KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Writer, Researcher & Blogger; Autism Sister/Advocate

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

Young Poet, Educator, Activist & TED Speaker Known For "High School Training Ground"

Executive Editor, Bloomberg News Author, "The Cost of Hope"

Digital correspondent. Producer/writer/editor. Strategist. FAVES + CO. Birthed Twitter industry chats.

Contributing Editor at Catapult & Author of "This Will Be My Undoing"

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright

Journalist & Best-Selling Author

Journalist; Editor and Writer at TIME MAGAZINE. Author of 8 books, including APOLLO 13.

Emmy Award-Winning Writer, "Boardwalk Empire," "The Sopranos"

Long-Distance Hiker & Author; Overall Record Holder on the Appalachian Trail & The First Woman to Set That Mark

Director of Media at All Saints' Church in Beverly Hills; Stage and Screen Director; Directed the Tony Award winning revival of "The Trip to Bountiful"

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

Artist, Poet & Author

Oscar Winning Writer, ’12 Years a Slave,’ ‘American Crime’

Stand-Up Comic, Actor & Writer Known for "Take Me As Your Wife" & the "Queery" Podcast

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.

Previous Tech Writer, Investor and Entrepreneur; Founder of Chineasy; Author of Four Best-Selling Books on Software

Kelly Oxford is a Canadian author, screenwriter, social media blogger and microblogger, and stay-at-home mom.

Stand-up Comedian, Actor, Director, and Writer