Our events span the breadth of arts, culture, science, technology, and current affairs. The following is a list of major event tracks and speakers we have hosted over the last few years:
Business and technology leaders: Daniel Pink, Sramana Mitra, Paul Allen, Roger McNamee, Shellye Archambeau, Guy Kawasaki, Meg Whitman, William Davidow, William Draper, Michael Lewis, Dr Fei Fei Li, Ray Kurzweil, Salman Khan, Sylvia Acevedo, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Gary Rivlin
Historians: Erik Larson, Ken Burns, Sarah Vowell, T.J. Stiles, David Kennedy, David McCullough, Simon Winchester, Walter Isaacson, Heather Cox Richardson
Novelists from around the world: Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Barbara Kingsolver, Khaled Hosseini, Amy Tan, Madeline Miller, Mohsin Hamid, Isabel Allende, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Michael Chabon, Joyce Carol Oates, Julian Barnes, Dave Eggers, Abraham Verghese, Daniel Mason, Rumaan Alam, Rachel Kushner, Colm Tóibín, Kevin Kwan, Jesmyn Ward, Liane Moriarty, Tommy Orange, Kaveh Akbar, Rumaan Alam, Shelby Van Pelt, Betty Shamieh, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Laila Lalami, Jemimah Wei, Nura Maznavi, Kiran Desai, Gary Shteyngart, Andrew Sea Greer
Social commentators: Thomas Friedman, Richard Dawkins, Roxane Gay, Chris Hedges, Carmen Maria Machado, Naomi Wolf, Marcus Zusak, Bryan Stevenson, Ijeoma Oluo, Dan Lyons, Adam Grant, Nate Silver, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Adam Aleksic
Scientists, science writers, and physicians: Louise Aronson, Atul Gawande, Bill Nye, Michio Kaku, Neil Shubin, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Mary Roach, Leonard Mlodinow, David Eagleman, Ben Yalom, Daria Mochly-Rosen, Emanuel Rosen
Psychologists and wellness: James Doty, Jamil Zaki, Daniel Siegel, Jack Kornfield, Leah Weiss, Sherry Turkle, Ellen Leanse, Lee Daniel Kravetz
Public figures and celebrities: Al Gore, Barney Frank, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Jimmy Carter, Barbara Walters, Caroline Kennedy, David Sedaris, Diane Keaton, Karamo Brown, Cheech Marin, Henry Winkler, Jackie Speier, Randy Rainbow, Adam Kinzinger, Nancy Pelosi, John Green, Chasten Buttigieg, Robert Reich
Global scholars: Noam Chomsky, Christiana Figueres, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, Edward O Wilson, Leonard Susskind, Yuval Harari, Michael Shermer, Shirin Ebadi, Francis Fukuyama, Robert Reich, Pico Iyer
Humorists: Dave Barry, Roz Chast, Patricia Marx, Adam Mansbach, Alan Zweibel
Athletes: Jerry Rice, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Julie Foudy, Brandi Chastain, Steve Young
Journalists and media figures: Jane Mayer, Clive Thompson, Jose Antonio Vargas, Tony Horwitz, Sally Kohn, Joshua Foer, Sebastian Junger, Michael Krasny, Nicholas Kristof, Joy-Ann Reid, Connie Chung, Oliver Burkeman
Educators: Mary Pipher, Madeline Levine, Rosalind Wiseman, Peggy Orenstein, Diane Ravitch, Julie Lythcott-Haims, Randi Weingarten
Science fiction writers: William Gibson, George R.R. Martin, Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson, Terry Pratchett, Charlie Jane Anders, Peter S. Beagle, VE Schwab, Cory Doctorow, John Scalzi, Annalee Newitz
Mystery writers: Jacqueline Winspear, Alexander McCall Smith, Louise Penny, Sarah Paretsky, Walter Mosley, Elizabeth George, Barry Eisler, Sue Grafton, Harlan Coben, James Ellroy, Alan Furst
Chefs and food legends: Thomas Keller, Anthony Bourdain, David Kinch, David Chang, Jesse Cool, Christopher Kimball, Harold McGee, Michael Mina, Alton Brown
Young adult authors: Marissa Meyer, Sabaa Tahir, Maggie Stiefvater, Sarah J Maas, Anthony Horowitz, John Green, Suzanne Collins, Cassandra Clare, Laini Taylor, Becky Albertalli, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Adam Silvera, Tahereh Mafi, Marie Lu, Stephanie Garber, Tomi Adeyemi, Leigh Bardugo, Alexandra Brown Chang, Raegan Revord
Children's authors: Rick Riordan, Lisa McMann, Katherine Applegate, Shannon Messenger, Jan Brett, Jeff Kinney, Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers, Jennifer Holm, Robin Preiss Glasser, Patricia Polacco, Kevin Henkes, Todd Parr, Kwame Alexander, Christian Robinson, Matt de la Pena, Andy Griffiths, Brian Selznick, Shawn Harris, Jon Agee