Steve Forbes is chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media. His newest project is the podcast "What's Ahead," where he engages the world's top newsmakers, politicians, and pioneers in business and economics in honest conversations meant to challenge traditional conventions as well as featuring his signature views on the intersection of society, economy, and policy. Mr. Forbes helped create the highly acclaimed public television documentary, In Money We Trust?, which was produced under the auspices of Maryland Public television. The film was inspired by the book he co-authored, Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy - and What We Can Do About It. His latest book is Inflation: What It Is, Why It's Bad, and How to Fix It, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames and Nathan Lewis. Mr. Forbes writes editorials for each issue of Forbes under the heading of "Fact and Comment." A widely respected economic prognosticator, he is the only writer to have won the highly prestigious Crystal Owl Award four times. The prize was formerly given by US Steel Corporation to the financial journalist whose economic forecasts for the coming year proved most accurate. In both 1996 and 2000, Mr. Forbes campaigned vigorously for the Republican nomination for the Presidency. Key to his platform were a flat tax, medical savings accounts, a new Social Security system for working Americans, parental choice of schools for their children, term limits, and a strong national defense.

Rich Karlgaard is editor-at-large and global futurist at Forbes, one of the world's most popular business and financial magazines, reaching 80 million people per month. In every issue of Forbes, he writes a column about technology, entrepreneurship, regional and economic development, and the future of business and work called "Innovation Rules." He is the author of Life 2.0 How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the Where of Their Happiness, The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success, and Team Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Organizations. His latest book is Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement. Mr. Karlgaard joined Forbes in 1992 and started Forbes ASAP, a technology magazine, along with Forbes chairman and editor-in-chief, Steve Forbes, and the futurist and writer, George Gilder. He has co-founded two companies, Garage Technology Ventures and Upside magazine as well as a civic organization called the Churchill Club. For the latter, Mr. Karlgaard was a co-winner of an Ernst & Young "Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year" award. He is also on the board of directors at Forbes.com, Garage Technology Ventures, and Extend America. Mr. Karlgaard is a graduate of Stanford University.

Dr. Mark Mobius is seen by many as the founder of the emerging markets asset class. He has a reputation as one of the most successful and influential managers over the last 40 years. In May 2018, with two ex-colleagues, Dr. Mobius launched Mobius Capital Partners. The firm utilizes a highly specialized active investment approach with an emphasis on improving environmental, social, governance, and company culture (ESG+C) standards in emerging and frontier market companies. Prior to this, he was employed at Franklin Templeton Investments for more than 30 years, most recently as executive chairman of the Templeton Emerging Markets Group.

James Stack owns InvesTech Research and is president of Stack Financial Management. He has been a popular speaker at MoneyShow conferences for more than 35 years. Mr. Stack has cultivated a deep understanding of stock market cycles and developed a unique approach to risk management that makes him one of America's most respected investment advisors. Based on his extraordinary insight into the financial markets and the Federal Reserve, he has been featured in Barron's, Money Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, and many other publications.

Mark Mills is a co-founding partner in Montrose Lane, a software-centric energy-tech venture fund, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University's engineering school. He writes for numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, and his online PragerU videos have been viewed over 10 million times. Mr. Mills is the author of The Cloud Revolution (2021). His previous books include Digital Cathedrals: The Information Infrastructure Era, (2020), Work In The Age Of Robots (2018), and The Bottomless Well, (2005), about which Bill Gates said, "This is the only book I've ever seen that really explains energy." He served as Chairman/CTO of ICx Technologies helping take it public in a 2007 IPO. Mr. Mills served in President Reagan's White House Science Office, and earlier, was an experimental physicist and development engineer in microprocessors and fiber optics, earning several patents at Bell Northern Research (Canada's Bell Labs) and RCA Semiconductor.

Marilyn Cohen is one of the country's top bond managers. She began her 40-year financial career as a securities analyst at William O'Neil & Co. Ms. Cohen moved into bond brokerage at Cantor Fitzgerald, Inc. then founded Envision Capital Management over 25 years ago. As Envision's CEO, she and her company specialize in managing bond portfolios for individuals. During this same time, she has written the bond column appearing in Forbes magazine. She is the author of six books on the bond market investing for individuals—all available at Amazon.com.

John Buckingham joined AFAM Capital in 1987 and Kovitz in 2018, as part of the Kovitz acquisition of AFAM. He has more than 30 years of investment management experience and serves as editor of The Prudent Speculator, which has been a trusted newsletter for over 40 years. Mr. Buckingham chairs the AFAM Investment Committee, leading a team that performs comprehensive investment research and financial market analysis. He has been featured in Barron's, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes, and frequently contributes to CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business News. Mr. Buckingham is a recognized industry contributor who regularly speaks at prominent industry seminars and events.