Jenny Johnson
3 time Emmy Award Winning co-host & Executive Producer, Founder of Champy
WGBH Speaker Schedule
Saturday, November 23rd, 8:00 am – 7:45 pm
8:00 – 8:30 am | Check-in
8:15 – 8:30 am | Welcome
8:30 – 11:45 am | BLOCK 1: Education
10:00 – 10:15 am | Break
12:00 – 4:45 pm | BLOCK 2: Innovation
1:30 – 1:45 pm | Break
3:15 – 3:30 pm | Break
4:45 – 7:45 pm | BLOCK 3: Science
Event Hosts
More info on our event page HERE.
Robbie Samuels
Relationship-Based Business Strategist
Christina Matteucci
Executive Director, David Beahm Experiences
Jordan Harrod
Ph.D. Student & NSF Fellow at Harvard-MIT, YouTube Creator
Inmo Yang
Violinist
Jason Redman
Former Navy Seal
Eliza Reid
First Lady of Iceland
Keisuke Wakao
Assistant Principal Oboe, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Kevin Breel
Writer, Comedian & Mental Health Activist
Linnea Olson
Patient Advocate & Activist, Artist, and Lung Cancer Survivor
Tom Roston
Journalist & Author of The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World and the Rebirth of New York
Sylvia Ruth Gutmann
Holocaust Survivor, Author, Speaker
Ben Mezrich
Best-Selling Author
Leonard Kleinrock
Fathervof the Internet; Developer of the Arpanet; directed the first transmission to pass over the network
Chris MacAskill
Co-founder & CEO @Cake.co, colleague of Steve Jobs @NeXT & Pixar
Don Eyles
Software Engineer on Apollo Space Program
Yordanos Eyoel
Partner at New Profit and International Spokesperson of the Sister March Network
Jon McNeill
Serial Entrepreneur & Former President Tesla, Former COO at Lyft
Jasmine Roberts
VR/AR Developer, Researcher, Lecturer
Ramesh Raskar
Privacy and AI expert, MIT Media Lab Inventor, Lemelson Awardee
Reza Khorasaninejad
CTO at BRELYON
Elizabeth Rowe
Principal Flute, Boston Symphony Orchestra
David D’Alessandro
Surgical Dir of Heart Transplantation & Ventricular Assist Devices at MGH
Sheila Hemami
Director, Strategic Technical Opportunities at Draper
Bill Brett
Award-Winning Photojournalist for The Boston Globe
Dave Troy
Serial Entrepreneur & CEO, 410Labs
Aaron Engelhart
Expert in Molecular Evolution on Mars, Genetics, Cell Biology & Development Professor, University of Minnesota
Jiabao Li
Designer & Artist
Krystyn Van Vliet
Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at MIT, Associate Provost, MIT
Nitish Padmanaban
PhD Candidate, Stanford Computational Imaging Lab
David Lindell
PhD Candidate, Stanford Computational Imaging Lab
Sameena Shah
Managing Director, AI Research at J.P. Morgan Chase
Jaylen Brown
Boston Celtic; Team USA
David Kong
Director, Community Biotechnology Initiative at MIT
Aaron Hertzmann
Principal Scientist, Adobe Research; Formerly with Pixar
Ofer Levy
FDA Advisor, Director of Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children's
Mel Schwartz
Psychotherapist & Marriage Counselor
Dena Shahriari
Biomaterials scientist and neural engineer, postdoctoral researcher at MIT
Heather Goldstone
Science Correspondent for WCAI & WGBH Radio
John Werner
Founder & CEO Ideas in Action
Kara Miller
Host of Innovation Hub at WGBH
Kirk Carapezza
Managing Editor for Higher Education at WGBH