Stephen Sackur is an English journalist who is best known for being the host of “HARDtalk,” which is a current affairs interview program which is featured on both BBC World News and BBC News Channel. Apart from his work with HARDtalk, Sackur has also been presenter for the series “GMT” which is featured on BBC World News. Sackur was born... read full bio
James Rubin is an American former diplomat and journalist who has previously served as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs under President Bill Clinton. Rubin was born in Larchmont, New York, and he earned his BA in political science as well as a Master of International Affairs from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. Rubin began his career... read full bio
Paul Romer is an American economist who has worked for the NYU Stern School of Business and who has previously served as the Chief Economist of the World Bank. Romer was born in Denver, Colorado, and he earned his B.S. in mathematics and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. He then had his graduate studies at MIT as... read full bio
Alvy Ray Smith is best known for being the co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios as well as Altamira. Smith was born in Mineral Wells, Texas, and he has earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University and while there, he created his first computer graphic. Smith then went on to earn his Ph.D. in computer science... read full bio
Fidel Ramos, also known as FVR and Eddie, is a retired Filipino general and politician who has previously served as the 12th President of the Philippines. Ramos was born in Lingayen, Pangasinan, Insular Government of the Philippine Islands and earned his degree in Civil Engineering at the National University in Manila. He then went on to earn a B.S. in... 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
Goran Carstedt is best known for being the former CEO of IKEA. Carstedt is a specialist in leadership and sustainability and has been the leader of the Society for Organizational Learning global network. He is best known in Europe for being a leader of numerous world famous companies and has a focus on organizational learning. Through his work with IKEA,... read full bio
Geoff Mulgan has been the Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London and has also been the CEO of NESTA, which is an innovation charity. Mulgan has previously earned his degree from Balliol College, Oxford, before going on to earn his Ph.D. in telecommunications from the University of Westminster. Over the course of his... read full bio
Enrique Penalosa is a Colombian politician who has previously served as the 798th Mayor of Bogota. Penalosa was born in Washington, D.C. and he moved to the United States at 15 years old as his father began working as a Colombian ambassador to the UN. Penalosa then went on to study at Duke University where he earned his B.A. in... read full bio
Edgar Perez is an American-Peruvian author, speaker, and consultant who is an expert on topics which include quantum computing, artificial intelligence, deep learning, cybersecurity and high-frequency trading. Perez was born in Lima, Peru, and he has earned a B.S. in Systems Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria before going on to earn his Masters in Management from Universidad ESAN, making... read full bio
Ben Legg is a keynote speaker and author who has previously been the COO of Google Europe. Legg has previously earned his Bachelor of Engineering from Cranfield University and began his career working as a Captain of the Royal Engineers for the British Army. From there, he went on to work as a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company before... read full bio
Toby Walsh has been a Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence and has been a leading researcher in AI. Walsh is also a Laureate fellow and has worked at the UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales and Data61. Walsh has earned his M.A. in theoretical physics and mathematics from the University of Cambridge... read full bio
Victoria LaBalme is a keynote performer and strategic performance coach who works to help her clients transform their performances not only in business, but on stage, video, meetings and in their life’s. LaBalme is founder of the Risk Forward and Rock the Room and works with executives and teams to help deliver their messages with a twist that makes their... read full bio
Adriano Zumbo is an Australian pâtissier and television presenter who rose to fame after appearing as a guest on “MasterChef Australia.” Zumbo was born in Coonamble, New South Wales, and he found his love for food and business as his parents own a supermarket. Zumbo grew up traveling to Italy where he found his love for patisseries and coffee. He... read full bio
Seema Yasmin is a British physician, writer and science communicator who works for Stanford University as the Director of Research and Education at the Stanford Health Communication Initiative. Yasmin was born in the United Kingdom and has previously trained in biochemistry at Queen Mary University of London before going on to complete a graduate program in medicine at the University... read full bio
Kip Thorne is an American theoretical physicist who is best known for his contributions to astrophysics and gravitational physics. Thorne was born in Logan, Utah, and he has earned his B.S. from the California Institute of Technology before going on to earn his M.S. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. He then began his career working as an associate professor at... 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
Javier Solana is a Spanish physicist and socialist politician who has previously served multiple positions in office. Solana was born in Madrid, Spain, and he has studied at Complutense University before going on to join the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party. He then went on to study more at Spain’s Higher Council for Scientific Research before moving to the United States... read full bio
Amy York Rubin is an American writer, director, and producer, who is best known for working as the director of the award-winning pilot of the Netflix original series, “Dead to Me.” Rubin originally began her career in the entertainment industry working as a stand-up comedian. She eventually moved to directing, writing and producing after working on the web series “Little... read full bio
Aisha "Pinky" Cole is an entrepreneur and restaurateur who specializes in plant-based substitutes and vegan dishes. Originally, Cole moved to Los Angeles to be an actor, then moved to New York to work in television production. Her passion was always making vegan food, so Aisha ended up starting restaurants in Harlem but closed them after an accidental grease fire. After... read full bio
