Speaker Spotlight

Speaker Spotlight highlights unique and inspiring keynote speakers who are making a difference in the world around them. These men and women are thought leaders, educators, activists, entertainers, and politicians. Together, they form an interesting collection of informative presenters and motivational speakers. They touch on a wide variety of topics, including technological developments, minority representation, the social media revolution, health issues, social justice, and more.

Scott Harrison, Founder & CEO of Charity: Water | Dynamic Dialogues

Scott Harrison is the Founder and CEO of charity: water, a non-profit that works to bring safe and clean drinking water to people in...
sanitation reformer

Molly Winter: The Taboo Secret to Better Health

Molly Winter is a designer, researcher, and illustrator focusing primarily on wastewater treatment and sanitation innovation. She is the director of Recode, a nonprofit that...
fitness innovator

Greg Glassman: How a Health Nut Created the World’s Biggest Fitness Trend

Fitness is one of the fastest growing trends around right now. From clean eating branded Instagram pages to "athleisure" based clothing lines, people keep finding...
education reformer

Seema Bansal on Education

A look at BCG's Seema Bansal and her TED Talk "How to fix a broken education system without any money" Public school systems are supposed...
technology speakers

Speaker Spotlight: Andrew Kortina & Iqram Magdon-Ismail

Meet technology speakers Andrew Kortina and Iqram Magdon-Ismail, Venmo cofounders:       Andrew Kortina and Iqram Magdon-Ismail are the cofounders of Venmo, a mobile payments company that allows users to send...

Tom Hulme: What can we learn from shortcuts?

A look at Google Venture's Tom Hulme and his TED Talk "What can we learn from shortcuts?"       Shortcuts have become an essential part of our...

Adam Foss TED Talk: A Reformed Justice System

Adam Foss is a former Assistant District Attorney (ADA) in the Juvenile Division of the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office in Boston, MA. Currently,...

Speaker Spotlight: Marcia Clark

Marcia Clark is an American prosecutor, author, and television correspondent. She is best known as the head prosecutor in the O. J. Simpson murder case. Resigning after...

Tobias Frere-Jones: Breaking Things Deliberately

Tobias Frere-Jones is one of the world's leading typeface designers. He has created some of the most widely-used typefaces, including Interstate, Poynter Oldstyle, Whitney,...

Joshua Cohen on the Writing Process

Joshua Cohen is the author of Book of Numbers, a critically acclaimed novel called “The Great American Internet Novel," Witz, named a Best Book of 2010 by...