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Austin Kleon, a writer and visual artist, is a best-selling author of four books, including Steal Like An Artist and Keep Going. He's also a newspaper blackout poet. Kleon has spoken about creativity in the digital age for organizations like Pixar, Google, SXSW, TEDx, and the Economist, and his work has been featured in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

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Anthony Brandt is an acclaimed composer and a professor of music at Rice University. His musical compositions include an oratorio and two chamber operas. David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University and the internationally best-selling author of The Brain, Incognito, and other works.

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