Chip Conley is the founder and executive chairman of Joie de Vivre, California’s largest boutique hotel company consisting of over 40 award-winning hotels, spas and restaurants. Chip and his company’s time-tested techniques and transformational leadership practices have been featured in Fast Company, Fortune and the Wall Street Journal. Also a best-selling author, Chip illustrates the [...]
Jason R. Atwood is a Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley and the director of Ethiopia ConnectED, an education initiative inspired by TEDster Sugata Mitra’s research on self-organized learning environments. Modeled on Dr. Mitra’s “Hole-in-the-Wall” project, the mission of Ethiopia ConnectED is to facilitate autonomous and child-mediated [...]
David Rose is a product designer, technology visionary, and serial entrepreneur. Currently David is Chief Executive Officer at Vitality, a company reinventing medication packaging with wireless technology. Rose founded and was CEO of Ambient Devices where he pioneered glanceable technology: embedding Internet information in everyday objects like light bulbs, mirrors, refrigerator doors, digital post-it notes, and umbrellas to make [...]
Marti Spiegelman, MFA is a training professional, mentor, speaker, and founder and host of Awakening Value™: Shamanic Technologies of Consciousness and Success on the VoiceAmerica™ Web Radio Network. Marti holds a BA in biochemistry from Harvard University, an MFA in graphicdesign from the Yale School of Art and Architecture, and has advanced training inneurophysiology, psychology, [...]
Erin Keown Ganju is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Room to Read, an organization that seeks to transform the lives of millions of children in the developing world by focusing on literacy and gender equality in education. Founded on the belief that World Change Starts with Educated Children®, the organization works in collaboration [...]
Bryan Alvarez is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, researching brain-based and cognitive mechanisms of a unique form of sensory-blending called synesthesia, which he also experiences. Bryan made a transition from music performance to life sciences during his undergraduate education at Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music after rediscovering a passion for [...]
Lopa Brunjes is a biochar pioneer, passionate sustainability advocate, and visionary businesswoman. Lopa currently serves as Executive VP of Biochar Engineering Corp, a small Colorado company defining the leading edge of the burgeoning biochar industry. In addition, Lopa is a Senior Advisor to Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room, whose Biochar Operation she launched in 2010, where she [...]
Walter Hood is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design Department, and chaired from 1998 to 2002. He established his Oakland, California–based studio in 1992. His studio, Hood Design, has been engaged in architectural commissions, urban design, art installations, and research since 1992. Earlier projects located in Oakland such [...]
Robert Fuller earned his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton University and taught at Columbia, where he co-authored the text Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics. He then served as president of Oberlin College, his alma mater. On a trip to India, where he was a consultant to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Fuller witnessed firsthand the [...]
Gopi Kallayil is a Group Product Marketing Manager at Google supporting the marketing of the Company’s flagship advertising product, AdWords, in the Americas and Asia Pacific. He supports the company’s go-to market strategy and adoption of Google search advertising products. Prior to working in AdWords, Gopi led the marketing team for AdSense, Google’s publisher-facing product. [...]
Shore Slocum is a student of Universal Law and principles that create lasting change, deeper purpose, and connection and service to something greater than one’s self. Through his keynotes and Speakers Boot Camps he has inspired tens of thousands annually with his sincere caring, powerful energy, deep wisdom, and his passion in the belief that [...]
David Silverman is an animator best known for directing numerous episodes of the animated TV series The Simpsons, as well as The Simpsons Movie. Silverman was involved with the series from the very beginning, where he animated all of the original Simpsons Tracy Ullman shorts and went on to serve as director of animation for [...]
Anat Baniel is the founder of the Anat Baniel Method(sm) and the director of the ABM Center in Marin County, California, where she and her colleagues teach professional training programs, workshops and see private clients. Anat’s background is in clinical psychology, dance and statistics. She studied and later worked closely with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais with [...]
Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and TED veteran Matt Venuti opened the 2004 conference in Monterey with a solo from a unique and fascinating device that no one had previously heard of, the Electronic Valve Instrument, or EVI . He went on to play the EVI as lead instrumentalist in Thomas Dolby’s TED house band throughout the conference. [...]
Moses Sedler is a composer, of music for concert stage, modern dance, and film. He is also a concert cellist, and recording artist. Moses has a background rooted in classical music, as well as improvisatory music, with influences of Indian classical music, and eastern European folk music. Moses studied composition at Cornish College of the [...]
Sonja Drakulich was born in Los Angeles of Serbian and Hungarian decent. She began performing Balkan and Medieval European music and her own compositions at the age of 18. Her studies and interests range from Hindustani to Persian, Turkish, Greek and Arabic singing. Her main focus is Bulgarian regional vocals. Sonja credits much of her [...]
Noteworthy is a student-run, student-written, all-male, excessively-hypenated a cappella group on the UC Berkeley campus. Founded in 2000 in the dorms, Noteworthy is unusual in that a large portion of its music was completely writtten by its current and former members. Furthermore, that which isn’t compeltely written by students was at the very least, arranged [...]
Brad Kava is a former news reporter and syndicated media critic for the San Jose Mercury News and has had numerous works published in the New York Times, Kansas City Star, Rolling Stone magazine and others. Brad has had front page stories about everything ranging from satellite radio, digital music rights and terrorist bombings to [...]
Peter Stanley is a record producer, songwriter and guitar player extraordinaire. He fronts the blues band Doghouse Riley, which has played the Warfield in San Francisco and the Civic Center in San Jose.
Singer/Songwriter Eoin Harrington was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland before making his home in San Francisco a few years back. He left the fields of Chemical Engineering and Mathematics to pursue music and start his social tech company. He is a clasically trained multi instrumentalist, producer and engineer. His album, Story, has been met [...]
