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Jim Roddy

Keynote Speaker & AuthorJim Roddy CBA (Coach & Business Advisor)

Author of "Hire Like You Just Beat Cancer" and "The Walk-On Method to Career & Business Success"

Robert M. DeConto

Provost Professor of and Earth, Geographic and Climate Sciences and Director of the School of Earth and SustainabilityUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Rob DeConto is one of the world's leading experts on modeling polar ice sheets, sea level rise and ocean response to climate change.

Aaron Wright, Ph.D.

Schofield Endowed Chair in Biomedical Science, ProfessorBaylor University

Research group investigates host-microbiome-environment interactions with functional resolution at the molecular scale

Rob Moore

Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Rob Moore studies digital learning ecologies and how microcredentials and MOOCs transform educational pathways and outcomes.

Rebecca Puhl, Ph.D.

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor; Deputy Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and HealthUniversity of Connecticut

Clinical psychology expert, specializing in the study of bullying and weight stigmatization

Andrea Hershatter

Professor in the Practice of Organization & Management; Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate EducationEmory University, Goizueta Business School

Cameron Awkward-Rich

Associate Professor in the Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies ProgramUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Cameron Awkward-Rich is a poet and a scholar of trans theory/expressive culture.

Margaret Beckel

President and CEO Canadian Museum of Nature

Champion for creating, advancing and sharing knowledge about nature's past, present and future.

Amir AghaKouchak

Professor of Civil & Environmental EngineeringUC Irvine

Amir AghaKouchak studies how climate change and variability influence extreme events (flood/drought/heatwaves) and compound hazards.

Raj Rajkumar

ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

Raj Rajkumar researches ways to safely bring your vehicle to life with information technology.