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Russell Ackoff Consultant and educator, systems and management sciences; professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania; author, The Democratic Corporation and Redesigning Society |  | Laurie Anderson (advisory) Performance artist, writer, and musician; creator, Home of the Brave, Stories for the Nerve Bible, and Songs and Stories from Moby Dick | | Brian Arthur Economist and pioneer in complexity sciences, Santa Fe Institute; author, The Economy as an Evolving Complex System | |
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John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead lyricist; cofounder, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Wyoming rancher; fellow, Harvard Law School | | Steve Barnett Anthropologist; president of consumer insights, SmartRevenue; visiting professor, e-commerce, the Wharton School; former strategist with OgilvyOne, Citibank, and Nissan; editor, The Nissan Report | | Mary Catherine Bateson Anthropologist; visiting professor, Harvard University; professor emerita, George Mason University; author, Composing a Life and Full Circles, Overlapping Lives | |
Frank Beal Executive director, Chicago Metropolis 2020; former president, Inland International Inc. | | Susan Blumenthal Physician; U.S. Rear Admiral; former assistant surgeon general and first deputy assistant secretary for women's health; medical adviser to the White House and the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Internet medicine pioneer | | Raimondo Boggia Founder, Boggia Partners, Milan (strategic visioning and global/local brand equity assessment and positioning); former vice president, Fiat Group; author, Time of Uncertainty and Mondovisione | |
Albert Bressand Economist; executive director, Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy, Columbia University; former vice president, Global Business Environment, Shell International; founder, Prométhée, Paris; coauthor, In the Company of Visions and Enhanced Transparency: Meeting European Investors Needs | | Larry Brilliant Physician, epidemiologist, technologist, philanthropist; executive director, Google.org; led WHO's successful smallpox eradication efforts in India, Nepal, Burma, Bangladesh, Iran; former professor, international health, University of Michigan; founder, The WELL, Cometa (WiFi); founder, Seva Foundation, combating blindness in developing countries | | John Brockman Literary and software agent; president, Edge Foundation; author/editor, The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution, Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite, The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years, and Curous Minds, How a Child Becomes a Scientist | |
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Peter Calthorpe Architect and planner of environmentally progressive community development and "new urbanism" design; author, The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl | | William Calvin Neurobiologist, University of Washington; author, Conversations with Neil's Brain, The Cerebral Code, and A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change | | Rob Carlson Physicist exploring the future of biology as technology; research scientist, electrical engineering, University of Washington; senior associate, Bio Economic Research Associates | |
Doug Carlston Technology entrepreneur; cofounder, ICPlanet and Broderbund Software; trustee, Santa Fe Institute | | Denise Caruso Executive director, Hybrid Vigor Institute, supporting cross-disciplinary inquiry into science, technology, and social issues; leading technology commentator and entrepreneur; former technology columnist, The New York Times | | Manuel Castells Professor of sociology and planning and chair, Center for Western European Studies, U.C. Berkeley; author, The Rise of the Network Society, The Power of Identity, The Internet Galaxy, and End of Millennium | |
Joseph Chamie Demographer, specializing in South and Western Asia; research director, Center for Migration Studies; former director, United Nations population division; 25 years with the U.N. | | Eric Clemons Professor, operations and information management, Wharton School; director of Wharton's MBA e-commerce major and the Jones Center's research on strategic and competitive information systems, coauthor, The Marine Corps Way | | Sandy Close Journalism pioneer and executive director, Bay Area Institute/Pacific News Service; founder, YO! (Youth Outlook) and New California Media; MacArthur fellow | |
Chip Conley Founder and CEO, Joie de Vivre hospitality company; marketing and management innovator; philanthropist; author, Peak, Marketing that Matters, and The Rebel Rules | | Doug Coupland Novelist, Generation X, Microserfs, All Families Are Psychotic. Contributor, The New York Times, Wired, Time, New Republic. | | | |
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Ged Davis Expert on energy, sustainability and climate change; former managing director, World Economic Forum; former head of scenarios team, Royal Dutch/Shell; director of UNAIDS's "AIDS in Africa" scenario project | | Arie de Geus Adviser, World Bank, government and financial institutions; visiting fellow, London Business School; former director, Shell International Petroleum; author, The Living Company | | Mia de Kuijper Advisor on corporate strategy, finance, and international business development; former executive at Bear Stearns and AT&T; chief financial officer, Pepsi Cola International, Europe; investment banker, Morgan Stanley and CS First Boston | |
Alain de Vulpian Analyst of sociocultural change in Europe and North America; founder, Groupe Cofremca and Sociovision, Paris | | Leslie Dighton Founder and chair, Corporate Renewal Associates and The Chairman's Club, London, specializing in complex organizational change and management | | K. Eric Drexler (advisory) Nanotechnology pioneer; chief technical advisor, Nanorex; author, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology and Unbounding the Future, and "Revolutionizing the Future of Technology" | |
Gwynne Dyer Journalist; syndicated columnist on international affairs; military analyst; documentary radio and filmmaker; author, Ignorant Armies, Future Tense, and War (second edition) | | Esther Dyson Publisher and editor, Release 1.0, technology newsletter; venture capitalist, Eastern Europe; author, Release 2.0, technology columnist; former chair, ICANN | | Freeman Dyson Physicist, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University; author, Infinite in All Directions and Disturbing the Universe; recipient, 2000 Templeton Prize for progress in religion | |
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Bo Ekman Founder, Nextwork AB, Stockholm; former CEO, SIFO Management Group and Volvo executive; author, Himmel och helvete ( Heaven and Hell: On Enterprising, Power and Leadership) | | Niles Eldredge Paleontologist, American Museum of Natural History; author, Reinventing Darwin, Dominion, and Rethinking Sex | | Douglas Engelbart Founder, The Bootstrap Institute; inventor and pioneer in personal, interpersonal, and organizational computing | |
Brian Eno Avant-garde artist and musician; producer of U2, David Bowie, and others; author, A Year | | | | |
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Gerard Fairtlough Biochemist and venture capitalist; former CEO, Shell Chemicals UK and Celltech Group; author, Creative Compartments and Getting Things Done | | Betty Sue Flowers Poet; scenario writer; director, the LBJ Presidential Library; former English professor, University of Texas; author/coauthor of eight books, including The Power of Myth, Healing and the Mind, and Presence | | Francis Fukuyama International political economist; professor, Johns Hopkins University; consultant, the Rand Corporation; former deputy director, U.S. Department of State; author, The End of History, Trust, and Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution | |
Robert Fuller Citizen diplomat; former president, Oberlin College and professor, theoretical physics; author, Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank | | | | |
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Peter Gabriel (advisory) British rock musician, composer, and world music producer; cofounder, On Demand Distribution (OD2); human rights activist | | John Gage Cofounder and director of the science office, Sun Microsystems | | Joel Garreau Geographic demographer; senior writer, The Washington Post; author, Radical Evolution, Edge City, and The Nine Nations of North America | |
William Gibson Science fiction writer, Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, All Tomorrow's Parties, and Pattern Recognition | | Michel Godet Professor, strategic prospective, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris; author, Scenarios and Strategic Management and Creating Futures: Scenario Planning as a Strategic Management Tool | | Brenda Gourley Vice chancellor, Open University, UK; former chancellor, University of Natal, South Africa; founding board member, the Centre for Higher Education Transformation | |
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David Hale Global chief economist, Zürich Group | | Gary Hamel Chairman, Woodside Institute; professor, London Business School; coauthor, Competing for the Future; author, Leading the Revolution | | Charles Hampden-Turner Organizational psychologist, Judge Institute of Management Studies, Cambridge University; cofounder, Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Group; author, The Seven Cultures of Capitalism, Mastering the Infinite Game, and 21 Leaders for the 21st Century | |
David Harris Journalist and political analyst; author, Our War (on Vietnam), The Last Stand (on old-growth forests), Shooting the Moon (on Manuel Noriega), and The Crisis (on Iran) | | Paul Hawken Chair, The Natural Step; cofounder, Metacode, Groxis, and Smith & Hawken; author, Growing a Business and The Ecology of Commerce; coauthor, Natural Capitalism | | Barbara Heinzen Geographer and scenarist specializing in public/private development processes in advanced and developing countries; author, Feeling for Stones | |
J.C. Herz Principal, Joystick Nation, a research and design firm applying principles of game design to products, services, and learning systems; first New York Times video game citic and a technology columnist; author, Surfing on the Internet and Joystick Nation | | Daniel Hillis Inventor and computer scientist; cofounder, Applied Minds and The Long Now Foundation; former Disney fellow and vice president, R&D; founder, Thinking Machines; author, The Pattern in the Stone | | James Hillman (advisory) Jungian analyst; author, Kinds of Power, The Soul's Code, and A Terrible Love of War; founder, Spring Publications; former director of studies, Jung Institute | |
John Holdren Professor, environmental policy, Harvard University; chair, executive committee, Pugwash conferences; author; MacArthur fellow | | Robert Hormats Economist; vice chair, Goldman Sachs International; author, Reforming the International Monetary Systems | | Robert Horn Political scientist and visual communicator, Stanford University; founder, Information Mapping. Inc.; author, Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century | |
Charles House Authority on innovation and technology-enabled collaboration, communications, and community; executive director, Media X, Stanford University; former executive at technology startups, Intel and, for 28 years, HP | | Joel Hyatt CE0 and cofounder, Current TV; founder, Hyatt Legal Plans and Hyatt Legal Services; Stanford entrepreneurship professor; coauthor, The Long Boom | | | |
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Joe Jaworski (advisory) Cofounder, Generon Consulting and The Global Institute for Responsible Leadership; former head of scenario planning, Royal Dutch/Shell; author, Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership; coauthor, Presence | | Kathryn Johnson Healthcare advocate and educator; president and CEO Health infoSource; former president, The Healthcare Forum | | Shaun Jones Navy commander and physician; advisor on advanced medical science and technologies to the national security community; former program manager, DARPA; assistant professor, National Naval Medical Center | |
William Joy Venture partner, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byer; cofounder and former chief scientist, Sun Microsystems; software architect and technology futurist; author, Why the Future Doesn't Need Us | | | | |
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Adam Kahane Cofounder, Generon Consulting and The Global Leadership Initiative; facilitator, national scenario projects in South Africa (Mont Fleur), Colombia, Guatemala; former scenarist, Royal Dutch/Shell; author, Solving Tough Problems | | John Kao Serial innovator, entrepreneur, and expert on corporate innovation and transformation; film and Broadway producer; former director, executive innovation programs at Harvard and Stanford; author, Innovation Nation and Jamming | | Bruce Katz (advisory) Chair, The WELL, Hooked, and Rosewood Stone Group; founder, The Rockport Shoe Company | |
Kevin Kelly Writer on technology, culture, and change; former executive editor, Wired; author, New Rules for the New Economy and Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization | | Irene King Economist; former vice president, commodities research, and senior energy economist, JP Morgan | | Art Kleiner Editor-in-chief, Strategy + Business; instructor, New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program; author, The Age of Heretics; coauthor, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, Dances with Change, and Schools That Learn | |
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George Lakoff Cognitive linguist; professor of linguistics, U.C. Berkeley; author, Metaphors We Live By, Moral Politics, and Philosophy in the Flesh: How the Embodied Mind Challenges the Western Tradition, and Don't Think of an Elephant | | Jaron Lanier Composer and musician; computer scientist; visual artist; writer; virtual reality pioneer; lead scientist, The National Tele-immersion Initiative; visiting scholar, Columbia University | | Lawrence Lasker Independent film writer/producer; co-producer, Awakenings and Sneakers | |
Jaap Leemhuis Economist and specialist in scenario and strategy development; cofounder, Fairsights; former president, GBN Europe; 25 years in planning and management with Royal Dutch/Shell; musician and former Olympian | | David Liddle Founding partner, US Ventures; cofounder, Interval Research; chair, Santa Fe Institute board of trustees; computer science professor, Stanford University | | Amory Lovins Energy efficiency pioneer; cofounder and CEO of research, Rocky Mountain Institute; director of Hypercar Inc., MacArthur fellow; coauthor, Natural Capitalism and Winning the Oil Endgame | |
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Michael Maccoby Organizational psychologist; president, The Maccoby Group; consultant on leadership and strategy; author, The Gamesman, Why Work?, and The Productive Narcissist; coauthor, Agents of Change | | Thomas Malone Professor, information systems, MIT; director, Center for Coordination Science and the Inventing the Organzations of the 21st Century Initiative; author, The Future of Work | | Lynn Margulis Biologist; professor, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; devisor of the symbiotic theory of cell evolution; coauthor, Five Kingdoms and What Is Life? | |
Nancy Maynard Media consultant; president, Maynard Partners Inc.; former publisher, Oakland Tribune; attorney; journalist; author, Mega Media | | Pamela McCorduck Science and technology writer; author, Machines Who Think and Aaron's Code; coauthor, The Futures of Women | | Jon McIntire (advisory) Artist, entertainment consultant, and screenwriter; former manager, the Grateful Dead | |
Irving Mintzer Economist and environmentalist; editor, Global Change | | Ian Mitroff (advisory) President, Comprehensive Crisis Management, Professor Emeritus and founder, the Center for Crisis Management, University of Southern California; author, Business NOT as Usual, Smart Thinking for Crazy Times, and A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America | | Michael Murphy Cofounder, Esalen Institute; author, The Kingdom of Shivas Irons, Golf in the Kingdom, and The Future of the Body; coauthor, The Life We Are Given | |
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Michael Naylor Management consultant; former president, global operations, Rubbermaid; past director, strategic planning, General Motors | | Edward Newland (advisory)International energy consultant; former head of scenario planning, Royal Dutch/Shell | | | |
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Maureen O'Hara Clinical psychologist; emeritus president, Saybrook Graduate School; educator, writer, and innovator in human and gender relations, organizational and relational psychology, the future of consciousness; video producer, Myths that Maim | | Pierre Omidyar Philanthropist and entrepreneur; chair and CEO, Omidyar Network; chair, eBay | | | |
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Walter Parkes Motion picture producer and writer; former president, Dreamworks SKG and Amblin Entertainment; films include Sweeney Todd, The Kite Runner, Gladiator, Minority Report | | John Petersen President and founder, the Arlington Institute; specialist in national security issues; author, Out of the Blue: Wild Cards and Other Big Future Surprises and The Road to 2015 | | Michael Pillsbury Consultant, long-range planning, U.S. Secretary of Defense; former assistant undersecretary of defense and congressional adviser on national security, intelligence, and Asia; author, Chinese Views of Future Warfare | |
Michael Porter (advisory) Professor, Harvard Business School; cofounder, Monitor Consulting; author, Competitive Strategy and The Competitive Advantage of Nations; coauthor, Can Japan Compete? | | | | |
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Rafael Ramírez Fellow, Oxford University; associate professor of management, Groupe HEC, France; author, Designing Interactive Strategy and Prime Movers; coauthor, Agents of Change: Crossing the Post-Industrial Divide | | Nancy Ramsey Writer, futurist, entrepreneur; president, Morning Star Imports; former legislative assistant; coauthor, Nuclear Weapons Decision Making and The Futures of Women | | Howard Rheingold Author, Tools for Thought, The Virtual Community, Smart Mobs; founder, Electric Minds; two-decade track record of foreseeing and interpreting the societal impacts of information and communications technologies | |
Chris Riley Head of planning, graphic design group, Apple, Inc.; founder, Studio Riley (brand strategy and communications design); former head of strategic planning, Wieden + Kennedy worldwide; founding director of The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art | | Richard Rodriguez Author, Brown: The Last Discovery of America, Hunger of Memory, and Days of Obligation; associate editor, Pacific News Service; contributing editor, Harper's; essayist, Jim Lehrer News Hour | | Heather Ross Scholar, Resources for the Future; former member, U.S. National Economic Council; former regional coordinator, BP Europe | |
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Paul Saffo Strategist, forecaster, and essayist on long term technological change; lecturer, Stanford University; member, national and corporate science advisory boards | | Brian Sager Entrepreneur; life sciences venture, technical, and management adviser; biochemist; founder, Nanosolar, a nanotechnology startup; new classical music composer | | Jonathan Sallet Attorney specializing in technology, public policy, and politics, Glover Park Group; former assistant secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce; presidential campaign strategist | |
AnnaLee Saxenian Political scientist specializing in regional economic development and information technology; dean, School of Information Management and Systems and professor, city and regional planning, U.C. Berkeley; author, Regional Advantage and Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs | | Ed Schein Organizational psychologist and author; professor emeritus and senior lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management; author, Organizational Culture and Leadership | | Orville Schell Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, U.C. Berkeley; China scholar and journalist; author, Discos and Democracy, Mandate of Heaven, and Virtual Tibet | |
Lee Schipper International transport expert who took Shell Foundation's sustainable transport program to the World Resources Institute; jazz musician | | Michael Schrage Writer and consultant on digital innovation and collaboration; fellow, MIT Media Lab; author, Shared Minds and Serious Play | | Russell Schweickart Consultant, satellite technology and space development; Apollo 9 astronaut; cofounder, Association of Space Explorers and the B612 Foundation (addressing astereoids) | |
Clay Shirky Consultant and writer on the social, cultural, and economic effects of Internet technologies; adjunct professor, NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program; author, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations | | David Sibbet Organizational consultant and information designer; founder, The Grove Consultants, specializing in the design, development, and distribution of tools for collaboration | | Alexander Singer Film and television director ("Star Trek," "Hill Street Blues"); consultant on digital technology in entertainment and media | |
Gary Snyder (advisory) Poet and author, Turtle Island and Mountains and Rivers Without End; professor, U.C. Davis; homesteader; Buddhist ecologist | | Neal Soss Managing director, senior adviser, and chief economist, Credit Suisse First Boston; former vice president, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | | Robert Spinrad Information technology consultant; former vice president, technology strategy, Xerox; former director of Xerox PARC | |
Angela Stent (advisory) Foreign policy professor specializing in Russia and Eastern Europe, Georgetown University; author, Russia and Germany Reborn | | Karen Stephenson Anthropologist; president, NetForm, specializing in research and consulting on human/social networks, innovation, and organizational change; visiting professor of management, Erasmus University | | Bruce Sterling Science fiction writer, The Hacker Crackdown, Holy Fire, and Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years; popular science journalist; catalyst, the Viridian movement; design instructor | |
Nan Stone Historian; partner, Bridgespan, specializing in strategy for nonprofits; writer on management ideas and practices; former director, the Peter Drucker Institute; former editor, Harvard Business Review | | | | |
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Hirotaka Takeuchi Dean of the graduate school of international corporate strategy, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo; visiting professor, Harvard Business School; coauthor, The Knowledge Creating Company and Can Japan Compete? | | Hardin Tibbs Scenarist and pioneer in sustainability and industrial ecology and design; founder, Synthesys Strategic Conuslting, U.K.; former consultant, Global Business Network and Arthur D. Little | | Joseph Traub Pioneer in complexity research; professor of computer science, Columbia University and the Santa Fe Institute; author, Complexity and Information | |
Fons Trompenaars Cofounder, Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Group; consultant of cross-cultural management; coauthor, Building Cross-Cultural Competence and Twenty-One Leaders; author, Did the Pedestrian Die? Insights from the World's Greatest Culture Guru | | Sherry Turkle Computer sociologist, professor, and director, Initiative on Technology and Self, MIT; author, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet | | Laura Tyson Economist; dean, London Business School and former dean, Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley; former National Economic Adviser to President Clinton and chair, council of economic advisers; author, Who’s Bashing Whom?: Trade Conflict in High Technology Industries | |
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Kees van der Heijden Management professor, Strathclyde University, Glasgow; former head of scenario planning, Royal Dutch/Shell; author, Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation; coauthor, The Sixth Sense | | Herman van Gunsteren Political theorist, Leiden University; pianist; author, The Quest for Control, A Theory of Citizenship, and Stopping | | Vernor Vinge Science fiction writer, A Fire Upon the Deep; retired professor of mathematics and computer science, San Diego State University | |
Heinrich Vogel Specialist on Russian and Eastern European transformation; board member, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin; retired professor | | | | |
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Peter Warshall Biological anthropologist; consulting ecologist to the UN, African nations, and American Indian tribes; former editor, Whole Earth Review | | Carl Weinberg Principal, Weinberg Associates; specialist in renewable and distributed power systems and research and development; former manager, Pacific Gas & Electric | | Anders Wijkman Member, European Parliament, focusing on sustainable development; Ambassador, Swedish Foreign Ministry; former assistant director, Bureau for Policy and Program Support, United Nations Development Program; former director general, Swedish Red Cross | |
Lawrence Wilkinson Founder, Heminge & Condell, an investment and advisory firm; cofounder and vice chair, Oxygen Media; film and television producer; cofounder and former president, GBN | | Alain Wouters Viability entrepreneur, pioneering the use of integrated, human-centered, systemic approaches to enable viable enterprises and solutions; founder, Whole Systems, Belgium; coauthor, The Millennium Bug | | | |
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Daniel Yergin President, Cambridge Energy Research Associates; author, The Prize; coauthor, Russia 2010 | | | | |
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Michael Zielenziger Former Tokyo-based bureau chief for Knight Ridder; long-time Asia-Pacific foreign correspondent; Pulitzer Prize finalist; author, Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Lost Its Way | | Andrew Zolli Founder, Z+ Partners, a foresight, brand, and design lab; futurist, Popular Science magazine; curator, Pop!Tech conference; former chief marketing officer, Seigel & Gale brand strategists; editor, Catalog of Tomorrow | | John Zysman Professor, political economy, U.C. Berkeley; director, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) | |
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