Anthony E. Zuiker

As the creator and executive producer of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, one of the highest-rated dramas in television history, Anthony E. Zuiker is tuned-in to America's steep consumer expectations. Not only did Zuiker develop a blockbuster television series; he built an entertainment empire that transformed television programming and advertising. A world-wide phenomenon, the CSI franchise ...

Ben Mezrich

Ben Mezrich is the author of eleven books, including the wildly successful Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, which spent sixty-three weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List, and sold over 2 million copies in twelve languages. His latest book, The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius...

Biz Stone

Biz Stone is co-founder of Twitter, a messaging network changing the way we communicate. For the past decade, Stone has been working on large scale projects that facilitate the open exchange of information starting with social networking and blogging service Xanga in 1999. In 2003, Stone moved to Google where he met and collaborated with Twitter co-founder Evan Williams-the pair...

Daniel Burrus

Daniel Burrus is one of the world’s leading technology forecasters and business strategists, and is the author of six books, including the highly acclaimed Technotrends, which has been translated into over a dozen languages. In 1983, Burrus was the first and only futurist to accurately identify the twenty technologies that would drive two decades of revolutionary change. Since then, he has...

Daniel Sieberg

Daniel Sieberg joined CBS News as the network's science and technology correspondent in December 2006. He contributes to the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, the CBS Early Show, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS Radio and CBSNews.com. Sieberg has reported on everything from climate change in the Arctic to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to Burning Man in BlackRockDesert. His recent story...

Dany Levy

Dany Levy is Founder and Editorial Director of DailyCandy, Inc. Business owner, journalist and savvy cultural observer, Dany Levy brings a sense of intensity, vision and creative voice to all her endeavors. After graduation from Brown University with a BA in English with honors in creative writing, Levy began her career in 1994 at New York magazine. There, she revamped and edited the Sales and...

Gary Vaynerchuk

Online marketing trailblazer Gary Vaynerchuk (VAY NER CHUK) is a 33-year-old entrepreneur whose dual identity as both business guru and wine guy has made him known as the "Social Media Sommelier." A self-trained wine expert, he revolutionized the wine industry with his video blog, Wine Library TV (affectionately known as The Thunder Show), and grew his family wine business from $4 million

Greg Schwem

Chicago Magazine call Greg Schwem “America’s favorite corporate funnyman.” The Chicago Tribune proclaimed Greg “king of the hill” in the growing world of corporate comedy. Indeed, Greg’s client list included such corporate heavyweights as McDonald’s, Microsoft, Motorola, IBM, Verizon Wireless, United Airlines and Cisco Systems. If your company or association wants to laugh at today’s fast-paced...

Ian Morrison

Ian is an internationally known author, consultant, and futurist specializing in long-term forecasting and planning with particular emphasis on health care and the changing business environment. He combines research and consulting skills with an incisive Scottish wit to help public and private organizations plan their longer-term future.

James Cameron

Born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, James Cameron grew up in the historic village of Chippawa, near Niagara Falls. In 1971, he moved to Brea, California where he studied physics at Fullerton Junior College while working as a machinist and, later, a truck driver. Cameron quit his trucking job in 1978 and raised money from local dentists to produce a 35mm short film...

James Canton

James Canton is the noted author of Technofutures and Future Smart: New Rules For the Knowledge Economy and Extreme Future. He is Chairman and CEO of the Institute for Global Futures, an internationally-recognized think tank he founded in 1990 to help clients better anticipate the future. Dr. James Canton has also served as an advisor to the White House Office of Science and Technology, is on...

Martin Eberhard

One of Fortune Magazine's Top Innovators and the man who founded the revolutionary Car Company, Tesla Motors, Martin Eberhard is waking business audiences up to the idea that innovation is the key to success and the key to making green cool. From the Rocket eBook to the Tesla Roadster, the visionary Eberhard is continuously pushing the envelope and changing the way we think of product...

Morgan Webb

Morgan defies all reason as a computer and gaming wizard who's strikingly beautiful, spunky and clever. From simple philosophy student to the programmer's pin-up girl, Morgan Webb had quite a ride. She survived the dot-com bust and found a cushy spot in the offices of TechTV as host of The Screen Savers, doling out daily Windows tips to love-stricken techies.

Olivia Munn

Olivia Munn has all the makings of a star on the rise: allure, humor, depth, beauty, and of course, serious talent. Olivia can be seen daily hosting the popular G4 program, ATTACK OF THE SHOW, which has gotten shout outs in publications such as Entertainment Weekly for being, "fast, funny and informative." Other magazines have followed suit, including TV Guide and Rolling Stone...

Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil is one of the world’s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists. Called “the restless genius” by the Wall Street Journal and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes magazine, Kurzweil’s ideas on the future have been touted by his many fans, who range from Bill Gates to Bill Clinton. Time magazine writes, “Kurzweil’s eclectic career and propensity of combining science with...

Rod Beckstrom

Rod Beckström is an entrepreneur and catalyst who has successfully created new businesses and changed established ones through his creative ideas, powerful concepts and passion. He co-authored the bestselling book The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations that presents a new model for analyzing organizations, leadership styles and competitive strategy.

Saul J. Berman

Saul J. Berman is the Global Lead Strategy Partner for the Media and Entertainment Practice as well as a Global Strategy & Change Services Leader at IBM Global Business Services (GBS). Prior to joining IBM, Saul was the Global Strategic Change Leader at PwC Consulting. He was also previously with The Boston Consulting Group, and a divisional Vice President with Broadway Department Stores

Thomas Dolby

This gifted musician scored a Top 5 hit with his song and video "She Blinded Me With Science" and became one of the first stars of MTV in the early 1980's. He went on to record several multi-platinum albums and perform with the likes of Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Roger Waters, Def Lepperd, Joni Mitchell and Foreigner, and this earned him 5 Grammy® nominations.

Will Wright

Will Wright has become one of the most successful interactive entertainment designers in the world. Will is the creative force behind the award-winning game franchises SimCity and The Sims and his yet-to-be released game, SPORE. The original SimCity was released in 1989 - the first in a series of games that would soon become one of the most critically-acclaimed franchises in gaming history.

Yves Behar

Designer Yves Behar has produced some of the new millennium's most coveted objects, like the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset, and the XO laptop for One Laptop per Child. Over the past decade, Yves Behar and his firm fuseproject have become the design group that companies turn to for a game-changing idea. Take the re-invention of the Bluetooth headset, for one; or the re-envigoration of...