Speakers-at-a-Glance
An impressive and informative lineup of speakers will headline this mission-critical event.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Global Cultural Ambassador
Ann Beheler, PhD, Principal Investigator, Convergence Technology Center, Collin County College
Carrie L. Billy, President & CEO, American Indian Higher Education Consortium
Susan Bodary, Partner, Education First
Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Major General, USMC ret., Administrator, NASA
Janet Bray, CAE Executive Director, Association for Career and Technical Education
Diane J. Briars, PhD, Immediate Past President, National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics
Walter G. Bumphus, President, American Association of Community Colleges
Wes Bush, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, Northrop Grumman Corporation
Celina Bussey, Secretary, New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions
Dennis Ciccone, CEO, Carnegie Learning
Senator Rich Crandall, Arizona
Peter Cunningham, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Outreach, U.S. Department of Education
Emily Stover DeRocco, President, The Manufacturing Institute
Jon W. Dudas, President, FIRST
Governor John Engler, President, Business Roundtable
Charles Fadel, Visiting Scholar, Harvard GSE, MIT ESG and Wharton/Penn CLO
Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Assistant Director for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation
Brian Fitzgerald, Executive Director, Business-Higher Education Forum
Norman Fortenberry, Executive Director, American Society for Engineering Education
Mary Good, Special Advisor to the Chancellor for Economic Development, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Jodi Grant, Executive Director, Afterschool Alliance
Bernard A. Harris, Jr., MD, President and Founder, The Harris Foundation
Bill Holiber, CEO, New York Daily News
Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Woody L. Hunt, Chairman and CEO, Hunt Companies, Inc.; Chairman, Hunt Family Foundation
Dr. Ray O. Johnson, Senior Vice President and Chief Techology Officer, Lockheed Martin
Dean Kamen, Founder, FIRST
Brian Kelly, Editor and Chief Content Officer, U.S. News & World Report
Joel I. Klein, Executive Vice President, CEO, Education Division, News Corporation
Ellen Kullman, Chair of the Board and CEO, DuPont Corporation
Tom Luce, Chairman, National Math + Science Initiative
Christine W. McEntee, Executive Director,American Geophysical Union
Ray Mellado, Founder, Chairman of the Board & CEO Great Minds in STEM™
Dr. Merrilea J. Mayo, Director, Future of Learning Initiatives, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Dr. Mark D. Milliron, Chancellor, WGU Texas
Marc H. Morial, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Urban League
Diana Natalicio, President, The University of Texas at El Paso
Ron Painter, Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Workforce Boards
Allyson Peerman, Corporate Vice President, Public Affairs, AMD and President, AMD Foundation
Susan Polgar, Director of SPICE and Head Coach of Chess Team, Webster University
Stephen L. Pruitt, PhD, Vice President for Content, Research and Development, Achieve
Mary Ann Rankin, Chief Executive Officer, National Math + Science Initiative
Linda P. Rosen, PhD, CEO, Change the Equation
Lucy Sanders, CEO and Co-founder, National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT)
Martin L. Scaglione, President, Workforce Development Division, ACT, Inc.
Eric Seleznow, State Policy Director, National Skills Coalition
Betty A. Shanahan, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Society of Women Engineers
Capt. Russell D. Shilling, Ph.D., USN, Program Manager, Information Innovations Office, I20 - DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
Robert K. Steel, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, New York City
Richard (Rick) Stephens, Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Administration, The Boeing Company
Tessie Topol, Senior Director of Corporate Philanthropy, Time Warner Cable
Stephan Turnipseed, President, Lego ® Education, North America
Joel Vargas, Vice President, High School Through College, Jobs for the Future
Robin Willner, Vice President of Community Initiatives, IBM
Robert W. Wrubel, Chief Innovation Officer, Appollo Group, Inc.
Mortimer B. Zuckerman, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, U.S. News & World Report
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