Speakers

One of the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players of All Time, he won the Most Valuable Player Award in 1993 and was a perennial member of the All-Interview Team, but retired…

Labeled an incorrigible youth in his native city of Baltimore, Charles S. Dutton dropped out of school at age twelve and led a life that sent him to reform school…

Emmy award winning journalist Charlie Rose has been praised as “one of America’s premier interviewers.” He is the host of Charlie Rose, the nightly PBS program that engages the world’s…

Best known as one half of the hilariously irreverent, satirical, counter-culture, no-holds-barred duo Cheech and Chong, Cheech Marin is a paradox in the world of entertainment. Cheech is an actor,…

Chef Emeril Lagasse received his first culinary experience from his mother, Hilda, when he was a boy growing up in the small town of Fall River, Massachusetts. As a teenager,…

There is nothing tranquil about comedian/actor Chris Tucker. A limber, wiry fellow with a high-pitched voice and a delivery as fast as a mosquito’s wing beats, he seems energy incarnate.…

Born on January 12, 1958, in London, England, Christiane Amanpour is considered one of todays leading news correspondents. First gaining notice for her 1985 report on Iran, which won the…

When Christina Applegate was three months old, she made her acting debut in her mother’s arms on the daytime soap opera “Days of our Lives.” After performing in commercials for K…

Chuck Martin is a New York Times business best-selling author, CEO of Mobile Future Institute and the Editor of the MediaPost mCommerce Daily, where he writes the daily MobileShopTalk column.…

Born on October 1, 1965 in Los Angeles, California, this blonde bombshell is not only known as the “Queen of the Internet,” but also as a talk show host, model…