Brad Myles serves as Executive Director and CEO of Polaris, a global leader in the fight to eradicate human trafficking and to restore freedom to survivors. For over a decade, he has devoted himself to combating human trafficking and modern slavery on a local, national, and global scale. Myles' early efforts focused on directly serving survivors, researching local human trafficking markets, and he..

Dr. Elizabeth Hausler is a skilled brick, block and stone mason with an M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Colorado, and a B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before graduate school, she spent five years in the engineering consulting industry for Peterson Consulting in Chica..

Sara DeWitt oversees day-to-day development of PBS Internet sites for kids and families, including the Kidscreen- and Webby Award-winning pbskids.org website, PBS KIDS streaming video services, the PBS KIDS portfolio of educational apps for children, and the PBS KIDS for Parents digital experiences. The preschool (pbskids.org) and early elementary school age (pbskidsgo.org) websites, which now ser..

Sydney Morris is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Educators For Excellence (E4E), a teacher-led organization that seeks to ensure teachers' voices are meaningfully included in the policy decisions that impact their classrooms and professions. Launched in 2010, E4E has grown into a national movement of 25,000 educators with chapters in Boston, Chicago, Connecticut, Los Angeles, Minnesota and New York. ..

Daniela Rus is the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. Her research interests are in robotics, artificial intelligence and data science. The focus of her work is developing the science and engineering of autonomy, toward the long-term objective of enab..

Larry Burns advises organizations on the future of mobility, logistics, manufacturing, energy and innovation. His current clients include Waymo, Peloton Technology, and Kitson & Partners. Larry served as General Motors Corporate Vice President of Research & Development and Planning from 1998-2009. He was a member of GM’s top decision board and was responsible for advanced technology development,..

Dr. Paul Rothman is the Dean of the Medical Faculty for the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Chief Executive Officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine, an $8 billion academic medical enterprise and a health system with a global reach. As Dean/CEO, Dr. Rothman oversees both the Johns Hopkins Health System and the School of Medicine. A rheumatologist and molecular immunologist, he came to ..

Dr. Lloyd Minor is a scientist, surgeon and academic leader. He is the Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, a position he has held since December 2012. He is also a professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery and a professor of Bioengineering and of Neurobiology, by courtesy, at Stanford University. As Dean, Dr. Minor plays an integral role in sett..

Dr. George Daley, dean of Harvard Medical School and the Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine at HMS, is an internationally recognized leader in stem cell science and cancer biology. He is also a longtime member of the HMS faculty whose work spans the fields of basic science and clinical medicine. Dr. Daley has been professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at HMS since..

Jennifer Kavanagh is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and associate director of the Strategy, Doctrine, and Resources Program in the RAND Arroyo Center. Her research focuses on U.S. political institutions and public opinion and their implications for U.S. foreign and domestic policy. She also studies political uses of mis- and disinformation. In her work for the U.S. Army, Jenn..

Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prior to returning to Harvard, he taught at Stanford Law School, where he founded the Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Lessig is a foun..

David Aguilar is an internationally recognized naturalist/astronomer, author, space artist and musician with a unique ability to open minds to the vast frontiers of space and their potential effects on our own world. David’s expertise lies in sparking intricate, yet fascinating connections between the universe, nature, art and ourselves. Through the development of global study tours, space scie..

THE WATER SCHOOL, FGCU Leading the way toward solutions with an interdisciplinary approach, addressing local issues with global consequences. Located in the midst of Florida’s complex freshwater and saltwater systems, The Water School is uniquely positioned to explore water-based issues. The health of waterways impacts surrounding ecosystems, regional and state economies and people who rel..

Regina E. Dugan, PhD, is an internationally recognized business executive, producer, engineerartist, taskmaster and product developer. She has led world-class, global teams, and hundredmillion to multi-billion-dollar efforts to deliver breakthrough products at Facebook, Google, Motorola, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), as the 19th Director, and first woman to lead the ag..

Daniel Kraft, MD is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor and innovator. With over 25 years experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Dr. Kraft has served as Faculty Chair for Medicine & Neuroscience at Singularity University since SU’s inception. He also founded and is Chair of Exponential Medicine, a program that explores convergent,..

Katherine Gehl is a business leader, author and speaker. Katherine was president and CEO of Gehl Foods, a $250 Million high-tech food manufacturing company in Wisconsin where she led a transformational growth strategy, receiving multiple awards, before selling the company in 2015— in part to dedicate more time to political reform. Her career includes roles in the private and public sectors i..

Dr. Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his lifetime career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies and societies, including market competition and company strategy, economic development, the environment and health care. ..

Ed Hyman is Chairman of Evercore ISI and Vice Chairman of Evercore. He heads Evercore ISI’s Economic Research Team. For the past 44 years Ed has been ranked by the Institutional Investor poll of investors for Economics, and ranked #1 for 39 years. Prior to joining Evercore ISI, Ed was the Chairman and Founder of ISI Group, LLC. (broker dealer) and ISI Inc. (funds management). Prior to formin..

Yung S. Lie, PhD, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides today’s best young scientists with funding to pursue innovative cancer research. Dr. Lie joined the Foundation in 2008 as Scientific Director, was promoted to Deputy Director and Chief Scientific Officer in 2014, and began her current role in Dece..

Larry Jameson, M.D., Ph.D., became Executive Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System and Dean of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine in 2011. Together, the two entities make up Penn Medicine, an $8 billion enterprise dedicated to excellence in the related missions of medical education, biomedical research and patient care. Founded in 1765 as the Colonies..