Rob Kenney started the YouTube channel “Dad, How do I?” in April of 2020 thinking that he would help 30 or 40 people learn some basic life skills. A month and a half later, he had over 1 million subscribers. 

He has written a book and has been featured on many national and worldwide television and radio broadcasts. Now 5 years later he has close to 7 million followers across multiple platforms and is known the world over as the “Internet’s Dad”.

Lucy Guo is the Founder & CEO of Passes, a creator commerce & monetization platform that provides creators with a suite of tools to earn from their creativity, grow their fanbase, and become successful entrepreneurs. Previously, she has created viral products used by 15m+ users, co-founded Scale AI, and launched venture funds Backend Capital and HF0, which have invested in over 100+ startups.

Carsten Höller creates what he calls Influential Environments, intended to create particular states of mind, like excitement and alteration, doubt and confusion, joy and fear. He has a Ph.D. habil. in the field of phytopathology from researching insects’ olfactory communication before becoming an artist. His installations are often reminiscent of scientific experiments, but without a scientist or data-collecting apparatus present. Instead of the artist’s vision being embodied in the artwork, as is traditionally the case, his artworks allow for self-experimentation, producing particular experiences in the users. He has referred to the visitors of his exhibitions as “his real working material”.

Höller’s works have been shown in major art institutions worldwide, including Fondazione Prada, Milan (2000), Tate Modern, London (2006), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2010), New Museum, New York (2011), Hayward Gallery, London (2015), Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2016), Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2019) and MAAT, Lisbon (2021). In 2022, Höller opened the restaurant Brutalisten in Stockholm.

We are the first generation who won’t die.

Amy and Ben Wright are the founders of Bitty & Beau’s Coffee—a for-profit company created to confront a quiet but pervasive injustice: people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) are systemically excluded from the workforce and underestimated by society. The Wrights didn’t set out to sell coffee—they set out to redefine human value. Named after their two youngest children, Bitty and Beau, who have Down syndrome, the company has grown into a nationally recognized brand with locations across the U.S., employing hundreds of individuals with I/DD. Their daughter Lillie, who is on the autism spectrum, serves on their leadership team—turning lived experience into strategy. At Bitty & Beau’s, kindness isn’t branding—it’s infrastructure. It powers decisions, drives culture, and shapes every customer encounter. It’s not sentimental—it’s systemic. In a world that measures people by output and efficiency, the Wrights are offering a counter-model: one that proves empathy can scale, purpose can drive profit, and inclusion can be the foundation—not the afterthought—of success.

David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, is co-Founder & President of Every Cure and one of the youngest tenured professors ever at Penn Medicine. He is also battling a deadly disease as a patient and alive thanks to a repurposed treatment he discovered and described in his bestselling memoir ‘Chasing My Cure‘. He has advanced 13 more repurposed treatments for cancers and rare diseases and co-founded Every Cure to unlock more hidden cures, which has received over $100M from ARPA-H and TED’s Audacious Project. He has been profiled by The New York Times, Good Morning America, TODAY, and Forbes 30 Under 30 and awarded the Atlas Award along with then VP Joe Biden, Philadelphia Citizen of the Year award, and named to TIME100 Health. David earned a BS from Georgetown University, MSc from Oxford University, MD from the University of Pennsylvania, and MBA from Wharton.

Michael L. Eisenberg, MD earned his bachelor degree from Rice University and his medical doctorate from Yale School of Medicine.  He completed his residency in urology at the University of California, San Francisco and a Men’s Health and Microsurgery fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine.  He is board certified in urology.

He joined Stanford University in 2011 to start the Male Reproductive Medicine and Surgery program.  Dr. Eisenberg serves as an editorial editor of Fertility and Sterility and associate editor of Andrology, on the editorial boards and as an ad hoc referee for dozens of leading medical journals and has himself authored numerous peer-reviewed articles. His NIH-funded laboratory seeks to understand the association between a man’s reproductive and overall health as well as the control of spermatogenesis. As an entrepreneur, he leads a team which has developed several devices to improve men’s health as well as advising multiple healthcare companies.

Yusra Mardini is an Olympic swimmer, humanitarian, and the subject of the critically-acclaimed Netflix film, The Swimmers. Born and raised in Damascus, Syria, Yusra and her sister, Sara, made the difficult decision to flee the civil war in 2015 and undertake a perilous journey to safety. After reaching Europe, Yusra and her sister made their way to Berlin, Germany, where they found their new home and Yusra resumed her swimming training. Her dream of participating in the Olympic Games came true with the Refugee Olympic Team at the Rio 2016 Games, and again at the Tokyo 2020 Games. In 2017, Yusra was appointed the youngest-ever UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador.

She also established her own charitable foundation, The Yusra Mardini Foundation, which supports young people and refugees through sports programs and humanitarian assistance. In 2023, in recognition of their advocacy for refugees, she and her sister were named by Time Magazine to their list of the “100 Most Influential People in the World.”

Hamdi Ulukaya was raised in a dairy-farming family in a small village in eastern Turkey. After moving to the U.S., he founded Chobani in 2005 with the mission of making high-quality food more accessible. Five years after selling the first cup of yogurt, Chobani was a billion-dollar brand and today, the #1 selling U.S. yogurt brand. In 2023, Chobani acquired leading coffee roaster La Colombe.

Ulukaya built Chobani on the foundation that it would do well by doing good. As part of this, he has been at the forefront of the movement to hire refugees, having discovered first-hand “the minute a refugee gets a job is the minute they stop being a refugee.” 

He founded the Tent Partnership for Refugees (Tent) in 2016 with the mission of mobilizing the world’s largest companies to connect refugees to jobs. Today, Tent is a network of 400+ businesses across the Americas and Europe that are committed to hiring refugees and helping them become job-ready.