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(2020) ERIC SCHMIDT —Former Chairman & CEO, Google & Alphabet

(2021) FEI-FEI LI —Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University Co-Director, Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute

(2021) JON PLATT —Chairman & CEO, Sony Music Publishing

(2021) KAI-FU LEE —CEO, Sinovation Ventures

(2020) GOLDIE HAWN —Academy Award-Winning Actress & Children’s Advocate

(2021) STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL —Four-star General (U.S. Army, Ret.)

(2020) MAMPHELA RAMPHELE —South African activist, physician, & political leader
(2022) DAN PINK —#1 New York Times Bestselling Author
(2022) ALEX BORNYAKOV —Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

(2021) BRITTANY KAISER —Data Rights Activist & Founder of #OwnYourData Campaign
(2022) TERRY CREWS —Actor, Television Host, & Author
(2022) REID HOFFMAN —Co-Founder of LinkedIn, Co-Founder of Inflection AI, & Partner at Greylock

(2021) AVI LOEB —Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University

(2020) MICHAEL OSTERHOLM —Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota

(2021) ANIMA ANANDKUMAR —Director of ML Research, NVIDIA
(2022) ALEXANDER VINDMAN —Lieutenant Colonel (U.S. Army, Ret.)

(2021) ANDREW YANG —Former 2020 Presidential Candidate & Founder of the Forward Party
(2022) MARK PINCUS —Chairman and Founder of Zynga, Co-founder of Reinvent Capital

(2021) NORMAN AUGUSTINE —Chairman & CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation (Ret.)
(2022) SHERRILYN IFILL —President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF)

(2021) DANNY MEYER —Founder & CEO, Union Square Hospitality Group

(2020) VLADIMIR POZNER —Award-winning Journalist & Television Presenter

(2021) DAWN SONG —Professor of Computer Science, University of California, UC Berkeley

(2020) RENEE CUMMINGS —Criminologist, Criminal Psychologist, AI Ethicist & Data Activist

(2020) KARIM LAKHANI —Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

(2020) ALAIN DEHAZE —CEO, The Adecco Group

(2021) JOY BEHAR —Co-Host, ABC News' "The View"

(2021) ALFRED AHO —Lawrence Gussman Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Columbia University

(2020) GEOFFREY CANADA —American activist, educator, & community leader

(2021) KAREN HAO —Senior AI editor, MIT Technology Review

(2020) HOWARD MORGAN —Chairman, B Capital Group

(2021) JOHN HAMBURG —Screenwriter, Film Director & Producer

(2020) XAVIER ROLET —Former CEO, the London Stock Exchange

(2020) NOURIEL ROUBINI —Chief Economist, Atlas Capital Group

(2021) JENNIFER AAKER —General Atlantic Professor & Coulter Family Fellow, Stanford Graduate School of Business

(2021) BRIAN GREENE —Physicist & Co-founder, World Science Festival

(2021) NEIL BLUMENTHAL —Co-founder & co-CEO, Warby Parker

(2021) JESSE DRAPER —General Partner, Halogen Ventures

(2021) BOB METCALFE —Professor of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise, The University of Texas at Austin

(2020) ALAN MURRAY —CEO, Editor, FORTUNE Media

(2020) DEANNA MULLIGAN —Board Chair & Former CEO, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America

(2021) ERIC ROZA —CEO, CrossFit

(2020) OSCAR MUNOZ —Chairman & CEO, United Airlines (Ret.)

(2020) DAN ROSENSWEIG —CEO, Chegg Inc.

(2022) JULIETTE KAYYEM —Professor, Harvard Kennedy School, Former Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security under the Obama Administration

(2020) GREG MORRISETT —Dean and Vice Provost, Cornell Tech

(2021) DICK COSTOLO —Managing Partner & co-Founder, 01 Advisors, former CEO, Twitter

(2021) JOSEPH FULLER —Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School, & Co-Chair, Managing the Future of Work Project

(2021) ELIZABETH NEUMANN —Former assistant secretary of counterterrorism and threat prevention at the Department of Homeland Security.

(2021) TIM DRAPER —Founding Partner, Draper Associates

(2021) CYNTHIA RUDIN —2022 Squirrel AI Award Winner, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Duke University

(2020) GREG SILVERMAN —Film Producer, Founder & CEO, Stampede Ventures

(2020) JACK HIDARY —Entrepreneur, Quantum & AI Researcher

(2021) MELANIE MITCHELL —Davis Professor of Complexity, Santa Fe Institute

(2021) DAVID MINDELL —Co-Chair of MIT's Work of the Future Task Force

(2021) BRIAN CHRISTIAN —Bestselling Author

(2021) NAOMI BAGDONAS —Lecturer in Management, Stanford University Graduate School of Business

(2021) ALEC ROSS —Distinguished Visiting Professor, Bologna Business School of l’Universitá di Bologna

(2020) MATTHEW DELLAVEDOVA —Professional Athlete

(2021) DANIEL SCHRAG —Professor of Environmental Science & Engineering, Harvard University

(2020) RANDI ZUCKERBERG —Founder & CEO, Zuckerberg Media

(2020) HANS SWILDENS —CEO & Founder, Industry Ventures LLC

(2021) BILLY DRAPER —Founder & General Partner, Path Ventures

(2021) GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON —Bestselling Author, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

(2021) KEVIN ROOSE —Technology reporter, The New York Times

(2021) JON JACHIMOWICZ —Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior Unit, Harvard Business School

(2020) ASHISH JHA —Dean, Brown University School of Public Health

(2021) NICOLAS CHAILLAN —Entrepreneur, former Air Force & Space Force CSO
(2022) PARAG KHANNA —Managing Partner at FutureMap, and Strategic Advisor to Governments

(2020) SIR MARTIN SORRELL —Executive Chairman, S4 Capital

(2021) NOREENA HERTZ —British Economist

(2021) LEONARD KLEINROCK —Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, UCLA

(2020) OREN ETZIONI —CEO, Allen Institute for AI

(2020) MARK ESPOSITO —Swiss Economist & Academic

(2021) SUNEEL GUPTA —Entrepreneur & Author

(2021) SYDNEY FINKELSTEIN —Professor of Management, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College

(2021) SAFI BAHCALL —Physicist & Bioscience Entrepreneur

(2021) THOMAS MALONE —Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, Founding Director, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

(2021) ADAM DRAPER —Founder and Managing Director, BoostVC

(2020) MARK ROBERGE —Managing Director, Stage 2 Capital

(2020) SINAN ARAL —Professor of Management, MIT, Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE)

(2021) SAM LICCARDO —Mayor of San Jose, CA

(2020) SCOTT BUDNICK —Film Producer, CEO, One Community

(2020) SCOTT O'NEILL —Co-founder, Elevate Sports Ventures, former CEO, Philadelphia 76ers

(2021) RACHEL BLUMENTHAL —Founder & CEO, Rockets of Awesome

(2020) DAVID LOCKE —NBA Play by Play Announcer, Utah Jazz

(2020) ROB WIESENTHAL —Founder & CEO, BLADE Urban Air Mobility, Inc.

(2022) GREGG RENFREW —Founder & Executive Chair, Beautycounter
(2022) JEFF HAWKINS —Neuroscientist & Co-Founder of Numenta, Palm Computing & Handspring Inc.
(2022) KEVIN WERBACH — Professor & Chair, Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
(2022) GLENN HUBBARD —Director, Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business, Dean Emeritus, and Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School
(2022) MATT MULLENWEG —CEO of Automattic and co-founder of WordPress
(2022) JONAH BERGER —Viral Marketing Expert, Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, & Bestselling Author
(2022) ALEX MASHINSKY —Founder and CEO, Celsius Network & Inventor of VolP
(2022) BEN ARMSTRONG —YouTuber, Investor & Founder of BitBoy Crypto
(2022) WILLIAM TAYLOR —Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
(2022) SHEILA HEEN —Deputy director of the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School
(2022) JAMES BACH —Computer Software Testing Expert & Author
(2022) NIR BARZILAI —Director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
(2022) HEATHER DURGIN —Chief Of Staff at DoD Joint Artificial Intelligence Center
(2022) LIZ FOSSLIEN — Author & Illustrator
(2022) MOLLIE WEST DUFFY — Author

(2022) ROBIN HANSON —Professor of Economics, George Mason University, & researcher at The Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University
(2022) DAVID MARQUET —U.S. Navy Captain (ret.), Leadership Expert & Author
(2022) ROGER MARTIN —Strategy Advisor, Author, & Professor Emeritus at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management
(2022) NOURIEL ROUBINI —CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, Chief Economist for Atlas Capital Team L.P., & Professor Emeritus Stern School of Business, New York University
(2022) GORDON WILSON —CEO & Co-Founder of Rain
(2022) STEPHEN ROACH —American Economist, Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, & Senior Lecturer at Yale School of Management
(2022) CHRIS HYAMS —CEO of Indeed.com
(2022) HOAN TON-THAT —CEO & Co-Founder of Clearview AI

(2022) PEGGY JOHNSON —CEO of Magic Leap
(2022) GARY SHILLING —American Economist, President of A. Gary Shilling & Co., and Bloomberg Opinion columnist

(2023) YANN LECUN —VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta and Silver Professor at NYU

(2023) KIM SCOTT —Author of The New York Times bestsellers “Radical Candor” and “Just Work”

(2023) EDWARD HALLOWELL —Founder of The Hallowell ADHD Centers, board-certified child and adult psychiatrist, and world authority on ADHD

(2023) YOSHUA BENGIO —Full Professor at Université de Montréal and Founder & Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute

(2023) JOHN CHAMBERS —Founder & CEO of JC2 Ventures, former CEO & Chairman at Cisco Systems

(2023) NICHOLAS THOMPSON —CEO of The Atlantic

(2023) AVI BAR-ZEEV —Metaverse builder and theorist, XR pioneer, & co-founder of Keyhole (Google Earth)

(2023) LISA LOEB —GRAMMY™ Award-winning American singer-songwriter, SiriusXM radio host, actor, & entrepreneur

(2023) EMAD MOSTAQUE —Founder and CEO of Stability AI

(2023) PHILIP ROSEDALE —Founder of Linden Lab (Second Life parent company) & Co-founder of High Fidelity

(2023) GUY KAWASAKI —Chief Evangelist at Canva, former Chief Evangelist at Apple, Author, and Creator of the Remarkable People Podcast

(2023) ROBERT WALDINGER —Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development at Massachusetts General Hospital, and co-founder of the Lifespan Research Foundation

(2023) JEREMY HOWARD —Jeremy Howard, Founding Researcher at fast.ai and Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland

(2023) WILLIAM TAYLOR —Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine

(2023) CASSIE KOZYRKOV —Chief Decision Scientist at Google

(2023) BRUCE SCHNEIER —Security Technologist, a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School

(2023) JOSEPH FULLER —Professor of Management Practice and co-head of Managing the Future of Work Project at Harvard Business School

(2023) JOHN SULLIVAN —Former U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation and a former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State

(2023) AISHWARYA SRINIVASAN —Data Scientist at Google Cloud AI & Founder of Illuminate AI

(2023) AVI LOEB —Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University

(2023) SCOTT AARONSON —Schlumberger Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin (currently on leave to work at OpenAI on theoretical foundations of AI safety)

(2023) GEOFFREY MOORE —Author, Speaker, Advisor, & Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners

(2023) ANDREW MCAFEE —Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-founder and co-director of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, the inaugural Visiting Fellow at the Technology and Society organization at Google, and an author

(2023) PAUL LANDIS —Former Secret Service agent in President Kennedy's Dallas motorcade on November 22, 1963

(2023) DR. JILL BOLTE TAYLOR —Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist

(2023) HOMAIRA AKBARI —Author, Founder, President, and CEO of AKnowledge Partners LLC

(2023) YOSSI VARDI —Israeli Entrepreneur & Investor

(2024) SETH GODIN —Author, Teacher, and Former Dot Com Business Executive

(2024) ROBERT SEAMANS —Professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Director of the NYU Stern Center for the Future of Management, and a nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings

(2024) ANDREW HOPKINS —Founder and Chief Executive of Exscientia plc

(2024) MICHAEL GEER —Co-Founder of Humanity

(2024) SOLEDAD O'BRIEN —Award-winning Documentarian, Journalist, Speaker, Author, Philanthropist, and Founder of Soledad O’Brien Productions

(2024) SUSANNA HESCHEL —Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor and chair of the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth College

(2024) TAREK EL-ARISS —James Wright Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College

(2024) HARVEY MASON JR. —CEO of the Recording Academy® as well as a songwriter, music and movie producer, and founder of Harvey Mason Media

(2024) PAOLO BENANTI —Professor of Ethics of Technology at Pontifical Gregorian University

(2024) VAN JONES —U.S. media personality, entrepreneur, world-class change maker

(2024) GUY KAWASAKI —Chief evangelist of Canva, trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation, and executive fellow at the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley

(2024) BILL AULET —Author, Professor, and Managing Director of MIT Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship

(2024) JEROME PESENTI —Founder of Sizzle AI and Former VP of AI at Meta/Facebook

(2024) RESA LEWISS —Professor of emergency medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, TEDMED speaker, and TimesUp Healthcare founder

(2024) MEREDITH PERRY —Co-Founder and CEO of Elemind, Director on the Board of the J. Craig Venter Institute, and the inventor of uBeam

(2024) DAVID WANG —Co-Founder and CTO of Elemind & former Co-Founder and CTO of the NuVu Innovation School

(2024) ASH FONTANA —author of The AI-First Company and managing partner at Zetta

(2024) PINAR DEMIRDAG —co-founder of Cuebric

(2024) DMITRI ALPEROVITCH —Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, author of "World on the Brink," and former CTO of CrowdStrike

(2024) POPPY CRUM —Neuroscientist & Technologist

(2024) ESTHER DYSON —Founder of Wellville, Health advocate, Journalist, Author, Investor, and Cosmonaut

(2024) JEREMY KAHN —Award-winning journalist for Fortune magazine and author of "Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future”

(2024) KELLY HASTON —NASA Astronaut and Commander of the CHAPEA Mars Mission

(2024) ARNO MICHAELIS —Violence Prevention Expert, Former White Supremacist, Filmmaker and Advocate for Tolerance

(2024) JESSICA ROSENWORCEL —Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

(2024) MICHAEL USLAN —Originator and Executive Producer of the BATMAN movie franchise, Emmy award winner, educator and author

(2024) ORLANDO BRAVO —Founder and Managing Partner of Thoma Bravo

(2024) GILLIAN HADFIELD —Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Professor of Government and Policy and Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, economist, legal scholar and a computational social scientist

(2024) ENRIQUE JIMÉNEZ —Chair in Ancient Near Eastern Literatures at LMU, co-founder and co-director of the “Cuneiform Commentaries Project," founder and PI of the “Electronic Babylonian Literature” project, and the winner of a 2017 Sofja Kovalevskaja Award

(2024) KAI-FU LEE —One of the world's most foremost AI researchers, investors, and visionaries

(2024) SAFRA CATZ —CEO of Oracle

(2024) ROBERT KAGAN —Bestselling Author and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution

(2024) DAVID SIMAS —Former White House Political Director and Managing Director of Research and Impact at Emerson Collective

(2024) PETER COLEMAN —Chief Scientist at Rapport and Professor at Columbia University

(2024) KIM SEYMOUR —Former CHRO of Etsy and Weightwatchers

(2024) DAN SLEPIAN —Pulitzer Prize finalist, multi-award-winning “Dateline” producer, and leading authority on criminal justice reform

(2024) CRAIG DUBITSKY —Founder and CEO of happy® coffee, Innovator in Purposeful Product Design and Consumer Brand Development

(2024) HOD LIPSON —Professor of Engineering and Data Science at Columbia University in New York, Author, and award-winning researcher
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(2025) STEPHEN MESSER —Co-founder of Collective[i]

(2025) CONOR GRENNAN —Chief AI Architect at NYU Stern School of Business and CEO and Founder of AI Mindset

(2025) JOHN MILLS —Foudner and CEO of Watch Duty

(2025) GIL LURIA —Managing Director at D.A. Davidson and a frequent commentator on CNN, CNBC, and Bloomberg

(2025) RICHARD LIEU —physics and astronomy professor at University of Alabama in Huntsville

(2025) ANIL SETH —Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science, and Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness

(2025) DANNY WARSHAY —founding Executive Director of the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and Professor of the Practice at Brown University

(2025) ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON —Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), and Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab