KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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.

Award-Winning Journalist and Author

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

Founder & CEO of High Tech High; Former Lecturer at the Harvard School of Education

Managing Partner at Emerson Collective; Former U.S. Secretary of Education

Executive Director Karsh Institute of Democracy at UVA, Professor at the Miller Center & Former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council

Best-Selling Author of Hamlet's BlackBerry

Education Lead, IDEO

President & CEO of the National Constitution Center & Contributing Editor of The Atlantic

Founder of the Tinkering School & Brightworks School; Author of "50 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do"

Director of the Open Society Foundations’ Women’s Rights Program and a globally recognized advocate for gender equity and justice

Founder & Board Co-Chair of Room to Read; Former Microsoft Marketing Executive

Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor at Stanford University

Lawyer, Author & Former Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education

Social Psychologist & Stereotype Expert

Deputy to the Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology (1977-1979)

Senior Research Fellow on Education at the Clayton Christensen Institute, Child Education Specialist

Advocate for Public Education, CEO of Stand for Children

Founder & Chairman of the International Center for Leadership in Education

Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy & International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School