Steve Jobs | Steve McQueen | Steve Martin | Steve Reich | Steve Vai | Steve Winwood | Stone Cold Steve Austin | Steve Earle | Steve Davis | Steve Forbes | Steve Coogan | Steve Allen | Steve Wozniak | Steve Guttenberg | Steve Biko | Dixon of Dock Green | Steve Lawrence | Steve Roach | Steve Fossett | Steve Harvey | Steve | Dixon | Steve Young | Steve Waugh | Steve Taylor | Steve Lacy | Steve Coleman | Steve Albini | Steve Roach (musician) | Steve Morse |
Mark Longhurst, Anna Jones, Lorna Dunkley, Martin Stanford, Steve Dixon, Martin Popplewell, Chris Roberts, Emma Crosby, Anna Botting and Allan King have all presented the show when Burley has been absent.
Dalton is also the birthplace of award-winning artist Richard T. Slone and the town in which Sky News presenter Steve Dixon and Turner Prize winner Keith Tyson grew up and attended school.
Some recent keynote or plenary speakers have included: Rosi Braidotti, Jacques Derrida, Steve Dixon, Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Peter Greenaway, Sneja Gunew, Steven Holl, Dominique Janicaud, Stelarc, Slavoj Žižek