Scientist, Futurist, Inventor

Author, The Singularity is Near

He has been described as “the restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison,” and PBS selected Ray as one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America.”

Co-Founder, Blue Man Group

Chairman and CEO, X PRIZE Foundation, best known for its $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight. n 2014 he was named one of "The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders" – by Fortune Magazine.

Astronaut, First American Woman in Space

English author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies

Cofounder and President, Breakthrough Institute

Coauthor, Breakthrough.

Art Scholar, Director, J. Paul Getty Museum

President, Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios

Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

National Academy of Engineering, President

MIT, President

Dr. Farouk El-Baz is Director of the Center for Remote Sensing and Research Professor at the Departments of Archaeology and Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Associated Faculty at the Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University. He worked with NASA to assist in the planning of scientific exploration of the Moon, including the selection of landing sites for the Apollo missions and the training of astronauts in lunar observations and photography.

Executive Director, the Lincoln Centre Institute

Author, 'Imagination First' 

Author, The Art of Possibility

Cofounder and Chairman of the Board, Analog Devices, Inc.

Founder, Grameenphone

Composer, Inventor, Educator

Head of the Media Lab's Opera of the Future group, MIT

Charles Stark Draper Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics, MIT

Inventor, an entrepreneur, and a tireless advocate for science and technology. 

Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT

Internationally recognised authority in the application of science and technology to sustainable development worldwide. He was named one of the most influential 100 Africans in 2012, 2013 and 2014 by the New African magazine.

Professor of the Practice of International Development and Faculty Chair of the Innovation for Economic Development Executive Program,  Harvard Kennedy School. 

Silicon Valley based author, speaker, entrepreneur, and evangelist. He was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984.