Peter Kash is an accomplished biomedical venture capitalist and an internationally acclaimed inspirational lecturer. He has given presentations in more than 35 countries, focusing on the future of medicine and the impact of biotechnology on our lives. He is also the author of Make Your Own Luck, a must-read for those who desire success.

It was on a photojournalism project in Southeast Asia that Bob Arno ventured into the depths of an underground subculture. Working on assignment for a series on swindles in the Asian marketplace, he tailed shortchange artists, pickpockets, and fake-jewelry hustlers. His exposes caught the attention of the U.S. Military and he was asked to give lectures on the subject.

A seasoned entrepreneur, author and co-author of five books and a Professor of Business, Clayton Christensen's research and teaching focuses on managing innovation and creating new growth marketing. Professor Christensen has founded three companies: CPS Corporation, Innosight, and Innosight Capital. Professor Christensen is also extensively involved in other activities in the community.

Geoffrey has made the understanding and effective exploitation of disruptive technologies the core of his life's work. His books, Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, The Gorilla Game, and Living on the Fault Line are best sellers and required reading at leading business schools. Highly regarded as a dynamic public speaker, Geoffrey is the founder of The Chasm Group and currently is the managing partner of TCG Advisors. Earlier in his career, he was a principal and partner at Regis McKenna, Inc., a leading high tech marketing strategy and communications company, and for the decade prior, a sales and marketing executive in the software industry.

Technologist, commentator, advisor, marketing guru and co-author of the bestselling and influential book, The Cluetrain Manifesto, David Weinberger's work focuses on how the internet is changing human relationships, community and society. Currently he co-teaches a class on "the Web Difference" at Harvard Law School.

Former member of the rock band DARE, Brian Cox is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow and a professor at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the High Energy Physics group and works on the ALTAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.

Co-Founder of Apple Computer, Inc., Steve Wozniak has been an icon and philanthropist for the past three decades with his design of Apple's first line of products the Apple I and II and the Macintosh. Wozniak founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose.

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

Ray Kurzweil is widely regarded as one of the leading inventors of our time. He invented the first reading machine for the blind, and is an otherwise accomplished entrepreneur, author, and recognized futurist. His presentations to diverse audiences combine wit and keen insight into contemporary issues of technology and its impact on society.

Dr. Jonas Ridderstråle is one of the world's most prominent and respected business thinkers and speakers. Since bursting onto the international scene with the bestseller Funky Business in 2000, Jonas has remained at the forefront of the new generation of management gurus. The 2009 Thinkers 50, the biennial ranking of management thinkers, ranked him at number 23 globally and put him on the top-five list in Europe.