Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson is the head of TED, a non-profit organization that provides idea-based talks and hosts an annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. TED’s widely known TED Talks are free to the world at TED.com. Chris is known for his leadership of new ideas around climate change and created the global COUNTDOWN climate change initiative as well as the All Aboard fund. Through the Audacious Project, Anderson has raised over $1 Billion for worldwide impact-driven projects.
Stephen Petranek
Stephen Petranek is a science and financial writer and editor. He was senior editor for science at Life magazine, as well as editor-in-chief of Discover Magazine, editor of Tropic Magazine at The Miami Herald, editor of The Washington Post's Magazine, and editor of the financial newsletter Breakthrough Technology Alert. He was the first editor-in-chief of This Old House magazine which he co-founded for Time Inc. He is co-founder of Arc Programs, a bioscience conference. Petranek spoke at the TED conference in 2002, 2003, and again in 2016. His book How We’ll Live on Mars was published in 2015.
Greg Pearlman
Greg Pearlman’s career has spanned more than three decades at top levels in investment banking for major firms, focusing on M&A and capital raises. After leaving the banking industry in 2020, he founded Jackson Springs Management Partners, investing in and advising consumer, climate and tech companies. He has been a Trustee of Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo for nearly a decade.