Jay Walker

Upside offers a new way for companies to actually reduce their business travel costs, by allowing employees to earn hundreds of dollars in free Gift Cards by helping their companies save money. The more money employees save their companies on business travel, the more free Gift Cards they earn each time they buy a trip. And, travelers don’t have to give up their frequent flyer miles, hotel points or credit card points. Discover how Upside is turning the way we buy business travel upside down at www.upside.com

TEDMED is the independently owned and operated health and medicine edition of the world-famous TED conference. TED and TEDMED Talks have been viewed online over two billion times around the world. Created by TED’s founder, TEDMED convenes and curates extraordinary people and ideas from all disciplines inside and outside of medicine. The result: unexpected connections that accelerate innovation in health and medicine. Best known for its annual event hosted in Washington, DC and San Francisco, CA, TEDMED is a year-round global community. TEDMED believes that our future will be transformed as the Information Revolution and Big Data collide with the Age of Biology. Genomic “programming,” the rise of patient-driven health, and mobile technology will forever change the landscape. TEDMED believes that only by creating an inclusive global dialog among people from all cultures and all walks of life, can we begin to see the “big picture” for health and medicine and begin to inspire the breakthrough thinking and insights critical to shaping a healthier tomorrow for our planet’s 7 billion people. www.tedmed.com

Walker Digital Tables Systems (WDTS) is the leader in networked table game solutions. WDTS develops innovations for Asian Pacific gaming markets including the Perfect Pay Baccarat Table Network that dramatically increases game security and dealer accuracy while minimizing losses from human error, collusion and theft. Phase Jitter Modulation technology is at the heart of WDTS solutions and is the only proven RFID protocol capable of meeting the high-volume, high-speed, dynamic requirements of the casino environment. www.wdtablesystems.com

The Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination celebrates humanity’s intellectual and emotional adventure of discovery, learning, and creativity by showcasing thousands of rare books, artworks, maps and manuscripts as well as museum-quality artifacts both modern and ancient. Constructed in 2002, the 3,600 sq. ft. facility features multi-level tiers, “floating” platforms, connecting stairways, glass-paneled bridges, dynamic lighting and music, and specially commissioned artworks that celebrate major achievements in the history of human invention. Invited guests to the Walker Library range from schoolchildren to business leaders, government officials and scholars, as well as librarians from around the world. http://www.walkerdigital.com/the-walker-library_welcome.html

Walker Digital is a privately held research and development lab whose mission is to use the tools of the digital age to create business systems that unlock extraordinary value for consumers and businesses. Since its founding in the early 1990s, Walker Digital has been thinking about a world defined by universal computing, unlimited bandwidth and continuous network access. What Walker Digital does is ask, “How can we reinvent businesses given that reality?” As Walker Digital has worked to answer this question over the last 20 years, it has invested many millions of dollars to create what is now a broad portfolio of inventions and operating companies. Walker Digital has launched several operating companies to commercialize our inventions in e-commerce, gaming, publishing, retailing, education and other industries. These companies have collectively served more than 100 million consumers, generated billions in revenue and created thousands of new jobs. The best-known company to come out of Walker Digital is priceline.com, one of the leading success stories of first-generation e-commerce with a current market value of more than US$60 billion. www.walkerdigital.com

ApiJect Systems America, Inc., is a public benefit corporation dedicated to making injectable medicines safe and available for everyone, using its Blow-Fill-Seal (BFS) prefilled syringes and specialized Needle Hubs. Through its public-private partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Defense (DOD), its subsidiary RAPID USA, Inc. is building and will manage a high-speed, high-volume surge manufacturing capacity for drug filling, finishing and packaging in the United States to effectively respond to pandemics and bio-emergencies.

LabTV is an online video platform that turns young medical scientists into role models who will inspire students to follow in their footsteps by considering a career in medical research. America needs more of our best and brightest students to take part in the greatest adventure of our time: medical research. The quest to “crack the code” of health and illness can improve the lives of 7 billion people around the globe. Unfortunately, most young people don’t know any scientists personally. And, they almost never see any young, working scientists in the media. So today’s students rarely think about joining the team. LabTV is going to change that. In cooperation with U.S. National Institutes of Health, LabTV is sending amateur and professional filmmakers to 40,000 research labs across America. These filmmakers are creating short video profiles of tens of thousands of young scientists. LabTV’s goal is to help students find role models they can identify with – young scientists who are people just like themselves, and who share their dreams and passion. LabTV will inspire millions of today’s students to think about becoming tomorrow’s heroes of medical research. www.labtv.com

foodtweeks is a free app that helps people better manage their weight while also feeding hungry families at the same time. 800 million times a day in America, and billions of times worldwide, people “tweek” their food by making small changes that remove unwanted calories. For instance, they may ask for less mayo, drink diet soda, or buy a low-fat dressing. This daily habit is a natural part of their everyday lives. The free foodtweeks app makes it easier for people to tweek their everyday foods more effectively. The app uses a crowdsourced picture database of over 44,000 small changes to show the user how to take calories out of her food without changing the taste or leaving her hungry. foodtweeks also offers the extra benefit of helping to feed the hungry in her community at no cost to the user. foodtweeks takes just a few seconds to use every time a user eats, cooks, or buys food – as fast as checking the weather or email. And because the app gets a complete picture of everything users eat, foodtweeks can serve businesses by providing valuable consumer insight data and delivering highly targeted offers. www.foodtweeks.com

Jay also co-founded Synapse Group, a company that leveraged the credit card processing network to revolutionize the magazine subscription business. Jay served as its marketing leader and created a customer database of 20 million active buyers—winning him the Direct Marketer of the Year award in 1999. By 1998 Synapse had sold 30 million magazine subscriptions, with sales approaching $300 million. In 2004, and again in 2005, Synapse was named one of the 25 "Best Places to Work in America" among medium-sized companies by the Great Place to Work Institute. As of 2011 Synapse employs more than 250 people. Synapse is now a subsidiary of Time Inc.