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, economic, and policy. Mr. Forbes helped create the recently released and 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 Reviving America: How Repealing Obamacare, Replacing the Tax Code and Reforming The Fed will Restore Hope and Prosperity co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (McGraw-Hill Professional). 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, Steve 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.

Mark Mills, co-founding partner in Cottonwood Venture Partners, an energy-tech venture fund, is also a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University's engineering school. He writes a column for Forbes.com on the intersections of technologies and is published widely, including frequently in The Wall Street Journal. He earlier served as chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies, helping take it public in a 2007 IPO. He is author of Work In The Age Of Robots (Encounter Books, 2018), and earlier co-authored the book, The Bottomless Well, which rose to #1 in Amazon science. He served in the White House Science Office under President Reagan, and previously was an experimental physicist and engineer in semiconductors and fiber optics, working at Canada's Bell Labs and RCA's Sarnoff Research Center.

Ned Davis has been professionally involved with the stock market for more than 50 years, and is the senior investment strategist for Ned Davis Research, Inc. (NDR), which he founded in 1980. Mr. Davis espouses a disciplined strategy of following the weight of objective indicator evidence. NDR produces many sentiment indicators warning investors to be wary at crowd extremes while helping them to be open-minded about potential trend changes and macro pressures. Mr. Davis believes successful investing requires risk management, with the focus of his research dedicated to avoiding major mistakes, cutting losses short, and letting profits run. NDR is based in Venice, Florida, and has more than 900 institutional clients in over 41 countries. Mr. Davis is the author of Being Right or Making Money and The Triumph of Contrarian Investing.

John Buckingham, CIO of the Kovitz Investment Group, joined AFAM Capital in 1987 and Kovitz Investment Group 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 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.