Carlton Brown

Co-Founder of FUBU & Entrepreneur

Lisa Diaz

Managing Partner & Founder of Turf Advisory

Nicole Jain

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

James Johnson Jr.

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

Sara Wahedi

Tech Entrepreneur, Founder & CEO of Ehtesab App

Roberta Brandes Gratz

Award-Winning Journalist, Urban Critic, Lecturer & Author

Christopher W. Quigley

Founder & CEO of Agency Custom, Custom Architectural Design and Fabrication Expert

Iya Dammons

Founder & Executive Director of Baltimore Safe Haven

Ann Sussman

Author, Architect & Researcher

Patrick M. Condon

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

Thomas Abt

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

Cindy Frewen

Sustainable Architect; Urban Designer & Futurist

Nikki Greenberg

Futurist Keynote Speaker & AI Thought Leader

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Douglas Farr

Architect, Urbanist, Author & Advocate for Sustainable Design Thinking

Brent Toderian

Consulting City Planner & Urbanist; Founder of TODERIAN UrbanWORKS

Peter Exley

Co-Founder & Play Strategist, Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove

Research Psychiatrist; Professor of Urban Policy & Health at The New School

Dr. Victor Pineda

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

Hannah Beachler

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

Liz Dozier

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

Sheila Sri Prakash

Architect, Urban Designer & Sustainability Expert

Timothy Beatley

Professor of Sustainable Communities at the University of Virginia & Author

Melissa Neighbour

Urban Planner, Community Builder & Sustainability Specialist

Liz Ogbu

Designer, Social Innovator & Urbanist, Founder of Sutdio O

Ellen Dunham-Jones

Architect, Urban Designer, Professor & Author

Carlo Ratti

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

Afshin Molavi

Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins; Expert on Global Geopolitical Risk & Emerging Markets

Nadia Owusu

Writer & Urban Planner

Carol Naughton

President of Purpose Built Communities

Junfeng Jiao

Smart City Expert; Director of Urban Information Lab at University of Texas

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