Eli Pariser is the President of Good Media Group. He has dedicated his career to figuring out how technology can elevate important topics in the world — as an author, an online organizer, and most recently, as a co-founder of Upworthy. Eli served as the executive director of MoveOn.org from 2004-2009, growing membership to more…
Innovator Spotlight
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Catherine Bracy
Co-Founder and Executive Director, TechEquity Collaborative
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Sangeet Paul Choudary
Best-selling author of the books Platform Revolution and Platform Scale
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Sara Haghdoosti
Co-Founder of Berim.org & Global Campaign Manager for Mozilla Foundation
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John Battelle
Co-Founder of NewCo & Host of NewCo Shift Forum
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Michael Tubbs
Mayor of Stockton, CA
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Ira Deutchman
Managing Partner of Emerging Pictures & Film Program Chair at Columbia University
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Laura Murphy
Former Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office
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Richard Florida
Co-Founder & Editor at Large, City Lab
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Krisztina 'Z' Holly
Tech Entrepreneur, Engineer, Innovator & Troublemaker
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Tony Lai
Co-Founder & CEO at LawGives
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Brewster Kahle
Founder of the Internet Archive
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David desJardins
Investor, Philanthropist & former Software Engineer at Google
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Susan Moffat
Project Director of UC Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative
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Keri Putnam
Executive Director of Sundance Institute
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Bill McKibben
Founder of 350.org
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Mimi Ito
Professor in Residence at UC Irvine & Anthropologist of Digital Culture
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Jeremiah Owyang
Founder of Crowd Companies
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David Brin
Physicist & Bestselling Science Fiction Author
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Brian Behlendorf
Executive Director of the Hyperledger Project
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Ting Kelly
Co-founder of Metapattern
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Kevin Kelly
Senior Maverick at WIRED Magazine
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Craig Newmark
Founder of craigslist & Nerd-in-Residence at the VA Center for Innovation
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José Bowen
President of Goucher College
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Vivienne Ming
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Socos LLC
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Tiffany Shlain
Filmmaker & Founder of The Webby Awards
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Robert Johnson
President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking
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June Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO, WaitWhat
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Michael Pollan
Bestselling author & lecturer on food, agriculture, health & the environment
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Markos Moulitsas
Founder & Publisher of Daily Kos
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Chris Kelly
CEO of Organizer & former Chief Privacy Officer of Facebook
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Tim O’Reilly
Founder of O'Reilly Media & Host of Next:Economy Conference
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Cassie Divine
VP, Self-Employed Business Segment Leader at Intuit
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Jose Antonio Vargas
Journalist, Filmmaker & Immigration Activist
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Melissa Silverstein
Founder & Editor of Women and Hollywood
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Paul Hawken
Executive Director of Project Drawdown
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Carmen Rojas
CEO, The Workers Lab
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Saul Griffith
Serial Entrepreneur & Inventor
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Jennifer Granholm
Former Governor of Michigan
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Alex Steffen
Planetary Futurist & Writer
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Robin Chase
Co-Founder of Zipcar & Founder of Buzzcar
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Michael Nutter
Former Mayor of Philadelphia
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Chris Anderson
CEO of 3D Robotics and Former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED Magazine
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Farshad Farahat
Actor & Member of the National Iranian American Council
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Donnie Fowler
CEO, Tech for America
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Austin Kleon
Writer & Artist
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Ahmad Mansur
Co-Founding Partner, Urban Economy Group
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Sunil Paul
Co-Founder of Sidecar
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Soraya Darabi
Co-Founder of Zady
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Casey Fenton
Co-Founder of Couchsurfing & Founder of Sovolve
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Jen Pahlka
Founder & Executive Director of Code for America
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Kara Swisher
Executive Editor at Recode
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Laura Tyson
Professor of the Graduate School and Faculty Director of the Institute for Business & Social Impact at the Berkeley Haas School of Business
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Palak Shah
Social Innovations Director at National Domestic Workers Alliance
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Jane McGonigal
World-Renowned Game Designer & Bestselling Author
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Elisa Batista
Associate Campaign Director at MomsRising.org
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Donté Stallworth
National Security Fellow at The Huffington Post & former NFL wide receiver
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Elñora Tena Webb
President of Laney College
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Gavin Newsom
Lieutenant Governor of California
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Mandeep Dhillon
Co-Founder & CEO of 1StudentBody
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Eric Ries
Founder and CEO of the Long-Term Stock Exchange
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Joe Trippi
Political Strategist, Media Consultant & FOX News Contributor
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Ken Goldberg
Professor, UC Berkeley
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Ilya Sheyman
Executive Director of MoveOn.org Political Action
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Chris Hughes
Co-Chair, Economic Security Project
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Hadi Partovi
Co-Founder of Code.org
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Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editor & Publisher of The Nation
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Franklin Leonard
Founder & CEO of the Black List
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Nikki Silvestri
Founder & CEO at Soil and Shadow
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Susan Eisenhower
President of The Eisenhower Group, Inc.
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Steven Chu
Former United States Secretary of Energy
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Annise Parker
Former Mayor of Houston
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Theresa Preston-Werner
Co-Founder & CEO at Codestarter
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Ali Partovi
Investor in Dropbox & Co-Founder of LinkExchange & Code.org
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Arun Sundararajan
Author of The Sharing Economy & Professor at New York University's Stern School of Business
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Leslie Dewan
Co-Founder & CEO at Transatomic Power
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John Markoff
Technology & Science Reporter for The New York Times
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Jonny Dyer
GEO Hardware Lead, Google
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Eli Pariser
CEO & Co-Founder of Upworthy
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Steven Johnson
Bestselling author & host of the PBS series "How We Got to Now"
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Stephane Kasriel
CEO of Upwork
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Joseph Cirincione
President of Ploughshares Fund
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Ari Wallach
Founder & CEO of Synthesis Corp.
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Ben Rattray
Founder & CEO of Change.org
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Nick Hanauer
Entrepreneur & Investor
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Ann Ravel
Vice Chair of the Federal Election Commission
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Valerie Plame
Author & Former Covert CIA Operations Officer
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Susanna Pollack
Vice President of Partnerships & Special Projects at Games for Change
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Brad DeLong
Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley
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Douglas Rushkoff
Author, Teacher & Documentarian
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Neil Gershenfeld
Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms
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Anne Thompson
Founder & Editor-in-Chief of "Thompson on Hollywood"
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Stewart Brand
Co-Founder & President of The Long Now Foundation
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Steve Clemons
Washington Editor-at-Large for The Atlantic, National Journal & Quartz
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Felicia Wong
President & CEO of Roosevelt Institute
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Robert Scheer
Editor-In-Chief of Truthdig & Professor at USC's Annenberg School for Communication
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Rachel Botsman
World-renowned expert on an explosive new era of trust and technology
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Orville Schell
Arthur Ross Director of the Center On US-China Relations at the Asia Society
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E. David Ellington
Founder & Executive Chairman of the Silicon Valley Blockchain Society
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Anna Galland
Executive Director of MoveOn.org
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Trita Parsi
President of National Iranian American Council