Michael Adams

Chief Executive Officer · SAGE

CEO of SAGE, the world’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT older people

Program Strategy Non-Profit Finance Strategic Planning Shaping Public Debate Persuasive Writing

Hugh Williams-Preece

Managing Director · Running Events

Using the achievement of running 50 Marathons in 50 Days, inspires audiences to set audacious goals in both work & play.

Inspirational Speaking Endurance Challenges

Ana Maria Porras

Assistant Professor · University of Florida

Using her background in tissue engineering and infectious disease, Ana Porras creates models of disease to study human-microbe interactions.

Inclusion in STEM Science Art Tissue Engineering Heart Valve Disease Microbiology

Sameer Srivastava

Associate Professor | Harold Furst Chair in Management Philosophy and Values | Co-Director, Computational Culture Lab · Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Economic Sociology Research Design and Methods Culture and Cognition Network Analysis Organizational Theory

Richard H. Stanton

Professor | Kingsford Capital Management Chair in Business · Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Leading expert on mortgage markets

Employee stock options (ESOs) Term structure modeling Mortgage and lease markets Mutual funds and risk management

Rupert Bourne

Professor of Ophthalmology · Anglia Ruskin University

Rupert Bourne is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Cambridge University Hospitals and Director of Cambridge Eye Research Centre.

Glaucoma Treatments Glaucoma Ophthalmology Vision Health Eyes

Gustavo Vejarano

Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering · Loyola Marymount University

Seaver College of Science and Engineering

Wireless Multihop Networks (Wmn) Cognitive Radios and Networking Cross-Layer Design Cyber-Physical Systems: adaptation mechanisms for WMNs to human activity and behavior Self-Organized Communication Networks

Douglas Charles

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, History · Pennsylvania State University

A leading scholar of the FBI and American history

Political History Gay and Lesbian History American History Obscenity Regulation Foreign Relations

Carolyn Harris

Historian, Author, Royal Commentator, Instructor, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies · www.royalhistorian.com

Author of Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada,Queenship &Revolution in Early Modern Europe and Raising Royalty:1000 Years of Royal Parenting

History Royalty Monarchy Queen Elizabeth II Europe

Andreea Gorbatâi

Assistant Professor · Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Expert on new forms of organizing

Collective Entrepreneurship Mechanisms of Collective Production Open Innovation Collective Action Participation Social Structures

Eric Rice

Associate Professor of Social Work · USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work

Social work expert, focusing on community outreach, network science, and the use of social networking technology by high-risk youth

Artificial Intelligence for Social Good Homelessness HIV Prevention Application of social networking methods to social work research Social Network Theory

Elle Boag

Associate Professor of Applied Social Psychology · Birmingham City University

Elle Boag's research has an attachment-related basis, and covers topics that extend her PhD research on prejudice and discrimination.

Antisocial and Prosocial Behaviour Prejudice & Discrimination Diversity Relationships Attachment Theory

Janet Austin

Chief Executive Officer · YWCA Metro Vancouver

Janet Austin is responsible for one of BC’s largest and most diversified non-profits

Non-Profit Leadership Social Housing Transition Housing Homeless Shelters Group Homes

Suresh Patel Dentist

Dentist · Metro Dental Care

Principal Dentist

Cosmetic Dentistry Root Canal Therapy Dentistry Emergency Dental Care Oral Surgery

Barbara D. Boyan, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Institute for Engineering and Medicine | B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Rice University · VCU College of Engineering

Dr. Boyan specializes in cell and tissue engineering

Cell and Tissue Engineering Response of Cells to Biomaterials Mechanisms of Action of Hormones and Growth Factors in Cartilage and Bone Normal and Pathological Calcification Stem Cell Delivery Technologies

Nicole Krug

Principle & Digital Strategist · Social Light

Making the internet a friendlier place

Marketing & Branding Web 2.0 Strategies and Tactics That Work Web Design and Trends Socia Media Strategy Email Markerting

Mical Raz

Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps Professor in Public Policy and Health · University of Rochester

Author of "What's Wrong with the Poor? Psychiatry, Race and the War on Poverty."

Psychiatry Education Policy Race Culture and Ethnicity Poverty & Public Policy Education

Rebecca Fry, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Environmental Sciences & Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health · UNC at Chapel Hill

Rebecca Fry's lab focuses on understanding how environmental exposures are associated with human disease.

Toxicology Genetics Epigeneitcs Epidemiology Public Health

Cordell Carter, II

Vice President, Operations · National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

Innovative Social Sector Executive

Business Engagement in Education Reform College and Career Readiness Stem/Innovation Minorities

Frank Waddell

Assistant Professor · University of Florida

Frank Waddell's research interests are at the intersection of new technology and online storytelling.

Artificial Intelligence Media Violence Media Effects Online News Fake News