"John Brockman ... is the shadowy figure at the top of the cyberfashion food chain."
—Ted Nelson, Geeks Bearing Gifts: How The Computer World Got This Way

Peter Gabriel; Anne Wojcicki	Paul Allen; Julia Milner; Yuri Milner	George Dyson; Katinka Matson; Yves Behar; Julia Milner
Larry Page; Jesse Dylan	Nick Bostrom; Salar Kamangar	Chris Anderson; Evan Williams
		[Continue 2015]

"To accomplish the extraordinary, you must seek extraordinary people."

Every year since 1999, we have hosted The Edge Annual Dinner (sometimes referred to as “The Billionaire’s Dinner”). Guests have included the leading third culture intellectuals of our time, dining and conversing with the founders of Amazon, AOL, eBay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Space X, Skype, Twitter. It is a remarkable gathering of outstanding minds—the people that are rewriting our global culture. 

Larry Page; Katinka Matson	Jean Pigozzi; Paul Allen	Tony Fadell; Danielle Lambert
Andrian Kreye; George Dyson; Jeff Bezos	Sergey Brin; Charles Simonyi	Lucy Page Southworth; Larry Page
		[Continue 2014]

Ricardo Salinas; Larry Page;  John Brockman	Marissa Mayer; John Brockman	Yuri Milner; John Brockman;  Ricardo Salinas
Sergey Brin; Julia Milner; Yuri Milner	Anne Wojcicki; Lori Park	Jean Pigozzi; Maria Laura Salinas;  Ricardo Salinas
Lucy Southworth Page; John Brockman; Julia Milner	Sergey Brin	Salar Kamagar
		[Continue 2013]

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Lucy Southworth Page; Paul Allen	Sergey Brin; Jeff Bezos	Evan Williams; Craig Mundie;  Jean Pigozzi
Tony Fadell; John Brockman	Anne Wojcicki; Nathan Myhrvold	Maria Laura Salinas; Ricardo Salinas
		[Continue 2012]

"Those present were the owners of Google, Twitter, Bill Gates, Benoit Mandelbrot (fractals), Craig Venter (Human Genome Project). Do I need to drop more names? A bomb at dinner and we would lose much of a certain creative intelligence that drives our world and our future, or the future that these people have created for all of us. The technologists have now become the center of power." —O Globo (Brazil)

2011

Marissa Mayer	Sergey Brin	Jeff Bezos; John Brockman
Jeff Skoll	Elon Musk	Lucy Southworth Page
Jean Pigozzi	Nathan Myhrvold	Ricardo Salinas
		[Continue 2011]

2010

Evan Williams	Dave Morin; John Cusack; Dean Kamen;  Bill Gates; Arianna Huffington	Bill Joy; Stewart Brand; Sergey Brin
Jean Pigozzi; Max Brockman	Anne Treisman; Daniel Kahneman	Nicholas Pritzker
Benoit Mandelbrot	Lawrence Brilliant, M.D.; Linda Stone;  Jean Case; Steve Case; Rod Brooks	Larry Page; John Brockman;  George Church; Craig Venter
	Daniel Dennett, Nathan Myhrvold
		[Continue 2010]

EDGE Dinner in London 2009

Alfonso Cuarón	Brian Eno	Bruno Maddox; Roger Highfield
Mark Henderson; Max Brockman	Richard Dawkins; Sally Gaminara	Terry Gilliam; Brian Eno
John Brockman; Katinka Matson;  Max Brockman; Russell Weinberger	Maja Hoffmann; Hans Ulrich Obrist	Terry Gilliam; Katinka Matson
Phillip Campbell	Matt Ridley; Lalla Ward	Armand Leroi; Andrew Franklin
		[Continue London 2009]

2009

Larry Page; Danny Hillis	Peter Gabriel; John Brockman; Bill Gates	Jeff Bezos
Dean Kamen	Steve Case; Jean Case	Pierre Omidyar
Max Brockman; Marissa Mayer	Matt Groening	Lori Park; Evan Williams
Nicholas Pritzker	Bill Joy	Tony Fadell
		[Continue 2009]

The San Francisco Science Dinner 2008

Ryan Phelan; Sean Parker	Richard Thaler; Jimmy Wales
Lisa Randall	Sunnie Evers	Craig Venter; Larry Page
		[Continue San Francisco 2008]

2008

Tim O'Reilly; Chris Anderson; Mark Zuckerberg	Anne Wojcicki; Sergey Brin	Pierre Omidyar; Larry Page
Bill Joy; Shannon O'Leary	Tony Fadell; Jeff Bezos	Katinka Matson; John Brockman
Jean Case; Steve Case	Jean Pigozzi
		[Continue 2008]

"The Billionaires' Dinner: row upon row of the world's most successful (and richest) human beings." —GQ

2007

Anne Wojcicki; Murray Gell-Mann	Sergey Brin; Danny Hillis	Jeff Bezos
Paola Antonelli; Katinka Matson	John Brockman; Stewart Brand; Kevin Kelly	Dean Kamen; Larry Page
		[Continue 2007]

"The crowd was sprinkled generously with those who had amassed wealth beyond imagining in a historical eye blink. The muscle and money behind tech stars such as Microsoft, America Online, Sun Microsystems and others had gathered at the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference here.  —The Wall Street Journal

2006

Bill Joy; Shannon O'Leary	Craig Venter; Dean Kamen	Charles Simonyi; Lisa Randall
	Jeff Bezos; John Brockman
		[Continue 2006]

EDGE Dinner in London 2006

Oliver Morton; David Goodhart	Richard Dawkins; Philip Campbell	Max Brockman; David Deutsch
Steve Connors; Jeremy Webb; Craig Venter	Geoffrey Carr; Simon Baron-Cohen	Brian Eno
Sir John Maddox	Nicholas Humphrey	Matt Ridley
		[Continue London 2006]

"This goes beyond all known schmoozing. This is like some kind of virtual-intellectual conspiracy-in-restraint-of-trade." —Wired

2005

Mackenzie & Jeff Bezos	Craig Venter; Sergey Brin; Larry Page; John Brockman	Anne Wojcicki; Sergey Brin; Craig Venter
		[Continue 2005]

2003

Sergey Brin; Ronna Tanenbaum Mackenzie Bezos; Jeff Bezos	Eric Schmidt; Kelly Bovino	Larry Page
Daniel C. Dennett; Steven Pinker	Freeman Dyson; Jared Diamond	Marvin Minsky
John Brockman; Sergey Brin	Jean Pigozzi; Olga of Greece	Jeff Bezos
		[Continue 2003]

2002

John Brockman; Rupert Murdoch	John Brockman; Steven Pinker;  Daniel C. Dennett; Katinka Matson;  Richard Dawkins	Jeffrey Katzenberg; John Brockman
Sergey Brin	Charles Simonyi; Naomi Judd	Jeff Bezos
	Steven Pinker; Katinka Matson; Jeff Bezos;  Daniel C. Dennett; John Brockman;  Richard Dawkins
		[Continue 2002]

2001

Jeffrey Katzenberg	Martha Stewart	Ari Emanuel; John Brockman; Jordan Mejias
Sean Parker	Jean Pigozzi	Charles Simonyi
	Bran Ferren; Marvin Minsky
		[Continue 2001]

2000

Nathan Myhrvold; Jeffrey Epstein	Dean Kamen; Stewart Brand	Nicholas Negroponte
		[Continue 2000]

1999

Douglas Adams	John Brockman; Nathan Myhrvold	Steve Case; Nathan Myhrvold
		[Continue 1999]