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Ray
Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil has been
described as “the restless genius” by the Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by
Forbes. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the
“rightful heir to Thomas Edison,” and PBS included Ray as one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America,”
along with other inventors of the past two centuries.
As one of the leading inventors of our time, Ray was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed
scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for
the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the
grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech
recognition. Ray’s web site Kurzweil AI.net has over one million readers.
Among Ray’s many honors, he is the recipient of the $500,000 MIT-Lemelson Prize, the world's largest for
innovation. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor in technology,
from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. And in 2002, he was inducted into the National Inventor's
Hall of Fame, established by the US Patent Office.
Ray has written five books, four of which have been national best sellers. The Age of Spiritual Machines
has been translated into 9 languages and was the #1 best selling book on Amazon in science. Ray’s latest
book, The Singularity is Near, was a New York Times best seller, and has been the #1 book on Amazon in both
science and philosophy. For information on Ray's recent books and media appearances,
see http://www.kurzweilai.net/pressroom.
Peter de Jager
Peter de Jager is a speaker/writer/consultant on the issues relating to the rational
assimilation of the future. He has published hundreds of articles on topics ranging from
problem solving, creativity, and change to the impact of technology on areas such as
privacy, security and business. His articles have appeared in The Washington Post,
The Wall Street Journal, The Futurist, and Scientific American.
His monthly schedule is hectic. In addition to presentations and seminars on the topics
above, he writes about a dozen regular columns, including work for Computer World
Canada, Globe & Mail Online, The ABA Banker's Journal,
Municipal World, Galt Global Review Career,
HR Gateway Human Resource Issues, and The Voyageur. In total,
slightly more than 1,000,000 readers have an opportunity to share Peter's thoughts each
month.
Having spoken in more than 34 countries, he is recognized worldwide as an exciting and
engaging speaker. His presentations use humor to challenge the myths surrounding our
understanding of the change process and the benefits of technology. His single minded
objective, despite the global nature of some of the
issues, is always to provide actionable solutions and new avenues of approach to
seemingly intractable problems.
His presentations and workshops are highly interactive, fun, irreverent to mistaken ideas
and most distinctively -- provocative. His work forces you to think differently about
things you thought you were already sure you knew.
Bijoy Goswami
Bijoy Goswami is deeply interested in how we create extraordinary, meaningful and joyful
lives. He sees our unique human capability of building mental models as a vital part of
this endeavor. He loves building and sharing simple, yet powerful models, including MRE,
youPlusU and Bootstrap.
His life has been an inadvertent study of contrasting spiritual, cultural and intellectual
models. He was born in Bangalore, India on April 15, 1973, to a Catholic mother and a
Hindu father. He moved to Taiwan at the age of ten and Hong Kong at fourteen. He came to
the US in 1991, attending Stanford, where he studied Computer Science, Economics, History
and completed an Honors program in Science, Technology and Society. He spent a term at
Oxford. In 1995 he moved to Austin, TX, to join a software startup and cofounded Aviri
software in April 2000. In 2003, he began in earnest, his work as a model-builder,
bootstrapper and evangelist.
Bijoy expresses and communicates his models through books, music, film, community, and
websites. The process also deepens his understanding of the models and how to effectively
convey them. Collaboration is at the heart of this process and he has been very lucky in
finding extraordinary partners. Their expertise combines with the model, and through
multiple iterations, a unique creation results. Some of these include Bootstrap Austin,
The Human Fabric and Mystic Cab.
Learn more at www.bijoygoswami.com.
Doug Hall
Professional inventor, corporate rebel & small business advocate, Doug began his inventing
career at age 12, inventing and selling a line of magic and juggling kits. After earning a
chemical engineering degree from the University of Maine he joined Procter & Gamble where
he rose to the rank of Master Marketing Inventor - inventing and shipping a record 9
innovations in 12 months using a disciplined system for thinking smarter & more creatively
about growth.
Doug's the founder and CEO of the Eureka! Ranch located in Cincinnati
with offices in London, UK and Monterrey, Mexico. The Ranch is
an “invention & research think tank” that specializes in helping
corporate leaders and real world entrepreneurs develop Measurably
Smarter choices for growth. Corporate clients such as American
Express, Ford, Nike and Walt Disney. It seems to work – the Ranch
has a world-class 88% client repeat rate and survey’s indicate
the average American home uses 18 products or services that Doug
and his team have invented or reinvented.
An eccentric, entrepreneurial genius, Dateline NBC described him as “an eccentric
entrepreneur who just might have what we’ve all been looking for…the happy secret to
success.” Doug’s signature dress includes bold shirts, blue jeans and bare feet. But
under the carefree clothes and playful attitude is a life member of MENSA and the world’s
leading expert on how to MEASURABLY increase your odds of success with ideas, innovations
and inventions. He’s a one-of-a-kind straight shooter who helps people reach beyond their
comfort zones to achieve more than they dreamed possible.
A zealot for real American dreamers, CBC-TV called Doug a “Business Robinhood – he takes
the wisdom of the big companies and gives it to the little ones.” Doug donates millions of
dollars of his time, talent and money to help entrepreneurs turn their dreams into reality.
He’s one of the country’s top speakers on innovation and is the author of four books on
creativity and courage. His book Jump Start Your Business Brain was a #1 national best
seller and named to the prestigious Independent Bookseller’s Book Sense 76® list of
America’s greatest books. He’s also a columnist for Business Week SmallBiz, hosts the Jump
Start Your Brain daily advice feature on 400+ radio stations and co-hosts Brain Brew
Radio, distributed by PRI, where he helps “American Dreamers & Doers win more, lose less
and make more money.”
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