Owner of the NBA basketball team, Dallas Mavericks, and Chairman and co-founder of HD Net, an HDTV cable network, Mark Cuban was ranked #133 on Forbes' "World's Richest People" list in 2007. He works with 2929 Entertainment which provides vertically integrated production and distribution of films and videos.

Peter Draper is the man behind the world's most popular sports brand - Manchester United FC. He is the co-founder of the specialist sports, entertainment and affinity advisory company TIME&TIDE. He also spend over a decade as the European Marketing Director of Umbro Sportswear. His relaxed, conversational-style presentations are always a hit.

A pioneer in the new science of neuromarketing, the science of human decision, Patrick has become in less than 2 years one of the top rated speakers of Vistage (The World's Largest CEO Membership Organization). Combining science and humor ...

Dr. Philip Kotler is the author of the most widely used marketing book in graduate business schools worldwide. His efforts as the Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Northwestern University has helped put his school at the top of the "Best Business Schools" list in Business Week's survey for six years in a row.

Sahar is the co-founder of Coffee Republic and author of the UK's 2nd highest selling book on entrepreneurship ever: Anyone Can Do It. Sahar's story is an inspirational tale of how she stopped "thinking about it" and "did it". She is the speaker ambassador for the Prince's Trust, lecturer at the London Business School Entrepreneurship program and was named one of the "20 most powerful women in Britain under 35" by the Independent on Sunday.

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.

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.

Featured in FORTUNE magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company magazine in recognition for his work for HP, Nike, PBS, and others, Keith Yamashita is a strategist and writer with years of experience in helping CEOs turn their companies around. He has a strong background in launching new companies and brands, as well as transforming large, multinational companies.

Technologist, commentator, advisor, marketing guru and co-author of the bestselling and influential book, The Cluetrain Manifesto, David Weinberger's work focuses on how the internet is changing human relationships, community and society. Currently he co-teaches a class on "the Web Difference" at Harvard Law School.