Sky Dayton is the CEO of HELIO, Inc. (formerly SK-EarthLink), a joint venture between EarthLink and SK Telecom, one of the most advanced mobile operators in the world. Sky founded EarthLink in 1994 at the age of 23 and helped usher the Internet revolution. As a friendly, tech-savvy ISP, EarthLink today serves more than five million customers and generates more than $1.4 billion in annual revenue. Sky founded Boingo Wireless in 2001, the award-winning network that connects more than 20,000 global hot spots and helped turn Wi-Fi into mainstream technology. In 1999, Sky and former Disney Internet chief Jake Winebaum started eCompanies, an Internet incubator and venture fund that launched several successful recent ventures, including JAMDAT Mobile (NASDAQ: JMDT), LowerMyBills and Business.com.

Television anchor, legal analyst, trial attorney, actor and best-selling author, Rikki Klieman has earned a sterling reputation as one of the nation’s most celebrated lawyers and legal authorities. A dynamic and versatile communicator, Klieman has found success in multiple fields, including television journalism, the courtroom, academia and public speaking.

Dr. Rick Warren is passionate about attacking what he calls the five “Global Goliaths”: spiritual emptiness, egocentric leadership. extreme poverty, pandemic disease, and illiteracy/poor education. His goal is a Second Reformation: restoring responsibility in people, credibility in churches, and civility in culture. He is a pastor, global strategist, theologian, and philanthropist. He’s been often named "America's most influential spiritual leader." and “America’s Pastor.

<p>Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American musician. As a conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter his career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 7 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is particularly recognized as the producer of the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, which has sold between 60-110 million copies worldwide, and as the producer and conductor of the charity song “We Are the World”.</p>

<p>In 1968, Jones and his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African Americans to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. That same year, he became the first African American to be nominated twice within the same year when he was nominated for Best Original Score for his work on the music of the 1967 film In Cold Blood. In 1971, Jones would receive the honor of becoming the first African American to be named musical director/conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony. He was the first African American to win the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1995. He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the most Oscar-nominated African American, each of them having seven nominations. At the 2008 BET Awards, Quincy Jones was presented with the Humanitarian Award. He was played by Larenz Tate in the 2004 biopic about Ray Charles, Ray.</p>

Peter serves as an innovation advisor to cities and companies. He has created two centers of urban innovation from scratch: Maker City Project and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts.

The Maker City Project is the national organization tasked with helping cities and towns reclaim manufacturing prowess by leveraging the Maker movement. Peter's best selling book — Maker City: A practical guide to reinventing our cities was created in collaboration with the Obama White House where it was launched in 2016 and with the Brookings Institution, where Hirshberg is an author. Often suppressed fact: while developing the Maker City, Hirshberg introduced the White House to Burning Man, which led to a partnership between the two organizations based on their mutual values. Say What?  He explores these values further in “From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond” written with the MIT Media Lab. 

As Chairman and Co-founder of San Francisco’s Gray Area Art and Technology Theater, Peter’s been instrumental in building one of San Francisco’s most vibrant and civic-minded arts organizations, a center for digital media education, incubation, performance and exhibition. He spearheaded initial fundraising, provides strategic and operational guidance, and helps pioneer internationally recognized programs including Urban Prototyping, a global movement that engages citizens in the co-creation and co-planning of their cities. As part of this work Hirshberg pioneered the open data movement to foster transparency and innovation in cities, leading dozens of hackathons and open data events in San Francisco, Singapore, New York, Hong Kong, and London.

As CEO and founder of the Re:Imagine Group, he consulted with executive teams at Best Buy, Sony, IBM, Verizon, Time Warner, Unilever, GE, Estee Lauder, Telefonica, and many others on their innovation and digital growth strategies.

During his nine-year tenure at Apple Computer, Hirshberg headed Enterprise Marketing, where he grew Apple’s large business and government revenue to $1 billion annually.  (He also convinced Allan Greenspan to make a commercial for Apple, but that's another story. ) Subsequently he was CEO of pioneers Elemental Software (sold to Adobe), Gloss.com (Estee Lauder), and he served as Chairman of Technorati, the pioneering social media search engine and advertising network with over a billion monthly page views.

Peter is cofounder of City Innovate Foundation, formed with The San Francisco Mayor’s office, UC Berkeley and the MIT Media Lab to promote a network of global civic innovation centers.

As an advisor to United Nations Global Pulse he’s addressed the General Assembly real-time data for international development and is editor of, Taking the Global Pulse. Peter is a sought after technology and innovation speaker, having presented at TED, the World Economic Forum, DLD, The Aspen Ideas Festival, Techonomy, CeBIT, WEB 2.0 Summit, and many other events.  Hirshberg is still held accountable for the incident at TED in 1999 where he introduced the world’s first personalized religion, Elementalism, allowing followers to construct a faith based only on what they wanted to believe in, while financing it through the ism fund.

His board and advisory positions have included Active Video Networks, Technorati, Build Public, The Computer History Museum, and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. He is a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy and a Henry Crown fellow of the Aspen Institute. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and received his MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Naomi Judd (born January 11, 1946) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and activist.

Born in Haifa, Israel, in 1938, Safdie moved to Canada with his family at a young age. He graduated from McGill University in 1961 with a degree in architecture. After apprenticing with Louis I. Kahn in Philadelphia, Safdie returned to Montreal to oversee the master plan for the 1967 World Exhibition. In 1964 he established his own firm to realize Habitat ‘67, an adaptation of his thesis at McGill, which was the central feature of the World’s Fair and a groundbreaking design. The rest, as they say, is history. Moshe is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author. Embracing a comprehensive and humane design philosophy, he is committed to architecture that supports and enhances a project’s program; that is informed by the geographic, social, and cultural elements that define a place; and that responds to human needs and aspirations. Safdie has completed a wide range of projects, such as cultural, educational, and civic institutions; neighborhoods and public parks; mixed-use urban centers and airports; and master plans for existing communities and entirely new cities around the world. Major projects by Safdie Architects currently under construction or recently completed include Mamilla Alrov Center, a dynamic urban center near the Old City in Jerusalem; Marina Bay Sands, a mixed-use integrated resort in Singapore; Khalsa Heritage Memorial Complex, the national museum of the Sikh people in the Punjab, India; the United States Institute of Peace Headquarters on the Mall in Washington, D.C.; the National Campus for the Archeology of Israel in Jerusalem; the West Edge project, a mixed-use facility in Kansas City, Missouri; the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri; and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. In 1970, Safdie established a Jerusalem branch office, commencing an intense involvement with the rebuilding of Jerusalem. He was responsible for major segments of the restoration of the Old City and the reconstruction of the new center, linking the Old and New Cities. Over the years, his involvement expanded and included the new city of Modi’in, the new Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, and the Rabin Memorial Center. During this period, Safdie also became involved in the developing world, working in Senegal, Iran, Singapore, and in the northern Canadian arctic. In 1978, after teaching at Yale, McGill, and Ben Gurion Universities, Safdie relocated his residence and principal office to Boston. He served as Director of the Urban Design Program at Harvard University Graduate School of Design from 1978 to 1984, and Ian Woodner Professor of Architecture and Urban Design from 1984 to 1989. In the following decade, he was responsible for the design of six of Canada’s principal public institutions, including the Quebec Museum of Civilization, the National Gallery of Canada, and Vancouver Library Square. Safdie has worked with a wide range of clients, including municipal entities and government agencies, colleges and universities, private developers, and non-profit organizations and civic institutions. Many of his firm’s buildings have become beloved regional and national landmarks, including Exploration Place Science Center, Wichita, Kansas; Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, Utah; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts; Springfield Federal Courthouse, Springfield, Massachusetts; Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California; Lester B. Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Canada; the National Gallery of Canada; and Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. Safdie has been the recipient of numerous awards, honorary degrees, and civil honors, including the Companion Order of Canada and the Gold Medal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.

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Lloyd Braun (born 1958) is a television and Internet media executive who currently runs the entertainment firm BermanBraun.

Auletta worked in government and on several political campaigns, and taught and trained Peace Corps volunteers. He was also the first executive director of the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation. In 1974, Auletta became the chief political correspondent for the New York Post. Following that, he was a staff writer and weekly columnist for the Village Voice, and then a contributing editor at New York magazine. He started contributing to The New Yorker in 1977. Between 1977 and 1993, he wrote a weekly political column for the New York Daily News. He was the guest editor of the 2002 edition of The Best Business Stories of the Year.

Auletta has written the "Annals of Communications" column for The New Yorker since 1992. He is the author of ten books, including Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of The House of Lehman (1986), Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way (1991), The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Superhighway (1997), and World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies (2001). His book Backstory: Inside the Business of News (2003) is a collection of his columns from The New Yorker. His book, Media Man: Ted Turner’s Improbable Empire, was published in the fall of 2004. His most recent book, "Googled: The End of the World As We Know It," was published in November 2009 and will be released in paperback in October 2010.

Auletta was among the first to popularize the idea of the so-called "information superhighway" with his February 22, 1993, New Yorker profile of Barry Diller, in which he described how Diller used his Apple PowerBook to anticipate the digital future. He has profiled the leading figures and companies of the Information Age, including Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, AOL Time Warner, John Malone, and the New York Times. His 2001 profile of Ted Turner won a National Magazine Award.

Auletta has been named a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library. He has won numerous journalism awards, and was selected as one of the twentieth century’s top one hundred business journalists. He has served as a Pulitzer Prize juror, and for nearly two decades has been a judge of the annual Livingston Award for Young Journalists, one of the National Journalism Awards. He has twice served as a board member of International PEN, and is a trustee of The Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival.

John Underkoffler is co-founder and Chief Scientist of Oblong Industries, developer of the g-speak Spatial Operating Environment. Leading Oblong's technological vision, his foundational work at the MIT Media Laboratory includes innovations in real-time computer graphics systems, large-scale visualization techniques, and the I/O Bulb and Luminous Room systems. Mr. Underkoffler has been science advisor to films including Minority Report, Ang Lee's Hulk, Aeon Flux, and Iron Man. He is active on several boards and serves as adjunct professor in the USC School of Cinematic Arts.