Executive Director, Institute for the Future
The nature of the future; the socialstructed world
Marina's new book, The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World, explains the emerging "socialstructed" economy, where individuals harness online technologies to create new, social models of products, services, and wealth.
Author of four bestsellers, What the Dog Saw, Outliers,
Blink and The Tipping Point
Provocative ideas taking the business world by storm.
Phenomenal best-selling author.
Malcolm Gladwell has an incomparable gift for interpreting new ideas in the social sciences and making them understandable, practical and valuable to business and general audiences alike.
Founder, FiveThirtyEight.com
Author, The Signal And The Noise
Powerful predictions through data analytics.
Nate Silver has become today's leading statistician through his innovative analyses of political polling. He gained national attention through his stunningly accurate predictions of the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. Nate runs the award-winning forecasting website FiveThirtyEight.com.
The former editor of Wired and author of Makers
with the CEO of MakerBot Industries
A joint presentation by the two leading speakers on DIY manufacturing and 3D printing.
Chris Anderson and Bre Pettis are the two leading speakers on the DIY revolution sweeping modern manufacturing. The Leigh Bureau is proud to present them together on stage as the definitive presentation on the subject.
Professor, Princeton University
Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics.
2011 Gerald Loeb Award winner for Commentary — New York Times.
As one of the world’s premier economists, Paul Krugman speaks on the leading issues of the day, focusing on the European financial crisis and the world economy.
Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism awarded Sheri Fink the 2013 Meyer “Mike” Berger Award for an outstanding example of local reporting for several pieces on the catastrophic consequences of bureaucratic, structural and political failures during the deadly hurricane season on 2012. The Berger Award jury cited Fink's work as “deeply reported and gracefully written.”
Congratulations, Sheri!
Meg Jay's TED talk, which went live on May 14, has earned more than 875,000 views in one week — a new record for TED.
Congratulation, Meg!
Fast Company released its list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business 2013. 'This year's No. 1 ranking to data king Nate Silver, whose FiveThirtyEight.com blog on the New York Times website so spectacularly predicted the outcome of last fall's elections. Silver has also parsed big data to great success, forecasting sporting events and business trends.' Hilary Mason is also honored at #99. Congratulations, Nate and Hilary!
Business Insider has honored Amy Cuddy on their 50 Women Who Are Changing The World, 2013 list. Business Insider 'recognizes these and other impressive women by asking readers for nominations and our reporters and editors to vote on the women who did the most in the past year to change the world.' Congratulations Amy!
