Gould is also a music producer, with album credits from such acts as Faith No More, Brujera, The Beatsteaks, Kultur Shock, CMX, Como Asesinar a Felilpes.

Finally, he is also founder and CEO of Koolarrow Records, based out of San Francisco, CA. Established in 1998, Koolarrow is a worldwide independent music recording label that is involved with the licensing, promotion and distribution of domestic artists as well as acts from Russia, Germany, Australia, Spain, Mexico, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Denmark, Chile and the Philippines. He lives in San Francisco, CA.

As the group’s lead guitarist, Mohd had to hide his instruments hidden from his family and performed last minute notice underground shows to prevent any attacks at his concerts.

The group became a local underground sensation and garnered attention worldwide as they were featured in Rolling Stone Magazine to MTV’s show “Rebel Music,” won the Global Metal Award at the Metal Hammer Golden God Awards 2015, and is anticipating the near release of their documentary “RocKabul.”

After parting ways with the band in 2013, Mohd began to explore his second passion; acting. In 2014 he played the lead role in the award-winning film, Kabullywood.

Since moving to Los Angeles in 2015, he’s continued his acting and music career simultaneously and recently graduated from the Musician’s Institute.

He founded Skateistan in 2007, founded the Kabul Knights Motorcycle Club in 2008, introduced street art to Afghanistan in 2010 and hosted the presidential election themed​ ​song contest in 2014.

Travis’ projects have been funded by over 10 diplomatic missions and he was the guitarist in the post-Taliban-expat band White City.

He is currently finishing the documentary Rockabul, that chronicles Afghanistan’s first ever metal band – District Unknown, due for release in early 2018.

The team also created OpenExplorer as a digital field journal to empower and connect citizen scientists and explorers.

Lang is the author of Zero to Maker – part memoir and part guidebook for participating in the growing maker movement. He is also a member of NOAA’a Ocean Exploration Advisory Board and a TED Senior Fellow.

She is the first Egyptologist to use multispectral and high-resolution satellite imagery analysis to identify previously unknown archaeological sites.

Parcak has written “Satellite Remote Sensing for Archaeology” (Routledge 2009) and numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles. She has discovered countless ancient sites and features across the Middle East and Europe, and is presently directing a major crowdsourcing effort to map ancient sites across Peru.

Her remote sensing work has been the focus of three BBC specials covering Egypt, ancient Rome, and the Vikings. She is a Fellow in the Society of Antiquaries, a 2014 TED Senior Fellow, and the winner of the 2016 TED Prize.

Baillie joined the Society after 14 years at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), where he served in various capacities, most recently as Conservation Programmes Director.

As director, Baillie was responsible for conservation projects focusing on threatened species and their habitats in more than 50 countries. Among his achievements at ZSL, Baillie founded the EDGE of Existence program, which focuses on Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) species.

Additionally, he has served as co-chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) National Red List Working Group and co-chair of the IUCN Pangolin Specialist Group. Baillie helped initiate United for Wildlife, led by the Duke of Cambridge, a collaboration of seven of the most influential conservation organizations working to address illegal wildlife trade at scale. He has also been a visiting professor of zoology at the University of Oxford.

Baillie completed his undergraduate studies at Queen’s University in Canada and received a master’s degree in conservation biology at Yale University and a Ph.D. in biology at Silwood Park, Imperial College London.

His extensive fieldwork includes research and monitoring of western lowland gorillas in Gabon; developing ecotourism sites in Central Africa; searching for extremely rare endemic birds in New Guinea; and conducting behavioral studies of desert baboons in Namibia.

An award-winning reporter, she has written extensively about ideas, books and the arts, and worked as an investigative reporter in the Culture Department.

Before joining the Times, Ms. Cohen worked at the Washington Post and Rolling Stone magazine. She started her journalism career at Newsday and New York Newsday as a member of the editorial board, and then became political editor for New York Newsday. She covered City Hall and the federal courts before becoming the editor of the Sunday opinion section, Currents.

She attended Cornell University and graduate school at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School.

Natalia is also Creator & Host of Pitch Makeover, a podcast on startups, pitching, investing, and #morevoices (women, non-binary people, and men of color).

She holds a BA in Comparative Literature & Economics from Yale and she serves on the boards of Walker’s Legacy, Women 2.0, and iRelaunch. Inc. Magazine selected Natalia as one of “The Most Impressive Women Entrepreneurs of 2016,” Latina.com included her in their list of “25 Latinas Who Shine in Tech,” and Women’s eNews recognized her as one of 21 Leaders for the 21st Century for 2012.

Natalia was named to the Forbes list “Top 20 Women for Entrepreneurs to Follow on Twitter” and Fortune’s “55 most influential women on Twitter.” You can find Natalia on Twitter (@nakisnakis).

Tim has a history of convening conversations that reshape the computer industry. In 1998, he organized the meeting where the term “open source software” was agreed on, and helped the business world understand its importance.

In 2004, with the Web 2.0 Summit, he defined how “Web 2.0” represented not only the resurgence of the web after the dot com bust, but a new model for the computer industry, based on big data, collective intelligence, and the internet as a platform.

In 2009, with his “Gov 2.0 Summit,” he framed a conversation about the modernization of government technology that has shaped policy and spawned initiatives at the Federal, State, and local level, and around the world.

He has now turned his attention to implications of AI, the on-demand economy, and other technologies that are transforming the nature of work and the future shape of the business world. This is the subject of his forthcoming book from Harper Business, WTF: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us.

In addition to his role at O’Reilly Media, Tim is a partner at early stage venture firm O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) and on the boards of Maker Media (which was spun out from O’Reilly Media in 2012), Code for America, PeerJ, Civis Analytics, and PopVox.

He is the co-author – with Elizabeth Dunn – of the book, Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending.

In 2012, he was selected for Wired Magazine’s Smart List as one of “50 People Who Will Change the World” and his TEDx talk, How to Buy Happiness, has been viewed more than 3 million times.