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Photographer & Big Data Expert
Rick Smolan is a former Time, Life & National Geographic photographer and the CEO of Against All Odds Productions, which combines storytelling with state-of-the-art technology. |
Editor & Managing Director of Fast Company
As editor and managing director of the award-winning monthly business magazine Fast Company, business speaker Robert Safian oversees all editorial operations. |
New York Times Lead Technology Writer
Nick Bilton is an expert on how our byte-sized and ever-mobile culture affects our brains & our lives, and how companies can harness that knowledge to engage consumers & grow their business. |
Host of The Suze Orman Show & Best-Selling Author
The host of the acclaimed 'Suze Orman Show,' Orman is America's most recognized expert on personal finance. |
Pulitzer Prize-Winning New York Times Columnist
A Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, Kristof is an extraordinary thinker, human rights advocate, and astute chronicler of humanity. As a seasoned journalist who has traveled China, Africa... |
Award-Winning Journalist
An Emmy-winning columnist and editorial writer for The Washington Post, speaker Juan Williams is an analyst for Fox News. He wrote Enough and Muzzled. |
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist
Journalist and best-selling author of Half the Sky Sheryl WuDunn offers a compelling perspective on current economic, political and social issues such as women's rights. |
Widow of Journalist Daniel Pearl
Pearl is a unique and versatile award-winning journalist who has written A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl, a gripping and profound narrative of her experience and the pursuit... |
Award-Winning Journalist & Author
Renowned journalist, author, and speaker Ellis Cose is known for his informed voice on issues at the forefront of national and international concern. |
New York Times Columnist & Author
Anand Giridharadas is an author and columnist, writing about a world in transition as seen through the lens of culture. He is the author of India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking. |
Editor Emerita of Essence Magazine
The soul of Essence for decades, speaker Susan L. Taylor led the business into the success it is today. She also recruits mentors for at-risk youth. |
Economist & Author
Speaker Daniel Altman is a visionary economist whose work has revolved around identifying long-term solutions to problems facing the global economy. |
China Editor, The Economist
An NPR Foreign Correspondent and China Editor of The Economist magazine, Gifford authored the critically acclaimed China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power. |
Journalist
Lowry is considered the gatekeeper of the mainstream conservative movement in our country as the editor of National Review and as a political analyst for Fox News. Intellectual, yet down to earth,... |
Founder, Editor-in-Chief & CEO, PandoMedia
Sarah Lacy knows Silicon Valley and the power of the Web 2.0 technology like few others. As a veteran reporter covering start ups—from technology innovation to cultural underpinnings—Lacy is an expert in translating... |
Executive Editor of Lebanese Newspaper, The Daily Star
Khouri knows the Middle East like few other journalists. As the Editor-at-Large of The Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon, he reports from ground zero of the conflict as it unfolds. A Palestinian-Jordanian,... |
Journalist & Author
The author of the critically-acclaimed Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam, she is a former Wall Street Journal correspondent, and friend of Daniel Pearl. Her... |
Correspondent & Military Author
An expert on national security and geopolitical issues, speaker Bing West is a media correspondent and was Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Reagan Administration. |
Best-Selling Author & "Human Guinea Pig"
Renowned as "the human guinea pig," A.J. Jacobs has outsourced his life to India, read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica in a quest to become the smartest person in the world, lived modern life as the ultimate... |
Oil Expert / Author
Antonia Juhasz is Director and Founder of the Energy Program at Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human rights nonprofit organization. She is a policy analyst, author, and activist. Currently, Juhasz is writing... |
