Debbie Sterling is a seasoned businesswoman and engineer who is well-known for her innovative work as the Founder and CEO of the renowned brand GoldieBlox. She has transformed the toy industry with cutting-edge toys, games, and media in an effort to break gender stereotypes and encourage girls to pursue careers in STEM. To break down barriers in the toy industry, Debbie... read full bio
Legendary Rodney Mullen is widely known as The Godfather of Skateboarding. His skating videos have accumulated over 50 million views, and millions have also seen his TED talks. He is recognized for inventing some of the most popular skateboarding tricks, such as the flatground ollie, kick flip, heelflip, impossible, and 360-flip, among countless others. Mullen holds a background in science... read full bio
Futurist Nick Bilton is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, where he covers the areas of technology, politics, business and culture. He is also a contributor to CNBC and a former columnist/ reporter for The New York Times. Bilton is the best-selling author of Hatching Twitter, as well as the newly released American Kingpin. Hatching Twitter chronicles the turmoil and... read full bio
Eric O’Neill is a distinguished cyber security expert, whose story is the inspiration for Universal Studios’ feature film, Breach. He played a crucial role in capturing the most notorious spy in U.S. history, Robert Phillip Hanssen. In the few months prior to Hanssen’s arrest, Eric was selected to work with the spy within the newly established information assurance division, built... read full bio
Gary Grice, better known by his stage name GZA a.k.a. The Genius, is an American hip-hop artist and founding member of the seminal hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan. Within the group, he is known as the “spiritual head,” being both the oldest and the first to receive a record deal. Steve Huey of Allmusic has called him “one of the... read full bio
Addison Anderson is a voiceover specialist. In addition he is also a writer, involved in film, sketch, improv, and standup. Anderson cowrote, co-produced, and starred in a film with Local Empire. He has produced work for TED-Ed, KirillArt, Circle World Arts, and more. With a Bachelors in Arts from Columbia University, Anderson is skilled. He delivers with excellent performance on... read full bio
Garrett Reisman is an extraordinary person with a wide range of enthralling and inspirational experiences. He is well-known for his work as a speaker, engineer, former NASA astronaut, and director of crew operations at SpaceX. His journey on the International Space Station (ISS) began as a backup crew member for Expedition 15 and continued when he joined Expedition 16. Later... read full bio
Janna Levin is an expert in physics and astronomy. She is the Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College, a counterpart of Columbia University. Levin has authored a variety of books, covering topics of the early universe, chaos, and black holes. Her novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, won a PEN/Bingham Fellowship for Writers. Levin has worked at... read full bio
Lauren Galante is a senior fellow for Atlantic Council and the founder of Galante Strategies. Prior to her work with Atlantic Council, Galante was the Director of Global Intelligence at FireEye Inc., a cybersecurity business. Galante has worked to expose nation state and criminal cyber operations, develop intelligence capabilities, and contribute to publications like APT28: A Window into Russias State... read full bio
Sarah Parcak is an archaeologist, Egyptologist, and remote sensing expert. She works in the field of archeology, and mainly uses satellite imagery to identify archeological sites in Egypt, Rome, and other European areas. With her husband, Greg Mumford, Parcak explores and excavates sites in the Faiyum, Sinai, and Egypts East Delta. She is also an associate professor of Anthropology and... read full bio
Edd China is an English television presenter, inventor, and mechanic, best known as being presenter and mechanic on Discovery Channel's TV show Wheeler Dealers. He has featured in numerous other television shows over the years, including Top Gear, Scrapheap Challenge, and Fifth Gear. China has been managing director of two companies, Grease Junkie, an MOT and Servicing Garage, the website... read full bio
JJ DiGeronimo is a titan in the realm of technology and a role model for women. Her career began with creating data infrastructures for Fortune 500 firms, and it has been nothing short of amazing. DiGeronimo transformed firms all around the world with her experience and a degree in computer information systems. Her influence went beyond technology as she established herself... read full bio
Michelle Lee is an executive for Google, has worked as a computer scientist at MITs Artifical Intelligence Lab and HPs Research Lab, and the first female to lead the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Lee studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she graduated with a B.S. in electrical engineering and an M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science.... read full bio
Sean M. Carroll is a cosmologist, and a theoretical physicist that specializes on the subjects of dark electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, gravitation, statistical mechanics, foundations of physics, and poetic naturalism. Carroll has been a research professor at the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology and has also been a contributing writer for the blog Cosmic Variance, and publications... read full bio
Melanie Mitchell is a Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University and is also a Member of the Science Board at the Santa Fe Institute. Mitchell graduated from Brown University with a major in mathematics and she went on to earn her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Michigan. During her time at the University of Michigan,... read full bio
Danny Hillis is a technology expert. He holds a doctorate from MIT and identifies as an inventor, scientist, author, and engineer. Hillis is known as a pioneer of parallel computers, an idea that created the foundation of the graphics processors and cloud computing technology we know today. This technology pioneer has over 300 U.S. patents on various devices and methods... read full bio
Matthias Horx is a futurist, author, and trend consultant who is a junior futurist at Zukunftsinstitut. While growing up, Horx often read and heard about the future being dark and always felt like he only saw the end of mankind or how technology will save us. This led him to want to understand how the future could really turn out... read full bio
Stephan Ulamec has been the head of Rosetta Lander, manager for Philae Lander, and has worked at the German Aerospace Center Space Operations and Astronaut Training. Ulamec has previously studied geophysics in Granz where he earned his Ph.D. Ulamec began his career as a research fellow for the European Space Agency where he helped work on missions which included Rosetta... read full bio
Why do people like the things they like And how do companies like Netflix predict what you will enjoy Tom Vanderbuilt, a design and technology journalist for publications such as Wired, The New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and Slate, has taken on the elusive nature of taste and delivers fascinating lectures on how companies can better understand... read full bio
The technology sector has made Cali Lewis a household brand, and her podcasts have received over 100 million downloads. An early adopter of podcasting, Cali started off by reporting on technology news online and has since contributed to CNN, Fox News, ABC, MSNBC, and Sirius. She presented the popular online program GeekBeat, then in May she debuted her own program... read full bio
