Chosen by New York Magazine as one of New York City's Best Doctors in 2002, Ken is a microsurgeon as well as a former 10 year vice-president of The Explorers Club. He has been a consultant for NASA, climbing high on Mount Everest and flying in zero-gravity, and is a writer for National Geographic Adventure and Popular Mechanics. His TV appearances include Nightline, 20/20, Today Show, Larry King Live, and Oprah. Ken's two books, Doctor on Everest and Surviving the Extremes, explore the most inaccessible places on the planet - especially inside the human body, where there are more unexplained mysteries than anyplace else in the universe.

The sign above the front door of the New York City office reads, "@radical.media, Never Established." Embracing change has been something of a mantra for Jon Kamen since he founded @radical.media in 1993 with Frank Scherma. The partners, who had long produced television commercials, wanted to explore new forms of media. Today, @radical media's staff of 140 — a group that includes producers, editors, and Web designers — produces TV ads, Web-based advertorials, music videos, documentaries, feature-length films, and television series, including Iconoclasts, in its fifth season on the Sundance Channel. The company has won an Oscar (for the documentary Fog of War) and a Grammy (for the George Harrison Memorial Concert), as well as Emmys and Clios.

World-renowned archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass currently serves as Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and Director of Excavations at Giza, Saqqara, and the Bahariya Oasis. Dr. Hawass is responsible for many exciting recent discoveries, including the Tombs of the Pyramid Builders at Giza and the Valley of the Golden Mummies at Bahariya. At Giza, he also uncovered the satellite pyramid of Khufu and is currently planning to reveal the secrets behind the “doors” inside the Great Pyramid. At Saqqara, his important finds include the tomb of the royal physician Qar and the substructure of the so-called “Headless Pyramid.” At Bahariya, Dr. Hawass has also found the tombs of one of the ancient governors of the area, Djed-Khonsu-iuf-ankh, and his family, under modern houses in the town of El-Bawiti. He has lectured to large audiences all over the world, most frequently in Europe, Japan, and the United States, on such topics as the pyramids, mummies, and his numerous excavations.Hawass is extremely concerned about the conservation and protection of Egypt’s monuments. He has supervised a major conservation project on the Great Sphinx and developed site management plans for a number of important sites, including the Unfinished Obelisk Quarry in Aswan and the temples of Kom Ombo, Edfu, and Dendera. Currently, he is completing site management plans for the West Bank of Luxor, Giza, and Saqqara.Most recently, Dr. Hawass was instrumental in sending King Tutankhamun back to the United States. During the exhibit’s openings in Los Angeles, Fort Lauderdale, and Chicago, Dr. Hawass again entered the homes of thousands of Americans, making a number of television appearances to promote the return of the golden king. His web site is a popular source of information about Ancient Egypt and also hosts a fan club for children.www.guardians.net/hawass

One time when Matt Harding was traveling in Vietnam, his friend told him to stand over by the curb and do his stupid dance. Now he is famous on the internet as that guy who does that stupid dance all over the world. It's his job. Things worked out pretty well for Matt.Matt is a 32-year-old deadbeat from Connecticut who used to think that all he ever wanted to do in life was make and play videogames. Matt achieved this goal pretty early and enjoyed it for a while, but eventually realized there might be other stuff he was missing out on. In February of 2003, he quit his job in Brisbane, Australia and used the money he'd saved to wander around Asia until it ran out. He made this site so he could keep his family and friends updated about where he is.In 2006, Matt took a 6 month trip through 39 countries on all 7 continents. In that time, he danced a great deal.The second video made Matt even more quasi-famous. In fact, for a brief period in July, he was semi-famous.Things settled down again, and then in 2007 Matt went back to Stride with another idea. He realized his bad dancing wasn't actually all that interesting, and that other people were much better at being bad at it. He showed them his inbox, which, as a result of his semi-famousness, was overflowing with emails from all over the planet. He told them he wanted to travel around the world one more time and invite the people who'd written him to come out and dance too.

During her career, Dana Gluckstein has photographed iconic figures from Nelson Mandela and Mikhail Gorbachev to Muhammad Ali, and produced award-winning advertising campaigns for clients such as Apple, Land Rover and Toyota. Her vision is most vividly revealed in her photographs of Indigenous Peoples, many of which are held in museum collections. Whether photographing a Haitian healer or a San Bushmen chief, Gluckstein infuses each portrait with an essential dignity. Her photographs exhibit “a passionate complicity between artist and sitter that allows each subject to be memorialized with beauty and grace,” the late renowned Los Angeles County Museum of Art photography curator, Robert Sobieszek explained.

Gluckstein graduated from Stanford University, where she studied psychology, painting, and photography, and realized the power of images to shape consciousness. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.

Timothy Ferriss, one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Business People of 2007, is author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek. He is a tango world record holder, a guest lecturer in electrical engineering at Princeton University, and an educational reformer. He is a serial entrepreneur and ultravagabond, has been featured in the New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Maxim, and other media. He speaks six languages, runs a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide, and has been a world-record holder in tango, a national champion in Chinese kickboxing, and an actor on a hit television series in Hong Kong.

Ian Dunbar is a veterinarian, animal behaviorist, and dog trainer. He has written numerous books, produced a dozen videos about puppy/dog behavior and training, and for five years, hosted his own television show in the UK — Dogs with Dunbar. Ian received his veterinary degree and a Special Honors degree in Physiology & Biochemistry from the Royal Veterinary College (London University) and a doctorate in animal behavior from the Psychology Department at the University of California in Berkeley, where he spent ten years researching the development of hierarchical social behavior and aggression in domestic dogs. Dr. Dunbar is a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, the California Veterinary Medical Association, the Sierra Veterinary Medical Association, the American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior, and the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (which he founded) — the largest and most influential association of pet dog training in the world. Additionally, he has helped establish APDTs in other countries, including Canada, UK, Australia, Japan, France, Spain and Mexico. Over the past 30 years, he has given over 850 one-day seminars and workshops for dog trainers and veterinarians around the world. Ian currently is Director of the Center for Applied Animal Behavior in Berkeley, CA, where he lives with his wife Kelly, dogs Claude, Dune and Hugo-Louis, and kitties Ugly and Mayhem.

Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is a pioneer and leader in the commercial space arena having created many of the leading entrepreneurial space companies opening the personal spaceflight industry. Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Space Adventures (www.spaceadventures.com), which brokered the flights of five private citizens to the International Space Station, most recently Anousheh Ansari and Charles Simonyi; Richard Garriott is scheduled to launch October 12, 2008. Diamandis also is the Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Zero Gravity Corporation (www.gozerog.com), a privately held space entertainment and tourism company, and the first and only FAA-approved provider of weightless flights for the general public. Dr. Diamandis serves as Chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation (www.xprize.org), a non-profit organization promoting radical breakthroughs through large cash prizes. X PRIZE is best known for the $10M Ansari X PRIZE won by SpaceShipOne. Diamandis also is the Chairman and Co-Founder of the Rocket Racing League (www.rocketracingleague.com), an aerospace entertainment company established to host rocket-powered airplane and spaceship racing events that combine speed, technology, heroes and competition. In 1987, Diamandis co-founded and ran the International Space University (www.isunet.edu), where he served as the University’s first Managing Director. Today he serves as a Trustee of the $30M ISU that is based in Strasbourg, France. Prior to ISU, Diamandis served as Chairman of the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS), an organization that he founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1980. SEDS is the world's largest student pro-space organization.Dr. Diamandis attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he received his undergraduate degree in molecular genetics and graduate degree in aerospace engineering. After MIT he received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. In 2005 he was also awarded an honorary Doctorate from the International Space University. He has conducted research in a number of fields, including molecular genetics, space medicine and launch vehicle design. Dr. Diamandis is a sought-after speaker on commercial space travel, and has received numerous awards including the 2006 (inaugural) Heinlein Award, 2006 Lindbergh Award, 2006 Neil Armstrong Award, 2006 Wired RAVE Award, two-time winner of the Aviation & Space Technology Laurel, 2003 World Technology Award for Space, 1995 K. E. Tsiolkovsky Award and 1993 Space Frontier Pioneer Award. In 8th grade, while living in New York, Dr. Diamandis won first place in the Estes rocket design contest.Diamandis’ mission is to open the space frontier for humanity. His personal motto is: “The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself!”

For more than 25 years, bestselling author and editor David Elliot Cohen has created large-format photography books that have collectively sold more than five million copies. Most were in the popular Day in the Life and America 24/7 series, which he co-founded. Four of Cohen’s books have been New York Times bestsellers, including the New York Times #1 bestseller, A Day in the Life of America. Many of his other books were national bestsellers in the US and abroad. His most recently published book, What Matters (Sterling, 2008), includes work by the preeminent photojournalists and thinkers of our time. It contends that great photojournalism about essential issues can change the world. Cohen has been profiled in The New York Times, People and other major periodicals. He has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Sunday Morning, NPR’s All Things Considered and other major programs. His books have appeared twice each on the covers of Time and Newsweek.

David Binder (Producer) David produced the Tony Award winning Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun starring Sean Combs. Other credits include The High Line Festival curated by David Bowie, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, De La Guarda, and currently, Fuerza Bruta. He is on the faculty at the Yale School of Drama.