Celebrity Speaker Michio Kaku is the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the City College of New York, a futurist, and a popularizer of science. Kaku is known for his frequent appearances on various media outlets, including serving as a host on TV specials for the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and…
Celebrity speaker Jamie Hyneman is the co-host of the popular television series MythBusters on the Discovery Channel. He is also a special effects expert and owner of M5 Industries, the special effects workshop where MythBusters is filmed. He is known for his calm and logical demeanor on the show, as opposed to co-host Adam Savage’s…
Adam Savage is a supreme industrial and specials effects designer that found a home on set of the Discovery Channel alongside co-host and partner Jamie Hyneman to create the popular science entertainment TV series Mythbusters. The overwhelming success of the show propelled Adam and Jamie into hosting duties for a reality TV game show called…
Celebrity Chef Speaker Michael Cimarusti is currently the owner and chef of Providence Restaurant in Los Angeles, a fine dining destination that offers an array of the world’s premium wild seafood and shellfish. In 2006, LA magazine named Providence the best seafood restaurant in Los Angeles. As a young boy, Cimarusti inherited a passion for…
Alexandra Wilkis Wilson is the founder and current head of strategic alliances of the online discount shopping supercenter, Gilt. Now a global enterprise, Gilt was founded in 2007 and Alexandra and her team at Gilt Groupe including co-founder Alexis Maybank have forever transformed the world of luxury e-commerce. Gilt currently serves over 6 million subscribers…
Business Speaker Andreas Weigend is the former Chief Scientist at Amazon.com and is a world expert in social-mobile technologies, consumer behavior, and the future of big data. Weigend has taught undergraduate, graduate, MBA, and executive courses at top schools in the US and China throughout his career, and he currently teaches at Stanford and the…