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Jack D. Hidary is a successful serial tech entrepreneur. In 1995, established EarthWeb a company dedicated to the needs of tech professionals. Jack now serves as Senior Advisor to Google X Labs. Committed to community and philanthropic causes, he has received several industry and community awards as well as being recognized as a Global Leader of Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum, Davos. He is also a founding member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). Jack studied philosophy and neuroscience at Columbia University and was awarded a Stanley Fellowship in Clinical Neuroscience at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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Dave Zaboski picked up a crayon as a child and never put it down, dedicating his life to the creative arts. He is a classically trained painter and illustrator. As a Senior Animator with Disney, Sony and Warner Bros., he has contributed his talents to the contemporary classic films Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, the Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Tarzan, The Emperor’s New Groove, Fantasia 2000 and more. 

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Lauren Kunze built her first chatbot at age fifteen, and is now Principal at Pandorabots: the world’s leading platform for building and deploying chatbots. She is a published author and graduate of Harvard College, where she studied Literature and Language, and Neuroscience.

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Josh Bersin founded Bersin & Associates in 2004 to provide research and advisory services focused on corporate learning, leadership, talent management, and HR technology. Today he is responsible for Bersin by Deloitte’s long-term strategy, research direction, and market eminence. He has a B.S. in engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. in engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Kevin Kelly is the co-founder of Wired Magazine, a best-selling author and a leading thinker on technology. After the release of his new book, The Inevitable, I had a chance to talk with him about how about his life, his journey and how technology will continue to change our lives.

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Dr. Hemalee Patel is a practicing physician and Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine at Stanford University Hospital specializing in preventative medicine specifically in the field of nutrition, resilience and mindfulness. Dr. Patel's mission is to bring awareness of the effects stress, lack of exercise and poor nutrition has on the body and the role this plays in the development of chronic diseases. Through her practice, she utilizes evidence-based medicine and accessible methods to educate and empower individuals, enabling them to take control of their health and personal sense of well-being.

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Maxine Ryan is the co-founder of Bitspark, the world’s first cash in, cash out blockchain remittance platform for Money Transfer Operators and Individuals to send Asia wide. Her startup has won international awards for its innovation in payments and is redeemed as one of the pioneers of the bitcoin/blockchain remittance space. Maxine is an advocate for Blockchain technology having consulted and strategized with Fortune 500 companies, F.I’s, Telcos and Startups in the use case of this game changing technology. Maxine is an international speaker on the topic as well as a mentor to financial technology startups.

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Barbara Houis the former executive co-director for Harvard Innovations and Ventures in Education (HIVE), a campus organization that supports educational entrepreneurship at Harvard University. Previously, she founded the Asian Women’s Leadership University (AWLU) Project, a 501(c)(3) educational startup dedicated to establishing a global women’s leadership university based in Asia. She has also practiced as a corporate lawyer in the Hong Kong offices of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Allen & Overy LLP. She is a graduate of Smith College and the University of Michigan Law School.

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Salim Ismail is a sought after speaker, strategist and entrepreneur – his last company, Angstro, was acquired by Google in August 2010. Salim spent two years as SU’s founding Executive Director and currently serves as its Global Ambassador focusing on its global presence. Prior to that, Salim was a Vice President at Yahoo and the Head of Brickhouse, Yahoo’s internal ‘ideas factory’ where game-changing ideas were brought in, built and launched. He is also the author of Exponential Organizations, which is required reading at the world’s top organizations. Salim consults on innovation & growth and believes, “if you aren’t disrupting your business or industry, someone else is”. In this episode, Salim shares his technological and philosophical insights on how we can move the world forward.

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Rob is the CEO and Associate founder of Singularity University. He brings a unique entrepreneurial and globally-focused approach to growing a non-traditional university as a platform to create a future of abundance where exponential technologies empower us to solve the global grand challenges.

Prior to Singularity, he co-founded Velocity11 in 1999, building automation equipment and robotics for cancer research and drug discovery. After being acquired by Agilent Technologies in 2007, he traded the CEO role for a General Manager role attempting to be a catalyst for change at a big company. He gave up in 2009 to go surfing and eventually find his true calling and biggest challenge yet with Singularity University. He is a director at Harman (HAR) and Light&Motion. He is also a co-founder and director of Alite Designs, is an active angel investor and advisor, and holds degrees in Mechanical, Materials Science and Manufacturing Engineering from UC Davis and Stanford University.

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