Edward Glaeser
American Economist & Author, Harvard Professor
JFK Speaker Schedule
Saturday, November 17th, 8:30 am – 8 pm
8:30 – 8:45 am | Check-in
8:45 – 9:00 am | Welcome
9:00 – 10:30 am | BLOCK 1
10:30 – 10:50 am | Break
10:50 – 12:10 pm | BLOCK 2
12:10 – 1:15 pm | Lunch Break
1:15 – 2:30 pm | BLOCK 3
2:30 – 2:45 pm | Break
2:45 – 4:00 pm | BLOCK 4
4:00 – 4:25 pm | Break
4:25 – 6:00 pm | Block 5
6:00 – 6:15 pm | Closing Remarks
6:30 – 8:00 pm | Reception
More info on our event page HERE.
Block 1: Service & Civics
9:00 – 10:30 am
“Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy
Catalina Gorla
Co-Founder & CEO TruDataRx
Stephen Kennedy Smith
Co-founder Pear Theapeutics, Investor, Entrepreneur
Andrea Campbell
Boston City Council President, District 4
Mike Whitehead
Paralympian at Canada Wheelchair Rugby & 4x Olympian
Kathy Roth-Douquet
CEO at Blue Star Families
Block 2: Global Citizenship & Diplomacy
10:50 – 12:10 pm
“We are not alone. We have friends and allies all over the world who share our devotion to freedom.” – John F. Kennedy
Graciela Mohamedi
Science Teacher, Activist, Veteran
Zoë Buratynsky
Sailor & World Traveller
Ashley Paré
CEO & Founder, Own Your Worth LLC
Dima AlBasha
Co-Founder of Al Basha Education Institute, MPL Underwriting, Intercultural/Interfaith Syrian Advocate
Togzhan Kassenova
Expert on Nuclear Politics, Prevention of Financial Crime, Author
Block 3: Change Makers
1:15 – 2:30 pm
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy
Nichol Bradford
Co-Founder & Executive Director at Transformative Tech Lab
Jim Stone
Founder, Chairman & CEO, Plymouth Rock Group
Adam Wilber
Magician, Bestselling Author & Entrepreneurial Wizard
Julie Chang
Stanford Computational Imaging Lab, Computer Vision at A9
Eric Standop
Author & Face-Reader
Block 4: Innovation & Entrepreneurship
2:45 – 4:00 pm
“It is impossible to have real progress as long as millions are shut out from opportunity and others forgiven obligations.” – John F. Kennedy
Amy Wilkinson
Founder & CEO of Ingenuity
Stuart Haber
Co-Inventor of Blockchain
Mira Wilczek
President & CEO at Cogo Labs
Rebecca Love
Director of Nurse Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Northeastern University
Jeff Karp
Professor, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Block 5: New Frontiers
4:25 – 6:00 pm
“The problems of the world cannot be possibly solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream things that never were…and ask why not.” – John F. Kennedy
Ravi Khanna
Former MIT Microengine Researcher & CoFounder of Edirno
Pablo Paredes
Founder & CEO, Pop-Up! Faculty, Stanford School of Medicine; Computer Science Professor (Adjunct) at University of Maryland
David Kong
Director, Community Biotechnology Initiative at MIT
Roz Picard
Founder & Director, Affective Computing Research Group at MIT
Tom Gruber
Co-Founder, CTO and VP Design for Siri
John Markoff
Fellow at Center For Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Inc