer vision, machine learning, AI, cognitive neuroscience and big data analytics, is the director of one of the top Artificial Intelligence (AI) labs in the world. Dr. Li is pioneering the next wave of AI that is quickly being integrated into companies, governments and the lives of individual consumers. She leads a team... read full bio
