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 also known for his leadership of new ideas around climate change and hosts the global COUNTDOWN climate change initiative and conference series. Through the Audacious Project, Anderson has raised over $1 Billion for worldwide impact-driven projects.

Rob Reid founded the startup that created the Rhapsody music service – which itself created the unlimited, on-demand streaming model that Apple, Spotify, etc. later adopted. He’s also a New York Times bestselling science fiction author, and hosts the After On podcast. After On features conversations with world-class thinkers, founders, and scientists on topics including AI, synthetic biology, robotics, astrophysics, neuroscience, oceanography, and more. Way back, Rob was a Fulbright Fellow in Cairo, and still speaks decent Arabic.