NEW PRESENTERS. NEW CREATIONS. TIME TO REGISTER.
TODD IS GOD. In addition to his own albums (nearly two dozen), Todd has produced albums for Halfnelson, Meat Loaf, Patti Smith, Tom Robinson Band, Cheap Trick, The Band and many others. He was the creator of some of the first music videos aired by MTV. A computer graphics pioneer, he wrote one of the first paint programs (it ran on the Apple ][), and one of the first screen savers. He wrote the music for Pee-Wee’s Playhouse and Crime Story, and film scores for Under Cover and Dumb and Dumber, among others.
NEW ALBUM: ARENA launched in September and kicked off a new tour. Recorded at home in Hawai’i. Get it on Amazon or iTunes.
eg in Monterey isn't easily pigeonholed. It’s not a business summit. It’s not a hacker-fest. It is not an artist colony. It isn’t a venture capital schmooze or a CEO club or a scintillating academic meeting. Although it embodies aspects of all of these.
eg simply brings together the best of the best: Presenters and attendees are the brightest creative forces in our society.
The name eg recalls ideal models & great explanations — exempli gratia — as well as: the entertainment gathering.
eg represents not only the plural worlds of entertainment, but is infused with science & technology, education & philanthropy, art & design, research & entrepreneurship. The conference celebrates our uniquely American entertainment industries because in their kaleidoscopic patterns of innovation, they are a breeder reactor for talents, technologies and ideas that inspire the boldest trends in our culture. There is not a segment of society or professional pursuit that is not profoundly affected. This is the creativity business, and eg is an engine for surfacing new ideas that move us forward.
Founded by Richard Saul Wurman (creator of TED among other things), eg is a throwback to the best of conferences that have flourished in Monterey for nearly 25 years. It is intimate — 500 people and no overflow room — and we come because nothing is more valuable (or entertaining) than latching onto a new idea. eg'ers are founders, CEO's, entrepreneurs, academics. They are rising stars and living national treasures; media pioneers and media barons. They are MacArthurs, Oscars, Pulitzers, Nobels, Kennedy Center honorees, and more. Past presenters often return for an "emeritus" year, which adds to a vibrant community. At eg, we are peers, and we come to share our best notions, and take away hundreds more. eg redefines what it can mean to entertain ideas, in all senses and through endless variations and media. This is the conference for the most interesting and inspired people in the world.
I realize that global media seem to swamp us with a downward spiral of news of a sad and crumbling world. That is why eg is more important than ever. The world has always been a tough, turbulent place. You don’t have to be the Buddha to know that life is struggle. In the face of challenges, nothing is more uplifting than the collective energy of the audience and presenters at eg. For some it is like a candle in the dark. Or a dynamo that charges you with inspiration and energy to tackle greater challenges ahead. For those who attend, it’s often the high point of the year. Above all, it is a chance to find that most priceless of all possessions: a new idea.
Michael HAWLEY — Director, eg; co-founder, 192021.org; pianist, scientist & educator.
D'AMBOISE — Dancer. MacArthur / Heinz / Kennedy Center / Nat’l Medal of Arts Honoree.
ANDERSON — Musican / Composer / Performance artist pair. Her latest: HOMELAND.
ANDERSON & Elizabeth Joy ROE — Concert duo-pianists. Watch LIBERTANGO!
ARIELY — Professor of Behavioral Economics, MIT & Duke. PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL.
BELL — Violinist. NEW VIVALDI.
BINDER — Broadway producer, Yale professor. Revived: A RAISIN IN THE SUN
BITTMAN — Best-selling food author & New York Times columnist & blogger.
BRICKMAN — Oscar & Tony-winning author — Annie Hall and ... JERSEY BOYS.
CARPENTER — Revolutionary organist. See: Chopin or Sousa or Raiders.
COHEN — Author, Photographer, Publisher. WHAT MATTERS.
DIAMANDIS — Founder, Chairman: X PRIZE FOUNDATION.
DUNBAR — Canine Expert; Founder, SIRIUS DOG TRAINING.
FERREN — Founder, Applied Minds. Inventor. Photographer.
FERRISS — Guinness record holder for Tango spins. Author, The 4 Hour Workweek.
GALLO & Bill LANGE — WOODS HOLE Oceanographers.
GLUCKSTEIN — Portrait photographer, from Hollywood to ancient tribes.
HARDING — Game designer & YouTube virus, Matt has danced around the world.
HAWASS — Egypt’s Indiana Jones; head of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities.
KAMLER — Orthopedist, microsurgeon, Doctor on EVEREST.
KIM — Urban explorer, painter, photographer, and artist.
KIM — puzzle & game designer; calligraphic wizard.
LANTING — Naturalist, Photographer: LIFE.
LEVINE — Philosopher-Comic.
LOVINS — MacArthur-winning Whole Systems Engineer; Chief Scientist RMI
MACAULAY — Author, Illustrator: Pyramid; Cathedral; Rome Antics; The Way WE Work.
MEAD — Magician.
MOFFETT — Entomologist; aka DR. BUGS.
MOUNTFORD — Interface Architect.
NEGROPONTE — MIT Professor, Founder Media Lab & One Laptop Per Child.
NOCK — Daredevil, juggler, acrobat, star: RINGLING BROS BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS.
OSTERHOUT — Inventor.
PACHTER — Director (emeritus), National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
POGUE — Author, Technology Commentator, New York Times' sophomoric skitmeister.
ROWE — Creator, Executive Producer & Host Guinea Pig, DIRTY JOBS.
RUNDGREN — Composer, Software artist, synthesist. UTOPIA. PEE WEE'S PLAYHOUSE?!
SALESIN — Professor, UW; VP of Research, ADOBE. Artist, software designer.
SAVAGE — Mythbuster, Hacker, Designer.
SHAPIRO — Motion-control artist/inventor/sculptor.
SOBULE — Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist, Jill famously kissed a girl.
STUTZMAN — a la Parrish, Wyeth & Rockwell, Mark is one of the great American illustrators.
SMITH — Computer graphics pioneer. PIXAR co-founder. Genealogist.
SMITH — Actress, Playwright, Professor, MacArthur fellow & 18 honorary degrees.
SMOLAN — Photographer & Producer, A Day In The Life; America At Home; Blue Planet Run; etc.
SWISS — Magician & Mentalist. “The Yo-Yo Ma of Sleight-of-Hand.”
WILSON — Musical Prodigy.
X PRIZE — New Innovative Automobile Designs.
and more.
PARTIAL LIST OF ‘08 PRESENTERS:
PAST PRESENTERS (PARTIAL LIST):
John
J
Faith
Chris
Paola
Ken
Yves
Mark
Chris
David
William
Lloyd
James
Angelín
Caleb
Jim
Miguel
Jim
Sky
Jared
Liz
Dan
Ian
Bran
Leon
Tom
Michael
Frank
Peter
Rob
Jonathan
Bing
Brian
Matt
Donald
Herbie
Jonathan
Michael
Peter
Pablos
Paul
Donald
AJ
Joe
Quincy
Naomi
Brewster
Nathaniel
Dean
Donald
Jeffrey
Andrew
Kevin
Rikki
Ken
James
Tim
Susan
Frans
Golan
Emily
Ken
Andrew
Yo-Yo
Michael
John
Marvin
Walter
Nathan
Nicholas
Bill
Jim
Carolyn
Adam Clayton
David
Clifford
Moshe
Adam
Steve
Keith
Gregg & Evan
Rick
Jill
Jon
Jamy Ian
Amy
John
J. Craig
Bruce
Rick
Chris
Spencer
Dick
Will
Richard Saul
08/09/25
WHO COMES & WHY?
TODD RUNDGREN
ROCK STAR. SYNTHESIST. TECH ARTIST.
TECHNOLOGY VISIONARY & SOFTWARE ARTIST, SINGER, COMPOSER & KEYBOARD PLAYER, TODD FOUNDED UTOPIA .
JUST OUT & TOURING: ARENA.
NEW BOOKS: One of the world’s best selling food authors, Mark has recently relaunched HOW TO COOK EVERYTHING, which is simply the best all-in-one contemporary cookbook, period. Good grief, if you have kids in college or friends who need a nice nondenominational holiday gift, give this. He has also produced a new book: FOOD MATTERS (out soon). I am assuming you already have How to Cook Everything Vegetarian, The Best Recipes In The World, The Complete Guide To Buying And Cooking Fish . . .
NEW TV: Eating your way across Spain with Batali, Paltrow, Bassols & Bittman. Damn! This is his job?
MARK BITTMAN
FOOD WRITER. NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST & BLOGGER.
THE WEB MEETS DOWN-TO-EARTH MINIMALIST COOK.
FOOD MATTERS.
Tony Curtis, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jane Russell, Stan Getz, Halston, Ursula Le Guin, Gregory Peck, Timothy Leary...
Just a few of the hundreds of remarkable souls captured by Dana Gluckstein. Whether they be some of the most famous faces in the world, or some of the least known, Dana’s portraits are invested with a striking humility and intimacy.
NEW PROJECT: Documenting Vanishing Cultures.
DANA GLUCKSTEIN
PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER.
SHIFTING HER FOCUS FROM SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST RECOGNIZED PERSONALITIES TO SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST ANCIENT AND AUTHENTIC CULTURES.
Jacques
Laurie
Greg
Dan
Joshua
David
Mark
Marshall
Cameron
David Elliot
Peter
Ian
Bran
Tim
David
Dana
Matt
Dr. Zahi
Ken
Miru
Scott
Frans
Emily
Amory
David
Eric
Mark
Joy
Nicholas
Bello
Ralph
Marc
David
Mike
Todd
David
Adam
Bruce
Jill
Mark
Alvy Ray
Anna Deavere
Rick
Jamy Ian
Gabi
The Automotive
...
ABELE — Founder/Chairman, Boston Scientific;
ALLARD — Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
D'ALUISIO & Peter MENZEL — Photographers / Material World, Hungry Planet, ...
ANDERSON — Editor-in-Chief, WIRED Magazine
ANTONELLI — MoMA Curator of Design & Architecture
AULETTA — Journalist
BÉHAR — Industrial Designer
BITTMAN — New York Times "minimalist" chef, author
BLACKWELL — Founder, Island Records
BLAINE — Magician
BRATTON — Chief of Police, Los Angeles
BRAUN — Head of Yahoo! Media Group
CAMERON — Producer/Writer/Director
CHANG — Pianist
CHUNG — Toy Inventor (Furby, Pleo, etc)
CITRIN — Author, Senior Director, Spencer Stuart
CORZO — president, The Colburn School
COX — CEO, Ring Tales
DAYTON — Founder of EarthLink and Boingo, CEO Helio
DIAMOND — Author, Prof. Geology & Physiology, UCLA
DILLER — Architect
DUBNO — Producer and Technologist, CBS News
DUNBAR — Canine Expert and Dog Trainer
FERREN & Danny HILLIS — Founding Partners, Applied Minds
FLEISHER — Concert Pianist
FONTANA — Executive Producer-Creator, Oz
FRY — Founder, Ring Tales; Cartoonist (Over the Hedge)
GEHRY — Architect
GELB — General Manager, The Metropolitan Opera
GLASER — Founder-CEO, RealNetworks, Inc.
GOLD — Pulitzer-winning food critic for LA Weekly
GORDON — Chief Creative Officer, EA
GREENE — Professor of Physics, Columbia University
GROENING — Creator/Exec Producer, The Simpsons
HALL, Jr. — President-CEO, Hallmark Cards
HANCOCK — Pianist
HARRIS — Web Artisan-Designer
HAWLEY — Scientist, Pianist, Educator
HIRSHBERG — Serial Entrepreneur, Chairman, Technorati
HOLMAN — Notorious Hacker
HOROWITZ — Harvard Professor; electronics nerd, SETI ace
JACKSON — Royal Calligrapher to Queen Elizabeth II
JACOBS — Journalist, Humorist, Author, Know-it-all
JACOBSON — Prof., MIT Media Lab; progenitor of e-ink
JONES — Musician, Producer, Humanitarian
JUDD & Dwight YOAKAM — Entertainers
KAHLE — Founder, Internet Archive
KAHN — Documentary Filmmaker (Two Hands, ...)
KAMEN — President DEKA R&D Corporation
KATZ — Founder and CEO, Audible.com
KATZENBERG — Co — Founder, DreamWorks SKG
KEEN — Entrepreneur/Author (Cult of the Amateur)
KELLY — Author, Philosopher: Whole Earth, WIRED et al.
KLIEMAN — Anchor, Court TV
KNOWLTON — Computer Art Pioneer, mosaic innovator
KORRIS — Creative Director, ICT
KRING — HEROES and beyond
LACY — Creator , Executive Producer, American Masters
LANTING — Naturalist and Photographer
LEVIN — Professor, CMU; Software Artist
LEVINE — Philosopher-Comic
LIBBRECHT — CalTech Professor; authority on snowflakes
LIPPMAN — Media Scientist, MIT Media Lab
MA — Cellist
MARKMAN — Creative Director, Moxi Media Center
MARKOFF — Technology Reporter, New York Times
MINSKY — MIT Professor; Artificial Intelligence Pioneer
MOSSBERG — Tech Columnist, Wall Street Journal
MYHRVOLD — Scientist, Geologist, Photographer, Chef
NEGROPONTE — MIT Professor; Founder, Media Lab, OLPC
NYE — The Science Guy
PHILLIPS — CEO, Luminetx
PORCO — Astronomer, JPL; Cassini/Saturn missions
POWELL, III — Director, Integrated Media Center, USC
ROCKWELL — Architect
ROSS — Artist/Photographer/Inventor
SAFDIE — Architect
SAVAGE — Myth Busters (and more)
SCHKLAIR — President, Cobalt Entertainment
SCHWAB — Prof. of Physics, Cornell; quantum tech.
SPIRIDELLIS — Co-Founders, JibJab Media
SMOLAN — Photographer (A Day in the Life...)
SOBULE — Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist
STEWART — The Daily Show (via special taping)
SWISS — Magician, Mentalist, Sleight-of-Hand Master
TAN — Author, Explorer (Joy Luck Club, etc)
UNDERKOFFLER — Founder, Oblong Systems
VENTER, Ph.D. — President, J. Craig Venter Institute
VILANCH — Comedian, Writer (The Oscars...)
WARREN — Pastor/Strategist, Saddleback Church
WEDGE — Co-Founder & VP Blue Sky Studios, FOX
WELLS — Director, The Genographic Project
WOLF — Creator — Executive Producer, Law & Order
WRIGHT — Creator, Spore, EA
WURMAN — Himself
