KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Award-Winning Executive Producer, Screenwriter & Author; CEO of Shondaland

Actress, Writer, Director & Producer Known for HBO's "Insecure" & "Awkward Black Girl"

Academy Award Winner, Influential Actor, Diverse Role Performer

Academy Award Nominee, Director of "Selma", Founder of ARRAY

Writer & Director Known for "Love & Basketball" & Netflix's "The Old Guard"; First Black Woman to Direct a Major Comic-Book Movie

Academy Award-Winning Actress, Producer & New York Times Best-Selling Author

Award-Winning Actor, Producer & Director; Best Known for "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" & "The Last King of Scotland"; Founder of the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative

Actress Known for "Eve's Bayou," "The Great Debaters" & "True Blood"

Actress, Immigration Reform Advocate, White House Ambassador

Actor Known for "Selma," "The Butler" & "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"

Entrepreneur, Investor, Activist, Producer, CEO of MACRO

Legendary Movie Producer, Emmy Nominee, & Storyteller; Founder of Will Packer Productions

Director, Producer & Screenwriter; Known for "The Wood" and "Brown Sugar"

Film Director Known for "Ride Along" & "Think Like A Man"

Tony Award-winning Actor, Arts Advocate, Broadway Star

Actor, Writer, Producer, Director & CEO, Tyler Perry Studios; Philanthropist & Founder, Perry Foundation

Director, Film Produce & Actor; Best Known for Directing "Straight Outta Compton," "The Italian Job" & "The Fate of The Furious"

Academy Award-Winning Director, Film Producer, Author

Award-Winning Actor, Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur

Director, Writer & Producer Known for "Precious," "Empire," "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" & "The Deliverance"; Founder, Lee Daniels Entertainment