Marcus Gilchrist is an American professional football safety who currently plays for the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL. Gilchrist was born in High Point, North Carolina, and he began his career playing football in high school before going on to play college football at Clemson University where he was known for posting a 38-inch vertical leap as well as a... read full bio
Franck Nicolas is a best selling author, philanthropist, and expert in leadership and professional coaching. Frank has spent the last 20 years as the French-speaking world leading speaker in entrepreneurship strategies. Using an andragogical approach, he trains business and entrepreneur professional's mind, body, and emotions to focus on implementation of knowledge rather than accumulation. Franck's company, Glob, is an accredited coaching... read full bio
Fanendo Adi is a Nigerian football player who currently plays as a striker for Columbus Crew SC in the Major League Soccer. Adi was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and he began his career playing as a youth with Lagos Islanders and then Union Bank. He went on to begin playing professionally for AS Trencin. Over the course of his career... read full bio
Anthony Atala is the Surgeon Director of Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine where he works on growing and regenerating tissues and organs. Atala and his team at Wake Forest have been the first to engineer a lab-grown organ, which was a bladder, that was implanted into a human. Atala has previously earned his undergraduate in psychology at University of... read full bio
Paul Armstrong is a futurist, founder of the technology advisory company, HERE/FORTH, and a speaker on innovation, futurism, technology, and AI robotics. Armstrong has been a leader on topics which include social technologies, consumer technology, mobile innovation, start-ups, media industry, and more. He has also published his first book, “Disruptive Technologies,” which talks on emerging technologies such as blockchain, AI,... read full bio
Susan Annunzio is a leader in authority on eBusiness-Leadership. She is best known for her work to help businesses with high performance. She has previously worked with The Center for High Performance where she has been the President and Chief Executive Officer and has led them to be a leader on strategy attainment and business transformation. Through her work on... read full bio
Simon Anholt is a British policy advisor, author, consultant, and keynote speaker who is creator of the Good Country project. Anholt has been known to be a world expert on managing corporate as well as national identity and reputation. He began his career founding an international strategy firm in London where he also began developing Culture Mapping, which led him... read full bio
Tait Fletcher is an actor and stunt professional who is best known for playing Nicholai in the film “John Wick,” for playing Paz/Alpha Trawler in the television series “The Mandalorian,” and for playing Lester in the series “Breaking Bad.” Fletcher has also previously been a contestant on the reality television series “The Ultimate Fighter,” and has previously performed professionally in... read full bio
Omid Abtahi is an Iranian-American actor who is best known for playing Salim in the television series “American Gods,” Doctor Pershing in the television series “The Mandalorian,” and Homes in the film “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2.” Abtahi was born in Tehran, Iran, and he moved to Paris, France at five years old, before moving to Irvine, California,... read full bio
Chris Bartlett is an American actor who is best known for working as a stunt actor. Bartlett has been trained to work as a character performer for droids and other robots. He was the first actor to ever play a Star Wars character on the Disney Channel after he began voicing and portraying C-3PO on television series which include “A.N.T.... read full bio
Emily Swallow is an American actress who is best known for playing Kim Fischer on the television series “The Mentalist,” Amara/The Darkness in the series “Supernatural,” and The Armorer in “The Mandalorian.” Swallow has previously earned her B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Virginia and earned her M.F.A. in Acting from New York University’s Tisch School of... read full bio
Joshua Angrist is an Israeli-American economist and current Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Angrist was born in Columbus, Ohio, and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has earned his B.A. in economics and went on to earn his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. After finishing his Ph.D., Angrist went on to begin working... read full bio
Charlie Ang is a keynote speaker, global futurist, innovation strategist, disruption analyst, and transformation expert. Ang is a busy man who is a mentor for Kairos Society, a business partner for cloudBuy plc, co-founder for IdeasCollider!, co-founder and builder and investor for Knowble, co-founder of The Innovators Network, venture capital investor, partner, and GM for Asia for KIATT Venture Capital,... read full bio
Sterling Anderson is an American businessman who is co-founder of Aurora Innovation, and has previously had a long career working with Tesla. Anderson is an expert in autonomous vehicle technology and has previously earned his M.S. in Robotics as well as his Ph.D. in Robotics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While earning his Ph.D., Anderson began doing research while at... read full bio
Camille Wardrop Alleyne is an American aerospace engineer, space scientist, speaker, writer, leader, and current Associate Program Scientist for the International Space Station at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Alleyne was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, and she moved to the United States at 18 years old to pursue a career in space. She went on to earn her... read full bio
George Akerlof is an American economist and professor who is a professor at McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and a Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Akerlof was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and he has earned his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from MIT. After earning his degree, Akerlof later... read full bio
Esko Aho is a Finnish politician who has previously been the 37th Prime Minister of Finland. Aho was born in Veteli, Finland, and he began earned his Master of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki before going on to start his work in politics. He began working as a Chairman of the Finnish Centre Youth and then was a... read full bio
Ferran Adria is a Spanish chef who is best known for being the head chef of the elBulli restaurant in Roses. Adria was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, and his brother, Albert Adria, is also a well-known pastry chef whom he collaborates with often. Adria began his career first working as a dishwasher at Hotel Playafels in Castelldefels. While washing... read full bio
Muna AbuSulayman is a Saudi businesswoman and activist who is best known for being the former founding Secretary General for the Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation, for being the philanthropic arm of HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal’s Kingdom Holding Company, and for also being co-host of the Kalam Nawaem television show. AbuSulayman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and she studied at... read full bio
Grateful Shred is a Grateful Dead cover band that is based out of Los Angeles. The group consists of rotating band members and was founded by members Austin McCutchen who is the singer and guitarist, Dan Horne, Sam Blasucci, and Clay Finch. Grateful Shred was originally started as McCutchen wanted to perform Grateful Dead songs during some free time that... read full bio
