KATIE LINENDOLL
Katie Linendoll is an Emmy Award winning TV personality, writer, tech expert and global tech consultant. A writer and contributor for the TODAY Show, Linendoll also regularly contributes to NBCNews.com and recently completed filming two series for Popular Science.
SAM ROBERTS
Sam is a regular and producer on the show. When he and Katie aren’t arguing about robots taking over and or at a WWE pay-per-view, Sam hosts a daily show on SiriusXM “Sam Roberts’ Show” on Opie Radio from 9pm-12pmET. Sam is known for his pop culture, comedic spins on trends and notable guests. He has over 17.5 million views on Youtube, over 140k social followers and has an extremely loyal fan base. Katie is also Sam’s sidekick on his top Wrestling podcast “Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast“.
KEVIN SURACE
Kevin Surace is an American technology innovator and serial entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Appvance, a provider of software test software and services. He was Inc. Magazine’s 2009 entrepreneur of the Year.
DAVID EVAN HARRIS
David brings an international perspective and a deep passion for social justice to his role at IFTF. He works to bring a critical social activist perspective to IFTF’s work. David is responsible for strategically identifying and developing collaborations that contribute to IFTF research, with a special focus on social action organizations and initiatives.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City.
CLIFF RANSOM
Mr. Cliff Ransom has been an Editor-In-Chief of Popular Science of Bonnier Corporation since December 2013. Mr. Ransom has been the executive editor of Popular Science since February 2011. Prior to joining Bonnier Corp., he served as Deputy Editor at Budget Travel and features editor at National Geographic Adventure. He started his editorial career at science magazines, first at The Sciences, a publication of the New York Academy of Sciences, and then at Discover.
XAVIER WOODS
Austin Watson is an American professional wrestler who is currently signed to WWE under the ring name Xavier Woods. He is part of The New Day, along with Big E and Kofi Kingston, the current WWE Tag Team Champions in their second reign.
OREN JACON
Before co-founding ToyTalk as CEO, Oren was an Entrepreneur in Residence at August Capital. A filmmaker and technologist, he spent more than 20 years at Pixar, most recently as Chief Technical Officer and Director of the Studio Tools group. His feature film credits include "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2", "A Bug's Life", and Supervising Technical Director for "Finding Nemo". Oren currently teaches "Lean Launchpad" courses with Steve Blank at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia, and for the NSF. He has been a speaker on panels at SXSW, Sundance, and ToyFair.
SCOTT PARAZYNSKI
Scott Edward Parazynski (born July 28, 1961 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American physician and a former NASAastronaut. A veteran of five Space Shuttle flights and seven spacewalks, Parazynski's latest mission was STS-120 in October, 2007 – highlighted by a dramatic, unplanned EVA to repair a live solar array. He retired from NASA in March 2009 to pursue opportunities in the private sector. He is the only person to have both flown in space and summitedMount Everest, the highest point on Earth.
BRIDGET DOLAN
Bridget Dolan is the Vice President Sephora Innovation Lab at Sephora and a 14-year digital marketing veteran.
MATT LAUER
Matthew Todd "Matt" Lauer is an American television journalist best known as the host ofNBC's The Today Show since 1997. He is also a contributor for NBC's Dateline NBC. He was previously a news anchorfor The Today Show in 1994 and anchor for WNBC in New York City and a local talk-show host in Boston, Philadelphia,Providence and Richmond. He was also host of PM Magazine (or "Evening Magazine" 1980–86) and worked for ESPNin the 1980s as a sideline reporter. In the early 1990s, Lauer hosted segments of HBO Entertainment News.
WILLIE GEIST
William Russell "Willie" Geist is an American television personality. He is co-anchor of MSNBC’sMorning Joe, and co-anchor of NBC's Today's Take the third hour of The Today Show. Geist serves as a fill-in anchor on the Today Show for Matt Lauer, Carson Daly, Natalie Morales, Weekend Today and weekend editions of NBC Nightly News. Geist also is a Correspondent for NBC News and NBC Sports, hosting NBC's Olympic coverage.
DAN SLOTT
Dan Slott is an American comic book writer, the current writer on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man, and is best known for his work on books such as Arkham Asylum: Living Hell, She-Hulk, Silver Surfer, The Superior Spider-Man, and Ren & Stimpy.
ASHLEY ECKSTEIN
Ashley Eckstein is an American film and television actress known to audiences of Blue Collar TV and as the voice of Ahsoka Tano on Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. She also played a small role as Alicia in the film Sydney White and as Ms. Cole in the film Alice Upside Down, with both films being released in 2007. Eckstein also had a recurring role as Muffy on the Disney Channel sitcom That's So Raven.