KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Poet, Educator, Publisher, Emmy Award Winning Producer & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"

Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" and "The Giver"

Award-Winning Children's Author & Illustrator; Dyslexia & Learning Disabilities Advocate

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

Award-Winning Children's Book Author & Illustrator

Children's Book Author; President & CEO at Compendium Inc.

Children's Books Author & Illustrator Known for "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"

Sharon Creech is an American writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal and the British Carnegie.

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.

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

New York Times Best-Selling Author of "The Tourists" & "The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace"

Author & Illustrator Known For "Lost in Translation"

Educator & Author of "The Book Whisperer" and "Reading in the Wild"

Author of the #1 NY Times Best-Selling "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" Series

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

#1 New York Times Best Selling Author, Award-Winning Children's Musician & Original Author of the "Pete the Cat" Series

Horror Filmmaker and Children's Book Author

Former Teacher; Now An Instructional Designer and Author on Effective Instruction on Learning

Journalist & Best-Selling Author

Professor; Science Historian; Philosopher; Author of "The Philosophical Breakfast Club"