Featured Speakers
Ursula M. Burns
CEO and Chairman, VEON
Yo-Yo Ma
Cellist, Curator of the MIT Solve Arts and Culture Mentorship Prize
Eric Schmidt
Technical Advisor and Board Member, Alphabet Inc.
The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau
Prime Minister, Canada
Speakers
Pina Albo
CEO, Hamilton Insurance Group
Doug Banks
Executive Editor, Boston Business Journal
Virginia Bergin Tenpenny
Vice President, Global Social Impact, Starbucks
Matthew Bishop
Managing Director, The Rockefeller Foundation
Malual Bol Kiir
Executive Director, African Youth Action Network
Kimberlynn Cameron
M.S. Civil & Environmental Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
United States
Kirk Carapezza
Reporter, WGBH
Dr. Cady Coleman
Former Astronaut, NASA
Damon Cox
Assistant Secretary of Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kevin Delaney
Editor in Chief and Co-President, Quartz
Rana el Kaliouby
CEO, Affectiva
Jessica Espey
Senior Advisor, United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network
John Fernández
Professor, Department of Architecture Director, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
United States
Elizabeth Frank
Co-Founder, MealFlour
Ina Fried
Chief Technology Correspondent, Axios
Brianna Fruean
Climate Activist, Pacific Climate Warriors, 350 Samoa
Pape Gaye
President & CEO, IntraHealth International
Sayeh Ghanbari
Partner, EY
Whitney Gray
Senior Vice President, Delos
Christiane Heinicke
Physicist and Engineer, University of Bremen, Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity, Crew Member, Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation Mission IV
Martin Hermann
State Secretary of Development Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
Denmark
Phyllis Heydt
Vice President, Office of the U.N. Special Envoy for Health and the Global Health Alliance
Namir Hourani
Managing Director, Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit
Katja Iversen
President and CEO, Women Deliver
Jason Jay
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management, Director, Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan
Dean Kamen
President, DEKA Research & Development, Founder, FIRST
Ken Kelzer
Vice President Global Hardware Components and Subsystems, General Motors || Judge for The GM Prize on Good Jobs and Inclusive Entrepreneurship
Eric Klopfer
Professor and Director of the Scheller Teacher Education Program and The Education Arcade, MIT
United States
Dave Krupinski
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Care.com
The Honorable Zachary J. Lemnios
Vice President, Physical Sciences & Government Programs, IBM
Gideon Lichfield
Editor in Chief, MIT Technology Review
Roya Mahboob
CEO, Digital Citizen Fund
Dr. Mallika Marshall
Health Reporter, CBS Boston
Carolyn Miles
President and CEO, Save the Children
Helene Molinier
Director of Innovation, UN Women
Luis Alberto Moreno
President, Inter-American Development Bank
Fiona Murray
William Porter Professor of Entrepreneurship and Associate Dean of Innovation, MIT Sloan School of Management; Co-Director, MIT Innovation Initiative
Lisa Nip
Graduate Student, MIT Media Lab
Amira Odeh
Organizer, Caribbean Youth Environment Network
Chandrakant Patel
Chief Engineer and Senior Fellow, HP Inc.
Nancy E. Pfund
Founder and Managing Partner, DBL Partners
The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi
Director, Center for Ethics, MIT
Tahera Rahman
Reporter, WHBF-TV
Mark Reading [Old]
Head of Foundation, Atlassian
L. Rafael Reif
President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Elisabeth B. Reynolds
Executive Director, MIT Work of the Future Initiative
Rick Ridgeway
VP of Public Engagement, Patagonia
Paul Robinson
Executive Director, RISE || Judge for The RISE Award for Coastal Community Resilience
Iyah Romm
Chief Executive Officer, Cityblock Health
Mona Sarfaty, MD MPH
Director, Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health
Anjali Sastry
Senior Lecturer, System Dynamics, MIT Sloan School of Management
Reshma Saujani
Founder and CEO, Girls Who Code
Philipp Schmidt
Director of Learning Innovation, MIT Media Lab
Ross Smith
Director, Skype for Good
Miki Sode Ph.D.
Commercial Innovation Program Manager, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS)
Panion Tase
Computer Science Teacher, Boston Public Schools
Pita Taufatofua
Olympian, Tonga
Tom Taylor
Senior Vice President, Alexa, Amazon
Jenny Toomey
Director, Internet Freedom, Ford Foundation
Robert Urban PH.D.
Global Head, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Johnson & Johnson
Arshya Vahabzadeh M.D.
Chief Medical Officer, Brain Power; Innovation Officer, Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy
Nicola Watkinson
General Manager, The Americas, Australian Trade and Investment Commission, Deputy Consul-General, Australian Consulate-General (New York)
Raquel Wexler
Mainstreaming Innovation Lead, Office of Global Innovation, UNICEF
Denise Williams
CEO, First Nations Technology Council
Erin Winick
Associate Editor for the Future of Work, MIT Technology Review
Danielle Wood
Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab
Manoush Zomorodi
Host and Managing Editor of “Note to Self” Podcast, WNYC Studios
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