Day 1: HKS, March 23
All times in EDT
Registration & Continental Breakfast
Opening Remarks
Speakers
- Dominic Sudnik
- Swati Shah Gupta
- Aaisha Shah
- Simona Stancov
Opening Keynote: Peter McGuinness
- Peter McGuinness
CEO, Impossible Foods - David Kay
MBA Candidate, Harvard Business School
Breakout Sessions
The Future of Food
- Rachel Atcheson
Deputy Director, NYC Mayor’s Office of Food Policy - Leah Garces
President, Mercy for Animals - Peter McGuinness
CEO, Impossible Foods - Suzy Welch
Professor of Management Practice, NYU Stern; Investor; Philanthropist
- Moderator – Jennifer Stojkovic
General Partner, Joyful VC
Leveraging AI and Tech for Economic Development
- Iqbal Quadir
Entrepreneur and promoter of prosperity in low-income countries, HKS and MIT professor, Senior Fellow with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation - Viviane Duarte
Social Impact Entrepreneur
- Carolina Rossini
Young Global Leader at WEF; Co-founder Datasphere Initiative & Portulans Institute; ICTs and IP law & policy expert; Social entrepreneur, human rights advocate & Board member
- Moderator – Veronica Deviá
MC/MPA Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School
Gender-Lens Investing: The Next Decade
- Ajaita Shah
Founder and CEO, Frontier Markets - Dalia Aga-Shaw
Founder, 3SV; former director at British International Investment - Christine Cappabianca
VP and Portfolio Manager-Gender
Impax Asset Management - Rebecca Fries
CEO at Value for Women - Moderator – Sue Suh
Ex-Chief Impact and People Officer at Time
Advisor to Impact Investment Exchange
- Moderator – Manali Jain
MPP Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School
Health Equity: How Structural Racism is Costing the US Healthcare System Billions
- Jatin Dave
CMO, MassHealth - Nasrien E. Ibrahim
Founder and Director, The Equity in Heart Transplant - Moderator – Hannah Ratcliffe
Leader at Waymark; Graduate of Chan HSPH
Lunch Break
Breakout Sessions
Fireside Chat: Past, Present and Future of Development Finance
- Nick O’Donohoue
CEO, British International Investment - Moderator –Fatema Sumar
Executive Director, Harvard Kennedy School Center for International Development
Health as a Human Right: What Can We Learn from the War On Gaza?
- Bram Wispelwey
Affiliate, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights - [Virtual] Lina Qasem Hassan
Chairwoman, Physicians for Human Rights Israel - [Virtual] Guy Shalev
Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights Israel - Ella Watson-Stryker
Humanitarian representative, Doctors without Borders - Moderator –Eman Ansari
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School - Moderator –Akiva Leibowitz
Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Innovating at the Intersection of Climate and Health
- Neel Lakhani
Senior Director of Innovation at Clinton Health Access Initiative - Ankit Saxena
VP of Biopharma Business Development at Ginkgo Bioworks - Sam Crum
Director of Membership, Greentown Labs - Temple Fennel
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Clean Energy Ventures - Kyle Myers
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School - Safiyah Bharwani
MPP/MBA Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School
A Look Inside Boston Public Schools
- Megan Costello
Senior Advisor, Office of the Superintendent, Boston Public Schools - Ana Carolina Brito
Principal at Rafael Hernández K-8
- Nate Camilo
Boston Public Schools alum and Dartmouth College alum - Gavin Smith
Principal of Boston Latin Academy - Moderator – Deanna Pan
Reporter at the Boston Globe for the Great Divide
Breakout Sessions
Turnout 2024: Expanding Ballot Access Ahead of America’s Big Decision
- Janet Domenitz
Executive Director, MASSPIRG - Patricia Comfort
Executive Director, League of Women Voters MA - Stephanie Thomas
CT Secretary of the State - Marisol Santiago
Policy and Organizing Director, MassVOTE - Moderator – Brandon Moore
MPP/MBA Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School
Building Better: A Cross-Sector Dialogue on Housing and Homelessness
- Karim Huston
CEO, Genesis Companies - Delphia Bizzell
BACHome Council Member - Rosanne Haggerty
President of Community Solutions and Founder of Breaking Ground - Catherine Buell
Former Director of Amazon’s Housing Equity Fund - Sheila Dillon
Chief of Housing and Director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing, Boston - Moderator – Chris Herbert
Director, Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies
Embarking on the Future: Sustaining Innovations in Development Finance
- Alison Germak
DVP of DFC, Health and Agribusiness
- Jake Cusack
Managing Director / Co-Founder of CrossBoundary - Arsalan Mahtafar
Head of JPM DFI - Moderator –Kusi Hornberger
Partner & Global Knowledge Lead, Dalberg Advisors
Networking Session
Day 2: HBS, March 24
All times in EDT
Registration & Continental Breakfast
Opening Remarks
- Aaisha Shah
- Simona Stancov
- Dominic Sudnik
- Swati Shah Gupta
Obama Foundation: Ethical and Values-Based Leadership for Global Social Entrepreneurs
- Sameera Chukkapalli Holmes
- Laura Coryton MBE
- Bjørn Ihler
- Fatimè Souckar Terab
- Moderator – Nien-he Hsieh
Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Breakout Sessions
Investing in Social Justice: Bettering Lives and Building a Stronger Economy
- Julia Parker
Chief Impact Officer, Appalachian Community Capital & Advising Director, Boston Ujima Project - Chris Bentley
Founder, Decarceration Fund - Ellen McClain
CEO, YearUP - Moderator – Abi Rajkumar
MC/MPA Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School
Degrees of Disruption: AI’s Influence on Education and Workforce
- Natalie Van Kleef
Head of Current & Future Technologists for Google Cloud Learning Services - Mark Racine
Chief Information Officer for Boston Public Schools - Santiago Garces
Chief Innovation Officer for the City of Boston - Naomi Caselli
Director, Boston University AI & Education Initiative; Assistant Professor of
Deaf Education, Boston University
- George Westerman
Principal Researcher at MIT’s Office of Learning; Member of the Digital Strategy
Roundtable for the US Library of Congress - Moderator – Kate Swain-Smith
MBA Candidate, Harvard Business School
Financial Inclusion Through Fintech
- [Virtual] Monica Brand Engel
Co-founder and Managing Partner at Quona Capital - Udayan Goyal
Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Apis Partners
- Ajaita Shah
Founder and CEO, Frontier Markets
- Moderator – Constantinos Shiatas
2024 ALI Fellow at Harvard
Lunch
Breakout Sessions
Architecture, Government, Investment, Policy: Explore
Paths to Green Infrastructure and Housing
- Mallory Taub
Sustainability Director, Gensler - Jeremy Keele
Partner at Sorenson Impact Group
- Amy Cotter
Director of Climate Strategies, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy - Kate England
Green Infrastructure Director, City of Boston - Moderator – Winston Tang
MPP Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School
Education Investing & Funding to Accelerate Innovation in Education Landscape
- Julie Maier
Former Chief Strategy and Investor Relations Officer, Charter School Growth Fund - Max Polaner
Partner, New Profit - Pamela Leins
Executive Director, BEDF - Jean Hammond
Co-Founder & General Partner, LearnLaunch Accelerator - Moderator – Eleanor Laurans
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Do We Need Degrees? The Apprenticeship Paradigm in Higher Education
- Rebecca Agostino
VP Learning, Multiverse - John Colborn
Executive Director, Apprenticeships for America - Jade Grieve
Chief of Student Pathways, NYC Public Schools - Beth Berwick
Partner, Grads of Life - Moderator – Robert Schwartz
Professor Emeritus of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education
From Purpose to Practice: Lessons and Tactics from Harvard Founders
- Quinn Fitzgerald
Co-Founder & CEO, Flare
- Madhav Datt
Founder, Nostos Homes
- Jerren Chang
Co-Founder and CEO, GenUnity - Moderator – DJ DiDonna
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Pitch Competition
- Julie Smith
Marketing Director, E for All - Ebehi Iyoha
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School - Brett Cook
Partner, F-Prime Capital - Moderator – Archie Jones
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Closing Keynote: David Young
- David Young
Managing Director & Partner, BCG
Former COO of World Vision - Moderator – Simona Stancov
MBA Candidate, Harvard Business School
Closing Remarks
- Aaisha Shah
- Simona Stancov
- Dominic Sudnik
- Swati Shah Gupta