Currently serving on the board of directors for Wells Fargo, Symantec Corporation, ECOLAB Inc., Parsons Corporation and Battelle Memorial Institute is Suzanne "Zan" Vautrinot, president of Kilovolt Consulting Inc. With almost three decades of experience in space and cyber operations, Zan previously rose to the rank of Major General in the U.S. Air Force. Prior to her retirement from active duty,... read full bio
At Yale University, Tamar Gendler holds the positions of Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science. Her academic work, which is field shaping, combines classic Anglo-American philosophical methods with empirical study from the social sciences, including neuroscience and psychology. She is well known for her ability to... read full bio
A true pioneer in the direct marketing of personal computers, Ted Waitt is the founder and former Chairman and CEO of Gateway, Inc. This project, which started in his Iowa farmhouse, has revolutionized the way people use technology to live, work, and play. Tedd Waitt has moved on to form Avalon Capital Group, Inc., which is a billion-dollar private investment... read full bio
Hack Future Lab, a research organization focused on how leaders can scale an agile, risk-taking and resilient future, was founded by Terence. He serves as an Entrepreneur Mentor in Residence at MIT and the London Business School. He has more than 20 years of expertise assisting CEOs to overcome challenges and move past disruption. As a former director at Saatchi & Saatchi... read full bio
Tessa Lau was the founder and CTO of Savioke and she has been nicknamed the “Chief Robot Whisperer”. During her time with Savioke, Lau led the software team that developed the first generation Relay system. She also created the company’s Field Operations organization and quantified Relay’s performance over time. Since then, Lau has gone on to be founder and CEO... read full bio
Talk: "How & What Really Happened" The Thom Reed UFO Incident is our Nations 1st and only UFO incident to be officially inducted into the United States as historically significant & true. Thom Reed was inducted into United State History on 11-03-15. Reed has been the subject of six (6) documentaries and feature films, including the launch of Discover Channel's Alien... read full bio
Thomas Frey is a speaker and American futurist. He is founder and Executive Director and Senior Futurist at the Westminster, Colorado DaVinci Institute. He has previously been an engineer with IBM for over 15 years. As a speaker, Frey has given speeches to NASA, Fortune 500 companies such as AT&T, Capital One, Boeing, Visa, Ford Motor Company, and many more.... read full bio
Tim Ferriss, nominated as one of Fast Companys Most Innovative Business People of 2007, is an angel investor (StumbleUpon, Digg, Twitter, etc.) and author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been sold into 35 languages. He is also the author of the best-selling follow-ups The 4-Hour Body and The... read full bio
Why do people like the things they like And how do companies like Netflix predict what you will enjoy Tom Vanderbuilt, a design and technology journalist for publications such as Wired, The New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and Slate, has taken on the elusive nature of taste and delivers fascinating lectures on how companies can better understand... read full bio
Tony Fadell is an expert in his field, and hes well known as an angel investor, designer, inventor, and entrepreneur. Known as one of the fathers of the iPod, Tony worked as the senior vice president of the iPod division at Apple Inc. He is also the founder of Nest Labs, which created the revolutionary Nest Learning Thermostat. Google acquired... read full bio
Anthony Gallippi saw a need for an electronic payment processing system for the bitcoin currency. Bitcoin is a new financial technology, invented in 2009, as the first peer-to-peer digital currency. Using bitcoin, it is possible to send money like an email - to anyone, anytime, anywhere- without going through a bank or government or corporation. As one of the leading... read full bio
Tyler Shultz is a notable figure in the field of biotechnology and entrepreneurship, recognized as the CEO and co-founder of Flux Biosciences, Inc. This innovative company focuses on utilizing magnetic sensing technology to make medical-grade in-vitro diagnostics accessible to consumers and patients in the comfort of their own homes. Shultz gained widespread attention due to his pivotal role in exposing the... read full bio
During the STS-9 mission, Ulf Merbold made history by being the first non-American to fly aboard the Space Shuttle. He served as the Crew Interface Coordinator (CIC) and backup Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Spacelab German D-1 mission. After transferring, Merbold worked for ESA as a project manager on Columbus, the European laboratory for the International Space Station, at... read full bio
Venki Ramakrishnan is an British-American structural biologist who has previously earned the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath due to their work in the structure and function of the ribosome. Ramakrishnan was born in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India, and he was born to a family of scientists. Venki earned his B.S. in physics and went... read full bio
Vijay Sankaran is the Chief Information Officer at TD Ameritrade, and one of the most in-demand technology speakers. He has spoken at events like TiE Con, the worlds largest conference for entrepreneurs, with over 4600 attendees from more than 22 countries, and named by Worth Magazine among the 10 Best Conferences for Ideas and Entrepreneurship alongside TED and the World... read full bio
Vincent Ng is the president of MCNG Marketing and the author of Pinterest to Profits with Pintalysis, a book that offers a step-by-step guidance on how small business owners may make the best use of Pinterest. Pintalysis was written by Vincent Ng. His podcast is called Pictures to Profits, and it teaches listeners how to improve sales with Pinterest and... read full bio
Quoted as one of the three most influential futurists in the world, Vito Di Bari is an innovation strategist and an inspirational keynote speaker with a global reputation for excellence. Based in Miami, he is celebrated for his captivating and entertaining presentations that leave audiences enthralled. As an esteemed former professor of Project Design and Management of Innovation at both... read full bio
W.E. (Bill) Harmer has been motivating and entertaining audiences with his content, enthusiasm, and his Irish sense of humor. Bill Harmer has held various roles throughout his 35 years of experience. He has held senior management and technical positions with numerous international corporations. He has consulted in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Bill Harmer has played very big roles... read full bio
Wenda Harris Millard joined Yahoo! in October 2001 as Chief Sales Officer. Millard is responsible for driving the North American sales of the company's advertising and marketing services initiatives and leading the North American sales organization. A seasoned executive with over twenty-five years of publishing and advertising experience, Millard was formerly Chief Internet Officer at Ziff Davis Media... read full bio
Chief technology officer and vice president of online shopping industry giant Amazon.com, Werner Vogels is an innovative thinker and go-getter who focuses on time saving and scalability. He has won the CIO/CTO of the Year Award from Information Week for his role in cloud computing, and he was voted the Clouds Most Influential Executive by readers of ReadWriteWeb. ExecBank... read full bio
