Robin Sloan is a fiction writer whose novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He splits his time between the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Joaquin Valley of California.

His first novel, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, was published in 02012, and his second, Sourdough, was published in 02017. His latest novel Moonbound was published in 02024.

Peter Schwartz is the Senior Vice President for Global Government Relations and Strategic Planning for Salesforce.com. Prior to that, Peter co-founded Global Business Network, a leader in scenario planning in 01988, where he served as chairman until 02011. From 01982 to 01986, Peter headed scenario planning for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies in London. His team conducted comprehensive analyses of the global business and political environment and worked with senior management to create successful strategies. Before joining Royal Dutch/Shell, Peter directed the Strategic Environment Center at SRI International. The Center researched the business milieu, lifestyles, and consumer values, and conducted scenario planning for corporate and government clients.

Schwartz is the co-author of both the 01999 books The Long Boom, and When Good Companies Do Bad Things: Responsibility and Risk in an Age of Globalization, and is the author of the 01991 book, The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World. This seminal publication on scenario planning has been translated into Dutch, Portuguese, and Chinese. Peter also co-authored "Seven Tomorrows: Toward a Voluntary History" with James Ogilvy and Paul Hawken in 01982, and "The Emergent Paradigm: Changing Patterns of Thought and Belie" with James Ogilvy in 01979. He has published and lectured widely and served as a script consultant on the films War Games and Sneakers. He received a BS in aeronautical engineering and astronautics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The Schwartz Energy Blog can be read here.

Katherine Fulton has spent her life deliberately confronting social change —learning from the past, adapting to the present, and scouting the future. In her diverse roles as a journalist, teacher, organizational leader, trusted advisor, and civic volunteer, she aspires to be a change agent who enlarges the possibilities that groups and leaders embrace while grounding action in rigor and reality.

In recent years, Katherine has become well-known as an expert on the rapidly shifting terrain of philanthropy and impact investing. She has worked closely with many of the early 21st century’s generation’s leading philanthropists, major foundations and rising social entrepreneurs, always aiming for greater clarity and foresight aligned with creativity and courage. She has also authored many publications on the future of philanthropy, served on numerous governing boards and given dozens of major speeches, including at Long Now and at TED.

Katherine’s work draws upon her own life experiences of change, healing, and transformation. A native Virginian, she learned the importance of philanthropy and community service through the example of her family’s leadership. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in history and literature, Katherine began her career back in the South, where she covered politics for a major daily newspaper. Later she co-founded The North Carolina Independent, an award-winning investigative newspaper, which won her both a foundation prize for community service and a year of study as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. After leaving journalism in the early 01990s, she taught at Duke University before moving to California to work side-by-side with leaders at Global Business Network (GBN). There she learned from world-class futurists, mastered the scenario planning toolkit and focused on provoking journalistic institutions to adapt to the rapidly shifting technological context. As GBN merged twice (into Monitor Group and then Deloitte Consulting), Katherine spent more than a decade building a leading social sector consulting practice as president of Monitor Institute. This innovative social enterprise, hosted and supported by the parent firms, applies world-class consulting tools, hard-won knowledge and talent to major social and environmental challenges.

Katherine lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her long-time spouse, Katharine Kunst, where they have put down roots in the wine country. While co-chairing Long Now and helping lead its generational transition, she founded an innovative local philanthropy fund in the pandemic that continues to pioneer new ways for donors to join together to do what they cannot do alone. In a new and perilous time, she is devoted to working with leaders across generations to plant the seeds of a better long-term future while reducing suffering today.

Stuart Candy, a.k.a. the sceptical futuryst, is an experience designer, consultant, writer, educator, and activist. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa for work on experiential scenarios, an approach to immersive storytelling at the intersection of foresight, design, and politics. Originally from Australia, he also holds an LLB and a BA in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Melbourne.

Stuart is currently Senior Foresight and Innovation Specialist at the design and engineering firm Arup, and Adjunct Professor in the Design Strategy MBA at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He became the first Research Fellow of the Long Now Foundation in 02006, and has worked on a range of projects including the Long Now blog, Long Bets, the Long Shorts video series, and the Long Conversation.