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Our Guests

We invite and cultivate relationships with speakers across the spectrum of climate thought leadership. Political figures like Hillary Clinton and Governor Rick Perry have inspired and provoked. Executives like former Chevron CEO David O’Reilly have surprised and challenged. Psychologists like Daniel Goleman and economists like Gernot Wagner have expanded our notions of what climate change means for us as people and a society. We’re constantly adding more diverse voices to the conversation, changing its tone from doomsaying and despair to opportunity and resilience.

"What we are need now is funding to build a much more resilient city, because there will be another storm. Climate change is real."

— Sylvester Turner

Mayor, Houston, Texas

"I realized my commitment and my task here is to change that global mood. And of course I can't change the global mood before I change myself, because as we know, change starts with self. "

— Christiana Figueres

Former Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Amy Harcourt

Co-founder/Principal, Bikes Make Life Better, Inc.

Caeli Quinn

Co-founder and Executive Director, Climate Ride

Brian Wiedenmeier

Executive Director, San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

Gil Duran

Former Spokesman for Gov. Jerry Brown and Sen. Dianne Feinstein

Amy Myers Jaffe

Executive Director, Energy and Sustainability, UC Davis Graduate School of Management

Jim Sweeney

Director, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, Stanford

Marcia Ishii-Eiteman

Senior Scientist, Director Grassroots Science Program, Pesticide Action Network

Scott Kennedy

Filmmaker, Food Evolution

John Purcell

VP and Global R&D Lead, Monsanto Company

Austin Wilson

Environmental Health Program Manager, As You Sow

Don Cameron

General Manager, Terranova Ranch Inc.

Felicia Marcus

Chair, State Water Resources Control Board

Barton Thompson

Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law, Stanford University

Lynn Doan

Team Leader, Power and Gas Americas, Bloomberg News

L. Frank Manriquez

Indigenous California artist and activist

Pennie Opal Plant

Co-founder, Idle No More SF Bay

Carleen Cullen

Founder and Executive Director, Cool the Earth

Bruce Gibney

Author, A Generation of Sociopaths

Michael Ranney

Professor, Graduate School of Education, Department of Psychology, U.C. Berkeley

Wilford Welch

Speaker on Sustainability and Resilience

Diane Doucette

Co-Founder and Executive Director, Chambers for Innovation and Clean Energy

Elizabeth Patterson

Mayor, Benicia, CA

Carl Pope

Former Executive Director, Sierra Club

Rod G. Sinks

City Council Member, Cupertino, CA

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