Berkeley

Confirmed Speakers

• Carl Bass
  Carl Bass is president and chief executive officer of Autodesk, Inc.
• Charles Holt
  Charles has entertained and enlightened sold-out audiences on some of the country’s most prestigious college and university campuses and top national venues, including The John F. Kennedy Center.
• Connie Duckworth
  Connie Duckworth founded ARZU, Inc., a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, in 2004 and serves pro bono as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
• David Ewing Duncan
  David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning, best-selling author of seven books published in 19 languages; he is a journalist and a television, radio and film producer and correspondent.
• DeCadence
  UC Berkeley’s DeCadence (pronounced dee-KAY-dence, with a capital ‘C’), is best known around the Bay Area for their one-of-a-kind quirkiness and lovable eccentricity.
• Gopi Kallayil
  Gopi Kallayil works at Google on the marketing of Google Plus and is based out of the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA.
• Jodi Lomask
  Jodi Lomask has been commissioned to create original works for NASA, TED, SFO, Computers and Structures, the California Academy of Sciences, and the Salvadorian Olympic Gymnastics Team.
• Ken Goldberg
  Ken Goldberg is an inventor working at the intersection of art, robotics, and social media. At UC Berkeley, Ken teaches and supervises research in Robotics, Automation, and New Media.
• Lindsey Stirling
  Lindsey Stirling has been playing the violin for 19 years with a range that extends from classical and to rock and roll.
• Maria Fadiman
  Dr. Maria Fadiman works with the human/environmental aspect of conservation.
• Neha Sangwan
  CEO and founder of Intuitive Intelligence, is an Internal Medicine physician and corporate communication strategist empowering healthcare practitioners, organizational leaders and corporate employees in their own self-care.
• Nipun Mehta
  Nipun Mehta is the founder of ServiceSpace (formerly Charity Focus), an incubator of projects that works at the intersection of volunteerism, technology and gift-economy.
• Robert Strong
  Robert Strong, The Comedy Magician has been crisscrossing the world since 1985 entertaining audiences large and small, young and old, formal and casual, and everything in between!
• Tapan Parikh
  Tapan Parikh is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley.
• Tiffany Shlain
  Honored by Newsweek as one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century,” Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards, and cofounder of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.