Jordy Nelson is an American former professional football wide receiver who played in the NFL. Nelson was born in Manhattan, Kansas, and he began his career playing football in high school where he was named Flint Hills Player of the Year by the Manhattan Mercury, and also exceled in both basketball and track and field. From there, Nelson went on... read full bio
Tevin Campbell has released 4 albums, been nominated for five Grammys, and sold over three million albums. Campbell’s passion for music started when he was a small child. He performed in his church gospel choir. As a young teenage he was signed to Warner Bros. Records. Apart from music, Campbell started an acting career, appearing in Prince's Graffiti Bridge. He... read full bio
Mick Hucknall is an English singer-songwriter and musician who rose to fame as the lead singer and songwriter of the band Simply Red, which was a British soul and pop band that was best known for their singles “If You Don’t Know Me by Now” and “Holding Back the Years.” Simply Red’s best-selling album was “Stars,” and they have earned... read full bio
Adam Topol is a professional drummer who has worked with artists like Eddie Vedder, Joey Santiago, Ziggy Marley, Jack Johnson, David Gilmour, and Jimmy Cliff. He has released eight projects with his debut album being “Regardless of the Dark”. Some of his most popular songs include, “Crystal Bay”, “The Captain”, “Hollow”, and many more. Regardless of the Dark has been... read full bio
Kyle Rudolph is an American professional football tight end who currently plays for the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL. Rudolph was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and he began his career playing football in high school where he earned first-team All-City and All-Conference honors. He went on to be named first-team All-American by USA Today and was placed on the Scout.com... read full bio
Malcolm Smith is an American professional football linebacker who currently plays for the Cleveland Browns of the NFL. Smith was born in Woodland Hills, California, and he began his career playing football in high school where he was named to the Student Sports Sophomore All-American and Cal-Hi Sports All-State first team. He was also on the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Underclass... read full bio
Janelle Shane is an American optics research scientist, AI researcher, writer, and speaker, who is best known for her blog, AI Weirdness. She is also known for her debut book, “You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place.” Shane has previously studied electrical engineering at Michigan State... read full bio
Brett Moffitt is an American professional stock car racing driver who currently competes in the NASCAR Gander RV and Outdoors Truck Series as well as in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Moffitt was born in Grimes, Iowa, and he began his career racing at 10 years old in kart racing competitions. From there, he went on to win the Harris Clash,... read full bio
Pieter Abbeel is an Belgian Professor who is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Berekeley Robot Learning Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also co-director of the Berkeley AI Research Lab at Berkeley. Abbeel has also been co-founder of covariant.ai, which is a start-up that teaches robots skills. As a businessman,... read full bio
Master KG is a South African DJ, musician, and record producer from Tzaneen, Limpopo, South Africa. Master KG began his musical career playing with beats on a computer as a teenager before later going on to work alongside DJ Maebela experimenting with music through various softwares. After developing his sound, Master KG went on to release his debut single, “Situation,”... read full bio
Ioannis Ioannou is a Professor, advisor, keynote speaker, and influencer on topics which include corporate responsibility and sustainability leadership. Ioannou has previously earned his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics before going on to earn his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University/Harvard Business School. While finishing his Ph.D., Ioannou began working as an associate and Ph.D. intern at Analysis... read full bio
John Humphrys is a Welsh broadcaster, journalist, and host, who has been known for his work with BBC, having been the presenter for the ‘Nine O’Clock News,’ and for presenting the program ‘Today,’ as well as hosting the television show ‘Mastermind.’ Humphrys was born in Adamsdown, Cardiff, Wales, and he left school at 15 years old to pursue a career... read full bio
Dennis Hong is a Korean-American mechanical engineer, inventor, innovator and roboticist who is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and founder of RoMeLa, the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory at UCLA. Hong is best known for his research on robot locomotion and manipulation, humanoid robots, and autonomous vehicles. Through his research, he has gone on to invent robots... read full bio
Christian Serratos is an American actress who is best known for playing Rosita Espinosa in the television series “The Walking Dead,” and for most recently playing Selena in the Netflix original series “Selena: The Series.” Serratos was born in Pasadena, California, and while growing up, Serratos began figure skating at only 3 years old before going on to begin performing... read full bio
David Epstein is an American journalist, investigative reporter, and a New York Times bestselling author of the book “The Sports Gene”. As a writer, Epstein focuses on writing about the science that circulates sports, which range from performance enhancing drugs, and more. Him and his colleague, Selena Roberts, were the two that broke the news on Alex Rodriguez testing positive... read full bio
Steve Mann is a Canadian engineer, professor, and inventor, who is known for specializing in augmented reality, computational photography, and high dynamic range imaging. He is the founding member of the IEEE Council on Extended Intelligence and is co-founder of InteraXon. He has also been co-founder and CTO of Blueberry X Technologies and is chairman of MannLab. Mann was born... read full bio
Gunter Pauli is a Belgian entrepreneur, author, and economist, who is best known for his book “The Blue Economy.” Pauli was born in Antwerp, Belgium, and he graduated from Loyola’s University before going on to earn his masters in business administration from INSEAD. He later went on to be founder and Chairman of PPA Holding, and founder and CEO of... read full bio
Carlos Paez Rodriguez, also known as “the man of the iron spirit,” is best known for being one of the only survivors from the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 that crashed near the Andes. During his time fighting for survival, Rodriguez had to resort to cannibalism to stay alive and was only 18 at the time of the crash. By... read full bio
Jon Foreman is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who is best known for his rise to fame as a member, songwriter, and co-founder of the band Switchfoot. Through his fame with Switchfoot, the band became best known for their singles “Meant to Live” and “Dare You to Move.” Foreman was born in San Bernardino County, California, and later grew up... read full bio
Jim Sciutto is an American news anchor and former government official who is currently the chief national security correspondent for CNN. Sciutto has previously earned his degree in Chinese history from Yale University where he graduated cum laude. He went on to begin his career working in television as a moderator and producer of the PBS program, ‘The Student Press,’... read full bio
