Featured Speakers

Opening General Session Keynote Speaker

Condoleezza Rice
66th Secretary of State of the United States

Condoleezza Rice is a professor of political science at Stanford University and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. From January 2005 to 2009, she served as the 66th secretary of state of the United States. Before serving as America's chief diplomat, she served as assistant to the president for national security affairs (national security advisor) from January 2001 to 2005.

Rice has served on several local and national boards of foundations and charitable organizations. She currently serves as a member of the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In addition, she is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Tuesday General Session Keynote Speaker

Malcolm Gladwell
Best-Selling Author of Blink, The Tipping Point and Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell has an incomparable gift for interpreting new ideas in the social sciences and making them understandable, practical and valuable to business and general audiences alike. He's become so successful at this that, in 2005, Time Magazine named Malcolm one of its 100 Most Influential People.

Malcolm is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and has three New York Times #1 bestsellers, Outliers, The Tipping Point and Blink. His editor describes his work as a new genre of story, an idea-driven narrative that's focused on the everyday and combines research with material that's more personal, social and historical. He now has another bestseller, What the Dog Saw, a compilation of essays from his writings in The New Yorker.