| Some ideas that I think are outside of the wheelhouse of typical Silicon Valley thought leaders: 1) Mike Bloomberg: Talk about founding and tech development of Bloomberg Professional Service (don't talk about politics at all) 2) Judy Faulkner: Founder and CEO of EPIC systems, a large privately held Hospital EHR vendor (Epic is one of the largest and most insular tech companies in the world) 3) Jack Ma: Founder of Alibaba 4) Pierre Omidyar: Founder Ebay 5) Bill Gates and/or Steve Ballmer 6) Mark Cuban More traditional Silicon Valley: 1) Larry Ellison: CEO of Oracle 2) Marc Benioff: CEO/Founder Salesforce 3) Paul Buccheit: Talk about gmail and early Google R&D product only 4) Matt Cutts: Get him to tell us how SEO really works 5) Scott Cook: Founder Intuit 6) Jeff Bezos: Founder/CEO Amazon 7) Tony Fadell: iPod Designer & CEO of Nest |