Megan Smith has previously been the 3rd Chief Technology Officer of the United States under President Barack Obama. Prior to her job as Chief Technology Officer of the US, Smith was vice president at Google where she led new business development at Google. She was also general manager of Google.org, a vice president at Google[x] and the former CEO of... 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
Mike has spent his whole career, which spans 28 years, working to expand the range of options and levels of care available to people who require long-term care. At the moment, he works as a member of the advocacy team with California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR), which is his present place of employment. Mike's prior position was as... read full bio
Michael Durst is a scientist and entrepreneur who is known for previously working as a strategy consultant for Siemens Business Services. During his work with Siemens, Durst worked on conducting digitization projects and also worked on IT strategy, enterprise architecture and e-commerce. He also worked on projects for the automotive industry, insurance companies, banks, utility companies and machine manufacturing. After... read full bio
Michael Irwin Jordan is an American scientist who is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and is a researcher for topics which include machine learning, statistics and AI. Jordan has previously earned his BS magnua cum laude in psychology from Louisiana State Universiy and went on to earn his MS in Mathematics from Arizona State University before going... read full bio
Former VP of Product at Twitter, Michael Sippey is now the CEO and founder of Talkshow, an app that allows people to text in public. With this messaging app, individuals, groups of friends, entertainers, creators, and anyone else can have conversations in public, to be viewed by others in real time or after the fact. Every Talkshow can be shared... read full bio
In the current era, both businesses and consumers seek more innovation. Michael Tchongs thrilling tour of the landscape of now reveals how innovative companies are strategically utilizing trends in food, healthcare, hospitality, lifestyle, real estate, retailing, technology and travel. This cross-disciplinary revelation of the leading edge helps spark innovation within organizations of all types. As a professional people watcher and... read full bio
Michael Wesch is an associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. He also works on media ecology and the field of digital ethnography, where he studies the effect of new media on human interaction. Wesch graduated summa cum laude from the Kansas State University Anthropology Program and has since been a faculty member after earning his Ph.D. in... 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
Mikey Cohen is best known for being an architect and principal engineer for the Netflix Edge Platform, which is part of the Netflix streaming application. Through the edge platform, Cohen worked to help create a support system that takes over 10 billion request per day and serves over 50 million customers all over the world. Prior to his work with... read full bio
Mikkel Svane, the CEO of Zendesk, has been named among the top tech speakers in the world. He founded Zendesk with Morten Primdahl and Alexander Aghassipour with the goal of providing an enhanced customer service experience for everyone and developing software that people love to use. Now, he leads Zendesks global operations and business strategy with those same goals in... read full bio
Mikko Hypponen is the Chief Research Officer for F-Secure. Hypponen has assisted law enforcement in the United States, Europe and Asia on cybercrime cases and advises governments on cyber crime. His team has been responsible for taking down the Sobig.F botnet. Hypponen has keynoted or spoken at various conferences around the world, including, Black Hat, DEF CON, DLD, Hack In... read full bio
Miles OBrien is a veteran news broadcaster and web journalist. Miles focuses on topics such as, technology, science, and aerospace. Currently, he is a PBS News Hour Science Correspondent and is a regular correspondent for any related PBC documentary for the television series Frontline and National Science Foundation Science Nation. Miles OBrien has had over 30 years of experience in... read full bio
Moon Ribas is a Catalonian avant-garde artist and activist for cyborgs who is known for developing and planting sensors in her feet which lead to her feeling earthquakes through vibrations in the sensors. This has led Ribas to be named the world’s first cyborg woman, or artist. Ribas was born in Mataro, Catalonia, Spain, and she began studying experimental dance... read full bio
Dr. Moran Cerf is a neuroscientist researching how conscious percepts are developed in our brains. He studies the activity of individual nerve cells directly from the brains of patients undergoing neurosurgery. These patients are implanted with electrodes deep inside their brains for clinical purposes. After the implantation, Dr. Cerf is able to use the implanted electrodes to analyze the ways... read full bio
Moriba Jah is an American space scientist and aerospace engineer who works as the associate professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin. Jah was born in San Francisco, California, and while growing up he moved and lived in Venezuela for a while before moving back to the United States. After moving back to... read full bio
Murat Gunak is the former head design at DaimlerChrysler AG, Volkswagen and Renault and is has been the head of MIA Electric cars. Gunak has studied design at Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Kassel and then went on to study at the Royal College of Art in London where he earned the award of Master of Automotive Design and went... read full bio
A seasoned IT entrepreneur, Mustafa Suleyman is the co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI, an AI-first business that is revolutionizing how people and computers interact. He formerly served as vice president of AI products and policy at Google. Prior to that, he co-founded DeepMind, which Google later acquired. He spent more than ten years as Head of Applied AI, helping the... read full bio
Natalie Sisson is an intrepid explorer and "Suitcase Entrepreneur" who goes to various places all over the world. She lives out of a bag, where she operates a highly successful online business from her laptop and smartphone, and she teaches people how to do the same thing. This is something that you probably have assumed. She is on a mission to... read full bio
Referred to as the father of the MP3 player, Nathan Schulhof is an entrepreneur who has been advancing in the technology industry for over thirty years. He is the lead inventor for three different patents, including the mp3 player, which was a major innovation within the music and technology world. He is also the co-inventor of a few other patents.... read full bio
