Unlike some of the other speechifiers here, Jeff Skoll is not a household name, even in reasonably filmic households. But the former eBay-president-turned-film-producer has played a role in bringing us films from An Inconvenient Truth to Syriana to Murderball and Good Night, And Good Luck (more recently he’s worked on Contagion and The Help). His company, Participant Productions, aims to tell stories about the issues that affect us all “and maybe engage us to make a difference,” as he puts it. According to his talk, his digital fortune was merely a means to tell those stories and start that change. That he has succeeded is no mean feat. As he puts it: “The quickest way to become a millionaire is to be a billionaire and come to make movies in Hollywood”. Why not show this one to your nearest billionaire and suggest that he or she does likewise?