Doug Powell is a designer, entrepreneur and business strategist. Together with his wife, Lisa Powell, he founded the Minneapolis-based Schwartz Powell in 1989. In 2004, following their daughter Maya's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes, the couple launched Type1Tools to bring well-designed, kid-friendly tools to the daily experience of managing this complex disease.

Asi is a veteran game-maker, tech executive and social entrepreneur. As Co-President of Games for Change, he leads on the curation, development and execution of programs to raise the quality and influence of games for social change.

Allan Chochinov is a partner of Core77, a New York-based design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts. He is editor in chief of Core77.com, Coroflot.com, and Designdirectory.cdom, and writes and lectures widely on the impact of design on contemporary culture.

Panthea Lee is the co-founder of Reboot, a service design firm that works to improve the programs and investments of socially oriented institutions.

Lara Galinsky is an author, speaker, expert on working on purpose, and senior vice president of Echoing Green, a groundbreaking nonprofit organization with the mission to unleash next generation talent to solve the world’s biggest problems.

Steven Heller is the co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program and co-founder of the MFA in Design Criticism, MFA in Interaction Design and MPS Branding programs at the School of Visual Arts, New York. For 33 years he was an art director at the New York Times.

Ramsey Ford is a cofounders of Design Impact, a non-profit organization whose mission is to embed design within non-profit organizations to create innovative solutions to some of society’s most pressing needs, such as better access to water, safe environments or livelihood.

Instead of pills and scalpels, Jay uses creative design to improve health. He is a pediatrician and preventive medicine specialist with a masters in public health from Johns Hopkins. He appreciates aesthetics, our rapidly changing culture, and our health. He straddles lines — both pop culture and traditional healthcare have embraced his ideas.

As a founder of Joe Boxer, former CEO of Phat Farm and the recipient of two Masters’ Degrees in psychology, Martin’s background blends a commercial force with a method for understanding culture and human behavior.

John Bruce works at the intersection of strategy, messaging, and design for forward-thinking organizations dedicated to social and environmental justice.