James Johnson Jr.

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

Leilani Brown

CEO of Leilani Brown, LLC; Business Consultant; Author of " From Campus to Career"

Khalilah Johnson

Award Winning Motivational Keynote Speaker, High Performance Coach, Transformation & Resilience Expert

Sharon Delaney McCloud

Emmy Award-Winning Journalist; Breast Cancer Survivor; Certified Diversity Executive & Resilience Expert

2023 Speaker Demo | Sharon Delaney McCloud

Malik Rose

Head of Basketball Operations for the NBA G League

Furkan Karayel

Multi-award-Winning Diversity & Inclusion Leader, Author of "Inclusive Intelligence"

Marques Ogden

Business Consultant & Former NFL Player

Michelle Li

Co-Founder of The Very Asian Foundation; Veteran Journalist

Sharon Gai

E-commerce Expert; Artificial Intelligence in Business; Former Director of Global Key Accounts at the Alibaba Group

Techsylvania 2023

Jake Olson

First Blind Football Player in College Football History; Entrepreneur & Motivational Speaker

Laura Putnam

Author of "Workplace Wellness That Works;" CEO & Founder of Motion Infusion

Vernita Whitaker Naylor

Storyteller, Author of “Speaking In Colors” & “Get the Cheese, Avoid the Traps: An Interactive Guide to Government Contracting;” Founder & Owner of Jabez Enterprise Group (JEGroup)

Speaking In Colors

Cynthia Barnes

Motivational Sales Speaker; Women's Empowerment Advocate; Founder & CEO of the National Association of Women Sales Professionals

Amali Tower

Climate Displacement, Migration & Refugee Expert; Founder of Climate Refugees

Q&A: Amali Tower on Climate Migration and 'Evolution Earth'

Jayla Jackson

Scholar, Writer, Poet, Teacher, Activist & Winner of the International Harvard Debate Competition

Manjusha P. Kulkarni

Executive Director of AAPI Equity Alliance & Co-Founder of Stop AAPI Hate

2022 AAYLC Keynote Speaker Manjusha P. Kulkarni

John and Mark Cronin

Co-Founders of John’s Crazy Socks

Walter Joseph Tucker

Music Business Partnerships, Hip-Hop and R&B at Apple Music

Dr. Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins

Historian, Sociologist, & Social Epidemiologist; Leading Voice on DE&I

Kim Blue

VP People Experience (HR) at Zoom; Top 10 Diverse Leaders by the 2021 Tech Inclusion Conference; Former Senior HR leader at ESPN and Microsoft