2017 Presenters
IF 2017 Panelists/Moderators
IF 2017 Flash Class Presenters
Thrivals 10.0
2016 Presenters
2015 Presenters
Previous Speakers
2014 Speakers
Lee Billings
Molly Burke
Stephen Cave
Julia Christensen
Juan William Chávez
Tyler Cowan
Sarah Eichhorn
Jason Felts
Angie Fenton
Joshua Greene
Claudia Hammond
Regina Holliday
Nat Irvin
Robert Karimi
Ruby Lerner
Karter Louis
Ben Malphrus
Wynton Marsalis
Roger McNeil
Debbie Millman
Janelle Monáe
Andrea Nicholas
Jason Padgett
Steve Pemberton
Virginia Postrel
The Rise Group
Kerry Skarbakka
Kevin Smokler
Clive Thompson
Sam Van Aken
Peter Van Buren
Julia Whitehead
Wondaland Arts Society
Peter Zeihan
2013 Speakers
Dimtri Alperovitch
Ross Baird
Chris Bliss
Oliver Burkeman
Majoria Carter
Beth Comstock
Hasan Davis
Zev Dickstein
Eric Dyer
Ron Finley
Cariwyle Hebert
Lance Hosey
Calvin Johnson
Maria Konnikova
Donald Lassere
Ruby Lerner
Rafel Lozano-Hemmer
Last Maasai Warriors
Daphne Miller
Kelly Mooney
Mother Falcon
Cullen Murphy
Roger Newton
Jason Pontin
Retazos Dance Theatre
Paul Rucker
Rafe Sagarin
Stephen Saloom
Daniela Schiller
Mario Simon
Brooks Simpson
Kris Sirchio
Kevin Smokler
Jim Stengel (via video)
Alex Stone
Jessee Sugarman
Elaine Tin Nyo
Tererai Trent
Ariel Waldman
Kim Zu
2012 Speakers
Grimanesa Amorós
Maurice Ashley
John Barker
Steve Berry
Michelle Bombe
Larry Chandler
Liz Cohen
Kevin Colleran
Richard DeMillo
Hasan Elahi
Sarathbabu Elumalai
Nikky Finney
Emily Foerster
Mangesh Hattikudur
Tahir Hemphill
Richard Hughes
David Kaiser
Michael Kimmelman
Ruby Lerner
Cynthia Lowen
Larry Lucas
Patrick McGovern
David Mohney
Janelle Monáe
Tori Murden McClure
Kevin Olusola
Will Pearson
Tristan Perich
Joel Pett
Rosalind Picard
Jason Pontin
Shankar Ram
Lisa Randall
Peter Sims
LaDonna Thompson
Baratunde Thurston
Curt Tofteland
Sajel Vallabh
Sam Van Aken
Peter Van Buren
Greg Van Kirk
Tony Wagner
Spencer West
David Williamson
Steve Wilson
Jodie Wu
2011 Speakers
John Alberti
Azure Antoinette
Rosa Arriaga
David Barnes
Suketu Bhavsar
Bigert, Max & Bergstrom, Lars -
Charles Birnbaum
Erika Blumenfeld
Brooklyn Rundfunk Orkestrata
Lisa Broome-Price
Tom Byers
Aneesh Chopra
George Christ
Twyman Clements
Laurie Daugherty
Aubrey de Grey
Ron Demarse
Tim Donaghy
Connie Duckworth
Daniel Erb
Joke Fincieon & Biagio Messina
John Fitch III
Emily Foerster
Christian Davis Furman
Sam Graham Felsen
Diane Hatz
Jeffrey Hill
Heather Howell
Shih Chieh Huang
Nat Irvin
Anthony Jewett
Maz Jobrani
Parag Khanna
Cory Kidd
Kris Kimel
Sheril Kirshenbaum
Phil Kraemer
Ruby Lerner
Al Letson
Burn Lewis
Nancy Martin
Steve Mazan
Ellen McGeeney
Cesar Millan
Sugata Mitra
Leonard Mlodinow
Janelle Monaé
Wes Moore
John Moore
Sena Jeter Naslund
Sean O'Leary
Joshua Overbay
Richard Pell
Chris Phillips
Stu Pollard
Stephen Reily
Patrick Renvoisé
Julie Robinson
Elizabeth Scharpf -
Mark Shepard
David Shepler
Daniel Simons
Mary Berry Smith
Ed Smith
Ted Smith
Don Stewart
Lindsey Stirling
Chris Strobel
Tama Thé
Sarah Wylie A. VanMeter
Watson
Pamela Z
2010 Speakers
Caroline Alexander
Morgan Atkinson
Makalani Bandele
Sanford Biggers
Howard Bloom
Rick Bragg
Marquis Brown
Carol Butler
Marcel Cabrera
Sean Carroll
Lisa Cortés
Diavolo
Phillip Done
Michael Dougan
Kathleen Driskell
Alejandro Echeverri
Arnold Garson
Anand Giridharadas
Brendan Greeley
Brent Green
Jud Hendrix
Hugh Herr
Jennie Hulette
Vanessa Hurst
Nat Irvin
Anthony Jewett
John Kobara
Elizabeth Kramer
Jon Landau
George Legrady
Ruby Lerner
Tori Murden McClure
Ellen McGirt
Daphne Miller
Janelle Monáe
Victoria Myers
Martha Newman
Nichelle Nichols
Mary Lou Northern
Will Pearson
Philippe Petit
Kiki Petrosino
Harry Pickens
Brother Paul Quenon
Jae Rhim Lee
Melinda Ritchie
David Robinson
Arthur Rouse
Stefan Sagmeister
Dom Sagolla
Avideh Shashaani
Scott Shuffitt
Peter W. Singer
Lakshmi Singh
Ben Sollee
Steve Staley
Daniel Tammet
Jim Tucker
Tom Williams
Molly Wood
2009 Speakers
Ahn Trio
Will Allen
Julian Beever
Bob Berman
Veronica Bero
Anthony Bourdain
Dana Canedy
Marjorie Garber
Lee Dugatkin
Moira Gunn
Bert Hoelldobler
A.J. Jacobs
Michael Johnston
Daniel Jones
Jurriaan Kamp
Richard Kogan
Somaly Mam
Kembrew McLeod
John McPherson
Luyanda Mpahlwa
Paul Osterlund
Kenn Parks
Daan Roosegaarde
Tina Rose
Daniel Roth
Arthur Rouse
Domenica Scorese
Jason Shankel
Tiffany Shlain
Diane Snow
Chris Turney
Naomi Tutu
Po Chi Wu
Kulapat Yantrasast
Marc Yu
2008 Speakers
Mark Beasley
Suketu Bhavsar
Bridget Brennan
Nickole Brown
Amy Chua
Howard Dubrovsky
Lee Dugatkin
Jack Epps Jr.
Katrina S. Firlik
Vova Galchenko
Emiliano Gandolfi
John Gauntt
Sanford Goldberg
J. Richard Gott
Lori Hartmann-Mahmud
Jacques Heim
Robert Hupfer
Immaculee Ilibagiza
Bjarke Ingels
Peter King
Richard Kogan
Philipp J. Kraemer
Jonah Lehrer
Diandra Leslie-Pelecky
Everett D. McCorvey
Jane McGonigal
Lopa Mehrotra
Kenn Parks
Christophe Poizat
Arne Quinze
Brad Riddell
Mark Shepherd
Leonard Shlain
Tiffany Shlain
Will Shortz
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Teller
2007 Speakers
Amira Al Hussaini
Ray Bradbury ("beamed down"
via Teleportec)
Dirk Brockmann
Lisa Broome-Price
Nickole Brown
Geoff Oliver Bugbee
Ignacio Bunster-Ossa
Homaro Cantu
Tricia Clement
Michael Drane
Frances Gallup
Dan Gediman
Laurence Gonzales
Wayne W. Hall, Jr.
Barrington Irving
Ned Kahn
Michio Kaku
Richard Kogan
Nicholas Kristof
Shudun Liu A
Jeffrey Manber
Tom Marksbury
James McLurkin
Craig Nevill-Manning
Harry Pickens
Georgia Popplewell
Steve Schwandner
Jeffrey Schwartz
Kathryn Sederquist
Tiffany Shlain
Cameron Sinclair
Ralston Steenrod
John D. Stempel
Juan Thompson
Tom Thurman
Karen Walker
Steve Wozniak
Ethan Zuckerman
2006 Speakers
John Barrow
Paula Bates
Suketu Bhavsar
Michael Blowen
Valerie Boyd
Jock Brandis
Mary Carmichael
Jason Chesney
K. C. Cole
Henry Cunningham
Stan Curtis
Steve Curwood
Zade Dirani
Suzette Dutch
John W. Eaton
John Gaeta
Debra Galant
Adriaan Geuze
Laman Gray
Fred Gray
Lynn Harper
Laura J. Kilcrease
Richard Kogan
Ray Kurzweil
Polly LaBarre
J.D. Lasica
Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky
David Mohney
Harry Pickens
Sumanth D. Prabhu
Burt Rutan
Buck Ryan
Robert Sapolsky
Bob Saunders
Leonard Shlain
Kevin Smokler
Elizabeth Spiers
John D. Stempel
Jeremy Sugarman
Peter van Lindonk
Ethan Zuckerman
2004 Speakers
Ackbar Abbas
Helene Andersson
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter
Paul Berger
Alex Breton
Lance Brunner
Ben Carson
Iain Couzin
Neil Gershenfeld
Sanford Goldberg
Adam Gordon
Ayanna Howard
Rebecca Hutton
Johnson Brothers Band
Margaret King
Richard Kogan
Meriah Kruse
Erin Lavik
Sylvia Lovely
Ron Luckey
Sri Devendrakeerty
Bhattarakamah Swamiju
Sir George Martin
Jim McMurtray
Evan Mehlenbacher
Mubeen Mohiuddinis
David Mohney
Mystic Rhythms
Jamie O¹Boyle
Will Pearson
Steven Pinker
Dith Pran
Mark Reeves
ResonantVoices
Oliver Sacks
Terry Samuel
Greg Schmidt
Leonard Shlain
John Sibert
Twyla Tharp
Alkioni Valsari
Dante Ventresca
Jerry Walls
Pamela Yenawine
Lisa Zunshine
2002 Speakers
John Amoroso
John Briggs
Lance Brunner
Robert Cooper
Patrick Donnelly
Richard Florida -
Brother Paul Quenon
Judah Levine
Gil Gordon
Sanford Goldberg
J. Richard Gott
Brian Greene
Arwanna Hayashi
Scott Hubbard
Nancy Kress
The Reverend Ronald G. Luckey
MASS Ensemble
Chris Phillips
Milton Scarborough
Jim Seiffert
Leonard Shlain
Jill Tarter
Karen Thompson
Anthony Tommasini
Margaret Wheatley
Ernest J. Yanarella
2000 Speakers
Christine Andrews
Steve Austin
Sonya Brooks
Susan Brown
Will Bruder
Lance Brunner
Aminata Bruti
Eric Buck
Bill Cloyd
Cheryl Dahle
James H. Graham, Jr.
Michael Graves
Shelley Heinz
Doug Henton
Sara Ness Holcomb
Father Wayne Houghland
John Kennelly
David Lathrop
David Lavery
Greg Luhan
MASS Ensemble
Sharon Mercer
NOVA - Western Kentucky University
Bill Peace
Van Meter Petit
Joel Pett
Lissa Pohl
Steve PonTell
Brian Pulito
Scott Shearer
John Sibert
Petra Sonderegger
Franz Spohn
Thomas J. Stephenson
Rosanna Stokes
Mike Strom
Mary Beth Susman
Teresa Tomb
Al Trevino
Sue Weant
Tom Welch