Sekou Andrews is inspiring the business world one poem at a time with The Sekou Effect. As an award-winning and internationally acclaimed spoken word artist, playwright, actor and musician, Sekou has mastered the art and business of creating and performing original, custom-written spoken word pieces that electrify the messages and accelerate the missions of global […]

Shahrzad Rafati is the founder and CEO of Broadbandtv Corp. one of the web’s largest aggregators and managers of video content. Shahrzad is credited for constructing creative new business models for video on the web that has helped content owners address copyright infringement and piracy issues in a manner that has not had a negative […]

Mr. Sharad Devarajan is a creator, media entrepreneur and professor. He is the Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Liquid Comics / Liquid Studios, a digital entertainment company that uses the medium of graphic novel storytelling to develop original content for various digital platforms, publishing, theatrical live-action films, animation and games. Devarajan is also the Co-Founder […]

Shauna Mei is the founder and CEO of AHAlife.com, an innovative global lifestyle e-commerce media company. After attending MIT she began her career at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker, where she worked on several deals in the fashion media space, most notably the sale of Neiman Marcus Group. After leaving Goldman Sachs, Shauna co-founded Aronsson, […]

Sheena Iyengar is the S.T. Lee Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and the Director of the Global Leadership Matrix (GLeaM) Program. Professor Iyengar holds a business degree from the Wharton School and a doctorate from Stanford University. Since 1998, she has taught courses at the Columbia Business School on Leadership, Thinking Globally and […]

After earning law degrees from Christ’s College Cambridge and Boalt Hall, Berkeley, Lewis moved to Los Angeles, where his Hollywood experience includes managing writers, directors and stars, as well as producing Look Who’s Talking, critically acclaimed films such as The Chocolate War, the Emmy award-winning international co-production for HBO and ITV Central A Month of […]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDDK-lC8wqE#t=71[/youtube] 21st Century: Education — Health and Wellness Eugene S. Ruffin serves as Executive Director of the Sonima Foundation. His career includes 30 years leadership positions in fortune 500 tech companies and 20 years in education reform. Mr. Ruffin began his professional career as a marketing representative for International Business Machines in 1963.  He retired […]

CEO, Founder of Misfit Wearables, makers of highly wearable computing products. Founder of AgaMatrix, makers of the world¹s first iPhone-connected hardware medical device (Red Dot & GOOD Design Awards), now in the Apple Store. Built AgaMatrix from a two-person start-up to shipping 15+ FDA-cleared medical device products, 1B+ biosensors, 3M+ glucose meters for diabetics. Worked at Microsoft Research on […]

My undergraduate years at Caltech were transformative. Three nobelists left their mark. Various interactions over the years with Richard Feynman solidified my passion for physics. Working with him in Delbruck’s microbiology lab resulted in a joint publication with Feynman on bacterial genetics. From Roger Sperry (of split brain fame) my interest in neuroscience as well […]

Steve Clemons is Washington Editor-At-Large for The Atlantic and National Journal; and Editor-in-Chief  of AtlanticLIVE, National Journal LIVE , and QuartzLIVE. He is also Editor-at-Large for Quartz and an MSNBC contributor. At AtlanticLIVE, The Atlantic’s premium events division, Clemons develops concepts and editorial content and leads programs as an interviewer, moderator, and host. Clemons joined […]

Dr. Steinhubl is the Director of Digital Medicine at the Scripps Translational Science Institute and a clinical cardiologist at Scripps Health.  He received his undergraduate training in engineering at Purdue University, graduate training in physiology at Georgetown University, and his medical degree at St. Louis University. Steve’s internal medicine residency training was completed at David […]

Stuart Hameroff is a physician and researcher at the University Medical Center. In medical school Hameroff became interested in intelligent behavior of microtubules, protein lattices within brain neurons and other living cells. Hameroff developed theories of microtubules as self-organizing molecular computers, and  teamed with Sir Roger Penrose on the controversial Penrose-Hameroff “Orch OR” model of consciousness. […]