PAST MAIN SPEAKERS
*Position at the time of participation
2005
Al Gore
Former Vice President of the United States
2007
Eric Schmidt
Chairman & CEO, Google
2007
Anne Sweeney
Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks; President, Disney-ABC Television Group
2008
Bill Gates
Chairman, Microsoft
2010
James Cameron
Director, Avatar / Chairman & CEO, Lightstorm Entertainment
2011
Larry King
Former Host, Larry King Live
2011
Gloria Steinem
Feminist Writer and Organizer
2012
Werner Vogels
Chief Technology Officer & Vice President, Amazon.com
2013
Alain de Botton
Philosopher & Writer, <Essays in Love, Architecture of Happiness> / Founder, The School of Life & Living Architecture
2013
Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor, World Wide Web / Director, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
2014
Kil-Nam Chon
Professor Emeritus, KAIST / Professor, Keio University / Pioneer of the Asian Internet
2015
JB Straubel
Co-founder & CTO, Tesla
2015
Kip Thorne
Theoretical physicist / Executive Producer, Interstellar
2016
Steven Pinker
Professor of Psychology, Harvard University / Author, The Better Angels of Our Nature & The Blank Slate
2018
Cathy O’Neil
Data scientist, mathematician, The author of Weapons of Math Destruction
2018
Rose McGowan
Actress, director, activist, TIME Person of the Year 2017: The Silence Breakers
2019
Ju-Ho Kim
Professor in the KAIST School of Computing
2019
Zeynep TUFEKCI
Techno-sociologist / Professor at the University of North Carolina