Featured Speakers
The Social Innovation Summit brings together top executives and thought leaders from around the globe to discuss opportunities for leveraging technology & innovation to affect social change. Attendees will discuss philanthropic trends, analyze innovative approaches for problem solving and build lasting partnerships that enable them and their organizations to discover new methods of engaging with social challenges.
Featured Speakers
ALEX LAZAROW
Principal, Investments
Omidyar Network
ALISA CORDESIUS
Manager, Social Innovation & Design
Indiegogo
ALLISON DUNCAN
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Amplifier
AMY KAVANAUGH
Chief Public Affairs Officer
Taco Bell
ANANTA RIPA AJMERA
Founder
Whole Yoga & Ayurveda
ANDREW KAPLAN
Director - Yum-o! Organization; Director, Special Projects
Rachael Ray-
ANDREW YANG
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Venture For America 
ANNE WOO
Director, Corporate Social Responsibility
Samsung
ANNE VYALITSYNA
Supermodel, Actress, International Medical Corps “First Responder”
BEATIE WOLFE
Singer/Songwriter, Innovator
BEN CHASE
Senior Strategy Director
Purpose
BETH JANSON
Founding Director, Foundation
Rent the Runway
BETSY CROUCH
Co-Founder
ImprovHQ
BILL CHANDLER
Former Head, Global Corporate Communications & Public Affairs
Gap
BLAIR TAYLOR
Chief Community Officer
Starbucks
BRYAN BRECKENRIDGE
Executive Director
Box.org
CARILU DIETRICH
Vice President, Corporate Marketing
Atlassian-
CAROLINE BARLERIN
Head, Community Outreach & Philanthropy
Twitter
CHRIS SKOPEC
Senior Director, Emergency Response & Preparedness
International Medical Corps
CHRISTOPHER PUNONGBAYAN
Executive Director, Asian Americans Advancing Justice
Asian Law Caucus
CHUCK SALTER
President
BUILD-
CLEMANTINE WAMARIYA
Human Rights Advocate & Social Entrepreneur
DANIEL LEE
Executive Director, Levi Strauss Foundation
Levi Strauss-
DARYL BREWSTER
Chief Executive Officer
CECP -
RABBI DAVID AZEN
Founder
Fresher Sacramento 
DAVID CHERNICOFF
Senior Strategist
Purpose-
DAVID MARSTON
Partner Advisory Leader
PwC 
DEAN KAMEN
Entrepreneur & Inventor; Founder
DEKA Research & Development Corporation
DIANA RHOTEN
Associate Partner
IDEO
ELIZABETH LIPSCOMB
Vice President, Education Partnerships & Social Responsibility
Discovery Education
EMMETT D. CARSON, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Silicon Valley Community Foundation-
ERIC HANDLER
Public Health Officer, Deputy Agency Director, Health Care Agency
Orange County, California 
ERIK ARNOLD
Chief Information Officer
Path
ESTELLE
Singer, Songwriter, Producer, Actress, and Philanthropist
GIDEON AMICHAY
Founder & Chief Creative Officer
No, No, No, No, No, Yes
GRANT HARRIS
Former Special Assistant to the President & Senior Director for African Affairs
The White House
GREG MCKEOWN
Author, "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less."; Chief Executive Officer
THIS, Inc
HAILEY BREWER
Portfolio Director
IDEO
HANNAH HERBST
Teen Scientist; Inventor and Entrepreneur
HENRY DONAHUE
Chief Operating Officer
Purpose
HILARY MINE
Transformation Practice Leader
Alcatel-Lucent
HUI WEN CHAN
Senior Program Manager for Corporate Citizenship
Citi
IRWIN REDLENER
President & Co-Founder
Children's Health Fund
ISSAM DAIRANIEH
Managing Director, Ventures
BP
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JANE MESECK
Director, Community Affairs
Microsoft
JASON RISSMAN
Managing Director
OpenIDEO
JAY NATH
Mayor’s Chief Innovation Officer
City of San Francisco
JEFF SENNE
Corporate Responsibility Operations Leader
PwC
JEFFREY EMSLANDER
Staff Scientist
3M
JIM HICKMAN
Chief Executive Officer
Better Health East Bay
JOEY BLUMENFELD
Director, Corporate Social Responsibility
AOL
JOHN ABELE
Co-Founder & Director
Boston Scientific
JONATHAN KEVLES
Senior Director, PACE
Renewable Funding
JULIE TRELL
Advisor to All Things Fun, Meaningful & Rewarding
JUSTIN TUCK
Founder - R.U.S.H. for Literacy; Oakland Raiders Defensive End
NFL
KELLIE MCELHANEY
Professor
Haas School of Business
KEN WEBER
Executive Director
Zynga.org
KIVA ALLGOOD
Vice President, Smart Cities & Industrial IOT
Qualcomm
KRISTIN CAMPBELL REED
Director, Corporate & Employee Giving
Genentech
LAURAN TUCK
Philanthropist & Education Advocate; Founder
R.U.S.H. for Literacy
LESLIE ZIEGLER
Co-Founder
Bitty Foods
LUISA COVARIA
Impact Strategy Lead
OpenIDEO
MANUEL CHINEA
Chief Operating Officer
Popular Community Bank
MARIA ARIAS
Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion
Comcast
MARSSIE VERSOLA
Event Partnerships Manager
EverydayHero (a Blackbaud Company)
MATT LONNER
Manager, Global Social Performance
ChevronMATT MCCALL
Partner
Pritzker Group Venture Capital
MAURIZIO VECCHIONE
Senior Vice President, Global Good and Research
Intellectual Ventures
MEG GARLINGHOUSE
Head of LinkedIn for Good
LinkedIn
MEGAN MITCHELL
Program Manager
UBS Elevating Entrepreneurs
MELISSA WAGGENER ZORKIN
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
WE Communications
MEL OCHOA
Chief Operating Officer
Landmark Ventures
NICK CANNON
Actor, Comedian, TV & Radio Host, Musician, Writer, Director, Producer and Philanthropist
NNENA UKUKU
Co-Founder
Black Founders
OLIVIA KHALILI
Director, Yahoo For Good
Yahoo!PAUL ARNPRIESTER
Manager, Technology Strategy
CDW
PRIYA BERY
Chief of Staff
TOMS
RENÉ JONES
Founder, UTA Foundation
United Talent Agency
RENEE KAPLAN
Chief Strategy Officer
The Skoll Foundation
RHONDA MIMS
Managing Director, Corporate Social Responsibility
Paul Hastings LLP
ROB HOLZER
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Matter Unlimited
ROSEMARY TURNER
President, North California District
UPS
RYAN SCOTT
Chief Executive Officer
Causecast
SAL KHAN
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Khan Academy
SARAH HEARD
Project Director, Conservation Investments
The Nature Conservancy
SETH AMMERMAN
Medical Director, Mobile Adolescent Health Services
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
SID ESPINOSA
Director of Corporate Citizenship
Microsoft
STEPHEN FRIEND
Open-Science Advocate; President
Sage Bionetworks
SUNIL SACHDEV
Chief Business Development Officer
GlobeOne
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SUSAN DAVIS
Chief Executive Officer & President
BRAC USA
SUZANNE DIBIANCA
President & Co-Founder
Salesforce.org
TIM MOREHOUSE
Olympic Silver Medalist, Fencing Team USA; Founder
Fencing in the Schools
TYLER NORRIS
Vice President, Total Health Partnerships
Kaiser Permanente
TYLER GENEVAY
Junior
St. Margaret's Episcopal School
VALERIE LEWIS
Assistant Vice President & Assistant Secretary, Legal
The Albertsons Companies
WM. JAHMAL MILLER
Deputy Director, Office of Health Equity
California Department of Public Health
YVONNE THOMAS
Senior Manager, Global Programs
Microsoft
ZENIA TATA
Executive Director, Global Development & International Expansion
XPRIZE
ZEEV KLEIN
Founder — Social Innovation Summit; General Partner
Landmark Ventures
ZOE GALVEZ
Co-Founder
ImprovHQ
