Urban Design Speakers

Education Policy Advisor, Children’s Book Author, Film Producer & Public Servant

Real Estate Developer; Mayor; US Army Veteran

Academy Award-Winning Production Designer Known for Beyonce's "Lemonade" & Marvel's "Black Panther"

Founder & CEO of Youth Equity Platform Chicago Beyond; Star of CNN's Documentary Series "Chicagoland"

Director of the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing; William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University; PI, Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

Professor of Sustainable Communities at the University of Virginia & Author

Host of HGTV's "Flipping Virgins" & Author of "Keep Calm, it's Just Real Estate"

Designer, Social Innovator & Urbanist, Founder of Sutdio O

Architect & Engineer; Director of MIT's SENSEable City Lab; Founding Partner of Carlo Ratti Associati

Real Estate Developer, Peabody Award-Winning Broadcaster & Urban Revitalization Strategy Consultant

Design Principal for Frank O. Gehry and Associates, Inc.

Former Mayor, City of Compton

Architect & Author of "A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America"

Licensed Contractor & Realtor; Host of HGTV and DIY Network's "Yard Crashers"

Eco-Entrepreneur; Chief of Staff for the Office of State and Community Energy Programs at the U.S. Department of Energy

Chief Climate Strategist for the Natural Resource Defense Council

Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; Director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center

Senior Researcher, Design Center for Sustainable Communities at UBC; Author on Sustainable Communities

Carpenter; Star of HGTV's "Fixer Upper" & Magnolia Network's "Restoration Road"

Senior Fellow, Council on Criminal Justice; Author of "Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets"; Former Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School