Sean Brown is the Founder and CEO of GO VC, whose mission is to bring promoting aptitude and programming computerization standards to the universe of beginning time subsidizing. Driven via Sean Brown, their group is made out of advertisement purchasing geniuses.

food52.com A few years ago, we set out to bring cooks together from all over to exchange recipes and ideas and to support each other in the kitchen. We wanted to create a buzzing place for others who do what we do all day long: talk about food! Together we create cookbooks, take on food projects, help others with our real-time food Q&A—the Food52 Hotline —and support local food producers. Since we started Food52 (we cook 52 weeks a year, get it?), millions of cooks and eaters have found their way to the site. We believe that if you want to eat better, and you want to help change our food system, you need to cook. Maybe not all the time, but some. You don't have to eat local foods every day; you don't have to shop at the farmers market every week. But it's good to try. We're not extremists in a cult of purity, slow-foodness, or locavorosity. We're realists who believe in applying the best aspects of those food movements to our everyday lives.

The Childs Dreyfus Group (CDG) was founded on the idea that changing the perception of a space can fundamentally change how people experience that space. Being a modern design firm with more than 50 years of experience and success, CDG understands the evolving realities of how people use space to live, work and play. Over the years, CDG has evolved to embrace new aspects of design, new markets and new challenges. From multi-family developments to luxurious rentals and for-sale developments to mixed-use spaces and to student housing and beyond. CDG has built enduring partnerships with clients across the nation by delivering designs that inspire, delight, tantalize and challenge the senses. Each CDG project is designed with the client’s priorities in mind. ROI, not vanity, drives our business and informs our creativity. By creating efficient yet emotionally effective designs, CDG stands apart as a forward-thinking partner who builds tremendous value—and breathtaking beauty into every assignment. Lead by Rene Pabon, President and CEO, CDG continues to foster an award winning culture driven to exceed expectations in interior architecture, merchandising and design. Member of the Institute of Residential Marketing and has been published in leading industry publications such as Builder, Raising Standards, Student Housing Business, Build, Multifamily Real Estate News and Professional Builder.

Astrid Design Studio is a boutique interior design firm dedicated to creating elegant and sustainable residential and commercial spaces. Based in Marin County, California, Astrid Design works in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City and Miami Beach. Principal, N. Astrid Lindo is a Colombian born artist and was formally trained as an interior designer at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She holds Certificates in Green Building and Permaculture and received her LEED accreditation in 2006. Having launched Astrid Design in 2008, Astrid has been working directly with her clients to create beautiful spaces. Astrid hones her talent in being able to intuitively curate and design interiors that highlight her client's innate sensibilities. Astrid's 17 years in the industry and her constant thirst for knowledge in all cutting-edge technologies and practices, enriches her as a designer and writer. These elements provide an understanding and application of the nuances that distinguish her in her trade. Her distinctive competence and inspiration lies in her fluency in Spanish and her training in Spain, Italy, New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Miami Beach. Her broad education, experience and travels have provided her with a profound understanding of culture and aesthetic, facilitating an innate capacity in interior and lifestyle design. In 2012, Astrid was chosen as one of ten Influential Women in Cleantech: Top 10 Women of Sustainability. With education being at the core of all change, she strongly believes that in continuing to cultivate herself and share that knowledge, she can help facilitate inspiration, thought and ultimately positive change. Astrid is currently taking on projects in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City and Miami Beach.

Founded in 1965, the California-based Dacor is a family-owned and operated US manufacturer of luxury kitchen appliances. Dedicated to quality, craftsmanship, and innovation, Dacor has integrated fashion, function, and technology to create unique kitchen products that are built to reflect the lifestyle and needs of the homeowner. For almost 50 years, Dacor has been responsible for many of the innovations that have changed the way we live and cook in the modern kitchen. Today, Dacor embraces the legacy, heritage, and expertise of a third generation to lead the company into a new age of innovation and discovery.

Founded in 1956, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is the premier specialty retailer of home furnishings and gourmet cookware in the United States. Our brands are among the best known and most-respected in the industry. We offer high-quality, stylish products for every room in the house: from the kitchen to the living room, bedroom, home office and even the hall closet. The first Williams-Sonoma store opened in 1956, selling a small array of cookware imported from France. Since then, the brand has expanded to hundreds of products from around the world, more than 250 stores nationwide, a direct-mail business that distributes millions of catalogs a year, and a highly successful e-commerce site. What has never changed is Williams-Sonoma's dedication to customer service and strong commitment to quality.

Our mission is to affect positive change through our architecture, and that means creating beautiful, ultra-efficient, and healthy environments that matter—to our clients, to the environment, to the future. We strive for the highest in design, which to us means integration of performance and aesthetics–such as is found in Nature. We are leaders in the field of Passive House design and building science, and bring our expertise to bear on a wide range of project types. Our design vocabulary spans from classic to modern; instead of a “signature style,” our dogma is authenticity and quality.

Native plants, Pollinators, Stormwater!, Climate Change

Gabriella Gustafson and Mattias Ståhlbom have run the architecture and design studio TAF in Stockholm, Sweden since 2002. TAF’s aim is to make ordinary life less ordinary through subtle but effective changes in how products and architecture appear and function. A recurrent departure point in TAF projects is that everyday objects by their very commonness can be made uncommon.

The Staub family business was launched as a cookware store in 1892 by Francis Staub’s grandfather Auguste Waldner in Alsace, France. After a brief foray into acting the charismatic Francis decided to change professions by taking over the family business. In 1974, he purchased a nearby cast iron plant and Staub cookware was born. As the company grew, so did its acquisitions. Now nearly thirty years later, the company stands as the undisputed leader of culinary cast iron in France.

We are an architecture and design agency that creates ideas, objects and spaces to change the way you experience the world.

Ever since I was six years old I would go into a room and dream about how I could change it to make it look a whole lot better. I am an Interior Designer.

W. David Marx is the author of two books: Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style, and Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change. He lives in Tokyo, Japan.

Sander Architects is the international award-winning firm whose approach to contemporary residential design has been making waves in the architecture world. Its Hybrid House uses components of prefab technology to create homes that are custom designed for each client. Homes that are not only green but also very high design. This is a time of extraordinary change for practitioners in the design fields and Sander Architects is a young exciting firm determined to be at the forefront of green architecture.

A wanderlusting homebody with an appetite for adventure, Suzy Evans spends her time running, writing, doing yoga and exploring her constantly changing surroundings. A wanderlusting homebody with an appetite for adventure, Suzy spends her time running, writing, doing yoga and exploring her constantly changing surroundings.

Philippe Starck believes that creation must improve people’s lives. This notion pushes the designer in all of his pursuits, from designing everyday products like kitchen tools and lighting to grander projects like mega yachts and wind turbines. As an inventor, creator, architect, designer, and artistic director, Philippe Starck is a versatile artist who is focused on changing the world. Starck has completed thousands of projects, and has designed for renowned companies like Kartell, Flos, Magis, Baccarat, Vitra, Alessi, and many more. Starck was the first French man to be invited to speak at the TED conferences, and has been featured in various museum exhibitions including the Guggenheim and MoMa in New York. In the course of his celebrated design career, Starck has earned many awards and decorations.

Conflict, systems, conversation, leadership, change

Founded in 2007, Sharon Davis Design exists to design buildings that alter the future of communities and the people within them. Sharon Davis Design works collaboratively with nonprofit, public, and private clients, designing projects as diverse as townhouse interiors in New York City, to community centers in Rwanda. The firm was named one of Metropolis magazine’s 2013 “Game Changers” for its Women’s Opportunity Center in Rwanda, and the project earned the 2011 World Architecture Festival Award “Best Future Educational Project.” Sharon Davis Design embraces the professional ideal of positively changing the way people live, both globally and locally, through multidisciplinary rigor and with compassion for the earth and humankind.

Onecollection is a Danish design company, originally founded by Ivan Hansen and Henrik Sørensen in 1990 as Hasnen & Sørensen. The duo changed the company name to Onecollection in 2007. Passionate about furniture design, the brand works with talented Scandinavian designers to create furnishings that celebrate Danish tradition, while introducing innovative, modern forms. Onecollection's furniture is meant to communicate a sense of comfort, while also retaining an artful, distinctive look. In addition to its work with current designer, Onecollection has the sole rights worldwide to produce and market the furniture of the architect Finn Juhl, a man many consider to be the father of the Danish Modern movement.

Life choices and lifestyles lie behind the MissoniHome project, which over the years has changed and expanded from fabrics to furnishings. It's like a building in constant evolution. Rosita Missoni's personal vision of the home atmosphere and furnishings has colored the MissoniHome brand. Unusual, captivating fabrics; innovative, simple shapes for sophisticated settings; a feeling of artiness but with a light touch; important, seemingly simple elements that blend easily into existing environments, adding vibrancy and color.