Michael Adams,
President and CEO, Environics, Author, Sex in the Snow.

David Asper,
Executive Vice President, CanWest Global Communications.

Henry Aubin,
Investigative Journalist, Author, The Rescue of Jerusalem.

Robert Bateman,
Artist, Naturalist.

Dan Blankenship,
Treasure Hunter.

Jimmy Bowskill,
Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter.

Frederic Brenner,
Photographer, Diaspora: Homelands in Exile.

Jane Bunnett,
Modern Jazz Musician.

Edward Burtynsky,
Photographer.

Severn Cullis-Suzuki,
Environmentalist, Author, UNEP's Global 500 Award Recipient.

Jack Diamond,
Architect.

Dr. Brad Edwards,
Institute for Scientific Research, Developers of 'The Space Elevator'.

Dan Falk,
Universe on a T-Shirt: The Quest for the Theory of Everything.

Ken Finkleman,
Writer, Director, Producer; The Newsroom.

I Furiosi,
Baroque Ensemble.

Richard Greenblatt and Ted Dykstra,
2 Pianos, 4 Hands.

Derek Hatfield,
Sailor, "Around the World Alone" yacht race.

Lou Hawthorne,
CEO, Genetics Savings & Clone.

John Ince,
Lawyer, Sexual Activist, Author: The Politics of Lust.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr,
Defender of the Environment, Lawyer, Author.

Chip Kidd,
Writer, Graphic Designer, New Republic, New York Times, Vanity Fair; ID Magazine Top 40 Designer.

Laura Kipnis,
Cultural Theorist and Author Against Love: A Polemic.

Anita Kunz,
Editorial Cartoonist, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker.

Mers Kutt,
Inventor of the world's first personal computer.

Ariel Kwan,
Violinist, Pianist.

Sook-Yin Lee,
Musician, Actor, Filmmaker.

Paul Lewis,
Chair, English Dept., Boston College; Gothic Fiction, Gallows Humour.

Dr. Darlene Lim,
PhD, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, NASA Ames Research Center; Mars Researcher.

James Lockyer,
Lawyer; Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted.

Joseph MacInnis,
Physician, Scientist, Deep-sea explorer, Author, Environmentalist.

Lewis MacKenzie,
Commander, UN Peacekeeping Mission to 'Sector Sarajevo'; Author.

Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara,
Theoretical Physicist, Perimeter Institute.

Gabor Mate,
Physician, Author, When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress.

Jaymie Matthews,
Astrophysicist, Mission Scientist, The MOST project.

Paul Moller,
Founder, Moller International; inventor of the Skycar.

Terry Mosher,
Political Cartoonist, The Montreal Gazette; Cartoon Editor, Maclean's.

Robert Munsch,
International Best-Selling Children's Author.

Achilla Orru,
Award-winning musician; lokembe (thumb piano) player.

Francois Parenteau,
CEO Defiance Capital, LLC.

Cleo Paskal,
Peripatetic writer and broadcaster. Microstate fanatic.

Irene Pepperberg,
MIT School of Architecture and Planning; Expert, Animal-Human Communications (Grey Parrots).

Dick Pound,
International Olympic Committee; Author "Inside the Olympics"; Founding Chair, World Anti-Doping Agency.

Lola Rasminsky,
Avenue Road Arts School Founder; Advocate for Arts Education.

Harry Rosen,
Founder, Harry Rosen Inc.

Bryce Rutter,
CEO Metaphase Design Group; Recipient 'Design of the Decade' Award.

Richard Satava,
Professor of Surgery, University of Washington Medical Centre; Program Manager, DARPA.

Second City,
Mainstage Cast.

Shakespeare Works,

TEDStout,
Founder, tedCities; Founder and CEO, the ROI Institute, Return On Innovation.

Astro Teller,
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of BodyMedia Inc; Award-winning novelist.

Alexandre Trudeau,
Writer, Filmmaker.

Alexander Tsiaras,
Scientist, Artist, Journalist.

Eva Vertes,
Scientist, Researcher, student at Princeton; made a significant Alzheimer's discovery at the age of 15.

Paul Wells,
National Affairs Columnist (and 'Back Page' occupant), Maclean's.