Climate Change

<p>Drawing from his remarkable scope of geopolitical and global economic expertise, Vijay Vaitheeswaran provides insight on how businesses can strategize, innovate, and find opportunity in today’s disruptive landscape.</p><p>With a career that has taken him from Mexico City to London to Shanghai, Vijay Vaitheeswaran brings an impressive breadth and depth of expertise to topics ranging from globalization, politics and economics to international trade, supply chain and labor disruptions.

<p>A tech expert and thought leader on transformative technologies, artificial intelligence, and future trends, Peter Leyden helps audiences understand and navigate this new era of global change.</p><p>Peter Leyden has been recognized as a leading-edge thinker ever since he arrived in San Francisco to work with the founders of <em>WIRED </em>magazine at the start of the Digital Revolution.

<p>A leading authority on globalization and global conflict, Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett offers insight on how converging forces of geopolitical realities, climate change, technology, and demographic shifts will affect every field and industry over the next century.</p><p>Thomas P.M. Barnett is a leading security geopolitical strategist and <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author, who has worked in U.S. national security circles since the end of the Cold War.

<p>For 40 years, photographer James Balog has broken new conceptual and artistic ground on one of the most important issues of our era: human modification of our planet’s natural systems. An avid mountaineer with a graduate degree in geography and geomorphology, James is equally at home on a Himalayan peak or a whitewater river, the African savannah or polar icecaps.</p><p>To reveal the impact of climate change, James founded the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), the most wide-ranging, ground-based, photographic study of glaciers ever conducted.