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Performance artist, writer, and musician; creator, "Home of the Brave," "Stories for the Nerve Bible," "Songs and Stories from Moby Dick" and "Homeland"

Brian Arthur

Economist, Santa Fe Institute and PARC; pioneer in complexity sciences and technology and innovation; author, The Economy as an Evolving Complex System, and The Nature of Technology

John Perry Barlow

Writer-consultant on cyberspace, information economics, privacy; cofounder, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Grateful Dead lyricist and Wyoming rancher; fellow, Harvard Law School

Steve Barnett

Anthropologist specializing in consumer research and trends, branding, and strategy; CEO, BardoConsulting; radio show host; former strategist with OgilvyOne, Citibank, and Nissan

Mary Catherine Bateson

Anthropologist; director, Institute for Intercultural Studies; professor emerita, George Mason University; author, Composing a Life and Full Circles, Overlapping Lives

Frank Beal

Economic development advisor; executive director, Chicago Metropolis 2020; former president, Inland International

Crawford Beveridge

Specialist in global workforce management, government relations, and technology policy with more than 35 years of experience in the technology industry; former EVP and chair, EMEA, APAC, and the MAericas, Sun Microsystems

Susan Blumenthal

Physician; U.S. Rear Admiral; former assistant surgeon general and first deputy assistant secretary for women's health; medical adviser to the White House and the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Internet medicine pioneer

Raimondo Boggia

Strategist, global and local brand equity assessment and positioning; restaurateur; founder, Boggia Partners, Milan and Los Angeles; former vice president, Fiat Group; author, Time of Uncertainty

Albert Bressand

Economist; executive director, Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy, Columbia University; former vice president, Global Business Environment, Shell International; founder, Prométhée, Paris; coauthor, In the Company of Visions and Enhanced Transparency: Meeting European Investors Needs

Larry Brilliant

Epidemiologist and philanthropist; president,the Skoll Foundation's Urgent Threats Fund; first executive director, Google.org; leader of WHO's smallpox eradication in Southeast Asia; former international health professor; founder, four technology companies and the Seva Foundation to combat blindness in developing countries

John Brockman

Literary and software agent; president, Edge Foundation; author/editor, The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution, Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite, The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years, and Curous Minds, How a Child Becomes a Scientist

Barbara Bylenga

Qualitative market researcher and strategic advisor focused on Gen Y trendsetters; president and founder, Outlaw Consulting; former advertising executive

Peter Calthorpe

Architect and planner of environmentally progressive community development and "new urbanism" design; author, The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl

William Calvin

Neurobiologist and climate change expert, University of Washington; author, Conversations with Neil's Brain,The Cerebral Code, A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change and Global Fever

Rob Carlson

Physicist exploring the future of biology as human technology; principal , Biodesic, LLC; senior associate, Bio Economic Research Associates

Doug Carlston

Technology entrepreneur and philanthropist; cofounder, ICPlanet and Broderbund Software; trustee, Santa Fe Institute; board chair, Public Radio International

Denise Caruso

Executive director, Hybrid Vigor Institute; former New York Times technology and innovation columnist; author, Intervention: Confronting the Real Risks of Genetic Engineering and Life on a Biotech Planet

Joseph Chamie

Demographer, specializing in South and Western Asia; research director, Center for Migration Studies; former director, United Nations population division; 25 years with the U.N.

Eric Clemons

Professor, operations and information management, Wharton School; director of the Jones Center's research on strategic and competitive information systems, coauthor, The Marine Corps Way

Sandy Close

Journalism pioneer and executive director, Bay Area Institute/Pacific News Service; founder, YO! (Youth Outlook) and New California Media; MacArthur fellow

Chip Conley

Marketing and management innovator; founder and CEO, Joie de Vivre hospitality company; philanthropist; author, Peak, Marketing that Matters, The Rebel Rules, and Peak

Ged Davis

Advisor/innovator on energy, sustainability, climate change, and solving 21st century global problems; former managing director, World Economic Forum and head scenarist, Royal Dutch Shell

June Delano

Innovator on organizations, executive and leadership development, and culture; founder, The Delano Network; managing partner, Pivotal Leadership, Singapore; former chief learning officer, Kodak, and senior Monitor Group consultant; chair, Organization Development Network

Leslie Dighton

Founder and chair, Corporate Renewal Associates and The Chairman's Club, London, specializing in complex organizational change and management

K. Eric Drexler

Nanotechnology pioneer; chief technical advisor, Nanorex; author, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology and Unbounding the Future, and "Revolutionizing the Future of Technology"

Gwynne Dyer

Journalist and syndicated columnist on international affairs; military analyst; documentary radio and filmmaker; author, War, Future Tense, and The Mess They Made

Esther Dyson

Venture capitalist; cosmonaut-in-training; emerging technology evangelist and founding publisher/editor, Release 1.0; former chair, ICANN; technology columnist and blogger, and author, Release 2.0,

Freeman Dyson

Physicist, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University; author, Infinite in All Directions and Disturbing the Universe; recipient, 2000 Templeton Prize for progress in religion

Bo Ekman

Founder, Nextwork AB, Stockholm and the Tällberg Foundation; former executive, SIFO Management Group and Volvo; author, Heaven and Hell: On Enterprising, Power and Leadership

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