Kevin Roose is a bestselling author and award-winning technology columnist for The New York Times. His column, "The Shift," examines the intersection of tech, business, and culture. In his new book, Futureproof: 9 Rules for Machine-Age Humans (forthcoming from Random House, 2020), Roose lays out a practical guide to human survival in the age of A.I., automation, screen overload, and other worrying technological trends. His previous books, Young Moneyand The Unlikely Disciple, explored the worlds of young Wall Street bankers and evangelical Christian college students. Previously, Roose was a writer at New York magazine and the executive producer and co-host of "Real Future," a documentary TV series about technology and innovation. His work has been published in GQ, Esquire, Vanity Fair, and other publications, and he is a regular guest on "The Daily," the New York Times's daily news podcast. He lives in the Bay Area.

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Beth A. Brooke-Marciniak serves on the Boards of eHealth, Inc, a public company that provides a leading private online health insurance marketplace and services to health insurance exchanges, and SHEEX, Inc., a private company that has transformed the bedding industry by creating bedding made of high-performance athletic fabrics. She retired as the Global Vice-Chair, Public Policy at EY and a member of the firm’s Global Executive Board. Brooke-Marciniak had public policy responsibility for the firm’s operations in over 150 countries and was the global sponsor for EY’s Diversity and Inclusiveness efforts. She is a prominent voice around the world on Diversity and Inclusion, most prominently on LGBT inclusion and women. She has been named 11 times to the Forbes’ World’s Most Powerful Women list. In 2017, Brooke-Marciniak received the Theodore Roosevelt Award, the top individual honor bestowed by the US National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and has also been inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame. During the Clinton administration, she worked in the US Department of the Treasury, where she was responsible for all tax policy matters related to insurance and managed care. She played important roles in the healthcare reform and Superfund reform efforts.

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Hubert Joly is Executive Chairman of Best Buy Co. Inc. In this role, he leads the board of directors while advising and supporting the CEO on key matters, such as strategy, capability building, M&A, and external relationships. He also may assume certain responsibilities at the request of the CEO, in areas such as government relations, community relations, and leadership development. Joly joined Best Buy in 2012 and served as the company’s CEO until June 2019. He led the company through its much publicized Renew Blue transformation. The transformation resulted in improvements in customer satisfaction, market share gains, revenue growth, and improved margins. Joly then led Best Buy into its next phase, Best Buy 2020: Building the New Blue. This growth strategy aims to enrich lives through technology by addressing key human needs in entertainment, productivity, communication, food, security, and health and wellness. Under Joly’s leadership, Best Buy committed to preparing youth from underserved communities for the tech-reliant jobs of the future. Additionally, the company is on a path to reduce its carbon footprint by 60 percent.

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Stephen Badger serves as Chairman of Mars, Incorporated’s Board of Directors. He was a key investor in Seeds of Change, an organic seed and food company, and also served as President. As Global Director of Corporate Affairs, Badger led Mars to be the first company among its food and confectionery peers to eliminate marketing its products to children under 12, a move which has since shaped industry-wide practices. Badger also financed and produced the film Muscle Shoals which premiered at Sundance to a standing ovation in 2013.

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