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
Director of the Seed Biotechnology Center, University of California, Davis
President, Environmental Working Group
NOAA Climate and Global Change Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Environmental Institute, Princeton University
Founder and Executive Director, Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development
Senior Pastor, First Chinese Baptist Church, San Francisco
Author, What We Think About When We Try not to Think About Global Warming
Co-chair, Task Force on Geoengineering, Bipartisan Policy Center
Associate Professor, Sociology and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
Founder, Trash on Your Back
Zero Waste Coordinator, SF Department of the Environment
Author, Energy Free: Homes for a Small Planet
Principal, David Baker Architects
Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford
Owner, Net Zero Home
Global Director, Energy and Sustainability Strategy, Yahoo!
Chair, California Air Resources Board
Singer and Songwriter
Author, Coal Wars: The Future of Energy and the Fate of the Planet
CEO, Carbon Tracker Initiative
Climate Scientist, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University
Chief Investment Officer, Bocage Capital
Vice President for CO2, Shell Oil Company
Director, Sustainable Operations, eBay
Former Executive Vice President, Mobil Oil
