During his career as a network newsman, Bill Kurtis covered such notable stories as the Richard Speck murders and the Charles Manson trial. In 1990 Bill founded Kurtis Productions which produced programs for A&E including Investigative Reports and Cold Case File. Bill provided satirical narration for the blockbuster hit, Anchorman. Bill's latest book is The Death Penalty On Trial: Crisis In American Justice.

Cali Lewis is the host and producer of GeekBeat.TV, a show all about technology, gadgets and exciting research that's shaping our future. The show is downloaded millions of times each month by viewers from around the world. Cali makes regular appearances on TV (MSNBC, NBC, ABC, FOX and G4 Canada) to talk about new and exciting gadgets. She also speaks frequently on social media, technology and the future of tech at corporate events and conferences around the country.

Columnist for The New York Times for over 40 years, Calvin Trillin is author of the book, Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme. Trillin has written and presented two one man shows at the American Place Theater in New York and is author of the memoirs Remembering Denny and Messages From My Father.

Author of the bestsellers Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs, Dave Barry in Cyberspace and Dave Barry's Guide to Guys, Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize winner for his commentary. Barry's column is carried in over 400 newspapers and works for The Miami Herald

Author of numerous NYT bestselling books, Dinesh D'Souza is a noted conservation and defines conservatism in the American sense as "conserving the principles of the American Revolution". He is currently the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Pulitzer Prize winning syndicated columnist and journalist, Ellen Goodman has worked as an associate editor at the Boston Globe since 1967, Ellen is widely acclaimed as a voice of sanity, and readers depend on her to help them make sense of their changing lives and relationships. Her first book, Turning Points, detailed the effect of the changing roles of women on the family.

One of the earliest pop culture bloggers, founding PopandPolitics.com in 1995, Farai Chideya is a novelist, journalist and radio host of News & Notes on NPR. Her first novel, Kiss the Sky, is due May 2009. She has worked for Newsweek magazine, MTV News, CNN, ABC and the Oxygen Network.

First Director of the Center on Aging, Health and Humanities at George Washington University, Dr. Cohen has authored more than 150 publications in the field of aging, including numerous text books and the bestseller The Brain In Human Aging. Dr. Cohen is currently conducting research on creativity and aging, retirement, assisted living and other residential settings for older adults, as well as on innovative intergenerational interventions for Alzheimer's disease.

Futurist, blogger, digeratus, writer, speaker and advisor, Gerd Leonhard has spent over twenty-five years in the technology and entertainment industries, both in the U.S. as well as in Europe, and recently in Asia. He writes about the changes in content and media companies as the consequences of the new technologies, and of convergence.