Nathan Pacheco is an American tenor singer-songwriter who performs classical and crossover music and plays the piano and guitar. Pacheco has been signed to Disney Pearl Series sub-label, and is from Virginia, United States, and is of Brazilian origin. Pacheco graduated from Brigham Young Universities’ music program and went on to study abroad in South America and Europe due to... read full bio
Dr. Robert Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinology researcher and author who is currently the Professor of Biology, Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University. Sapolsky was born in Brooklyn, New York, and he has earned his B.A. in biological anthropology summa cum laude from Harvard University. After earning his degree, Sapolsky went on to study baboons in the... read full bio
Charles Patrick Garcia is best known for his consulting, merchant bank, and venture capital firm, Garcia Trujillo LLC, where he served as the CEO. Currently, Garcia is the CEO of Tendrel, which is a global community of social impact leaders. Garcia grew up in Panama City, Panama, and he earned his bachelor’s degree from the United States Air Force Academy.... read full bio
Max Tegmark is a physicist and AI researcher, and has been the President of the Future of Life Institute and Professor of Physics at MIT. Tegmark was born in Sweden and while in high school, Tegmark created a word processor which was written in pure machine code. Tegmark has earned his B.Sc. in Physics from the Royal Institute of Technolgy... read full bio
James Taylor is a creativity expert who has previously began his career managing rock stars before moving on to be a keynote speaker and leader of business creativity and innovation. Taylor has been the founder of C.SCHOOLTM and he has been an advisor for CEOs, entrepreneurs, educators, governments, and leaders all over the world. Through his work as an advisor,... read full bio
Marc Tarpenning is an American engineer and entrepreneur who has been the co-founder of Tesla Inc. alongside Martin Eberhard. Tarpenning was born in Sacramento, California, and he has earned his B.A. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. After earning his degree, Tarpenning began working for Textron in Saudi Arabia before going on to develop software and firmware... read full bio
Etherwood, a top musician, has quickly become well-known in the drum and bass community thanks to his exquisitely lovely and one-of-a-kind productions. Having grown up listening to everything from Pink Floyd and Hendrix to The Beatles and Stevie Wonder, Woody's introduction to classic rock and folk music quickly launched him into the music industry. At the age of twelve, he purchased his... read full bio
Enigma is a German musical project that was founded by Romanian-German musician and producer Michael Cretu. Over the course of it’s career, the musical project has held members which include Frank Peterson, Sandra Cretu, Andy Kanavan, Peter Cornelius, Jens Gad, and many more. The music is a mixture of worldbeat, new-age, downtempo, electronica, ambient, and experimental and Cretu started the... read full bio
Audrey Tang is the Digital Minister of Taiwan and a software programmer who is best known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell. Tang was considered a child prodigy at the age of five as Tang was reading classical literature and went on to be performing advanced mathematics before six years old and was learning computer programming before eight.... read full bio
Nadja Swarovski is an Australian businesswoman who has worked for the Swarovski family company for most of her career. Through her work with her family company, Swarovski has been the first female on the executive board and has led the global brand strategy and communications side of the business. She has also been head of the sustainability strategy, their Swarovski... read full bio
Carole Spiers is a British entrepreneur, author, and public speaker who is an expert on stress management, counseling and employee wellbeing. Spiers is the founder and CEO of the Carole Spiers Group which is an international stress management employee counseling consultancy that works in the UK as well as the Middle East. As a keynote speaker, Spiers has given talks... read full bio
Ted Souder is a businessman who is currently Head of Industry in Retail for Google. Souder is best known for his nearly 20 year career with Google after starting as a client service specialist. Souder has previously earned his BSBA in Business from the University of Denver and he went on to begin his career working as an account executive... read full bio
Big Terrific is a comedic trio that consists of comedians Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman and Max Silvestri. The trio began a weekly comedy show in Brooklyn, New York, which went on to be named one of the city’s best comedy shows by outlets which included New York Magazine and Time Out. Jenny Slate is a comedian, actress and is best... read full bio
The Baseball Project is a supergroup that consists of members Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, Linda Pitmon, Steve Wynn and Mike Mills. The band was formed after McCaughey and Wynn had a discussion while R.E.M. was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This led them to add in members Buck and Pitmon and record their debut studio album,... read full bio
Raul Castillo is an American actor and playwright who is best known for playing Richie in the television series “Looking,” and most recently for playing Mikey Guzman in the Netflix original film “Army of the Dead.” Castillo was born in McAllen, Texas, and he found his love for acting as a teenager as he began taking theatre classes as a... read full bio
Zainab Johnson is an American comedian and actress who rose to fame after being a semi-finalist on the television competition series “Last Comic Standing.” Johnson was born in Harlem, New York, and she later went on to earn her bachelor’s degree in mathematics. She originally wanted to be a teacher but instead moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career... read full bio
Triple One is an Australian hip-hop and rap group from Sydney, Australia, that consists of members Billy Gunns, Marty Bugatti, Obi Ill Terrors and Lil Dijon. The group rose to fame with the release of their single “Butter,” which went on to be featured on rotation on the Australian radio station Triple J. Triple One have been known for being... read full bio
The Subways are an English rock band from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, that consists of the duo Billy Lunn and Charlotte Cooper. The Subways music is a mixture of punk rock, alternative rock, indie rock, garage rock, and more. The band began playing together at a young age and would perform covers of punk songs before going on to... read full bio
The Staves are an English indie folk trio that consists of sisters Jessica, Camilla and Emily Staveley-Taylor. The trio are from Watford, Hertfordshire, and they began their career performing together at open-mic nights at a local pub, The Horns. They went on to begin gaining even more popularity after they appeared on Tom Jones’ album “Praise and Blame.” They then... read full bio
The Replacements are an American rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, who have been known to be one of the originators of alternative rock. The Replacements have been composed of members Peter Westerberg, Tommy Stinson, Chris Mars, Bob Stinson, Slim Dunlap, and Steve Foley. The band was formed by brothers Bob and Tommy and after meeting Mars, they began performing locally... read full bio
