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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Jane McGonigal
World-Renowned Game Designer & Bestselling Author
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Stephane Kasriel
CEO of Upwork
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Leslie Dewan
Co-Founder & CEO at Transatomic Power
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Elñora Tena Webb
President of Laney College
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Nick Hanauer
Entrepreneur & Investor
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Steve Clemons
Washington Editor-at-Large for The Atlantic, National Journal & Quartz
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Donté Stallworth
National Security Fellow at The Huffington Post & former NFL wide receiver
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Laura Murphy
Former Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office
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Melissa Silverstein
Founder & Editor of Women and Hollywood
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Mimi Ito
Professor in Residence at UC Irvine & Anthropologist of Digital Culture
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Howard Rheingold
Technology visionary, author & teacher
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Krisztina 'Z' Holly
Tech Entrepreneur, Engineer, Innovator & Troublemaker
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Robert Johnson
President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking
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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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Susanna Pollack
Vice President of Partnerships & Special Projects at Games for Change
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Theresa Preston-Werner
Co-Founder & CEO at Codestarter
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Paul Hawken
Executive Director of Project Drawdown
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David desJardins
Investor, Philanthropist & former Software Engineer at Google
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Susan Eisenhower
President of The Eisenhower Group, Inc.
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E. David Ellington
Founder & Executive Chairman of the Silicon Valley Blockchain Society
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Saul Griffith
Serial Entrepreneur & Inventor
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Mandeep Dhillon
Co-Founder & CEO of 1StudentBody
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Ahmad Mansur
Co-Founding Partner, Urban Economy Group
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Joe Trippi
Political Strategist, Media Consultant & FOX News Contributor
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Jonny Dyer
GEO Hardware Lead, Google
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Donnie Fowler
CEO, Tech for America
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Markos Moulitsas
Founder & Publisher of Daily Kos
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Jennifer Granholm
Former Governor of Michigan
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Esther Dyson
Entrepreneur and Business Leader
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Brewster Kahle
Founder of the Internet Archive
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David Brin
Physicist & Bestselling Science Fiction Author
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Ting Kelly
Co-founder of Metapattern
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Andrew Hessel
Distinguished Research Scientist, Autodesk Life Sciences
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Keri Putnam
Executive Director of Sundance Institute
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Nikki Silvestri
Founder & CEO at Soil and Shadow
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Carl Pope
Author of "Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet"
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Kevin Kelly
Senior Maverick at WIRED Magazine
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Jose Antonio Vargas
Journalist, Filmmaker & Immigration Activist
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Jeremiah Owyang
Founder of Crowd Companies
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Tiffany Shlain
Filmmaker & Founder of The Webby Awards
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Austin Kleon
Writer & Artist
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Richard Florida
Co-Founder & Editor at Large, City Lab
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Soraya Darabi
Co-Founder of Zady
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Sangeet Paul Choudary
Best-selling author of the books Platform Revolution and Platform Scale
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José Bowen
President of Goucher College
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John Battelle
Co-Founder of NewCo & Host of NewCo Shift Forum
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Ken Goldberg
Professor, UC Berkeley
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Julie Hanna
Technologist, Entrepreneur, Board Director, Investor and Advisor
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Alex Steffen
Planetary Futurist & Writer
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Brad DeLong
Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley
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Palak Shah
Social Innovations Director at National Domestic Workers Alliance
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Neil Gershenfeld
Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms
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Robin Chase
Co-Founder of Zipcar & Founder of Buzzcar
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Catherine Bracy
Co-Founder and Executive Director, TechEquity Collaborative
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Annise Parker
Former Mayor of Houston
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Tim O’Reilly
Founder of O'Reilly Media & Host of Next:Economy Conference
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Ann-Marie Slaughter
President and CEO of New America
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Michael Tubbs
Mayor of Stockton, CA
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Steven Chu
Former United States Secretary of Energy
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Anne Thompson
Founder & Editor-in-Chief of "Thompson on Hollywood"
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Robert Scheer
Editor-In-Chief of Truthdig & Professor at USC's Annenberg School for Communication
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Jen Pahlka
Founder & Executive Director of Code for America
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Eric Ries
Founder and CEO of the Long-Term Stock Exchange
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Rachel Botsman
World-renowned expert on an explosive new era of trust and technology
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Tony Lai
Co-Founder & CEO at LawGives
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Felicia Wong
President & CEO of Roosevelt Institute
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Trita Parsi
President of National Iranian American Council
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Julian Agyeman
Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University
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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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Steven Johnson
Bestselling author & host of the PBS series "How We Got to Now"
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Orville Schell
Arthur Ross Director of the Center On US-China Relations at the Asia Society
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June Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO, WaitWhat
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Casey Fenton
Co-Founder of Couchsurfing & Founder of Sovolve
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Michael Nutter
Former Mayor of Philadelphia
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John Markoff
Technology & Science Reporter
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Michael Pollan
Bestselling author & lecturer on food, agriculture, health & the environment
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Douglas Rushkoff
Author, Teacher & Documentarian
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Chris Anderson
CEO of 3D Robotics and Former Editor-in-Chief of WIRED Magazine
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Ben Rattray
Founder & CEO of Change.org
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Susan Moffat
Project Director of UC Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative
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Stewart Brand
Co-Founder & President of The Long Now Foundation
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Gavin Newsom
Lieutenant Governor of California
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Carmen Rojas
CEO, The Workers Lab
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Clay Shirky
Author & NYU Associate Professor
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Sara Haghdoosti
Co-Founder of Berim.org & Global Campaign Manager for Mozilla Foundation
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Ali Partovi
Investor in Dropbox & Co-Founder of LinkExchange & Code.org
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Bill McKibben
Founder of 350.org
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Craig Newmark
Founder of craigslist & Nerd-in-Residence at the VA Center for Innovation
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Kara Swisher
Executive Editor at Recode
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Hadi Partovi
Co-Founder of Code.org
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Vivienne Ming
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Socos LLC
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Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editor & Publisher of The Nation
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Valerie Plame
Author & Former Covert CIA Operations Officer
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Anna Galland
Executive Director of MoveOn.org
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Farshad Farahat
Actor & Member of the National Iranian American Council
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Franklin Leonard
Founder & CEO of the Black List
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Chris Hughes
Co-Chair, Economic Security Project
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Ari Wallach
Founder & CEO of Synthesis Corp.
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Ira Deutchman
Managing Partner of Emerging Pictures & Film Program Chair at Columbia University
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Rusty Schweickart
Astronaut