PAST MAIN SPEAKERS
*Position at the time of participation
2005
Al Gore
Former Vice President of the United States
2007
Eric Schmidt
Chairman & CEO, Google
2007
Anne Sweeney
Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks; President, Disney-ABC Television Group
2008
Bill Gates
Chairman, Microsoft
2010
James Cameron
Director, Avatar / Chairman & CEO, Lightstorm Entertainment
2011
Larry King
Former Host, Larry King Live
2011
Gloria Steinem
Feminist Writer and Organizer
2012
Werner Vogels
Chief Technology Officer & Vice President, Amazon.com
2013
Alain de Botton
Philosopher & Writer, <Essays in Love, Architecture of Happiness> / Founder, The School of Life & Living Architecture
2013
Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor, World Wide Web / Director, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
2014
Kil-Nam Chon
Professor Emeritus, KAIST / Professor, Keio University / Pioneer of the Asian Internet
2015
JB Straubel
Co-founder & CTO, Tesla
2015
Kip Thorne
Theoretical physicist / Executive Producer, Interstellar
2016
Steven Pinker
Professor of Psychology, Harvard University / Author, The Better Angels of Our Nature & The Blank Slate
2018
Cathy O’Neil
Data scientist, mathematician, The author of Weapons of Math Destruction
2018
Rose McGowan
Actress, director, activist, TIME Person of the Year 2017: The Silence Breakers
2019
Ju-Ho Kim
Professor in the KAIST School of Computing
2019
Zeynep TUFEKCI
Techno-sociologist / Professor at the University of North Carolina
2020
Yuval Noah Harari
Professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2020
YOU Myoungsoon
Professor, Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health, President of the Korea Health Communication Association
2021
HWANG Dong-hyeuk
Director & Screenwriter, Silenced, The Fortress, the Netflix series Squid Game
2021
Peter SINGER
Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University / Author of Ethics in the Real World, The Most Good You Can Do, Animal Liberation, and Why Vegan?
2021
LEE Jae-myung
Presidential Candidate, The Democratic Party
2021
YOON Seok-youl
Presidential Candidate, People Power Party
2021
SIM Sang-jung
Presidential Candidate, The Justice Party
2021
AHN Cheol-soo
Presidential Candidate, People’s Party