Ann Winblad is a respected software industry entrepreneur. Her leading innovations in technology led her to found the Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (HWVP), a venture firm focused on software. For over three decades, Winblad has launched over 160 enterprise software companies covering a spectrum of enterprise sectors like Analytics, Cloud Computing, Security, and Business Intelligence. Winblad started her career as... read full bio
Anna Nixon is one of the biggest names in robotics, having won awards in the field. She is also a very accomplished speaker, teacher, and leader that represents the post millennial generation. She got her start in robots when she was very young – her dad brought home a small robotics kit, which she took to really fast. The two... 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
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
April Hansen is one of the country's leading authorities on employee engagement and hyper-growth leadership because of her remarkable journey from small-town nurse to digital entrepreneur and now award-winning CEO of a multibillion dollar company. Her ground-breaking observations have appeared in the New York Times, Forbes, and TEDx. April's concepts, which are supported by research, enable people to find their... read full bio
Ariel Ekblaw, Ph.D., is a futurist, tech investor, and pioneer in space architecture who is assisting enterprises in creating sustainable futures by utilizing the newest technologies, including advanced artificial intelligence initiatives like GPT-4. Ekblaw is a pioneering researcher and seasoned technology leader who provides tactics for motivating teams working on moonshot ideas. He is the CEO of the Aurelia Institute,... read full bio
Imagine inviting a speaker who will not only delve into the secrets hidden beneath Antarctic ice but also transform your gathering into an unforgettable adventure about discovering new possibilities. Celebrated Antarctic explorer, filmmaker, and National Geographic Explorer Ariel Waldman shares the wonders of space and our world with you. Known as a “Champion of Change” by the Obama White House,... 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
Dr. Ben Goertzel is an author, entrepreneur, and multidisciplinary scientist. He moved his main base of operations to a rural island close to Seattle in 2020 after spending a considerable amount of time in Hong Kong. He was born in Brazil to American parents. He is the head of the AGI Society, which organizes the yearly Artificial General Intelligence... 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
