Steve Wozniak aka "The Woz" - A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple’s first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh. In 1976, Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer Inc. with Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. The following year, he introduced his Apple II personal computer, featuring a central processing unit, a keyboard, color graphics, and a floppy disk drive. The Apple II was integral in launching the personal computer industry. In 1981, he went back to UC Berkeley and finished his degree in electrical engineering/computer science. For his achievements at Apple Computer, Wozniak was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed on America’s leading innovators. In 2000, he was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for “single-handedly designing the first personal computer and for then redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their teachers.” After leaving Apple in 1985, Wozniak was involved in various business and philanthropic ventures, focusing primarily on computer capabilities in schools and stressing hands-on learning and encouraging creativity for students. Making significant investments of both his time and resources in education, he “adopted” the Los Gatos School District, providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art technology equipment. He founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. Wozniak served as Chief Scientist for Fusion-io and is a published author with the release of his New York Times Best Selling autobiography, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon, in September 2006 by Norton Publishing. His television appearances include reality show “Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List” and season eight of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars”. Woz is currently Chief Scientist at Primary Data.

Believes in encouraging free thinking and creativity for youngsters, counsel them against forces of conformity and drugs which leave them "not the master" of their fate. Loves children and dogs

Sanyin Siang is a CEO coach, advisor to GV (Google Ventures) and the Executive Director of Duke University s Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE) at its Fuqua School of Business. She is faculty with Duke's StoryLab. Her book The Launch Book: Motivational Stories to Launch Your Idea, Business or Next Career will be launching in August 2017. You an pre-order it now on Amazon. She focuses on collaborative leadership, mentorship, strategic partnerships. Her life's work has been about driving innovation, reinvention and transformation through breaking down silos and bridging divides. This stems from the perspective that in today's highly interdependent and complex world, the global challenges that we face can only be solved through collaboration across public, private and social sectors. Siang is a LinkedIN Influencer with more than 750,000 followers and a regular contributor on leadership to Forbes and The Huffington Post. She is co-editor of a special 2008 issue of Leader to Leader journal and co-author of a chapter in “The Handbook for Teaching Leadership”. She speaks and coaches on innovation and scaling; diversity and inclusion; and storytelling for building identity, trust, and persuasion. She received her MBA and BSE from Duke University where she was an AB Duke Scholar.

Alex Fielding - started his career as an engineer at Cisco Systems and Apple Computer. Shortly after departing Apple, he worked at Exodus Communications for Ellen Hancock. Exodus' CEO who was Apple's former CTO. He co-foundedWheels of Zeus with Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak in 2001. It was sold to Zontrak in 2006.[1] Fielding became CEO of encryption products company Ripcord Networks in 2004 with former Apple CEO Gil Amelio, CTO, Hancock, and Wozniak on its board.[2] The company existed through about 2009 when its assets were purchased in an undisclosed transaction.[3] Ripcord announced $9.5 million in funding[4] from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Lux Capital, Legend Star, and Steve Wozniak[5] in March of 2017.[6] Ripcord is utilizing vision guided robotics, industrial automation, and advanced sensors to digitize paper records. Once digitized, Ripcord provides asoftware as a service records service called Ripcord Canopy. He was Chief Technology Officer at Power Assure and then Vice President at Vigilent.[citation needed] Fielding is on the board of directors of ISKME, CodeWarrior Foundation, and California Women Empowering Women, CAWEW, a 501c3 non-profit. He is an advisor to TEDMED and TED WED. He is a donor to UNICEF. Fielding is a former member of Mensa and SVASE. He has been a contributor on several patents including early work on inter-satellite routing. He is a contributing member of two NIST working groups on the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP)..

Amir Dossal is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Global Partnerships Forum – a not-for-profit knowledge platform to provide changemakers with tools to build innovative partnerships to address economic and social challenges – which he established in 2010. Amir is co-founder of the Pearl Initiative, a CEO-led program promoting transparency and accountability in the Middle East, and the Ocean Sanctuary Alliance, a multi-stakeholder partnership to protect coastal and marine seas around the world. He is also a Commissioner of the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development. From 2010 to 2014, he served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union. In 2014, President Tommy Remengesau, Jr., President of Palau, appointed Amir as his Special Representative for Global Partnerships. In 2015, the UN Global Compact appointed Amir as Special Adviser for Strategic Relationships. In 2015, Amir was invited by UN Women to join its global movement for gender equality, as HeForShe Champion. In 2016, Amir was appointed a UN Women Global champion for Planet 50-50 by 2030. Amir Dossal is a 25-year veteran of the United Nations, and served as the UN’s Chief Liaison for Partnerships until September 2010. He is an accomplished diplomat, with a deep understanding of global diplomacy as well as extensive experience in managing technical assistance projects in emerging markets. As Executive Director of the UN Office for Partnerships, which Amir established in 1998 to manage the $1 billion gift by media mogul Ted Turner, he forged numerous alliances with business and civil society, to address the UN’s global agenda. In 2005, Secretary-General Kofi Annan asked Amir to set-up and manage the UN Democracy Fund, whose core mission is to strengthen institutions around the world, and enhance democratic governance in new and restored democracies. From 1993 to 1997, Amir served as the Chief of Finance Management in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, where he oversaw finances for 24 peacekeeping operations worldwide (annual budget of $3 billion). Amir Dossal works globally across sectors, including education, environment, finance, health, media, technology, as well as peace, security & human rights. He has developed partnerships with leading companies, such as BASF, BT, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical, Ericsson, Google, GSK, HSBC, Microsoft, Nestle, Novartis, Pfizer as well as with high-profile personalities on humanitarian causes, including The Countess Sondes, Cherie Blair, Geena Davis, Francine LeFrak, Petra Němcová, the late Joan Rivers, Russell Simmons, Christy Turlington Burns, Ali Velshi, among others. In December 2010, His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco appointed Amir as Ambassador for Peace and Sport. In February 2011, he was appointed Special Envoy to the World Youth Peace Summit.