Gel 2004

(Speaker transcripts)

Andre Haddad

VP of User Experience and Design, eBay

Bob Roberts

Founder, Project Return; author, My Soul Said to Me

Brian Collins

Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy + Mather

Christina Wodtke

Director of Design, Yahoo

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Artists; creators, The Gates (Central Park, New York City: 1979-2005)

David Bodanis

Author

David Greenberger

Creator, Duplex Planet; assisted at Gel by pianist and composer Lee Feldman.

Eloma Barnes

Orator of Dr. Martin Luther King's speeches; manager, Homes for Black Children

James Ludwig

Director of Design, Steelcase

Maria Schneider

Editor, Pathetic Geek Stories; staff writer, The Onion

Mark Hurst

Gel host

Bio

Phil Mirvis

Organizational psychologist; author, To the Desert and Back

Rodney Brooks

Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab; author, Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us

Scott Heiferman

Co-founder, Meetup.com and Fotolog.net

Seth Goldman

Co-founder, Honest Tea

W. Russell Neuman

Professor of Media Technology, University of Michigan; previously, senior policy analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy