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CEO of Phylagen, Inc. | TED Senior Fellow
CEO of Trend Hunter | New York Times Bestselling Author of Better and Faster
Architect | Founding Principal and Executive Director of MASS Design Group
President Emerita of MIT | Author of The Age of Living Machines (Forthcoming)
Science Writer and Broadcaster | Author of Rise of the Necrofauna
Author of Architects of Intelligence and The New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots
We’ve known for a long time that robots have replaced a majority of manual labor jobs. But they are now taking over complex jobs we previously thought only humans could do. In Rise of the Robots, Mart...
CEO of Clovyr | Former JP Morgan Blockchain Lead
Data Artist | Innovator-in-Residence at the Library of Congress | Former NYT Data Artist in Residence
TED Fellow and Urban Designer
Author of Why Nations Fail | One of the 20 Most Cited Economists in the World
In the face of increasing automation, we’ve been far too complacent, argues MIT’s Daron Acemoglu. Either we close the skills gap and prepare for the future of work—for the full impact of artificial intelligence—or risk losing more than just jobs. Acemoglu answers some of the most important economic and political questions of our time.
Author of Give People Money | Contributing Editor at The Atlantic
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Expert | Founder of the Creative Destruction Lab | Author of Prediction Machines
“Humans make noisy predictions” says world-leading Artificial Intelligence researcher and economist Ajay Agrawal. Author of the game-changing book Prediction Machines and founder of U of T’s Creative ...
Data Ecologist and Complexity Scientist
Cybersecurity Expert | Author of Women in Tech
Cybersecurity attacks are doubling every year. Phishing scams are at an all-time high. These days, it isn’t an IT flunky answering for security breaches, it’s CEOs and business owners, non-tech…
Blockchain, Social Media and Fintech | Co-Author of The Truth Machine, The Social Organism, & The Age of Cryptocurrency
As Senior Advisor to MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative and co-author of both The Age of Cryptocurrency and The Truth Machine (Feb. 2018), Michael Casey demystifies the blockchain: the decentralized record-keeping system driving the bitcoin revolution.
Founder and CEO of Wealthsimple
New York Times Bestselling Co-author of The Decoded Company
Chairman and CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation, Innovation Speaker
CEO and Co-Founder of EpiBone, TED Senior Fellow
Nina Tandon is at the cutting edge of science where sci-fi meets reality. She works on growing artificial hearts and bones that can be put into the body, and studies the new frontier of biotech: homes...
MIT Senior Lecturer | VP of Vision Technology at Warby Parker
Artificial Intelligence isn’t strictly the domain of companies like Netflix and Amazon anymore. AI is disrupting just about every industry says MIT researcher David Rose—from healthcare, to brick-and-...
Editor-in-Chief of Wired | Former Editor of NewYorker.com
The story of how science and tech will change our lives is one of the most important in the world. And no one’s more equipped to tell it than Nicholas Thompson. As the editor-in-chief of Wired, he is ...
Relentless Adaptation & Digital Innovation Speaker | Co-Host of The AI Effect
Amber Mac is a writer, podcaster, entrepreneur and digital maverick whose understanding of disruptive technologies helps companies anticipate lightning-quick changes as they come—from Artificial Intel...
Leading Cybersecurity Analyst | Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council and Founder, Galante Strategies
Cyber spying. Russian hacking. DNC leaks, fake news, and manipulation. To Laura Galante, cybersecurity—and cyber literacy—are indispensable tools for any government or corporation. From The New York T...
Author of Team Human, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, and Present Shock
Instead of trying to optimize human beings for the automated future, we should be optimizing technology for human beings, says Douglas Rushkoff. A world-renowned philosopher and futurist, Rushkoff’s i...
Director of MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative
At the MIT Media Lab, David Kong is a passionate, brilliant exponent of biotechnology: the next major scientific innovation to transform life as we know it. But to start the revolution—and for human c...
TED Fellow | Speaker on 4D Printing | Author of Self-Assembly Lab
Skylar Tibbits is on the cutting edge of 4D technology. In his Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, the future of how we make things is being mapped out—and the implications are enormous. Imagine, as just one ex...
New York Times Bestselling Author of Drunk Tank Pink and Irresistible
Adam Alter is a bestselling author who studies how we think and decide—how consumers spend, doctors diagnose, judges punish, and investors invest. In his new book, Irresistible, he explores how tech c...
Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art
In her new book Magic and Loss, Virginia Heffernan treats the Internet not merely as a new technology or business tool, but as a great masterpiece of civilization—a massive and collective work of art ...
Innovation Speaker, Founder & Director of Superflux
Designer, entrepreneur, TED Fellow, futurescaper: Anab Jain wears many hats, and brings them all together at her multidisciplinary design studio, Superflux. Based in London and India, Superflux is bot...
Augmented Reality Speaker and Author of Augmented Human
The power of Augmented Reality resides in its capacity to amplify human possibility: creative expression, knowledge, and connection, says Dr. Helen Papagiannis, a world-leading expert in the field. Wi...
Co-Founder of OkCupid and Author of Dataclysm
In the age of Big Data, Christian Rudder stands out. Rudder is in personal possession of one of the richest data sets in the world, accumulated from the dating site he co-founded, OkCupid, as well as ...
Executive Director of The Markup | Former Director of Wikimedia Foundation
The fight to keep the internet democratic and easily-accessible is one of society’s most urgent battles. The discussion around net neutrality and corporate consolidation has the potential to reshape...
Global Head, Computational Design and Inclusion at Automattic
John Maeda is a world-renowned artist, graphic designer, computer scientist, educator, and investor whose career reflects his philosophy of humanizing technology. For more than a decade, he has worked...
Director of Cyberspace and Digital Policy at Council on Foreign Relations
Adam Segal is a cybersecurity expert who is at the forefront of this burgeoning field. In his talks and in his new book, The Hacked World Order, he provides meaningful answers to urgent questions abou...
Innovation Speaker, Founder of Future Design School
“Fall in love with the problem you’re solving—not the solution,” says entrepreneur Sarah Prevette. The founder of Sprouter and BetaKit and co-star of Quit Your Day Job, a new reality show about entrep...
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Khan Academy
Co-Founder of Apple Computers
Considered by most to be the real “brains” behind Apple, Steve Wozniak is not just a first class engineer with three decades of world-famous credentials, he’s also a really nice guy. Personally invest...
Founder of Ladies Learning Code and HackerYou
Why should we care about how technology really works? Why aren’t more women and youth learning how to code? Heather Payne is asking—and answering—these essential questions. Payne is the founder of Lad...
New York Times Reporter for Science and Medicine; Author of Mercies in Disguise, Rethinking Thin, Ultimate Fitness, and Flu
Founder of Fast Company’s Futures with Ari Wallach; Futurist & Social Innovation Strategist
What can you start doing today to shape the futures you want for yourself, your organization, and for society? How can we de-center technology and re-center empathy in imagining tomorrow’s world? Futu...