Global Issues
Thought Leaders
Thought Leaders:
The Leading Expert on Our Intelligent Future
Ayesha Khanna is Partner of Hybrid Realities and Director of the Hybrid Reality Institute. Her vast expertise on the intersection of technology, business and education helps audiences understand what is to come.
Founder of Eurasia Group
Ian Bremmer is the president of Eurasia Group, a global political risk research and consulting firm, and the author of Every Nation for Itself, The End of the Free Market and Superpower.
Author of The Heretic: Daily Therapeutics for Entrepreneurs
Pascal Finette draws you into a spellbinding future where artificial intelligence, robotics, synthetic biology and other exponential technologies solve humanity’s greatest challenges.
Best-Selling Author & Urbanist
Richard Florida is the author of the best-selling books The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City? He is a sought-after speaker on global trends, economics, change management, innovation and growth.
Leading IT Scientist
If the Big Data revolution has a presiding genius, it's Alex “Sandy” Pentland. Over years of groundbreaking experiments, he has distilled remarkable discoveries that have become the bedrock for social physics.
Physicist & Best-Selling Author
Leonard Mlodinow, co-author with Stephen Hawking on the latest bestseller The Grand Design, explores the four-year effort to answer the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything.
Best-Selling Author of The Happiness Advantage
Shawn Achor is the world’s leading expert on the connection between happiness and success whose research has made the cover of Harvard Business Review.
Co-Founder, Facebook & Economic Security Project
Best known as one of the founders of Facebook and as the legendary digital architect of President Obama’s campaign, Chris Hughes is now driving the national conversation on providing a guaranteed, universal basic income for working people.