David Byrne

Musician, Artist & Author; Co-founder of the Band "Talking Heads"; Founder of Positive News Magazine "Reasons to be Cheerful"

Hannah Beachler

Academy Award-winning Production Designer, Art Directors Guild Award Winner, Afrofuturist Cultural Curator

Anthony Townsend

Research Director, Technology Horizons Program for Institute for the Future

Ma Yansong

Award-Winning Architect; Founder & Principal Partner at MAD Architects

Mayor Aja Brown

Former Mayor, City of Compton

Adam Greenfield

Founder & Managing Director of Urbanscale, Urbanist, Technology Critic

Joseph M. Bradley

CEO, Tonomus; Applied Futurist; Author & Cognitive City Developer

LEAP conference 2022 - Enabling the First Cognitive City

Diébédo Francis Kéré

Internationally-Acclaimed Architect

Henry Cisneros

Chairman & Co-Founder of American Triple I Partners; Vice Chairman Siebert Williams Shank; Former U.S. HUD Secretary; Former Mayor of San Antonio; Cancer Survivor

2023 ConocoPhillips White House Lecture: Secretary Henry Cisneros

Liz Ogbu

Nigerian-American Designer, Urbanist & Spatial Justice Activist; Founder of Studio O; Known for Impacting Marginalized Communities

Lecture - Liz Ogbu

Lesley Lokko

Ghanaian-Scottish Architect, Academic & Novelist; Founder & Chair of the African Futures Institute

Nikki Greenberg

Futurist Keynote Speaker & AI Thought Leader

Nikki Greenberg | World-leading Futurist

Lisa Diaz

Managing Partner & Founder of Turf Advisory

Christopher Jones

Founder & CEO of DivEnergy Global & Author of "Quantum Pearls"; First African American Nominee for Governor of Arkansas

Marshall Brown

Principal of Marshall Brown Projects & Author of "The Architecture of Collage" and Professor at Princeton University

Colin Ellard

Neuroarchitecture Expert; Neuroscience Professor & Director of Urban Realities Laboratory at University of Waterloo

Carlton Brown

Co-Founder of FUBU & Entrepreneur

Dr. Victor Pineda

President of World ENABLED, Chancellor’s Research Fellow,& a City and Regional Planning Professor at UC Berkley

Janette Sadik-Khan

Leading Voice on Urban Transportation Policy

Amanda Williams

Visual Artist, Sculptor, Painter & Architect