Our speakers showcase the full spectrum of diverse voices and powerful perspectives. Political figures like Jamie Raskin and Steve Schmidt have inspired and provoked. Executives like former British Petroleum CEO Lord John Browne and BlocPower Founder Donnel Baird have surprised and challenged. Psychologists like Renee Lertzman, activists like Wanjira Mathai, and scientists like Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Hayhoe have expanded our notions of what climate change means for us as people and a society. We’re constantly adding more perspectives to our empowering conversations.
"What I get excited about is imagining what that grid of the future is going to look like, and we need to make sure that we are investing in that."
-Patti Poppe, PG&E CEO
"It’s not a problem that there is majority white. It’s a problem that the way in which they approach the policy solutions don’t incorporate black, indigenous and those communities."
-Hop Hopkins, Director of Organizational Transformation, The Sierra Club
Student Activist
Deputy Editor at New York Magazine; Author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Director, NextGen Rising
Executive Director at Our Children's Trust; Chief Legal Counsel for plaintiffs in Juliana v. U.S.
Business Representative, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1245
Co-Author, Mid-Course Correction Revisited: The Story and Legacy of a Radical Industrialist and his Quest for Authentic Change; Executive Director, Ray C. Anderson Foundation
Executive Director, Biomimicry Institute
Founder and CEO, Sustainable Ocean Alliance
Sustainability Outreach Manager, Stanford
Executive Committeewoman, Democratic National Committee
Former Science Advisor to President Obama, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Former Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission
Business Manager, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1245
Former Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission
CEO, The Climate Group
Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Senior Manager, Western States Energy, Union of Concerned Scientists
Tech Reporter, CNBC
Policy and Research Specialist, World Institute on Disability
Executive Director, The Utility Reform Network
Former U.S. Representative (R-FL)
Former U.S. Representative (R-PA)
Pediatrician and Founder/Director of the Center for Nature and Health at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland
Professor, Environmental Science, Policy & Management, U.C. Berkeley
