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
Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Vienna and Senior Scientist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Center for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information is Anton Zeilinger. He is a Quantum Physicist who was honored with the Institute of Physics' first Isaac Newton Award for his "pioneering conceptional and experimental contribution to the foundation of Quantum Physics, which have... read full bio
Apollo Robbins, otherwise known as The Gentleman Thief, is a performer, speaker, consultant and one of the world's leading experts on pickpockets, confidence crimes and deception. A pioneer in the application of deception to operational environments, Robbins uses pick-pocketing and sleight-of-hand to demonstrate perception management, diversion techniques and self-deception. Drawing from his twenty-plus years of experience as an entertainer and... read full bio
President and CEO of EPRI Arshad Mansoor is in charge of the organization's day-to-day operations as well as its portfolio of R&D and demonstration activities, which cover all power generation, distribution and utilization sources as well as environmental concerns. Mansoor formerly held the position of senior vice president, research and development, where he was in charge of overseeing the creation of the... read full bio
Ashwin Navin is the CEO and co-founder of SambaTV, a content recommendation software for SmartTV apps. Built directly into smart televisions, the engine provides interactive television through personalization. Previously, as president and co-founder of BitTorrent, Inc., Navin was the face of the company, responsible for marketing the companys products and bringing it into the mainstream. Networking with movie industry executives... read full bio
Audrey Tang is the Digital Minister of Taiwan and a software programmer who is best known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell. Tang was considered a child prodigy at the age of five as Tang was reading classical literature and went on to be performing advanced mathematics before six years old and was learning computer programming before eight.... 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
Avrohom Gottheil is a thought leader in high-tech and founder of #AskTheCEO Media. Gottheil has become a thought leader in tech through his over 20 year career working in IT and in Telecom. Gottheil has earned his Bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services from Touro College. He then went on to begin working for Avaya as... read full bio
Babak Hodjat is the co-founder and chief scientist of Sentient Technologies, a company that started some of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence. Apart from his work with A.I., he is also a scholar, inventor, entrepreneur, and technologist. Hodjat is a big name in the tech city Silicon Valley, and has started numerous companies there including being an architect for... read full bio
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
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
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
