EG '07 in December at the Getty

EG 2007 is happening at the Getty in LA from December 2-4, 2007. EG stands for the entertainment gathering, so plans to gather magicians, musicians, film makersand photographers but it will also attract technocrats, scientists and humorists.

EG was launched by Richard Saul Wurman (TED founder) and is being directed by Michael Hawley. If there is a unifying theme, they tout, "it is that EG unabashedly brings together the best of the best, knowing that your most valuable idea is the one you haven't had yet."

A partial list of presenters is below:

John Abele — Founder/Chairman, Boston Scientific; Leader of the Grunion expedition

Paola Antonelli — MoMA Curator of Design & Architecture

Faith d'Aluisio & Peter Menzel — Photographers, Material World, Hungry Planet, ...

Jeff "Skunk" Baxter — Musician/Founder Steely Dan etc; National Defense Advisor

Miguel Angel Corzo — President, The Colburn School

Yves Béhar — Industrial Designer ("leaf" lamp, OLPC laptop, ...)

Mark Bittman — New York Times "minimalist", culinary author

Marshall Brickman — An author (Annie Hall, Jersey Boys, ...)

Caleb Chung — toy inventor (Furby, Pleo, etc)

Jim Citrin — Author, Senior Director, Spencer Stuart

Jim Cox — CEO, Ring Tales

Robert Downey Jr. — Actor

Jared Diamond — Author, Professor of Geology and Physiology, UCLA

Liz Diller — Architect

Ian Dunbar — Canine Expert and Dog Trainer

Michael Eisner — Producer, Media Investor, former CEO, Disney

Leon Fleisher — Concert Pianist

Michael Fry — Founder, Ring Tales, Syndicated Cartoonist (Over the Hedge, etc)

Peter Gelb — General Manager, The Metropolitan Opera

Rob Glaser — Founder & CEO, RealNetworks, Inc.

Jonathan Gold — Pulitzer-winning food critic for LA Weekly

Brian Greene — Professor of Physics, Columbia University

Jonathan Harris — Web Artisan & Designer

Peter Hirshberg — Serial Entrepreneur, Chairman, Technorati

Pablos Holman — Notorious Hacker

Paul Horowitz — Professor, Harvard; electronics nerd, SETI pioneer

Donald Jackson — Royal Calligrapher to Queen Elizabeth II

AJ Jacobs — Journalist, Humorist, Author, Know-it-all, Bible thumper

Joe Jacobson — Professor, MIT Media Lab; Inventor of e-ink

Brewster Kahle — Founder, Internet Archive

Nathaniel Kahn — Documentary Filmmaker (My Architect, Two Hands, ...)

Donald Katz — Founder and CEO, Audible.com

Andrew Keen — Internet Entrepreneur/Author (Cult of the Amateur)

Kevin Kelly — Author, Philosopher: Whole Earth / WIRED / Cool Tools

Ken Knowlton — Computer Art Pioneer and mosaic innovator

Tim & Lisa Kring — HEROES and beyond

Frans Lanting — Naturalist and Photographer

Golan Levin — Professor, CMU; Software Artist

Emily Levine — Philosopher-Comic

Ken Libbrecht — Professor of Physics, CalTech; authority on snowflakes

Andrew Lippman — Media Scientist, MIT

John Markoff — Technology Reporter, New York Times

Richard Meier — Architect

Marvin Minsky — Professor, MIT; Artificial Intelligence Pioneer

Nathan Myhrvold — Scientist, Geologist, Photographer, Chef

Nicholas Negroponte — Professor and Founder, MIT Media Lab; Digital Media Architect; Founder, OLPC

Carolyn Porco — Astronomer, JPL; Cassini/Saturn missions

Adam Savage — Myth Busters (and more)

Keith Schwab — Professor of Physics, Cornell; quantum technologist

Bob Shaye — Founder, NewLine Cinema; film maker/producer (Lord of the Rings, ...)

Rick Smolan — Photographer (A Day in the Life...)

Jill Sobule — Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist

Jamy Ian Swiss — Magician, Mentalist and Sleight-of-Hand Master

Amy Tan — Author, Explorer (The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter's Daughter, ...)

Bruce Vilanch — Comedian, Writer (The Oscars...)

Richard Saul Wurman