Perspective: Management theorist

Bio: Economist Andrew McAfee suggests that, yes, probably, droids will take our jobs -- or at least the kinds of jobs we know now. In this far-seeing talk, he thinks through what future jobs might look like, and how to educate coming generations to hold them. Andrew McAfee studies how information technology affects businesses and society.

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Perspective: High School Dropout and Self Educated

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Bio: Andrew is a consultant at an NYC-based information security company and a proud native South Carolinian. In 2010, Andrew dropped out of high school to pursue a less-common career path in cyber security.

Perspective: Founder and CEO of Kaggle

Bio: Anthony Goldbloom is co-founder and CEO of Kaggle, a platform for machine learning competitions. 

Perspective: Entrepreneur

Bio : Elon Musk, is an, South African-born American entrepreneur who cofounded the electronic-payment firm PayPal and formed SpaceX, maker of launch vehicles and spacecraft.

Perspective: Human rights activist, business speaker and former chess champion

Bio: Garry Kasparov is esteemed by many as the greatest chess player of all time. Now he’s engaged in a game with far higher stakes: the preservation of democracy.

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Perspective: Computer programmer

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Bio: Ken Jennings was an anonymous computer programmer in 2004 when his 75-game streak on the quiz show Jeopardy! Made him into a geek folk icon almost overnight. Today, Jennings is freelance writer who celebrates, in the words of Time magazine, "the world of triva...a place where minutiae have paradoxical grand

Perspective: Futurist and author

Bio: Martin Ford imagines what the accelerating progress in robotics and artificial intelligence may mean for the economy, job market and society of the future.

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