Anthony E. Zuiker

Anthony E. Zuiker is one of the most creative and multifaceted individuals working in Hollywood today. He is the creator of television’s hugely successful CSI franchise, which includes CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami and CSI: New York. The original CSI has received widespread critical acclaim and was recently named the most watched series in the world for the fourth time in five...

Ashton Kutcher

Ashton Kutcher is an actor/producer and co-founder of Katalyst, a studio for social media – creating original digital media, television and film properties. Based in Los Angeles and New York, the Katalyst mission is to create thought-provoking and compelling content for multiple platforms. Founded in 2000 by partners Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg, Katalyst film credits include...

Baratunde Thurston

Baratunde Thurston is a technology-loving comedian from the future who cares enough about the world to engage with it politically. Yes, he votes. Regularly. With an ancestry that includes a great-grandfather who taught himself to read, a grandmother who was the first black employee at the U.S. Supreme Court building and a mother who took over radio stations in the name of the black liberation...

Ben Mezrich

BEN MEZRICH has created his own highly addictive genre of nonfiction, chronicling the amazing stories of young geniuses making tons of money on the edge of impossibility, ethics, and morality. He has authored over a dozen books, including the wildly successful Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, which spent sixty-three weeks on...

Biz Stone

Biz Stone has been named Nerd of the Year by GQ, one of the Most Influential People in The World by TIME magazine, Entrepreneur of the Decade by Inc Magazine, one of Vanity Fair's Top Ten Most Influential People of the Information Age, and was honored with the International Center for Journalists' first Innovation Award...

Craig  Newmark

Craig Newmark is a self-described nerd, pioneer of the Web, speaker, philanthropist, and a strong advocate of the use of technology for the public good. He is the founder of craigslist, which he started in 1995 and is now one of the world's most-visited websites with around 50 billion pages views per month...

Daniel Burrus

Daniel Burrus is considered one of the world's leading technology forecasters
and business 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...

David Agus

Can we live robustly until our last breath? Do we have to suffer from debilitating conditions and sickness? Is it possible to add more vibrant years to our lives? And has the time come for us to stop thinking about disease as something the body "gets" or "has" but rather to think of it as something the body does? In The End of Illness, David B. Agus, MD, one of the world's leading cancer...

David Kushner

As a contributing editor of Wired and Rolling Stone and frequent guest on radio and TV from CNN to NPR, he reports on the key leaders and innovators of the information age. Author and journalist David Kushner is the leading expert on the new i-Conomy of digital culture and industry. From the baby billionaires of Silicon Valley (founders of Facebook to YouTube) to the Hollywood mavericks...

Gary Vaynerchuk

Already considered a quintessential maven of modern-day marketing, GARY VAYNERCHUK is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author as well as a self-trained wine and social media expert. In high school, while working at his family owned liquor store, Gary started reading The Wine Spectator among other wine books and realized collecting wine offered an allure similar to...

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 Cameron

Born in Canada, James Cameron moved to California in 1971 at the age of 17. He studied physics at Fullerton Junior College while working as a machinist, and later a truck driver. Setting his sights on a career in film, Cameron quit his trucking job and went to work on low-budget science fiction films as a self-taught designer and visual effects artist. In 1984, his first directed film...

Jason  Silva

"Part Timothy Leary, part Ray Kurzweil, and part Neo from 'The Matrix.'..." Host of Nat Geo's Brain Games, which premiered to the highest premiere ratings in National Geographic's history, JASON SILVA is an extraordinary new breed of philosopher who meshes philosophical wisdom of the ages with an infectious optimism for the future. Combining intriguing insights and a mastery of digital...

Kevin Colleran

Kevin Colleran began his career at Facebook in early 2005 as one of its first 7 employees and the very first advertising sales person. At that time, Facebook (known as TheFacebook) was a small, US based English language website comprised of less than 1 million college students. Working from Facebook's East Coast Headquarters (Colleran's 1 bedroom apartment in NYC), Kevin focused on building...

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...

Matt Hicks

Matt helped build the communications team at Facebook and define its public voice as one of the first members of its PR team. Most recently, he led social media and content strategy for it main communications channels--including the Facebook Blog, official Facebook Page and Twitter account—which reach millions of people every day. Before that, he managed the company’s advertising and business...

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...

Morgan Webb

Morgan defies all reason as a computer and gaming wizard who's strikingly beautiful, spunky and clever. From simple philosophy student to the programmer's pin-up girl, Morgan Webb had quite a ride. She survived the dot-com bust and found a cushy spot in the offices of TechTV as host of The Screen Savers, doling out daily Windows tips to love-stricken techies.

Olivia Munn

Olivia Munn has all the makings of a star on the rise: allure, humor, depth, beauty, and of course, serious talent. Olivia can be seen daily hosting the popular G4 program, ATTACK OF THE SHOW, which has gotten shout outs in publications such as Entertainment Weekly for being, "fast, funny and informative." Other magazines have followed suit, including TV Guide and Rolling Stone...

Pablos Holman

Pablos is a futurist, inventor, and notorious hacker with a unique view into breaking and building new technologies. Pablos is consulting worldwide on invention and design projects that assimilate new technologies - making wild ideas a bit more practical and vice versa. He helped create the world's smallest PC; 3D printers at Makerbot; spaceships with Jeff Bezos; artificial intelligence...

Philip DeFranco

Philip DeFranco born Dec 1, 1985 in Bronx, New York is a self made Internet personality, most noted for "The Philip DeFranco Show"- the most watched Entertainment and News show on the web. It all started from his bedroom 5 years ago because he was bored, and has now blossomed into a next generation studio: 'DeFranco Inc.' Philip has also made and helped launch several prominent brands...

Randi Zuckerberg

Randi Zuckerberg is the founder and creative director of Zuckerberg Media. As one of the early employees at Facebook, Randi created and ran the social media pioneer’s marketing program. She led the company’s U.S. election and international politics strategy and created Facebook’s livestreaming capability through media partnerships during the 2008 Presidential Inauguration. Randi was...

Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil is one of the world’s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, with a thirty-year track record of accurate predictions. Called "the restless genius" by The Wall Street Journal and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes magazine, Kurzweil was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, which described him as the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison." PBS selected him...

Shira Lazar

Shira Lazar is an Emmy-nominated TV and web personality. She is a co-founder of Disrupt Group, a digital production company behind such popular online shows as What's Trending with Shira Lazar and The Partners Project (YouTube). A digital trailblazer, she is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post as well as Bloomberg TV, CNN, and Fox News. She is also a weekly social media columnist for...

Suneel Gupta

Suneel Gupta is an expert at building stuff from scratch. From newly created ventures to Fortune 500 businesses, he's built and scaled dozens of products that are enjoyed by hundreds of millions of people around the globe. As Groupon's first Head of Product Development, he helped reinvent local commerce, and develop a tiny startup into a multi-billion dollar IPO within 2 years. He's also the Co...

Will Wright

Twenty years ago, a video game that you could neither win nor lose was inconceivable - unless you were Will Wright. With five years of college under his belt and no degree, twenty-something year old Will had the idea of creating a game based on designing and building cities. In achieving that goal, Will created a new genre in gaming and within it, one of the best-loved game franchises in...

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...