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Reshma Saujani is CEO of Girls Who Code, a nonprofit working to close the technology gender gap that she founded after noticing the gender gap in computing classes in schools during her 2010 campaign for US Congress. She was previously deputy public advocate for New York City and ran for public advocate in 2013. Saujani authored Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the...
Jason Pontin is senior partner and chief editor at Flagship Pioneering, leading communications for the enterprise’s ecosystem of ventures. From 2004 to 2017, he was CEO, editor in chief, and publisher of MIT Technology Review, one of the world’s oldest technology publications. Also at MIT, Pontin founded and curated Solve, the institute’s open innovation platform. Previous...
James Steyer is founder and CEO of Common Sense Media, a leading nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving the world for kids and education. He is the co-founder and chairman of the Center for the Next Generation and an award-winning consulting professor at Stanford University, where he has taught courses on civil rights, civil liberties, and education for 25 years....
Andrew Revkin is strategic advisor for environmental and science journalism at National Geographic Society, helping expand its funding and support system for journalism advancing the human journey and conserving biological diversity. He’s spent over three decades reporting on environmental and human sustainability globally. Revkin previously reported on climate and related...
Sal Khan is founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit that provides free online education, and founder of Khan Lab School, a nonprofit laboratory school where he teaches seminars in the humanities and sciences. He launched Khan Academy in 2009 after years of tutoring family members, building software to better scale this work, and posting tutorials on YouTube that reach...
John Doerr is an engineer, venture capitalist, and chairman of Kleiner Perkins, where he’s worked for more than 37 years. Outside of Kleiner Perkins, he works with social entrepreneurs for change in public education, the climate crisis, and global poverty, serving on the boards of the Obama Center and ONE.org. Doerr was an original investor and board member at Google and A...
Stewart Brand is a founder of Revive & Restore, The WELL, Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation, of which he is co-chair and president. He’s founder and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, first published in 1968, which won a National Book Award in Contemporary Affairs. Brand authored several books, including Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto...
Michael Chertoff is a co-founder and executive chairman of The Chertoff Group, a global risk-management and security consulting advisory firm. He served as secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security from 2005 to 2009. Prior to that, Chertoff was a federal judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 2003 to 2005 and assistant attorney general of the...
Nicholas Thompson is the editor in chief of WIRED, a position he has held since January 2017. He is also a contributor for CBS News and regularly appears on “CBS This Morning” and CBSN. Prior to his current position at WIRED, Thompson was editor of NewYorker.com from 2012 to 2017. Before that, he was a senior editor at WIRED. He is a co-founder of The Atavist, a National M...
Shada Alsalamah is an assistant professor of health care information systems security at King Saud University (Saudi Arabia). She is currently a visiting scholar at MIT Media Lab, joining Alex “Sandy” Pentland’s Human Dynamics group. In 2017, Alsalamah became vice president of the mHealth Solutions Division of AnmarIT and, one year later, a chief health info and security o...
David Milestone is acting director of USAID’s Center for Innovation and Impact (CII), which applies business-minded approaches to the development, introduction, and scale-up of health innovations. To do so, CII invests seed capital in the most promising ideas and applies a rigorous, market-oriented approach to cut the time it takes to transform discoveries in the lab to im...
Keller Rinaudo is CEO and co-founder of Zipline, a drone delivery service with a mission of delivering life-saving medicine to the world’s most difficult-to-reach places. Since he co-launched the company in Rwanda in 2016, its drones have flown 300,000 kilometers in more than 5,000 flights to deliver 7,000 units of blood. Prior to Zipline, Rinaudo was a software engineer a...
Anne Neuberger is assistant deputy director of the National Security Agency’s Operations Directorate, co-leading foreign intelligence, cybersecurity, and information assurance operations. Prior roles at NSA include chief risk officer and building partnerships on cybersecurity initiatives. Neuberger was the US Navy’s deputy chief management officer, a White House Fellow wor...
Jack Myers is a media ecologist who advises corporations on media and technology trends, founder and chairman of the trade marketing and communications firm MediaVillage, and a speaker on the technology-led transformation of business, culture, society, and relationships. He’s held management positions at ABC and CBS and was executive producer of GE Focus Forward Films, win...
Ina Fried is chief technology correspondent for Axios and author of its daily tech newsletter Login. Before joining Axios in 2017, she was a founder and senior editor at Recode, covering mobile, and produced the Code/Mobile series of conferences. Fried previously covered mobile at All Things Digital and spent a decade at CNET covering, among other things, Microsoft and App...
Brian Stelter is the host of “Reliable Sources,” which examines the week’s top media stories on CNN US, and the senior media correspondent for CNN Worldwide. He also reports for CNNMoney.com and writes a nightly e-mail newsletter. Prior to joining CNN in November 2013, Stelter was a media reporter at The New York Times. He previously launched and edited the TVNewser blog,...
Virginia Eubanks is an associate professor of political science at University at Albany, SUNY and founding member of the Our Data Bodies Project, a group that looks at how digital data collection impacts human rights. For two decades, Eubanks has worked in community technology and economic justice movements. She is the author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools P...
Franklin Foer is a staff writer and national correspondent at The Atlantic. Previously, he was editor of The New Republic, from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2012 to 2014. Foer is the author of World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech, which explores the influence of Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Google on modern life and was named one of the best books of 2017...
José Quiñonez is founder and CEO of Mission Asset Fund, an award-winning nonprofit with models for integrating financially excluded, low-income communities into the financial mainstream. He is a former congressional legislative assistant and nonprofit lobbyist who advocated for federal policy change on immigration, hunger, and welfare reform. In 2012, Quiñonez was appointe...
Surya Mattu is an artist, engineer, and investigative journalist who looks at the ways in which algorithmic systems perpetuate systemic biases and inequalities in society. He is the data reporter at Gizmodo’s special projects desk and a resident at Eyebeam, a nonprofit art and technology center in New York City. Previously, Mattu was a contributing reporter at ProPublica,...