2023 SPEAKERS
Nicoletta Giordani
Director, GIES, Senior Exec. Service, Dept, of Defense
Anil Rao
Vice President and General Manager Systems Architecture and Engineering Office of the CTO, Intel
Taylor Lorenz
Tech Journalist, Author, Content Creator & Technology Columnist, Washington Post
Dmitri Alperovitch
Co-Founder and Executive Chair, Silverado Policy Accelerator, and Co-Founder & Board Member, CrowdStrike
Emre Izat
Documentary Filmmaker & Co-Founder, Blue Gray Films
Stuart Sandin
Director, Center for Marine
Biodiversity & Conservation,
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Brenda Cooper
Author & Director of
Information Technology,
Lease Crutcher Lewis
Caitlin Cameron
Chair & CEO,
OtoNexus Medical
Technologies
Divya Chander
Chair of Neuroscience &
Faculty in Medicine,
Singularity University
Nina Vasan
Founder & Executive Director and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation, Stanford University
Matt Keener
Hardware Architect,
Pattern Computer
Bill McAleer
Managing Director,
Voyager Capital
Vicky Ward
Author & Investigative Journalist
Marc Raimondi
Chief of Staff to the Executive Chair, Silverado Policy Accelerator & Founder, LexStrat LLC
Meghan O’Hara
Director, Lion in the Sun Films
Bill Harris
Co-Founder & Board Chair, Innovation Advisory Partners, and Founding President & CEO (fmr.), Science Foundation Arizona
Gilman Louie
CEO, American Frontier Fund
Jeannie Fontana
CEO, TREAT California
John Mattison
Scholar-in-Residence, AI and Advanced Technologies, UCSD Center for Healthcare Design, UC San Diego
DK Strohl
FiReStarter
CEO, STR-ID
Mike Masnick
CEO, Copia Institute
Michael Redding
FiReStarter
Chief Technology Officer, Quantropi
Andrew Burton
Documentary Filmmaker, Roan Films
Della Carl
Newtok Village Council Member
Michael Kirby Smith
Documentary Filmmaker, Roan Films
Darja Djordjevic
Adult/Child/Adolescent Psychiatrist and Social/ Medical Anthropologist, Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation
Whitman Fulton
FiReStarter
CEO, ConnectDER
Molly Wood
Founder & Chief Storyteller, Molly Wood Media & Host, “Everybody in the Pool” podcast and newsletter
Mike Connolly
FiReStarter
CEO, Healionics
Ping Yeh
FiReStarter
CEO, VOCxI Health
Kevin Surace
Chair & CTO, Appvance.ai
Mark Godsy
FiReStarter
Chair & CEO, NaqiLogix
Mark Linao
Partner, Progression Fund