Tim Smit is a millionaire record producer who enjoyed popular triumph with artists including Barry Manilow and the Nolan Sisters. Called the "Richard Branson of Cornwall", Smit's humble mission is to tell the world the story of plants that changed history. His "Eden Project" in Cornwall is what he calls a "living theatre of plants" -- 250,000 of them!

The subject of numerous magazine articles, including two profiles in Vanity Fair, an interview on Larry King Live, and an entry in Marquis Who's Who, Barbara Guggenheim regularly contributes humor to W and ELLE magazines. She's written several books, including Decorating on eBay and How to Be Smart Money in Art.

Principal of William McDonough & Partners, William McDonough is focused on designing environmentally sustainable buildings and transforming industrial manufacturing processes. In 1996 he became the first and only individual recipient of the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development. Author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, he envisions a society that does not produce waster but instead produces nutrients from former waste products.

Over the past 13 years, thousands of corporate clients have used Second City to support their company meetings and sales conferences, enliven award ceremonies, celebrate and lift morale at company anniversaries and holiday events and much more. By using the best comedic writers and actors in the industry, Second City grabs audience's attention and makes a lasting impression.

Corporate friendly comedy improv group Four Day Weekend is an interactive entertainment experience with fantastic audience participation. They customize their presentations for each company they perform for, combining comedy, interactive video, music, and the improvisational skills of the talented cast.

It was on a photojournalism project in Southeast Asia that Bob Arno ventured into the depths of an underground subculture. Working on assignment for a series on swindles in the Asian marketplace, he tailed shortchange artists, pickpockets, and fake-jewelry hustlers. His exposes caught the attention of the U.S. Military and he was asked to give lectures on the subject.

Geoffrey has made the understanding and effective exploitation of disruptive technologies the core of his life's work. His books, Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, The Gorilla Game, and Living on the Fault Line are best sellers and required reading at leading business schools. Highly regarded as a dynamic public speaker, Geoffrey is the founder of The Chasm Group and currently is the managing partner of TCG Advisors. Earlier in his career, he was a principal and partner at Regis McKenna, Inc., a leading high tech marketing strategy and communications company, and for the decade prior, a sales and marketing executive in the software industry.

French artist Jean Francois presents Extreme Art, a performance art show in which he paints larger than life pieces of art in minutes using his hands, brooms, sponges - anything but a brush. Jean has applied his experience performing in production show at top Las Vegas hotels such as New York, New York, Caesar's Palace, and the MGM Grand.

Tyler Brule was trained as a journalist with the BBC, but eventually left the journalism field and launched a style and fashion magazine called Wallpaper*, one of the most influential fashion magazines of the 1990s. He's been a regular columnist for the Financial Times, The New York Times, and others.

Wolfgang Grulke has a storied background in all sorts of fascinating areas: nuclear physics, marine biology, and technology to name a few. He has addressed audiences in more than 20 countries, in person, on radio, and on television. His topics range from business transformation to technological revolutions to the sex life of fish!