Game industry legend Warren Spector, author of Epic Mickey, is this week's guest.
Columnist and law professor at the University of Ottawa, Dr. Michael Geist, who exposed the details of ACTA to the public, is this week's guest.
Inventor, self-taught chip designer, podcaster and pinball machine collector, Jeri Ellsworth, is this week's guest.
Computer pioneer who helped create the first spreadsheet, Bob Frankston, is this week's guest.
Building better broadband with Dane Jasper co-founder and CEO of Sonic.net, this week's guest.
Find out what the Old Spice guy does on vacation with Eric Kallman and Craig Allen of Wieden + Kennedy.
We talk to Stephen Wolfram, scientist, inventor, author, and business leader.
We talk to Bob Heil, pioneer of the live sound industry since 1966.
We talk to author, inventor, and futurist, Ray Kurzweil.
We talk to blogger, journalist, and science fiction author, Cory Doctorow.
Broadcast engineer, Internet guru and advocate for community broadband, Tim Požar, is this week's guest.
Founder and former CEO of MP3.com, Michael Robertson, is this week's guest.
Computer programmer and former phone phreak, John "Capn Crunch" Draper, is this week's guest.
"Father of the Spreadsheet," Dan Bricklin, is this week's guest.
Developer of the original IBM ROM BIOScode and inventor of the "three-finger salute," David Bradley, is this week's guest.
Editor-in-chief of Wired, author of The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, and Founder of DIYdrones.com, Chris Anderson, is this week's guest.
Principal researcher for Microsoft Research, author of Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution will Change Everything, and all around computer enthusiast, Gordon Bell, is this week's guest.
One of the founders of Wired Magazine and author of What Technology Wants, Kevin Kelly, is this week's guest.
Most known for reading monkey's "brain storms" and author of Beyond Boundaries, Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, is this week's guest.
Most known for his amazing photography and tips from the top floor, Chris Marquardt, is this week's guest.
Most known for his computer hacking, spending 5 years in prison for hacking, and his new book Ghost in the Wires, Kevin Mitnick, is this week's guest.
Most known for his productivity, and time management resources, and as the author of Getting Things Done, David Allen, is this week's guest.
Most known for his books about the implementation of technology, he has written many books including, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Don Tapscott, is this week's guest.
Most known for his political activism, writing lyrics for the Grateful Dead, his essays on the internet, and founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, John Perry Barlow, is this week's guest.
Known for marketing the Macintosh in 1984, venture capitalist, author of The Art of the Start, and his new book Enchantment, Guy Kawasaki, is this week's guest.
Gary Vaynerchuk talks about his roots, being authentic, buying the Jets, and some fermented grape juice.
Knownan as an American journalist, co-host on This Week in Google, author of What Would Google Do?, and his new book Public Parts, Jeff Jarvis, is this week's guest.
Known as the producer for The Social Network, 21, and the new TV series House of Cards Funded and distributed by NetFlix, Dana Brunetti, is this week's guest.
Known for co-founding There.com and IMVU, and his new book The Lean Startup, Eric Ries, is this week's guest.
Known as one of the earliest employees of Apple Inc, being employee number 12, and the host the "The Next Step", Daniel Kottke, is this week's guest.
Known as one of the earliest podcasters, author of science fiction and horror books, and he published the world's first podcast-only novel, Scott Sigler, is this week's guest.
Known as a programmer, and web blogger, and the inventor of the Podcast, Kevin Marks, is this week's guest.
Best known as the developer of the OPTIMOD, founder of Orban, the creator of products that are at work in radio and television stations around the world, Bob Orban is this week's guest.
Best known as a prominent blogger, and Vice President and Chief Evangelist of Expert Labs, Anil Dash is this week's guest.
Known as an entrepreneur, video blogger, and co-founder and the CEO of MakerBot Industries, Bre Pettis is this week's guest.
Leo and Tom talk to BoingBoing.net editors Mark Frauenfelder, and Rob Beschizza in this weeks Triangulation.
Leo and Tom talk to Clay Johnson creator of The Information Diet in this weeks Triangulation.
This Week in Google host Gina Trapani comes on the show to talk all about, open source programming, days at lifehacker, is code poetry or poetry code? And much more.
BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen talks about utorrent, childhood programming, P2P and more.
Steve Martin joins us to talk about The Habits of Very Organized People, twitter's influence, an artists viewpoint of piracy, comedy, bluegrass, and more.
Robert Llewellyn from Red Dwarf, talks about podcasting, Carpool, his new book News from Gardenia, details about Red Dwarf X, and more.
Scott E. Jordan co-founder and CEO of SCOTTEVEST Inc, talks about the TV show Shark Tank, SCOTTEVEST apparel, electronic clothing patients, and more.
Matthew Flannery co-founder of Kiva.org an organization that allows people to lend money via the Internet to microfinance institutions in developing countries around the world.
Leah Busque is the founder and chief product officer of TaskRabbit.com, an online marketplace where you can outsource small jobs and Tasks to others in your own community.
Caterina Fake creator of Flickr and new venture "Pinwheel" a way to find and leave notes around the world.
Jeff Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed stage investors in Web 2.0 startups.
Thor Muller is Co-founder of Get Satisfaction, a startup delivering "people-powered customer service for absolutely everything."
From NAB 2012 Leo talks to Byron Reese Chief Innovation Officer at Demand Media, and Gregory Panos writer of Virtual Reality Sourcebook.
Ze Frank is one of the first pioneering internet entertainers, starting with "How to Dance Properly", through "The Show", and his newest creation "A Show". Ze Frank is this weeks guest.
Bill Harris former CEO of PayPal and Intuit, and now the CEO of personalcapital.com, is this week's guest.
Loïc Le Meur is the founder of Seesmic a popular app that helps enterprise and individuals manage their internal and external social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Matt Cutts is the head of the webspam team at Google. That means that if you type your name into Google and get porn back, it's his fault. Also learn 3 or 5 things you never knew about the "face" of Google.
Alexander Ljung, founder of SoundCloud, talks to us about the "Flickr" of sound.
Rob Reid author and entrepreneur talks to us about the digital media industry, 8 billion dollar iPod, and his up comping book Year Zero.
Andrew Keen, author and entrepreneur, talks to us about the negative impact today's online revolution has on us.
Jeremy Howard is president and chief scientist of Kaggle, a start-up which has used predictive modeling competitions to solve problems for NASA, Wikipedia, Ford and much more.
Doc Searls longtime advocate for open-source software, talks to us about his new book The Intention Economy, and more.
High tech motorcycles blogging around the US, and exploring the frontier of the information revolution.
History of Atari, scrambls messages, video games past-present-future, and much more.
The Raspberry Pi is a $35 credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV, keyboard, and more.
Adafruit is best place online for learning electronics for all ages and skill levels.
One of the first web designers, and pioneer of web standard design structure and behavior.
Technologist, Democracy Advocate, Gamer, and Author of Tech-thriller novels Daemon, Freedom™, and Kill Decision.
CEO of Evernote talks to us about the program created to help the world remember everything, and get things done.
Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, watcher of the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold.
Author of Trust Me I'm Lying, media strategist, talks to us about the manipulation of mass media.
Mad's Maddest Writer and host of The Giz Wiz, talks about The Match Game, Mad Magazine, and much more.
Head of innovation at Nokia, tech entrepreneur, futurist, inventor, Norwegian, and more.
Former Screen Savers personality, talks to us about life after TechTV.
American singer-songwriter, known for his songs about geek culture and his use of the Internet to draw fans.
Comedian, author, and actor talks about his latest book, his role in Apple's "Get a Mac" ads, work on The Daily Show, and more.
Creator of Throwboy, a company that makes speciality throw pillows that cater to geek pop culture.
Lead Flight Director at JPL talks to us about his role with Mars Curiosity Rover and the future of space exploration.
Founder & CEO of Nuzzel, Friendster, HotLinks, talks about the Commodore PET, start ups, and more.
Former CEO at Sun, founder of Lighthouse Design, talks to us about his new project CareZone, and more.
Penny Arcade is a webcomic focused on video games and video game culture, written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike Krahulik.
We talk to Robert Stephens, founder of The Geek Squad, and former CTO of Best Buy.
Wil Harris, a British entrepreneur, who founded video network ChannelFlip, former editor in chief of bit-tech, and certified media addict.
Creator of Quartz Composer and ComicFlow, Pierre-Olivier Latour, whose current project is Everpix, is today's guest.
A engineer known for being awesome, CTO of Obama for America and Threadless.com, Harper Reed is today's guest.
Author of What the Plus!: Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions, Guy Kawasaki, the original tech evangelist, is our guest today.
Editor at large for Time magazine and founder of Technologizer, Harry McCracken is today's guest.
TWiT takes a look back at the years best interviews with some of the most interesting and influential people in technology.
Author of Predictably Irrational and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty, behavioral economist Dan Ariely is today's guest.
Creator of the Black Blood of the Earth and the Steins of Science, Phillip Broughton is today's guest.
One of the Co-founders of reddit.com, and author of Make Something People Love, Alexis Ohanian is our guest today.
Eric Kuhn created FoundersCard, a members-only community for leading entrepreneurs and innovators.
American singer-songwriter, guitarist and inventor, Roger McGuinn, founding member of the Byrds, is today's guest.
Science fiction writer and technology journalist, Jerry Pournelle, is today's guest.
CEO of CrowdTilt, entrepreneur James Beshara is today's guest.
Journalist, science fiction author and co-editor of Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow, is this week's guest.
Journalist and author of his new book "Top Dog", Po Bronson is today's guest.
Co-founder of Reddit and travel site Hipmunk.com, Steve Huffman is this week's guest.
Part 2 with science fiction writer and technology journalist, Jerry Pournelle.
Chicago Sun-Times writer, host of Macbreak Weekly, and all around good guy, Andy Ihnatko is this week's guest.
The founder of Boing Boing and editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools, Mark Frauenfelder is today's guest.
Computer engineer and Internet activist, digital librarian Brewster Kahle is today's guest.
American fantasy writer and college lecturer Patrick Rothfuss is today's guest.
The designer of Lotus 1-2-3, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the first chair of the Mozilla Foundation, Mitch Kapor is today's guest.
Darya Rose, PhD, is a scientist, creator of food and health site 'Summer Tomato,' and author of the new book 'Foodist.'
Comedian, actor, entrepreneur, and Guinness World Record holder for most downloaded podcast, Adam Carolla is today's guest.
Chief scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation, Gavin Andresen is today's guest.
Eric Drexler, engineer best known for popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology, is today's guest.
Media theorist, early commentator on cyberculture, and author of "Present Shock," Douglas Rushkoff is today's guest.
Howard Rheingold, writer, teacher, and critic specializing in modern communication media, is this week's guest.
Television personality, filmmaker, and poet philosopher, Jason Silva is today's guest.
President and Chief Engineer at Planetary Resources, Chris Lewicki is today's guest. Back the Planetary Resources Kickstarter for ARKYD, the first publicly accessible space telescope.
Dr. Kirsten Sanford is a science expert with a PhD in neurophysiology, specializes in avian learning, and hosts the radio show "This Week in Science".
Co-founder of the Arduino project, interaction designer, educator, and open source hardware advocate, Massimo Banzi is today's guest.
Amy Critchett of The Bay Lights and Mark Pauline of Survival Research Laboratories join us this week.
Tom Merritt and Sarah Lane interview Leo Laporte, the host of Triangulation and founder of the TWiT network.
Danny Thompson is a land speed racer with a Kickstarter campaign to resurrect his father's 1968 Challenger II Streamliner to break the piston driven land speed world record.
Stewart Cheifet, host and producer of Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe, is this week's guest.
Esther Dyson is an angel investor and philanthropist focused on healthcare, biotechnology, and space.
Philip Rosedale is an entrepreneur and creator of the 3D virtual world Second Life.
Mignon Fogarty is the creator of Grammar Girl and the founder and managing director of Quick and Dirty Tips.
Tim Jenison is the founder of NewTek and the subject of the new documentary, "Tim's Vermeer".
David M. Ewalt is journalist and author of Of Dice and Men, a book about Dungeons and Dragons.
Ariel Waldman is the founder of Spacehack.org, and the global instigator of Science Hack Day.
Mythbusters' Grant Imahara talks about his work on Star Wars, the Energizer Bunny, the Late Late Show, and more.
Bob Bergen, voice actor best known as the voice of Porky Pig, talks about his roles in video games, animated and live-action movies.
Samantha Cook is a founder of Hacker Scouts, a national non-profit organization where children can build skills in science, technology, engineering, art, and math.
Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson talk about castAR, an augmented reality system they created that displays holographic-like 3D projections.
Ladar Levison is the owner of Lavabit, an encrypted email service that suspended operations after it was ordered to turn over its SSL private key to the government.
Tom Standage is a digital editor at The Economist and author of the new book "Writing On The Wall: Social Media, The First 2,000 Years".
Robert Scoble and Shel Israel talk about their new book "Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy".
Seymour Rubinstein is a pioneer in the PC software industry who invented WordStar, QuattroPro, and the new search tool Webthresher.
Karl Auerbach is Chief Technology Officer at InterWorking Labs, in Scotts Valley, California, which creates network testing and emulation products. Auerbach has been involved in Internet design since the early 1970s. He is a member of the Intellectual Property section of the California State Bar; on the board of directors of the Open Voting Consortium; a co-founder of the Boston Working Group, a public policy organization devoted to democratic Internet governance; and a member of the volunteer Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which develops and promotes Internet standards such as TCP/IP. Auerbach has testified about Internet protocols and policies before Congress on several occasions. In 2001, Auerbach was the Caltech-Loyola Law School Program for Law & Technology Yuen Fellow, speaking on the importance of internet governance.
Adam Sessler is the executive producer of Revision3 Games and the former host of G4's gaming show X-Play.
Alexis Ohanian is the co-founder of Reddit, started Breadpig and Hipmunk, host of Small Empires, Y Combinator ambassador, and author of the book "Without Their Permission."
Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog, and recently published "Cool Tools: A Catalogue of Possibilities."
A collection of some of the best interview moments of 2013.
Peter Krogh is a commercial photographer, author of The DAM Book on Digital Asset Management, and creator of the 3-2-1 backup strategy.
Brad Stone is an American journalist and the author of the books, Gearheads and The Everything Store.
Larry Downes is an Internet industry analyst and co-author of "Big Bang Disruption."
"Hatching Twitter" is the latest book by Nick Bilton, a columnist and reporter for The New York Times.
Alex Lindsay is the founder of the Pixel Corps and co-host of Macbreak Weekly.
Brett Martin is a correspondent for GQ and author of "Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution, From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad."
Daniel Suarez is the author of the New York Times bestseller Daemon, Freedom (TM), Kill Decision, and Influx. He is joined by Jeff Gurner, who is an actor and narrator of Influx.
David-Michel Davies is the Executive Director of The Webby Awards and the Chairman Co-founder of Internet Week New York.
Caterina Fake is an entrepreneur, co-founder of Flickr and Hunch, and founder/CEO of Findery.
Marty Cooper is the inventor of the handheld cellular mobile phone.
Steve Gibson is a computer programmer, inventor of SpinRite and host of Security Now!
Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, renowned futurist, and bestselling author. His latest book is "The Future of the Mind."
Jeff Hawkins is the founder of Palm Computing and Handspring, and has since turned to work on neuroscience, founding Numenta to reinvigorate artificial intelligence development using cutting edge neurological research.
Steve Gibson is a computer programmer, inventor of SpinRite, and host of Security Now!
Vint Cerf is Google's Chief Internet Evangelist and Co-Inventor of the Internet. This is part 2 of a discussion which began in TWiT Live Specials #195.
Danah Boyd is a social media scholar, youth researcher, and author of "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens."
Pomplamoose is a musical duo which feature Californian multi-instrumentalists, real life couple Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn.
Rick Smolan is a photographer, creator of the 'Day in the Life' photography series, and CEO of Against All Odds Productions.
James Barrat is a documentary filmmaker and author of "Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era."
Jeff Pulver is a Voice over Internet Protocol pioneer, known for his work as founder and chief executive of pulver.com and co-founder of Free World Dialup, Vonage, and Zula.
Mark Miodownik is a British materials scientist and engineer, the Professor of Materials at University College London, and author of "Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World."
"Console Wars" chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the video game industry.
Charles Platt is a journalist, computer programmer, and author of "Make: Electronics," "The Encyclopedia of Electronic Components," and "The Silicon Man."
Peter Rojas is the co-founder of Gizmodo, Engadget, Joystiq, RCRD LBL, and GDGT.
Tonya Hall talks to Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne about the crypto currency revolution and Bitcoin, e-commerce, Warren Buffet, Wall Street, kitten videos, and more.
TechShop is a chain of member-based workshops that lets people of all skill levels come in and use industrial tools and equipment to build their own projects, with locations in California, Arizona, Virginia, Michigan, Texas, and Pennsylvania.
Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for over 25 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline. She has kept close tabs on Microsoft strategy, products and technologies for the past 10 years. She also is the author of "Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the post-Gates era," and is the co-host of "Windows Weekly."
Dennis "Thresh" Fong is an entrepreneur and retired pro gamer, known for co-founding Xfire and Raptr, and winning John Carmack's Ferrari 328 in a 1997 Quake tournament.
Kevin Rose is a Partner at Google Ventures and founded Digg, Revision3, and Milk. He also was a co-host on TechTV's "The Screen Savers."
Andy Weir is the author of "The Martian," a science fiction novel that follows astronaut Mark Watney as he becomes stranded alone on Mars.
Ted Nelson is a pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist. He is the founder of Project Xanadu and coined the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia."
Geoff Mark is a Visual Effects Supervisor and animator. Working in VFX since 1996 on many TV shows and feature films, including "Babylon 5," "Battlestar Galactica." "Serenity," "Spiderman 3," and "Sharknado."
Dr. Drew Pinsky is an American board-certified internist, addiction medicine specialist, and radio and television personality. He is best known for his work on the radio show Loveline, the TV show Celebrity Rehab, and the podcasts he cohosts with Adam Carolla.
Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and director of its Origins Project, as well as author of several bestselling books, including "The Physics of Star Trek" and "A Universe from Nothing."
Video game industry journalist/editor veteran Dan "Shoe" Hsu is the editor-in-chief of GamesBeat. Formerly, Shoe was the editor-in-chief of Electronic Gaming Monthly, editorial director of 1UP Network, and co-founder of Bitmob.
Robert Scoble shows Leo Laporte how to make Facebook's News Feed work better for you.
Entrepreneur and CEO of Evernote Phil Libin returns to Triangulation.
Luis Lopez and Steven Klein of Print the Legend talk to Leo about the making of the documentary Print the Legend.
Gareth Branwyn is a writer, editor, and media critic; covering technology, DIY media, and cyberculture for Wired, Esquire, the Baltimore Sun, and other publications.
Jason Snell is a tech writer and editor, and formerly Macworld's lead editor.
Bert Monroy is an artist, author, and instructor, best known for being a pioneer of digital art and his skill in using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
Damon Wayans, Sr. is an actor, stand-up comedian, writer, and producer; best known as co-creator and performer on the sketch comedy show "In Living Color." Lately he has been creating mobile apps Diddeo, FlickDAT, and soon to be released VHEDZ.
Gareth Cook is a Pulitzer Prize-winning magazine journalist, a contributor to NewYorker.com, and the series editor of "The Best American Infographics."
Nick Bostrom, PhD, is a philosopher at St. Cross College, University of Oxford, and is known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, the reversal test, and consequentialism. He's an author of over 200 publications, including Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, and Anthropic Bias.
Mars Rover Curiosity's chief engineer Rob Manning talks about his firsthand account of the trials and tribulations of engineering one of the most complex pieces of space technology and what future Mars missions might bring.
Oren Jacob is the co-founder and CEO of ToyTalk. Formerly, he spend more than 20 years at Pixar with feature film credits including "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2," "A Bug's Life," and Supervising Technical Director for "Finding Nemo."
Benjamin Heckendorn, better known as "Ben Heck," is an Internet celebrity and console modder. His creations have been featured in such publications as Wired and Popular Science, and on television shows such as The Screen Savers and X-Play.
A collection of some of the best interview moments of 2014.
Ian Urbina talks about what passwords mean to people beyond their access to email or social networking accounts.
Andrew Keen talks about his new book "The Internet Is Not the Answer," in which he argues that the networked revolution has been an enormous failure so far and is not what the operating system of the 21st century should be.
David Pogue is a technology writer, author, and founder of Yahoo Tech. Previously he was the personal-technology columnist for the New York Times. His latest book is "Pogue's Basics: Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You) for Simplifying the Technology in Your Life."
Ronald G. Wayne is best known as one of the co-founders of the Apple Computer Company, along with the principal movers of that enterprise, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
Doc Searls and David Weinberger are authors of "The Cluetrain Manifesto," which aims to examine the impact of the Internet on both consumers and organizations, and have updated the manifesto with "New Clues."
Danae Ringelmann is the co-founder of the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo.
Ryan Hoover is the Founder of Product Hunt, which is an online community that surfaces the best new products, every day.
Gregor Freund is the CEO of Versal, an open publishing platform for anyone to create interactive online courses. Previously, he was Co-Founder and CEO of Zone Labs and is credited with inventing the personal firewall.
Becky Worley spent 6 years as a host on ZDTV and TechTV, and is currently the technology contributor for Good Morning America on ABC.
Nir Eyal is an educator, entrepreneur, and author; and frequently writes about how technology shapes user behavior by creating new habits. His latest book is "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products."
Marc Goodman is a global strategist, author and consultant focused on the disruptive impact of advancing technologies on security, business and international affairs. His latest book is "Future Crimes"
Bill Harris is CEO of Personal Capital and former CEO of Intuit and PayPal.
Ben Rubin is the founder of Meerkat, an app that allows you to stream live video from your phone to all of your Twitter followers.
Peter Diamandis is an engineer and entrepreneur best known for being the founder and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, the co-founder and chairman of Singularity University, and the co-author of the New York Times bestseller "Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think." His latest book is "BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World."
Emmanuel Schanzer talks about Bootstrap, which is a curricular module for students ages 12-16 which teaches algebraic and geometric concepts through computer programming.
Robin Hauser Reynolds talks about "CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap," a documentary which exposes the dearth of American female and minority software engineers and explores the reasons for this gender gap.
Luria Petrucci, also known as Cali Lewis, is an Internet personality best known for her podcasts GeekBeat.TV and GeekBrief.TV. Her latest project is Geeks Life, a lifestyle channel that embraces the inner geek.
Neil Young talks about Pono, a music download-service and dedicated music player focusing on high resolution audio, and more.
Jim Louderback has had numerous jobs in media companies involved in technology, most notably with TechTV, editor-in-chief of PC Magazine, and former CEO of Revision3.
Peter Friedman is a social media pioneer and CEO of LiveWorld, a social content marketing company.
Stewart Lew is the Bay Area Chairman of the Visual Effects Society and has extensive production experience in feature films, commercials, and interactive next-gen games development.
Ashlee Vance is the author of 'Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future,' which provides the first inside look into the extraordinary life and times of Silicon Valley's most audacious entrepreneur, and he is the feature writer for Businessweek.
Dr. Justin Sanchez joined DARPA as a program manager in 2013 to explore neurotechnology, brain science and systems neurobiology.
Jacquie McNish is the co-author of "Losing The Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry."
Ted Cohen is a digital entertainment industry executive; having worked in senior management positions at EMI Music, Warner Bros. Records, and Philips Media. He is currently the Managing Partner of TAG Strategic.
Grammy winning mix engineer Dave Pensado and veteran manager/executive producer Herb Trawick are the host and co-host of Pensado’s Place; a weekly talk show covering the audio and music spectrum, its craftsman and the business of.
Robert Stone is a documentary filmmaker. One of his most recent works is 'Pandora's Promise,' which makes the environmental case for nuclear energy. He recently co-founded the non-profit clean energy advocacy group Energy for Humanity based in London, and is a co-author of the Ecomodernist Manifesto.
Justine Ezarik, best known as iJustine, is an Internet celebrity and actress. Once one of the Internet’s first and most popular lifecasters, she's since cultivated a massive audience on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media.
Lance Ulanoff is a former Editor-in-Chief of PCMag.com, PC Magazine, and Mashable and SVP of Content for PCMag Digital Network, and is now Chief Correspondent and Editor-at-Large at Mashable.
Mark Johnson is the CEO and co-founder at Descartes Labs. He has a track record of translating complex technologies into usable and successful products. Recently he was the CEO of Zite which he sold twice. First time was to CNN and the second time was to Flipboard. Mark was also a product manager who trained at SAP followed by a string of successful search startups.
Jono Bacon is a community manager, writer, musician and Software Engineer, originally from the United Kingdom, but now based in California. Bacon is a speaker on community management, works as the XPrize Community Manager, authored The Art of Community by O'Reilly and is the founder and organizer of the annual Community Leadership Summit.
David Glickman co-founded Music Doctors, a vinyl-based DJ business that predates the current DJ movement by decades. He has started many different ventures, from a Mac consulting business, to a not so successful exchange for transferable airline tickets, to a wonderful iPad app to help people get Unstuck in life, and perhaps most rewarding and humbling: a non-profit (www.chalk.org) that employs and empowers young people in San Francisco.
Megan Prelinger is a cultural historian and archivist. She's the co-founder of Prelinger Library in San Francisco and the author of Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age and Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race. Inside the Machine is a visual history of the electronic age that captures the collision of technology and art. It is a rich historical account of electronic technology in the twentieth century.
Nigel Cameron is the author of Will Robots Take Your Job?
Steven Hoffman is the author of Make Elephants Fly: The Process of Radical Innovation. He talks with Father Robert Ballecer about his advice for startup founders, angels, and startup investors.
David Hewlett is an actor who has appeared in Sci-Fi favorites such as The Shape of Water, Cube, and the Stargate TV shows. He talks with Padre about acting, making, and geeking out.
Megan Morrone talks to Dr. Michael Rich, Founder and Director of the Center on Media and Child Health (CMCH) working on longitudinal studies of how kids you media. Dr. Rich is also Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health, and practices Adolescent Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Rich talks about the benefits of having a television, the right age to start watching YouTube, and how to talk to your kids about online pornography. Plus, how kids (and adults) can master technology before it masters us.
