Jon Lovett is an American screenwriter, speechwriter, and producer. He spent some time writing speeches and jokes for President Barack Obama as well as Hillary Clinton, which inspired him to co-create the television series, “1600 Penn”. During his time writing for President Obama, Lovett helped him write his annual remarks for the White House Correspondents Dinner. Lovett was also a... read full bio
Tommy Vietor is an American political commentator and podcaster. He was previously a spokesperson for President Obama and United States National Security Council. Vietor started his career with Obama driving the press van around Illinois. During that time, Vietor started to learn about the media from Obama’s spokesman at the time, Robert Gibbs. Vietor went on to become the deputy... read full bio
Magnus Nilsson is an internationally celebrated chef who began cooking at the age of 3. The Swedish native has been ranked as one of the top ten young chefs in Europe and has been two international tv documentary series. Magnus' early career includes working in two Michelin star restaurants in France before moving back home to Sweden to open his... read full bio
Franck Nicolas is a best selling author, philanthropist, and expert in leadership and professional coaching. Frank has spent the last 20 years as the French-speaking world leading speaker in entrepreneurship strategies. Using an andragogical approach, he trains business and entrepreneur professional's mind, body, and emotions to focus on implementation of knowledge rather than accumulation. Franck's company, Glob, is an accredited coaching... 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
Paul Armstrong is a futurist, founder of the technology advisory company, HERE/FORTH, and a speaker on innovation, futurism, technology, and AI robotics. Armstrong has been a leader on topics which include social technologies, consumer technology, mobile innovation, start-ups, media industry, and more. He has also published his first book, “Disruptive Technologies,” which talks on emerging technologies such as blockchain, AI,... read full bio
Susan Annunzio is a leader in authority on eBusiness-Leadership. She is best known for her work to help businesses with high performance. She has previously worked with The Center for High Performance where she has been the President and Chief Executive Officer and has led them to be a leader on strategy attainment and business transformation. Through her work on... read full bio
Simon Anholt is a British policy advisor, author, consultant, and keynote speaker who is creator of the Good Country project. Anholt has been known to be a world expert on managing corporate as well as national identity and reputation. He began his career founding an international strategy firm in London where he also began developing Culture Mapping, which led him... read full bio
Joshua Angrist is an Israeli-American economist and current Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Angrist was born in Columbus, Ohio, and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has earned his B.A. in economics and went on to earn his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. After finishing his Ph.D., Angrist went on to begin working... read full bio
Charlie Ang is a keynote speaker, global futurist, innovation strategist, disruption analyst, and transformation expert. Ang is a busy man who is a mentor for Kairos Society, a business partner for cloudBuy plc, co-founder for IdeasCollider!, co-founder and builder and investor for Knowble, co-founder of The Innovators Network, venture capital investor, partner, and GM for Asia for KIATT Venture Capital,... read full bio
Sterling Anderson is an American businessman who is co-founder of Aurora Innovation, and has previously had a long career working with Tesla. Anderson is an expert in autonomous vehicle technology and has previously earned his M.S. in Robotics as well as his Ph.D. in Robotics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While earning his Ph.D., Anderson began doing research while at... read full bio
Camille Wardrop Alleyne is an American aerospace engineer, space scientist, speaker, writer, leader, and current Associate Program Scientist for the International Space Station at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Alleyne was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, and she moved to the United States at 18 years old to pursue a career in space. She went on to earn her... read full bio
George Akerlof is an American economist and professor who is a professor at McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and a Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Akerlof was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and he has earned his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from MIT. After earning his degree, Akerlof later... read full bio
Esko Aho is a Finnish politician who has previously been the 37th Prime Minister of Finland. Aho was born in Veteli, Finland, and he began earned his Master of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki before going on to start his work in politics. He began working as a Chairman of the Finnish Centre Youth and then was a... read full bio
Ferran Adria is a Spanish chef who is best known for being the head chef of the elBulli restaurant in Roses. Adria was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, and his brother, Albert Adria, is also a well-known pastry chef whom he collaborates with often. Adria began his career first working as a dishwasher at Hotel Playafels in Castelldefels. While washing... read full bio
Muna AbuSulayman is a Saudi businesswoman and activist who is best known for being the former founding Secretary General for the Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation, for being the philanthropic arm of HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal’s Kingdom Holding Company, and for also being co-host of the Kalam Nawaem television show. AbuSulayman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and she studied at... read full bio
Nazanine Moshiri is a journalist, presenter and correspondent who has worked for Al Jazeera English. Throughout her career with Al Jazeera, Moshiri has covered huge stories based out of Europe as well as Afghanistan and Iran. Moshiri has also had the opportunity to interview numerous political figures which include the Iranian Foreign Minister, the Prime Minister of Turkey, Hugo Chavez,... read full bio
Darria Long Gillespie is a practicing emergency physician, the former senior vice president of Clinical Strategy, an author, and a television and media medical expert. Gillespie has earned her bachelor’s in political science and government from the University of Rochester and went on to earn her MBA from Harvard Business School, and her M.D. from U Of Rochester School of... read full bio
Nicole Walters is an entrepreneur, business strategist, and founder and CEO of Inherit Learning Company, which is a company that helps businesses grow their company to the next level and offers training to help build their companies. While growing up, Walters father was an immigrant who worked very hard multiple jobs to be able to put her through the top... read full bio
Darren Hardy is an American author, advisor, keynote speaker, and former publisher and CEO of SUCCESS Magazine. Hardy began his career in business at only 18 years old where he became owner of Hardy Advanced Marketing. Hardy went on to work as a real estate brokerage for Century 21 Hardy & Associates and Re/Max before going on to be owner,... read full bio
