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Past Speakers

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Alex “Sandy” Pentland
Chief Scientist, MIT Media Lab
Co-Founder, Institute for Data Driven Design & Director, MIT Media Lab, Entrepreneurship Programr

Robert S. Langer
David H. Koch Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
The Langer Lab

Joe Incandela

Particle Physicist, University of California;
Fellow Scientist and Ex-Spokesperson of the CMS Experiment, CERN



Joe Liu
SVP of Research & Development
3M International and APAC

Matt Rogers
Co-Founder & VP of Engineering
Nest Labs


Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist and Director, Hayden Planetarium
Rose Center for Earth and Space

Stanley Bergman
Chairman & CEO
Henry Schein

Bernard Luthi
CEO
Monoprice

George Logothetis

Chairman & CEO
Libra Group

Guo Pei

Fashion Designer
Charles Bombardier
Engineer, Innovator & Angel Investor

Dava Newman
Deputy Adminstrator

NASA

Manu Asthana
President
Direct Energy Residential

Soraya Darabi
Co-Founder
Zady

Harbir Chhina
Executive VP, Oil Sands
Cenovus Energy

Renaud Laplanche

Founder and CEO
Lending Club

Frank van Mierlo
CEO
366 Technologies

Chris Hughes
Chairman of Segovia, Co-Founder of Facebook and
Founder of Jumo

Andrew Ng
Chief Scientist, Baidu,
Co-Founder, Coursera and Faculty of Stanford University

Ben Nelson
Founder & CEO
The Minerva Project

Danae Ringelmann
Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer

Indiegogo


Guy Wollaert
SVP, Chief Technical and Innovation Officer, and Chief Architect of Innovation

Coca-Cola

Deepak Chopra
Director of Educational Programs and Founder
The Chopra Center

HRH Prince Feisel Bin Al Hussein
Royal Hashemite Court
Kingdom of Jordan

Bjorn Kjos
Chairman & CEO
Norwegian Air Shuttle

H.E. Dr. Rawya bint Saud bin Ahmed al Busaidiyah
Minister of Higher Education
Sultanate of Oman

James J. Collins
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
The Collins Lab. Wyss Institute, Harvard University


Michael D. White
Chairman & CEO
Direct TV

Maria Livanos Cattaui
Vice Chairman

International Crisis Group


Arun Ghandi

Activist


Adi Ignatius
Editor-in-Chief
Harvard Business Review

Richard (Rick) Stephens
Senior Vice-President, Human Resources and Administration
The Boeing Company

Barbara J. Bennett
Chief Financial Officer
US Environmental Protection Agency

Jamil Mahuad
Former President
Republic of Ecuador


Don Tapscott
Author, Speaker,
Futurist

Jonathan L. Tilly
Director, Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology Chief of Research, Massachusetts General Hospital  and Professor, Harvard Stem Cell Institute

Len Schlesinger
Baker Foundation Professor
Harvard Business School

Noubar Afeyan
CEO & Managing Director
Flagship Ventures

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

President and CEO
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Bill Stone

Explorer and Inventor

David A. Edwards
Founder & Director, Le Laboratoire
Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering, Harvard University

Claude Begle
Chairman of DHL

Director General SymbioSwiss


Padmasee Warrior

Chief Technology Officer
Cisco Systems Inc.


Mishal Kanoo

Deputy Chairman
The Kanoo Group


H.E Noel Dempsey, T.D.,
Minister of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources
Republic of Ireland

Neil Turok

Director, Perimeter Institute & Founder, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences



Sam Pitroda

Inventor & Entrepreneur
Advisor to the Indian Prime Minister


Edward Burtynsky

Photographer


H. H. Sheikha Hissah Saad Al Sabah
President, Council of Arab Business Women

Dmitry Akhanc
President & CEO
Rusnano, USA

David Jones
Founder & CEO, You & Mr. Jones
Founder, One Young World

Sophie Vandebroek
Corporate Vice President, CTO and President, Xerox Innovation Group
XEROX

Wim Elfrink
Chief Globalization Officer
Cisco

Susan Athey
Professor, Department of Economics,
Harvard University, Chief Economist, Microsoft

Stephan Wolfram
Scientist, Inventor
CEO, Wolfram Research

Howard Janznen
CEO
Cool Planet Energy Systems

Raul Leal
CEO
Virgin Hotels

Prerna Gupta
Chief Product Officer
Smule

Michael Lebowtiz
CEO
Big Spaceship

Tom Conrad
CTO & EVP of Product
Pandora

Donald E. Ingber, M.D., Ph.D.
Founding Director
Wyss Institute

Cori Lathan
CEO
AnthroTronix

Paul Sellew
CEO
Harvest Power

Adam Pisoni
Co-founder & CTO
Yammer

Eva Biaudet
Member of Parliament
Finland

Kevin Semcken
Chairman and CEO
Able Planet

Lesa Mitchell
Advisor
Merian Ventures 

David Eaves
Open Innovation Expert
Eaves.ca

Thomas Stewart
Executive Director
National Center for the Middle Market

Ken Morse
Chairman & CEO
Entrepreneurship Ventures & Concentric Power

Joseph P. Benincasa
President and CEO
Actors Fund HD

Lisa Rhoads
Managing Director New York Office
Easton Capital

Rogier van der Heide
Senior Vice President & Chief Design and Marketing Officer
Zumtobel Group

Jonathan Lord
Chairman
Dexacom

Mick Mountz
CEO and Founder
Kiva Systems

Alejandro Palandjoglou
Product Designer

Chip Paucek
Chief Executive Officer
2U, Inc.

Lizbeth Goodman
Founder & Director, SMARTlab UCD &
Innovation Academy Executive

Reed Tuckson
Managing Director
Health Connections

Suneet Singh Tuli
President and CEO
Datawind

Ashifi Gogo
Founder
Sproxil

Vesa Virtanen
Colonel, Harvard Fellow
Finnish Defense Forces

Jaques Rogozinski
General Manager
Inter-American Investment Corporation

Eric Bonabeau
Founder, CEO & Chief Scientific Officer
Icosystems

Michael Janke
CEO & Co-Founder
Silent Circle

Barry Sears
Biochemist, Creator
Zone Diet

Duncan Watts
Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research

Rose Shuman
Founder & CEO
Open Mind

Bart Riley
Founder
A123 Systems

Robert Kirschbaum
Vice President, Open Innovation
DSM, Netherlands

Rahul Raj
VP of E-Commerce
Ecobee

Doron Reuveni
CEO
uTest

Juliette Brindak
Co-Founder, Partner
Miss O & Friends

Daniel Ha
CEO & Co-Founder
Disqus

Jim Spohrer

Head of Cognitive Systems Institute,
IBM and Director of IBM Global University Programs

Jane Stevenson
Vice Chairman Board & CEO Services
Korn/Ferry International

Ryan Leslie
Multifaceted Musician and Founder of Disruptive Multimedia

Prithvi Shergill

Chief Human Resource Officer
HCL Technologies

William Murphy

SMD, CTO and Head of Innovations and Infrastructure
Blackstone


Mpule Kwelagobe
CEO of MPULE Institute for Endogenous Development, and Miss Universe



Noam Bardin
Chief Wazer
Google

Dana C. Bookbinder

Inventor, Corporate Fellow

Corning Incorporated

Arnold Lund
Technology Leader for the Connected Experience Labs (CEL) Research Organization
GE Software

Cory Countryman

CEO
Walnut Hill Medical Center

Anita Goel

Harvard-MIT Physicist-Physician,
Chairman and CEO of Nanobiosym

Carne Ross
Founder and Director
Independent Diplomat

Claudia Perlich

Chief Scientist of Dstillerly,
General Chair of KDD 2014

Martin J. Yudkovitz
Senior Advisor, Walt Disney Company, (Retired)
Head of Strategic Innovation, Disney and NYU Stern Professor

Aaron Seitz
Founder of the UC Riverside Brain Game Center for Mental Fitness & Wellbeing, Carrot Neurotechnology and Fundamental Brain Games

John Holtzman
Senior Vice President of Thought Leadership
AARP

Jessica Greenwalt

Founder of Pixelkeet,
Co-Founder and Lead Designer of CrowdMed

Michael D. McCreary
Deputy Chief Technology Officer

E Ink

Steven K. Feiner,
Professor of Computer Science
Columbia University

Tim Marshall
Provost and Chief Academic Officer

The New School


Michael Leonard

SVP and Chief Economist

Alliant Insurance

Todd Dalland

Co-Founder and President
Pvilion Inc.

Linda Bernardi

Chief Innovation Officer
Cloud & IoT, IBM

Mark Hatch
CEO and Co-Founder

TechShop

Ben Glass

CEO of Altaeros Energies,

Inventor of Airborne Wind Turbine

Marcus Weller

Chairman & CEO
Skully Inc.

Michael Thali
Chair of the Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Zurich, and
Co-Founder of Virtopsy

Charlie O’Donnell

Founder and Partner
Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

Kunal Malhotra
Vice President of Product Development

Assurant Specialty Property

Prashant Yadav

Director of Healthcare, William Davidson Institute; and
Faculty, Ross School of Business and the School of Public Health
University of Michigan

Jonathan Howes
Co-Founder and CTO

Isentropic

Stephen Mullennix
Senior Vice President
Solar Reserve

John Katzman

Education Entrepreneur and Founder of Noodle Education, 2U, and The Princeton Review

Steve Heck
Chief Technology Officer

Getty Images

Annette Richardson
Senior Advisor

The United Nations Office for Partnerships

MIchael Dulin
Chief Clinical Officer for Analytics & Outcomes Research
Carolinas Healthcare System

Adrian Thomas
Vice President, Head of Global Public Health
Janssen Pharmaceuticals


Lucy Dunne
Associate Professor and Director of the Apparel Design Program and the Wearable Technology Lab
University of Minnesota

Sheldon Himelfarb
Director of Media, Technology, and Peacebuilding
United States Institute of Peace (USIP)

Omar Khan

Co-CEO
NQ Mobile

Jayson Yuan

Managing DIrector
CircleUp

Richard Boly

Principal

Beaurichly

Nancy McGaw
Director of the First Movers Fellowship Program and Deputy Director of the Business and Society Program
The Aspen Institute

Martin Varsavsky
Founder and CEO
FON

David Gallon
Strategic Innovation Manager
Toyota Motor Sales

David Van Zadt

President
The New School

Dena Merriam
Partner and Vice Chair
RuderFinn

Lars Boilesen

CEO

Opera Software

Lewis D’ Vorkin
Chief Products Officer

Forbes Media

Marguerite Broadwell

Innovation and Integration
Lead NASA

Dixon Doll
Co-Founder and General Partner
DCM

Lars Hard
CEO & Founder
ExpertMaker

Nathan Eagle
Co-Founder & CEO
JANA

Jeremy Allaire
Chairman & CEO
Brightcove

Jon Fawcett
Designer
Geraldine Hamilton
President & CSO
Emulate

Martin Watson
CEO
SeeChange Health

Marian Salzman
CEO
Euro RSCG Worldwide

Bill Grueskin
Dean of Academic Affairs & Professor of Professional Practice Columbia Journalism School

Mathew Silver
Chief Executive Officer
Cambrian Innovations

Hinda Miller
Vermont State Senator
President, DeForest Concepts

Yemi Adesokan
CEO
Pathogenica

Fadi Nahas
Chairman & CEO
NA Plus

Timo Poijarvi
CEO, President & Co-Founder
Hitlantis By Cognitive Maps

Debra Amidon
Founder & CEO
ENTOVATION International

Salim Al-Hassani
President
Foundation for Science, Technology & Civilization

Petri Rahja
President & COO
Scoopshot

Hirofumi Yokoi
Co-Founder & President
Akira Foundation

Zhao Gang
Chief Strategist & Research Fellow
Chinese Academy of Science& Technology for Development
China-U.S. Innovation Dialogue

Scott Harmon
Vice President, Strategy Development
3DSystems

Chele Chiavacci
President & Managing Director
Mistral Capital International

Anil Sethi
CEO
Flisom

Sergio Fernandez & Jorge Mendoza
Artist & Designer
ChickenBrainKen

Asra Nominee
Author

Scott Kirsner
Columnist
Boston Globe

Peggy Staver
Director, Product Integrity
Pfizer

Axel Tillman
CEO
Russian Venture Company, USA

Rob Go
Partner
Nextview Ventures

Naomi Tutu
Founder
Tutu Foundation for Development & Relief

Miko Rwayitare
President and Executive Chairman
Telecel International

Christopher Ahlberg
CEO & co-Founder
Recorded Future

Philip E. Hendrix
Director, immr and GigaOm Research Analyst

MIchael Liebow
Managing Director and Global

Lead for Accenture Cloud

David Algoso

Managing Director
Reboot

falk_Wolsky
Founder and CEO
Vibe Write

Sergio Alonso
Fernández de Córdova 
Founder
PVBLIC Foundation and P3GM

Tristan Pollock

Co-Founder and Head Community
Storefront

Antonio Zea
Global Football and Innovation Director
Adidas

Hanna Aase,
Founder and CEO 
Wonderloop
Lee Pelton
President
Emerson College

Kari Stefansson
President and CEO
deCode Genetics

Fahd Al-Rasheed
Chief Executive Officer
EMAAR King Abdulla Economic City

Paul Moller
Inventor

Danah Zohar
Philosopher & Author

Rives
Performance Poet and Multimedia Artist

Tarek Abdul Aziz Sultan
Chairman & Managing Director
Agility

Jon Hall
Executive Director
Linux International

Ina Gudele
Minister of Electronic Government
Latvia

Michel Elefteriades
Artists, Activist & Emperor
“NOWHERISTAN”

Michael Ahern
Minister Innovation Policy
Ireland

Jan Chipchase
Founder
Studio D Radiodurans

Cliff Justice
Partner, Innovation & Enterprise Solutions
KPMG

Adam Rein
Co-Founder
Altaeros Energy

Tracey McKibben
President and Founder

MAC Energy Advisors

Eleni Gabre-Madhin
Director
Food Policy Research Institute

David Rolston
CEO
Greenfield Technalysis

Nick Moon
Managing Director
KickStart

Hisham El Sherif
Chairman
IT Investments

Hamda Harizi
Founder,
Gourmet House

Jose A. Zaglul
President
Earth University

Zafar Siddiqi
Chairman & co-Founder
CNBC Africa

Khaled Ismail
Chairman
Kiangel

David Polinchock
Chief of Experience Design
AT&T Experience Lab

Richard Watson
CEO
Global Innovation Network

Thuraya Al Arrayed
Poet & Journalist

Etienne Sinatambou
Minister of information & Telecomm
Mauritius

Truls Berg
Founder & Chairman
Innovation Norway

Zakia Hamdani Meghji
Minister of Finance
United Republic of Tanzania

Abdul-Malik Al-Jaber
CEO
Paltel Group

Jane Griffin
Principal and Executive Advisor
Deloitte

Roger Bate
Fellow
American Enterprise Institute

Gil Forer
Global Director. Cleantech
Ernst & Young

Jake Schwartz,
CEO and Co-Founder

General Assembly

Alicia Barton McDevitt
CEO
Mass Clean Energy Center

Dan Shines

Curator

The innovation Hanger

Dong-Ping Wong
Co-Founder
Family New York

Scott Gilmore
Founder
Building Markets

Michael D. Thomas

President & CEO
New England Board of Higher Education

Sandra Richter
Co-Founder and CEO, Changing Environments and
Research on Persuasive Urban Mobility, MIT Media Lab

Leo Anthony Celi
Founder & Exec Director
Sana Mobile

David Kobia
Co-Founder and Director of Technology
Ushahidi

Noramay Cadena
Boeing Engineer & Executive Director
Latinas in STEM Foundation

Caroline Vrauwdeunt

Founder
De Stedenfabriek (City Works)

Scott Belsky
Vice President
Adobe

Alexis Maybank
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer
Gilt

Raghava KK
Artist
Radha and Miki Agrawal
Co-Founders
THINX

Alan Dabbiere
Chairman and Founder
Airwatch

Edward P. Gilligan
Vice Chairman
American Express

Stephen Hsu
VP of Research and Graduate Studies
Michigan State University

Liz Danzico
Co-Founder and Chair
MFA Interaction Design

Ted Chan
CEO
NuFit Media

David MacKenzie
CEO
Imprint Energy

Albert Green
CEO
Kent Displays

Tonya Mallory
CEO and Co-Founder
Health Diagnostics Lab

Joshua Reich
CEO
Simple

Ingrid Stange
Founder and Chair
Partnership for Change

Andrew M. Thompson
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer
Proteus Digital Health

Jacob Barnett
Child Prodigy

Albert Laszlo-Barabasi
Distinguished Professor, Northeastern University
Director, Center for Complex Network Research

Jose Ferreira
Founder and CEO
Knewton

Kathrin Winkler
Chief Sustainability Officer
EMC

Rob Girling
Principal & Co-Founder
Artefact

Ben Milne
CEO & Founder
Dwolla

Gordon McCauley

CEO & President
Allon Therapeutics

Gary Shapiro
President & CEO
Consumers Electronics Association

Yosra
Artist and UN Goodwill Ambassador

Abdullah Al Darmaki
CEO
Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development

Al Bunshaft
CEO, Governmental Solutions
Dassault Systèmes

Kristin Ingolfsdottir
President
University of Iceland

Nitesh Banta
Partner
General Catalyst

Ivo Boscarol
CEO
Pipstrel

Siri Skoien
CEO
Comlight AS


Khaled El Emam
Founder & CEO
Privacy Analytics

Joelle Frijters
CEO & Co-Founder
Improve Digital

Piero Formica
Founder & Professor
International Entrepreneurship Academy

Rick Little
Serial Social Entrepreneur

Andrew Yu
CEO
ModaLabs

Alastair Bathgate
CEO
Blue Prism

Maria Seidman
Co-Founder and CFO
Yapp

Nicholas Eisenberger
Managing Partner
Pure Energy Partners

Josh Stein
CEO
Adhere Tech

Ari Pokka
Head
Association Finnish Principals

Anthony Sutera
CEO and Co-Founder
Chamtech Enterprises

Beth Ann Kaminkow
President and CEO
TracyLocke

Santon
Artist

Ole Gustavsen
Partner, Director, Senior Strategic Advisor
SNØHETTA

Shauna Mei
Founder and CEO
Ahalife

Paul Horn
Senior Vice ProVost for Research
NYU

Veronika Scott
Founder
The Empowerment Plan

Wolfgang Renz
Corp. Vice President, Corp. Dept. Bus. Model & HealthCare Innovation
Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH

William Wolfram
Founder & CEO
DealDash

Phil Giudice
CEO
Ambri Inc.

Roger Brown
President
Berklee College of Music

Lara Setrakian
Founder
News Deeply

John Levis
Global Chief Innovation Officer
Deloitte

Daniel Kafie
CEO
Vostu

Piya Sorcar
Founder & CEO
Teach AIDS

Rodrigo Rubio
Architect

Marice Black
CEO
Bandgap Engineering

James Nachtwey
Photo Journalist &
War Photographer

John Werner
Head of Innovation & New Ventures
Camera Culture Group, MIT Media Lab

Christian Thirion
Founder, CTO & MD
Sirion Biotech

Prof. Dr. Ursula Gather
Rector
TU Dortmund
Noor Fares
Designer

Barry Kahn
Founder and CEO
Qcue, Inc.

Stephen Harper
Global Director of Environment & Energy Policy
Intel Corporation

Ilya Sukhar
Co-founder
Parse 

Robert Kirkpatrick
Director
UN Global Pulse

Andrew Capener
Designer

Kim Kaupe and Brittany Hodak
Co-Founders
ZinePark

Jarmo Eskelinin
CEO
Forum Virium Helsinki

David Tormey
Head of Center for Design Innovation
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Sligo

Eric Masanet
Energy and Resource Systems Analysis Laboratory Lead
Northwestern University

Christopher Meyer
Founder
Monitor Talent

Deidre White
President & CEO
CDC

Reed Taussug
CEO
ThreatMetrix

Sonny Vu
Founder
Agamatrix & Misfit Wearables

Barbara Hanna
Founder
Cyant

Dilawar Syed
CEO
Yonja Media Group

Alex Deghan
Founder
Conservation X Labs

Jani Penttinen
CEO & Founder
Transfluent

John S. Parkinson
Chairman & Managing Director, ParkWood Advisor

Atsufumi Yokoi
Special Advisor to the President
Okayama University

Tom Daveport
Professor
Harvard University

Arijit Sengupta
Founder & CEO
BeyondCore

Davide Rossi
Co-Founder and CEO
Fitbark

Rosario Londono
Social Intrapreneur
Inter-American Investment Corporation
Vincent Biruta
President of Senate
Republic of Rwanda

Mark Monroe
President
Energetic Consulting

Henrik Dillman
CEO
Mancx & More AB

Walt Doyle
General Manager
Paypal

Jessica Mathews
Co-Founder & CEO
Uncharted Play

Rahul Mehrortra
Chair, Department Urban Planning & Design
Harvard Graduate School of Design

Mahesh Lingareddy
CEO
SMI

Gloria Cordes Larson
President
Bentley University

Ric Fulop
Partner
Northbridge Venture Partners

Daniel Ibanez
Artist & Designer

Seth Priebatsch
CEO
Scvngr

Mike Philips
Co-Founder & CTO

Vlingo

Joel Schwartz
Senior VP & General Manager
EMC Corporation

Bruce Oreck
U.S. Ambassador
Republic of Finland

Eddie Bernard
Director
NOAA

Anthony Vanky
Researcher, SENSEable City Lab
MIT

Jenna Fagnan
President
Avion Tequila

James Garrett
CEO
Vadxx Energy

Alex Lee
President
OXO International

David Reisner
CEO
The Nano Group

Lorenz Potthast
Artist & Student Inventor

Tri Mumpuni
Co-Founder & Executive Director
IBEKA

Ernesto Arguello
Founder & CEO
HOLLA Realty

Walid Moneimne
CEO
Aspenta

Tania Heath
Designer

Ted Acworth
CEO
Artaic

Dorjee Sun
Documentarist
The Burning Season

Vasumathi Briquez
Vice President Innovation and Pervasive Computing
Oracle

Jose Manuel Santana Silvestre
Executive Director
Dominican Republic Presidency Commission of Science & Technology

Ken Johnson
Principal
Desert Connections

George Adams
CEO
Amorfix Life Science

Aza Raskin
Founder of Massive Health
Interface & Producer Designer

Craig Lehmann
Dean and Professor, The School of Health Technology and Management
Stone Brook University

Montasser Ouaili
Minister of Communications Technology
Tunisian Republic

Roland Burger
Co-Founder & Director
DigitalWorld Foundation, CEO, Nematrix Research

Zhong Xiang Zhang
Senior Fellow
East West Center

Sandra Westlund-Deenihan
President
Quality FloatWorks

Leif Edvinsson
The world´s first holder of professorship of Intellectual Capital

Paul Kwiecinski
Managing Partner
Face The Music

Mark E. McGough
President
Pentadyne Power Corp.

Fatima Al Belushi
Minister of Social Development
Kingdom of Bahrain

Joe Sita
CEO
IFA Hotel Investments

Mark Yu
Musician

Jed Willard
Director
The Public Diplomacy Collaborative
Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Eric Paley
Managing Partner
Founder Collective

Bruce Lieberthal
Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer
Henry Schein Inc.

Chantal Line Carpentier
Chief
UNCTAD

Frank Drohan

Chairman
Omagine, Inc

Tobias Ritesman
Chairman of the Board
Ritesman Enterprises Inc.

Georgie Benardete

Co-founder and Head of Strategy
Orchard Mile

Erin Baumgartner
Assistant Director
SENSEable City Laboratory

Vladimir Bulović
Associate Dean for Innovation
MIT

Rasheq Zarif
Business Innovation
Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.

Gregory Colbert
Canadian film-maker and photographer

 

Lindy Li
Candidate for the U.S. Congress.

Ari Wallach
CEO
Synthesis Corp

Dominic Wilcox
CEO
Little Inventors

Jonathan Stein
CEO & Founder
Betterment

Jerry Hultin
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Co-Founder
Global Futures Group

Gary Davis
Chief consumer security evangelist
Intel Security

Solmaz Altin
Chief Digital Officer
Allianz

Kimberly Smith
Chief Digital Officer
Capgemini

Sree Sreenivasan
Chief Digital Officer
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Aaron Darcy
CMO
GE

Clayton Banks
Co-founder
Silicon Harlem

Peter Koechley
Co-Founder
Upworthy

Krissa Watry
Co-Founder
Dynepic

Micha Benoliel
Co-Founder & CEO
Open Garden

Milena Berry
Co-Founder & CEO
PowerToFly

Jamira Burley
Co-Founder & CEO
GenYNot

Carl Dietrich
Co-Founder and CEO
Terrafugia

Patrick Youssef
Deputy Director of Operations
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS (ICRC)

Despina Papadopoulos
Designer
Principled Design

Mosaraf Ali
Director
Time Reversal Spa and Integrated Medical Centre

Andrew Rossi
Director
Ivory Tower

Dena Simmons
Director of Implementation
The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

Anastasia Dellaccio
Director of Marketing and Communications
Sister Cities International

Frances Holuba
Director of Social Enterprise
POLITICO

Nancy Ferris
Director, Kodak Research Labs
Eastman Kodak Co.

Dana Mauriello
Director, Seller Category Growth
ETSY

John Gaunt
EVP, International HR
HCL Technologies

Ellen Strahlman
Executive Vice President for Research & Development and Chief Medical Officer
BD

Nate Heasley
Founder
Goodnik

Mary Alice Stephenson
Founder
GLAM4GOOD

Trina DasGupta
Founder & CEO
Single Palm Tree Productions

Nina Dudnik
Founder & CEO
Seeding Labs

Ma Yansong
Founder & Principal Partner
MAD Architects

Bas Beerens
Founder and CEO
WeTransfer

Greg Henderson
Founder and CEO
Arx Pax

Yao Zhang
Founder and CEO
ROBOTERRA, INC.

Craig Weiss
Founder, President & CEO
Aladdin Dreamer, Inc.

Rick Cook
Founding Partner
COOKFOX Architects

Ali Velshi
Global Affairs & Economic Journalist

Fred Dust
Global Managing Director
IDEO

Mike Sutcliff
Group CEO
Accenture

Brenda Dietrich
IBM Fellow, author, inventor, and leader in Analytics and Data Science.

Yuri Ivanov
Innovation Scientist
Rethink Robotics

Ellen Hunt
Managing Director
RelationshipLink Business Advisors

Jorge Pikunic
Managing Director, Global Distributed Energy and Power
Centrica

Leonard Guarente
Novartis Professor and Director of Paul F. Glenn Lab for the Science of Aging at MIT
Elysium

Catharine Bond Hill
President
Vassar College

William Drohan
President
New England Design Associates

Paolo Gaudiano
President & CTO
Icosystem

David Anderson
President and CEO
BridgeLeader Network

Martin Maier
Professor
INRS

CJ Yeh
Professor and Assistant Chair
Fashion Institute of Technology

Ewa Luger
Researcher
Microsoft Research Cambridge

Matteo Shapira
Senior Director of Innovation & Technology
Intel

Andrea Jones-Rooy
Social Scientist, Circus Performer, Comedian

Desiree Peterkin Bell
Special Adviser and Consultant
Democratic National Convention Committee

Andrew O’Brien
U.S. Special Representative for Global Partnerships
U.S. Department of State

Shawn Johnson
Vice President – Design, User Experience & Digital Creative
NBC Digital

Tanya Marie Momtahen
Vice President, Global Scientific and Clinical Procurement
Sanofi

Greg McNeil
VP Design Innovation Labs
Flex

Barry Springer
VP, Technology, Strategy and External Innovation
Johnson & Johnson

Lila Tretikov
Chief Executive
Wikimedia

Michael Lefenfeld
President and CEO
SIGNA CHEMISTRY INC.

Roy Hessel
CEO
Clearly

Sheetal Amte-Karajgi
Chief Executive Officer
Maharogi Sewa Samiti

Scott Spradley
CIO
Hewlett-Packard

Anju Patwardhan
Fellow
Singapore Management University

Ruchika Jain
Strategy, Planning – Head
Infosys Ltd