Speaker: Marina Umaschi Bers, PhD, The August Long Professor of Education at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College; additional appointments: Department of Computer Science and the Schiller Institute for Science and Society
Speaker: Charlie Washburn, Retired Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, VSA Massachusetts, grandfather of two boys on the autism spectrum, Donna Danielewski, Senior Director of the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH, mother of a child with autism
Speaker: Dr. Ellen Winner, Professor of Psychology at Boston College and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Speaker: Gene Beresin, M.D., Executive Director of The Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds at Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
Speaker: Dr. Jay Lemery, Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Chief of the Section of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, and Faculty in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health
Speaker: Gene Beresin, M.D., Executive Director of The Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds at Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
Speaker: Takao Hensch, Ph.D., Joint Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School at Boston Children’s Hospital, and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard’s Center for Brain Science
Speaker: Junlei Li, Saul Zaentz Senior Lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education and former Director of the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media
Speaker: David A. Sinclair, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; co-Director, Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for the Biological Mechanisms of Aging, Harvard Medical School; Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Speaker: Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D., the author of PLAYFUL PARENTING and THE OPPOSITE OF WORRY, is a licensed psychologist specializing in children's play and play therapy
Speaker: Drew Houston, American internet entrepreneur, born and raised in Acton, MA, is best known for being the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service
Speaker: Peter Gray, Ph.D., Research professor at Boston College and author of "Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life"
Speaker: Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Professor Emerita at Lesley University, author, and advocate for education policies and practices that promote social justice and the well-being of all children
Speaker: Ron Lieber, "Your Money" columnist for the New York Times and author of "The Opposite of Spoiled," a guide to teaching kids about money and values
Speaker: Frank Bruni, New York Times op-ed columnist and New York Times best-selling author; his latest book "Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania" was published in March 2015
Speaker: Scott Barry Kaufman, Author and scientific director of the Imagination Institute of Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Speaker: Jennifer Senior, Contributing editor at New York magazine and author of All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood, which spent seven weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list.
Speaker: George Overholser, CEO and founder of Third Sector Capital Partners, Entrepreneur in Residence at New Profit, Inc., and member of the Advisory Board of Ready Nation
Speaker: Dr. Anthony Rao, Nationally known expert in child psychology and the author of The Way of Boys: Promoting the Social and Emotional Development of Young Boys
Speaker: Dr. Stephen R. Kellert, Tweedy Ordway Professor Emeritus of Social Ecology and Senior Research Scholar at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Speaker: Dr. J. Kevin Nugent, Professor of Children, Families and Schools at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Founder and Director of the Brazelton Institute at Boston Children's Hospital
Speaker: Professor Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab, and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group which developed Scratch, an online community where children program and share interactive stories, games, and animations.
