STEWART BRAND is the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and co-founder of The Long Now Foundation, Global Business Network, The Well, and Revive & Restore. He is on the board of the Santa Fe Institute, and maintains connections with Electronic Frontier Foundation, Wired magazine and MIT’s Media Lab, while occasionally consulting for Ecotrust. He is the original editor of The…
Innovator Spotlight
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Howard Rheingold
Technology visionary, author & teacher
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Mimi Ito
Professor in Residence at UC Irvine & Anthropologist of Digital Culture
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Steven Johnson
Bestselling author & host of the PBS series "How We Got to Now"
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Catherine Bracy
Co-Founder and Executive Director, TechEquity Collaborative
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David Brin
Physicist & Bestselling Science Fiction Author
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Chris Kelly
CEO of Organizer & former Chief Privacy Officer of Facebook
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Krisztina 'Z' Holly
Tech Entrepreneur, Engineer, Innovator & Troublemaker
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Jen Pahlka
Founder & Executive Director of Code for America
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Tim O’Reilly
Founder of O'Reilly Media & Host of Next:Economy Conference
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Robin Chase
Co-Founder of Zipcar & Founder of Buzzcar
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Douglas Rushkoff
Author, Teacher & Documentarian
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Anna Galland
Executive Director of MoveOn.org
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José Bowen
President of Goucher College
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Kevin Kelly
Senior Maverick at WIRED Magazine
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Franklin Leonard
Founder & CEO of the Black List
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Anne Thompson
Founder & Editor-in-Chief of "Thompson on Hollywood"
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Tiffany Shlain
Filmmaker & Founder of The Webby Awards
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Mariana Mazzucato
Author & Professor of Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London
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David desJardins
Investor, Philanthropist & former Software Engineer at Google
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Clay Shirky
Author & NYU Associate Professor
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Craig Newmark
Founder of craigslist & Nerd-in-Residence at the VA Center for Innovation
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Brian Behlendorf
Executive Director of the Hyperledger Project
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Hadi Partovi
Co-Founder of Code.org
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Mandeep Dhillon
Co-Founder & CEO of 1StudentBody
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Ben Rattray
Founder & CEO of Change.org
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Joe Trippi
Political Strategist, Media Consultant & FOX News Contributor
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Ann Ravel
Vice Chair of the Federal Election Commission
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Leslie Dewan
Co-Founder & CEO at Transatomic Power
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Susanna Pollack
Vice President of Partnerships & Special Projects at Games for Change
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Farshad Farahat
Actor & Member of the National Iranian American Council
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Donté Stallworth
National Security Fellow at The Huffington Post & former NFL wide receiver
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Theresa Preston-Werner
Co-Founder & CEO at Codestarter
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Tony Lai
Co-Founder & CEO at LawGives
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Joseph Cirincione
President of Ploughshares Fund
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Trita Parsi
President of National Iranian American Council
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Sara Haghdoosti
Co-Founder of Berim.org & Global Campaign Manager for Mozilla Foundation
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Chris Anderson
CEO of 3D Robotics and Former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED Magazine
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Vivienne Ming
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Socos LLC
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John Markoff
Technology & Science Reporter
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Elñora Tena Webb
President of Laney College
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Soraya Darabi
Co-Founder of Zady
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Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editor & Publisher of The Nation
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John Battelle
Co-Founder of NewCo & Host of NewCo Shift Forum
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Saul Griffith
Serial Entrepreneur & Inventor
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Michael Nutter
Former Mayor of Philadelphia
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Jane McGonigal
World-Renowned Game Designer & Bestselling Author
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Annise Parker
Former Mayor of Houston
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Gavin Newsom
Lieutenant Governor of California
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Sunil Paul
Co-Founder of Sidecar
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Paul Hawken
Executive Director of Project Drawdown
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Andrew Hessel
Distinguished Research Scientist, Autodesk Life Sciences
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Donnie Fowler
CEO, Tech for America
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Ken Goldberg
Professor, UC Berkeley
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Richard Florida
Co-Founder & Editor at Large, City Lab
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Stephane Kasriel
CEO of Upwork
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Jennifer Granholm
Former Governor of Michigan
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Ahmad Mansur
Co-Founding Partner, Urban Economy Group
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Neil Gershenfeld
Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms
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Sangeet Paul Choudary
Best-selling author of the books Platform Revolution and Platform Scale
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Ting Kelly
Co-founder of Metapattern
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June Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO, WaitWhat
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Jonny Dyer
GEO Hardware Lead, Google
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Chris Hughes
Co-Chair, Economic Security Project
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Eric Ries
Founder and CEO of the Long-Term Stock Exchange
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E. David Ellington
Founder & Executive Chairman of the Silicon Valley Blockchain Society
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Julie Hanna
Technologist, Entrepreneur, Board Director, Investor and Advisor
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Stewart Brand
Co-Founder & President of The Long Now Foundation
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Orville Schell
Arthur Ross Director of the Center On US-China Relations at the Asia Society
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Rusty Schweickart
Astronaut
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Ann-Marie Slaughter
President and CEO of New America
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Esther Dyson
Entrepreneur and Business Leader