Buzz Aldrin

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed their Lunar Module on the moon's Sea of Tranquility and became the first two humans to walk on the moon. This unprecedented heroic endeavor was witnessed by the largest worldwide television audience in history. He was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor amongst over 50 other distinguished...

Daniel Burrus

Daniel Burrus is considered one of the world’s leading technology forecasters and strategists, and is the founder and CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology driven trends to help clients better understand how technological, social and business forces are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities. He is the author of six...

Daniel Sieberg

Emmy-nominated Daniel Sieberg is the host of Tech This Out! on ABC News NOW and contributes science and technology stories to other ABC News shows including Nightline and Good Morning America. His first book, entitled “The Digital Diet: A Four-Step Plan to Break Your Tech Addiction And Regain Balance In Your Life,” comes out 5/3/11 (Random House/Crown/Three Rivers). Sieberg also contributes to...

David Agus

David B. Agus is a Professor of Medicine and Engineering at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and Viterbi School of Engineering and heads USC’s Westside Cancer Center and the Center for Applied Molecular Medicine. He is one of the world’s leading cancer doctors, and the co-founder of two pioneering health-care technology and wellness companies, Navigenics and Applied...

David Nour

David Nour is a social networking strategist and one of the foremost thought leaders on the quantifiable value of business relationships. In a global economy that is becoming increasingly disconnected, David and his team are solving global client challenges with intracompany, as well as externally focused, Strategic Relationship Planning.

Ian Morrison

Ian is an internationally known author, consultant, and futurist specializing in long-term forecasting and planning with particular emphasis on health care and the changing business environment. He combines research and consulting skills with an incisive Scottish wit to help public and private organizations plan their longer-term future.

James Canton

James Canton is the noted author of Technofutures and Future Smart: New Rules For the Knowledge Economy and Extreme Future. He is Chairman and CEO of the Institute for Global Futures, an internationally-recognized think tank he founded in 1990 to help clients better anticipate the future. Dr. James Canton has also served as an advisor to the White House Office of Science and Technology, is on...

Jason  Silva

Television personality, filmmaker and philosopher, Jason Silva was recently described as "part Timothy Leary, part Ray Kurzweil, and part Neo from The Matrix." Others have described Jason as "A Digital DJ, a re-vitalizer and remixer of optimism, and above all, a curator: of ideas, of inspiration, and of awe... like a trumpet player or modern-day digital Mingus, he jams, riffs and rhapsodizes...

Martin Eberhard

One of Fortune Magazine's Top Innovators and the man who founded the revolutionary Car Company, Tesla Motors, Martin Eberhard is waking business audiences up to the idea that innovation is the key to success and the key to making green cool. From the Rocket eBook to the Tesla Roadster, the visionary Eberhard is continuously pushing the envelope and changing the way we think of product...

Michael  Fertik

Michael Fertik founded Reputation.com with the belief that businesses and individuals have the right to control and protect their online reputation and privacy. Credited with pioneering the field of online reputation management (ORM), Fertik is lauded as the world's leading cyber thinker in digital privacy and reputation. He is a serial entrepreneur and one of Silicon Valley's go-to thought...

Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil has been described as “the restless genius” by the Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison,” and PBS included Ray as one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America,” along with other inventors of the past two centuries. As one of the lead...

Rod Beckstrom

Rod Beckström is an entrepreneur and catalyst who has successfully created new businesses and changed established ones through his creative ideas, powerful concepts and passion. He co-authored the bestselling book The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations that presents a new model for analyzing organizations, leadership styles and competitive strategy.

Thomas Dolby

This gifted musician scored a Top 5 hit with his song and video "She Blinded Me With Science" and became one of the first stars of MTV in the early 1980's. He went on to record several multi-platinum albums and perform with the likes of Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Roger Waters, Def Lepperd, Joni Mitchell and Foreigner, and this earned him 5 Grammy® nominations.

Will Wright

Will Wright has become one of the most successful interactive entertainment designers in the world. Will is the creative force behind the award-winning game franchises SimCity and The Sims and his yet-to-be released game, SPORE. The original SimCity was released in 1989 - the first in a series of games that would soon become one of the most critically-acclaimed franchises in gaming history.

Yves Behar

Designer Yves Behar has produced some of the new millennium's most coveted objects, like the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset, and the XO laptop for One Laptop per Child. Over the past decade, Yves Behar and his firm fuseproject have become the design group that companies turn to for a game-changing idea. Take the re-invention of the Bluetooth headset, for one; or the re-envigoration of...