Jeff Hoffman is an accomplished entrepreneur and innovator in the fields of Internet, e-commerce, and media/entertainment. He launched his first software company while still a student at Yale University. Jeff currently serves as the CEO of uBid.com, one the world's leading online auction sites. Jeff is an accomplished professional and motivational speaker, featuring topics such as branding, innovation, and business leadership and has spoken at conferences and symposiums in over 40 different countries.

Founder and President of the Foundation on Economic Trends, Jeremy Rifkin is an economist, writer and public speaker. He is an activist who seeks to shape the public policy in the US and globally having testified before numerous committees and engaged in litigation extensively to ensure responsible government policies on a variety of environmental, scientific and technology related issues. Rifkin is the author of The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

Chairman and Co-CEO at Research In Motion, best known for creating the BlackBerry, Jim Balisillie is responsible for directing the Research In Motion's strategy, business development and finance. Jim is also founder of The Centre for International Governance Innovation and is a Chartered Accountant and Fellow of the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Jim Carroll is an expert on such topics as: global economic trends; hyper-innovation; rapid time to market; the latest consumer trends; collapse of product lifecycles and high-velocity marketing; the skills crisis, managing Gen-connect and the new workplace; creating high performance, change oriented teams. Jim meets the challenges of the economic contraction by focusing on innovation and aligning strategy to fast-paced future trends. He is author of What I Learned From Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward Thinking Innovation.

Jim Crupi is president and founder of Strategic Leadership Solutions, Inc, and is an authority in international business, future trends, and leadership development. He has served as a consultant to the Office of the President of the United States and served in the armed forces as a company commandeer and instructor at the elite Army Ranger School.

Jim Harris is a one of North America's foremost management consultants, authors and thinkers on change and leadership. Association magazine ranked him as one of the nation's top ten speakers. As a management consultant Jim speaks internationally and conducts strategic planning sessions with executive teams, focusing on the most pressing issues.

One of the most widely recognized and influential strategists in American politics, Joe Trippi was heralded on the cover of The New Republic as the man who "reinvented campaigning." Winner of two Golden Dot awards for Best National Internet Campaign in '04 and '06 and hailed as one of Washignton DC's Top 100 Tech Titans by Washingtonian Magazine in 2009, Joe Trippi is especially renowned within the technology community.

Joel is credited with the discovery that the concept of paradigms, which at that time was sequestered within the scientific discussion, could explain revolutionary change in all areas of human endeavor. Barker was the first person to popularize the concept of paradigm shifts for the corporate world. Joel Barker has worked with organizations, both for profit and not for profit, all over the world as well as with nations, including Singapore, Venezuela, Canada, Mexico and Peru.