Thomas Frey is a speaker and American futurist. He is founder and Executive Director and Senior Futurist at the Westminster, Colorado DaVinci Institute. He has previously been an engineer with IBM for over 15 years. As a speaker, Frey has given speeches to NASA, Fortune 500 companies such as AT&T, Capital One, Boeing, Visa, Ford Motor Company, and many more.... read full bio
Philip Evans is a big data expert, senior partner and managing director at BCG Consulting. He has founded BCG’s media sector and has consulted for corporations all over the world in consumer goods, media, financial services, and high-tech industries. He has also advised governments. Evans is also an author and has been co-author of several articles and the best-selling book... read full bio
Rajat Paharia was the founder and Chief Product Officer of Bunchball, Inc. He is known as the father of gamification and founded Bunchball, which launched the social gaming and gamification industries. Paharia graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a B.A. in computer science. He then went on to earn his M.S. in computer science from Stanford University. Paharia started his career... read full bio
John Waters is an electric vehicle pioneer, energy strategy consultant, and engineer and design leader of GM’s EV-1 Electric Car. He is an entrepreneur and business development professional who has experience in enterprise development, strategic planning, and production of engineered products and solutions. He is currently researching and development lightweight, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles. Prior to working as a CEO... read full bio
Joel Swisher is an environmental engineer and clean energy technology specialist. He is an internationally recognized expert on analysis, design, and evaluation of utility energy efficiency, distributed generation, and emission reduction programs. He’s also an expert on the development and finance of carbon offset projects. Swisher earned his Ph.D. in energy and environmental engineering from Stanford University and also earned... read full bio
Molly Wright Steenson is a design strategist, author, architectural historian and associate professor at the Carnegie Mellon School of Design. She earned her PhD in architecture and urbanism from the 60s to the 80s. At the start of her career, she worked for companies including Netscape, Scient, Reuter and a wide variety of Fortune 500 and smaller, creative companies. As... read full bio
Scott Amyx is a managing partner at Amyx Ventures. He is also a TEDx Speaker, IBM IoT Futurist, Forbed New York Business Council Member, Singularity University and Smart City Accelerator Mentor, and more. Amyx is author of the book “Strive: How Doing the Things Most Uncomfortable Leads to Success”. He has also set to publish the book “The Human Race:... read full bio
Jill Tarter is an American astronomer who is best known for her work on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. She is the former director of the Center for SETI Research and holds the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI at the SETI Institute. She has been featured in Discover magazine as one of the 50 most important women in science.... read full bio
Yossi Vardi is an Israeli entrepreneur and investor who is one of Israel’s first high-tech entrepreneurs. He has founded and helped build numerous tech companies in fields such as software, energy, mobile, water technology, electro-optics and Internet. Vardi graduated from the Technion in Haifa with a B.Sc. in industrial management engineering and went on to earn his M.Sc in Operations... read full bio
Hugh Herr is an American biophysicist, engineer, and rock climber. Growing up, Herr was a prodigy rock climber and by only 8 years old he had scaled the face of the Mount Temple in the Canadian Rockies and at only 17, he was known to be one of the best climbers in the United States. After getting caught in a... read full bio
Peter Fingar is a cloud computer & technology expert, thought-leader and best-selling author. He is an internationally recognized expert on business strategy, globalization and business process management. As an author, his book “Business Process Management: The Third Wave” has been used for the BPM trend in the 21st century. Fingar has worked with companies such as GTE Data Services, American... read full bio
Joseph F. Coughlin is Director of the MIT AgeLab and expert on Disruptive Demographics. He provides insights on how demographic change, technology, social trends and consumer behavior will converge to drive future innovations in business and government. Coughlin is the author of the online publication Disruptive Demographics at MIT. He has been featured in Fast Company Magazine’s “100 Most Creative... read full bio
Jeff Immelt is an American business executive who has worked as a venture partner at New Enterprise Associates. He has recently retired as chairman of the board of the U.S.-based conglomerate General Electric. He had been selected as CEO by their board of directors to replace Jack Welch and prior to being CEO, Immelt had headed up GE’s Medical Systems... read full bio
Maria Zuber is the Vice President of Research and E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics at MIT, as well as Principal Investigator of NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission- an effort to map the Moon’s gravitational field. She is the first woman to head an MIT science department and the first to lead a NASA planetary mission. She... read full bio
Mohanbir Sawhney is an author, scholar, professional speaker, consultant, and management expert. He is the McCormick Tribune Professor of Technology at the Kellogg School of Management and an adviser to several large organizations on e-commerce strategies. Sawhney was born in Kalaikunda, India, and holds a Ph.D. in marketing from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also earned... read full bio
Rory Kinnear is an English actor and playwright who is best known for playing Bill Tanner in the James bond films. He is also known for working with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. Kinnear is the son of Roy Kinnear and Carmel Cryan. He studied acting at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and went... read full bio
Sam Paganini is an Italian DJ and Producer who’s recognized as a pioneer of techno music. His song, “Rave”, has become a techno classic. It peaked at No.1 on Beatport’s Techno Top Ten for over two months and has lasted on Beatport’s Techno Top 100 for over a year and a half. With over 18 million clicks on YouTube, “Rave”... read full bio
Nastia is DJ and radio host from the Ukraine. Music has always been her passion, but she attended the University of Donetsk to pursue a marketing degree. Soon after, she landed a job as a dancer at one of the cities best clubs, but that wasn’t enough to satiate her curiosity in music. Nastia decided to start spinning and relocated... read full bio
Escala is an electronic string quartet from London, England, which consists of members Victoria Lyon, Honor Watson, Stephanie Benedetti, and Helen Nash. The group gained attention after performing on and reaching the final of the television series “Britain’s Got Talent”. After their fame from Britain’s Got Talent, Escala performed on the nationwide Britain’s Got Talent tour in London and went... read full bio
Alex Moffat is an American actor and comedian who is best known for being a cast member on “Saturday Night Live”. He was born in raised in Chicago, Illinois and graduated from Denison University. Moffat started his career in comedy on stage performing at Chicago comedy clubs such as The Second City, ImprovOlympic, Annoyance Theatre and Zanies Comedy Club. After... read full bio
