Russ Angold is the owner of Angold Engineering. Previously, Angold has been the CTO and Co-founder of Ekso Bionics. From the founding of Ekso Bionics up until 6 years after, Angold served as the Vice President of Engineering. Angold earned his B.S. in Engineering from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo. He has also taken an Executive Short Course in... read full bio
Ramu Yalamanchi is Founder and CEO of hi5 Networks, Inc. After launching the company, Ramu brought the service to profitability within a year. He has since left the company and has gone on to become co-founder, CEO and a board member of Adlogica Inc. which is a customer acquisition marketing group with subsidiaries in the US and Europe. The company... read full bio
Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg are the co-founders and co-CEOs of the Skimm, a membership company that is dedicated to helping female millennials live smarts lives. Along the way, the duo has gained readers such as Oprah and Sarah Jessica Parker. Weisberg and Zakin met while studying abroad in Rome and after graduating came back together while working at NBC... read full bio
Television journalist Bob Garfield is currently a co-host of NPR’s weekly Peabody Award-winning magazine program “On the Media”. He previously wrote a weekly AdReview, a television commercial criticism feature in Advertising Age, for 25 years. For the past decade, he has also notably covered the digital revolution, leading up to the breakthrough book, The Chaos Scenario. Previously, he wrote a... read full bio
Dr. Shefali Tsabary is an award-winning author, clinical psychologist and international speaker. Her award-winning first book, “The Conscious Parent”, was endorsed by Oprah as one of the most profound books on parenting she ever read. She has since released two more book, “Out of Control” and “The Awakened Family”. When Dr. Shefali is not authoring exceptional literature, she presents at... read full bio
Dr. Partha Nandi is the creator and host of the worldwide broadcasted medical lifestyle show, Ask Dr. Nandi. The show is available in syndication in 85 million households in the US and 90 countries all over the world. Dr. Nandi is also the Chief Health Editor at WXYZ (ABC) Detroit, a practicing gastroenterologist for more than 20 years, a renowned... read full bio
Danielle LaPorte is a Canadian writer, public speaker and publisher. She is an invited member of Oprah’s inaugural Super Soul 100, a group who, in Oprah Winfrey’s words, “is uniquely connecting the world together with a spiritual energy that matters.” She is author of The Fire Starter Sessions, and The Desire Map: A Guide To Creating Goals With Soul—translated into... read full bio
Moll Anderson is an inspirational interior designer whose fifth book, Change Your Home, Change Your Life with Color, is a New York Times and USA Today Bestseller. She has been a regular contributor to The Doctors television show, a guest co-host on FABLife, and has appeared on numerous television shows, including Access Hollywood Live, Good Day LA, The Talk, Good... read full bio
Hayley Wickenheiser is best known as a hockey Olympic gold medalist. She has partaken in seven World Championships, won five Olympic Medals, and four Olympic Gold Medals. Apart from her hockey career, Wickenheiser is an author and motivational speaker. Sharing her experiences on and off the ice, this sports specialist speaks internationally, motivating audiences of all kinds. Wickenheiser has been... read full bio
Adam Markel, bestselling author, keynote speaker and resilience researcher, guides individuals and organizations to tap the power of resilience to master the challenges of constant change. With 18 years as a trial attorney building a multi-million-dollar enterprise and 10 years as the CEO of a leading personal development and business training company, Adam has much to share about resilience, culture and... read full bio
Seth Mattison’s primary interest is in workforce trends and his generation—the Millennials. Seth’s presentations focus on creating a better understanding of the generation gaps between younger and older workers today, how to repair them, and how bridging them can lead to greater creativity, productivity, and worker satisfaction. As one of the millions of Millennials/Gen Years around the world trying to... read full bio
Nadia Bolz-Weber is a New York Times bestselling author and founder and former pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints. Nadia grew up in Colorado Springs to a fundamentalist Christian family. She later studied at Pepperdine University but dropped out, moved to Denver, and became an alcoholic and drug abuser. After 10 years, Nadia became sober and has remained... read full bio
Chris Kelly is an entrepreneur, politician, lawyer and activist. Kelly graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory and earned his B.A. from Georgetown University. Since then he’s gone on to earn his master’s from Yale University and his law degree from Harvard Law School. Kelly’s earliest work includes being on the staff of Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign. He went on to... read full bio
Sarah McBride is an American author, National Press Secretary of the Human Rights Campaign, and transgender rights activist from Wilmington, Delaware. McBride gained attention after making national headlines for coming out as transgender in her college’s newspaper while she was serving as student body president at American University. After coming out, McBride was featured in outlets such as The Huffington... read full bio
Garrard Conley is an American author and LGBTQ activist who is best known for his autobiography, ‘Boy Erased: A Memoir’, which has since become a major motion picture of the same name. Conley’s memoir went over his childhood with a fundamentalist family that enrolled him in conversion therapy because of his sexuality. Conley’s family sent him to Love In Action... read full bio
Nic Stone is an American New York Times best-selling author of young adult fiction books. Stone was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and she graduated from Spelman College with a degree in Psychology. After graduating from Spelman College, Stone moved to Israel for a few years which is when she decided to pursue a career as a writer. Stone... read full bio
Larry Broughton is an award-winning entrepreneur, CEO, keynote speaker, number 1 bestselling author and a former Green Beret. Larry has previously been a US Army Staff Sergeant and he served for eight years on Special Forces A-Teams. During his time served, Larry took the lessons he learned from his time serving to apply them to the business arena attaining extraordinary... read full bio
Marty Snider is an American sportscaster who is currently working for NBC Sports. Snider started his career working as a sports reporter for WYFF as well as WGHP. He started working as an intern before being hired as a sports reporter while he finished his last year of college. Snider began his career as a reporter and associate producer for... read full bio
Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a Thai landscape architect and CEO of Porous City Network, an enterprise that increases urban resilience in Southeast Asia. Voraakhom is also a TED fellow and founder of the Koungkuey Design Initiative which rebuilds public spaces with communities. Voraakhom earned her bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture from Chulalongkorn University and she went on to complete her graduate... read full bio
Mei Mei Hu is the Chief Executive Officer, co-founder and a member of the Board of Directors of United Neuroscience. As CEO of United Neuroscience, Hu works on finding new ways to fight brain diseases like Alzheimer’s. She urges her directors of United Neuroscience to pioneer a new class of endobody vaccines to train the immune system to produce specific... read full bio
