KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Journalist & Best-Selling Author

Former Teacher; Now An Instructional Designer and Author on Effective Instruction on Learning

Philosopher Thomas Pogge wants to ensure medications get to those who need it most. He has published on a wide range of subjects such as global justice and human rights.

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

Pioneer of the Flipped Class Movement & Bestselling Author of "Flip Your Classroom"; Member of the TED-Education Advisory Board

Neuroscientist, Mental Health Advocate & Actress Known for "The Big Bang Theory"

Internationally Recognized Educator & Best-Selling Author

Women's Rights Attorney, Founder of AM&G, Women's Equal Rights Advocate

Author of "The Center Cannot Hold;" Associate Dean of Law, Psychology & Behavioral Sciences at USC Law

Mitchel Resnick is LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, Director of the Okawa Center, and Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab.

Director of the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing; William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University; PI, Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

Author, Award-Winning Foreign & War Correspondent; Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School & Executive Director The Reckoning Project

Smithsonian Institution Distinguished Scholar & Author of "Why Things Bite Back" and "Our Own Devices"

Writer, Historian & Journalist Whose Work Centers on the Epistemology of Democracy

Parenting & Bullying Expert; Author of "Queen Bees and Wannabes;" Founder of Cultures of Dignity

Co-Founder of the Born This Way Foundation with Daughter Lady Gaga; WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Mental Health

Founder and Editor of Online Women's Magazine, Jezebel. Editor, writer (Glamour, NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, New Yorker.com, many others.)

Bestselling Author, CEO of Zen Media, Digital Marketing Strategist

Former NASA Rocket Scientist, Author, TED Speaker & Artificial Intelligence Ethics Professor

Founder of Wikipedia & Wikitribune