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
Rob Solomon was the President of Groupon, a social commerce startup based in Chicago. Previously, he was a Partner at Technology Crossover Ventures and served as CEO of Sidestep, a travel search site that was bought by Kayak. His efforts led to the merger of SideStep with Kayak.com, creating the fifth largest Internet travel brand worldwide. ... read full bio
Rob advocates for the ethical and responsible use of AI and he offers guidance to businesses, governments and other international stakeholders on how to take use of the opportunities presented by the technology to spur innovation in a way that fosters trust. He frequently contributes to the media, speaks at conferences and is a very vocal user of social media. He is especially concerned... read full bio
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Richard Yonck is a speaker, founder and lead futurist for Intelligent Future Consulting, and author of the book “Heart of the Machine: Our Future in a World of Artificial Emotional Intelligence”, which is now a required reading for some college courses. Apart from his book, Yonck has also written articles that have appeared in outlets like The Futurist Magazine, Wired,... read full bio
With the publication of his first book in 1962 at the age of 26, RSW began the singular passion of his life: making information understandable. He chaired the International Design, the first Federal Design Assembly, followed by the National AIA Convention, before creating and chairing TED (Technology/Entertainment/Design) conferences. He created and chaired the TEDMED and conferences. ... read full bio
Considered the marketing guru of Silicon Valley, Regis McKenna is a well-known technology marketing consultant, advisor to entrepreneurs, venture capitalist and author. McKenna advised a number of entrepreneurial start-ups and their founders during their formation years including: America Online, Apple, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Intel, Linear Technology, Lotus, Microsoft, National Semiconductor, Silicon Graphics, 3COM, and many others. He helped launch... read full bio
Among the greatest creators of the modern era is Ray Kurzweil. He was the primary developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition system, the first print-to-speech reading device for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer and the first CCD flat-bed scanner. Along with designing the first commercially available large-vocabulary speech recognition system, he also built the first music synthesizer that... read full bio
As one of the world’s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, Ray Kurzweil genius is certainly impressive, with a thirty-year track record of accurate predictions. Ray is the Director of Engineering at Google, heading up a team developing machine intelligence and natural language understanding. Kurzweil was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition,... read full bio
Ray Hammond is known for being Europe’s most experienced futurist and is a keynote speaker on the future. Hammond began his career working as a junior news reporter for The Middlesex Chronicle. As a journalist, he went on to work for The Sunday Times, Sounds, and also founded a magazine publishing company that opened offices and publications in Germany and... read full bio
Rana el Kaliouby is an Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur who is known for her work in emotion AI, Artificial Intelligence and for being the co-founder and CEO of Affective, an AI start-up that came from the MIT Media Lab. Rana has earned her Bachelors and Master of Science degrees from the American University in Cairo and then went on... read full bio
Ramona began her career in the Marine Corps as one of a few women in a fight attack aviation squadron, but after a tragic accident which left her in an 18-month coma and completely blind for nearly 11 years, her military career ended. During that time, Ramona returned to college and worked towards becoming a neuroscientist and educator. Ramona focused... 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
Rahaf Harfoush is a digital anthropologist. She studies the impact of technologies in relation to social infrastructure. Harfoush is also a teacher, speaker, and author. She teaches Innovation and Disruptive Business Models at SciencePo’s Masters of Finance and Economics Program and is the Executive Director of the Read Thread Institute of Digital Culture. Her work has led her to supportive... read full bio
Radhika Dirks is a physicist and entrepreneur. Passionate about science-fiction and technology, Dirks brings to life unconventional technologies of computing and artificial intelligence. Currently, Dirks is the CEO at XLabs, which focuses on computing and AI. Dirks’ background is diverse, she is educated in quantum computing and nanotechnologies and an expert in business. Frequently, Dirks advises corporate groups and technology... 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
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
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
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
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
