Martin Eberhard, founder and former CEO of Tesla Motors, an electric car company based in southern California. His lecture, “Building a Culture of Innovation: From E-books to Electric Cars to...?”

Eberhard, one of Fortune Magazine’s Top Innovators of the Year in 2007, re-invented the electric car with the introduction of the Tesla Roadster, a battery-powered supercar that reaches speeds of 130 miles per hour and gets more than 200 miles on a single charge. Newsweek dubbed the Tesla Roadster an “electric dream,” and Wired Magazine named it the 2007 Car of the Year.