"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 [3]; Anne Wojcicki [4]	Paul Allen [5]; Julia Milner [6]; Yuri Milner [7]	George Dyson [8]; Katinka Matson [9]; Yves Behar [10]; Julia Milner [6]
Larry Page [11]; Jesse Dylan [12]	Nick Bostrom [13]; Salar Kamangar [14]	Chris Anderson [15]; Evan Williams [16]
		[Continue 2015 [2]]

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

Every year since 1999, we have hosted The Edge Annual Dinner [17] (sometimes referred to as “The Billionaire’s Dinner” [17]). Guests have included the leading third culture [18] 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 [20]; Katinka Matson [9]	Jean Pigozzi [21]; Paul Allen [5]	Tony Fadell [22]; Danielle Lambert [23]
Andrian Kreye [24]; George Dyson [8]; Jeff Bezos [25]	Sergey Brin [26]; Charles Simonyi [27]	Lucy Page Southworth [28]; Larry Page [20]
		[Continue 2014 [19]]

Ricardo Salinas [30]; Larry Page [11];  John Brockman [31]	Marissa Mayer [32]; John Brockman [31]	Yuri Milner [33]; John Brockman [31];  Ricardo Salinas [30]
Sergey Brin [26]; Julia Milner [34]; Yuri Milner [33]	Anne Wojcicki [4]; Lori Park [35]	Jean Pigozzi [21]; Maria Laura Salinas [36];  Ricardo Salinas [30]
Lucy Southworth Page [28]; John Brockman [31]; Julia Milner [34]	Sergey Brin [26]	Salar Kamagar [37]
		[Continue 2013 [38]]

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Lucy Southworth Page [28]; Paul Allen [5]	Sergey Brin [26]; Jeff Bezos [42]	Evan Williams [43]; Craig Mundie [44];  Jean Pigozzi [21]
Tony Fadell [22]; John Brockman [31]	Anne Wojcicki [4]; Nathan Myhrvold [45]	Maria Laura Salinas [36]; Ricardo Salinas [30]
		[Continue 2012 [46]]

"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 [47]

Marissa Mayer [32]	Sergey Brin [26]	Jeff Bezos [42]; John Brockman [31]
Jeff Skoll [48]	Elon Musk [49]	Lucy Southworth Page [28]
Jean Pigozzi [21]	Nathan Myhrvold [50]	Ricardo Salinas [30]
		[Continue 2011 [47]]

2010 [51]

Evan Williams [43]	Dave Morin [52]; John Cusack [53]; Dean Kamen [54];  Bill Gates [55]; Arianna Huffington [56]	Bill Joy [57]; Stewart Brand [58]; Sergey Brin [26]
Jean Pigozzi [21]; Max Brockman [59]	Anne Treisman; [60] Daniel Kahneman [61]	Nicholas Pritzker [62]
Benoit Mandelbrot [63]	Lawrence Brilliant, M.D. [64]; Linda Stone [65];  Jean Case [66]; Steve Case [67]; Rod Brooks [68]	Larry Page [11]; John Brockman [31];  George Church [69]; Craig Venter [70]
	Daniel Dennett [71], Nathan Myhrvold [50]
		[Continue 2010 [51]]

EDGE Dinner in London 2009  [72]

Alfonso Cuarón [73]	Brian Eno [74]	Bruno Maddox; Roger Highfield [75]
Mark Henderson; Max Brockman [59]	Richard Dawkins [76]; Sally Gaminara	Terry Gilliam [77]; Brian Eno [74]
John Brockman [31]; Katinka Matson [9];  Max Brockman [59]; Russell Weinberger [78]	Maja Hoffmann [79]; Hans Ulrich Obrist [80]	Terry Gilliam [77]; Katinka Matson [9]
Phillip Campbell [81]	Matt Ridley [82]; Lalla Ward	Armand Leroi [83]; Andrew Franklin
		[Continue London 200 [19]9 [84]]

2009 [85]

Larry Page [11]; Danny Hillis [86]	Peter Gabriel [87]; John Brockman [31]; Bill Gates [88]	Jeff Bezos [42]
Dean Kamen [89]	Steve Case [67]; Jean Case [66]	Pierre Omidyar [90]
Max Brockman [59]; Marissa Mayer [32]	Matt Groening [91]	Lori Park [35]; Evan Williams [43]
Nicholas Pritzker [62]	Bill Joy [57]	Tony Fadell [22]
		[Continue 200 [19]9 [85]]

The San Francisco Science Dinner 2008 [92]

Ryan Phelan [93]; Sean Parker [94]	Richard Thaler [95]; Jimmy Wales [96]
Lisa Randall [97]	Sunnie Evers	Craig Venter [70]; Larry Page [11]
		[Continue San Francisco 200 [19]8 [92]]

2008 [98]

Tim O'Reilly [99]; Chris Anderson [100]; Mark Zuckerberg [101]	Anne Wojcicki [4]; Sergey Brin [26]	Pierre Omidyar [90]; Larry Page [11]
Bill Joy [57]; Shannon O'Leary	Tony Fadell [22]; Jeff Bezos [42]	Katinka Matson [9]; John Brockman [31]
Jean Case [66]; Steve Case [67]	Jean Pigozzi [21]
		[Continue 2008 [98]]

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

2007 [102]

Anne Wojcicki [4]; Murray Gell-Mann [103]	Sergey Brin [26]; Danny Hillis [86]	Jeff Bezos [42]
Paola Antonelli [104]; Katinka Matson [9]	John Brockman [31]; Stewart Brand [58]; Kevin Kelly	Dean Kamen [89]; Larry Page [11]
		[Continue 2007 [102]]

"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 [105]

Bill Joy [57]; Shannon O'Leary	Craig Venter [70]; Dean Kamen [89]	Charles Simonyi [106]; Lisa Randall [107]
	Jeff Bezos [42]; John Brockman [31]
		[Continue 2006 [105]]

EDGE Dinner in London  [108]200 [105]6 [108]

Oliver Morton; David Goodhart	Richard Dawkins [109]; Philip Campbell	Max Brockman [59]; David Deutsch [110]
Steve Connors; Jeremy Webb; Craig Venter [70]	Geoffrey Carr; Simon Baron-Cohen [111]	Brian Eno [74]
Sir John Maddox	Nicholas Humphrey	Matt Ridley
		[Continue London 2006 [112]]

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

2005 [113]

Mackenzie [114] & Jeff Bezos [42]	Craig Venter [70]; Sergey Brin [26]; Larry Page [11]; John Brockman [115]	Anne Wojcicki [116]; Sergey Brin [117]; Craig Venter [118]
		[Continue 2005 [113]]

2003 [119]

Sergey Brin [26]; Ronna Tanenbaum [120] Mackenzie Bezos [121]; Jeff Bezos [42]	Eric Schmidt [122]; Kelly Bovino [123]	Larry Page [11]
Daniel C. Dennett [71]; Steven Pinker [124]	Freeman Dyson [125]; Jared Diamond [126]	Marvin Minsky [127]
John Brockman [31]; Sergey Brin [26]	Jean Pigozzi [21]; Olga of Greece	Jeff Bezos [42]
		[Continue 2003 [119]]

2002 [128]

John Brockman [31]; Rupert Murdoch [129]	John Brockman [31]; Steven Pinker [124];  Daniel C. Dennett [71]; Katinka Matson [9];  Richard Dawkins [130]	Jeffrey Katzenberg [131]; John Brockman [31]
Sergey Brin [117]	Charles Simonyi [106]; Naomi Judd [132]	Jeff Bezos [133]
	Steven Pinker [124]; Katinka Matson [9]; Jeff Bezos [42];  Daniel C. Dennett [71]; John Brockman [31];  Richard Dawkins [130]
		[Continue 200 [19]2 [128]]

2001 [134]

Jeffrey Katzenberg [131]	Martha Stewart [135]	Ari Emanuel [136]; John Brockman [31]; Jordan Mejias [137]
Sean Parker [138]	Jean Pigozzi [21]	Charles Simonyi [106]
	Bran Ferren [139]; Marvin Minsky [127]
		[Continue 20 [19]01 [134]]

2000 [140]

Nathan Myhrvold [45]; Jeffrey Epstein	Dean Kamen [89]; Stewart Brand [58]	Nicholas Negroponte [141]
		[Continue 2000 [140]]

1999 [142]

Douglas Adams [143]	John Brockman [31]; Nathan Myhrvold [45]	Steve Case [67]; Nathan Myhrvold [45]
		[Continue [19]1999 [142]]