Rick E. Robinson is an interdisciplinary social scientist by way of his training at the University of Chicago's Committee on Human Development. Of his many accomplishments, he is well known for co-founding E-Lab, his time as CXO at Sapient and for giving the first keynote at the first EPIC Conference EPIC in Redmond, Washington in 2005, under the theme "Sociality". 

Tony Salvador is the Executive Director of the National Policy Consensus Center at Portland State University by way of Tufts University and a storied 30 year career working in tech. In addition to being the person who brought ethnography to Intel, he also was the opening keynote speaker for the 2007 EPIC Conference in Keystone with the theme "Being Heard"..

In this special two part season finale, Martha Cotton (co-chair in 2007 and 2009) sits down with Rick and Tony discuss the past twenty years of EPIC conferences, the impact of bringing together people with diverse backgrounds, and how the original vision of EPIC has evolved or remained the same over time. 

This year’s EPIC conference will be held in Los Angeles from August 18-21. Learn more at 2024.epicpeople.org.