Networking
8:00am
9:00am
SECON 2025 Opening Forum
9:00am
10:40am
From Promise to Action
9:10 – 9:25 am
Adil Najam
President, WWF International
AI's Opportunity - The Ethics of Having Everything
9:25 – 9:40 am
Vilas Dhar
President & Trustee, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Building Circular Systems: Resilient & Restorative Strategies for Lasting Change
9:40 – 9:55 am
Wesley Spindler
Managing Director, Global Sustainability Leadership, Accenture & Co-author of The Circular Economy Handbook
Role of Finance in driving Systemic Change
9:55 – 10:40 am
Michael Schlein
CEO, Accion
Tracy Palandjian
CEO & Co-Founder, Social Finance
Stephan Nicoleau
Managing Director, FullCycle VC
Track Panel Sessions
11:00am
11:45am
Track 1: Climate & Sustainability - Food
Avery Cohn
Senior Partner, Ode Partners
Ryan Rapp
Operating Partner, Flagship Pioneering
Wesley Spindler
Managing Director, Global Sustainability Leadership, Accenture
Track 2: AI & Tech for Social Good
Thom Kenney
National Security Fellow
Douglas Hamilton
Head of AI and Engineering, Nasdaq
Ben Brockman
Lead Director, Data Science & AI, Pharma
Leisel Bogan
Senior Advisor at Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Rembrand Koning
Co-Founder, Tech for All, D3; Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Track 3: Healthcare Innovation
Jennifer Magaziner
VP, Digital Health, Boston Children’s Hospital
Ryan Kennedy
Chief Strategy Officer, Overjet
Hann Yew
Partner, McKinsey & Company
Track 4: Education & Workforce
Marta McAlister
Global Head of Commercialization & Enablement, Google for Education
Drew Bent
Co-Founder & COO/President, Schoolhouse
Lunch Break
11:45am
12:30pm
Track Workshop Sessions
12:30pm
1:15pm
Fireside Chats & Ted Talks
1:35pm
4:00pm
Planting Change: Innovating for Human and Planetary Health
1:35 – 2:20 pm
Ethan Brown
CEO – Beyond Meat
Fireside Chat with Jamie Arbib
2:20 – 2:50 pm
Jamie Arbib
Co-Founder – RethinkX
How to Change the World - Four Global Perspectives
3:00 – 3:45 pm
Bhumi Pednekar
Actor, Climate Warrior, UNDP advocate
Hector Mujica
Head of Economic Opportunity and Inclusive Technology, Google.org, USA
Nino Enukidze
Rector of Business and Technology University, Professor, Business and Technology University, Georgia
Kate Fitz-Gibbon
Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Australia
Mobilizing Maximum Impact: A Roadmap for Systemic Change
3:45 – 4:00 pm
Maren Costa
Netflix Star of “Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy”
2025 Global Impact Pitch Competition
4:15pm
5:45pm
Stephan Nicoleau
Managing Director, FullCycle VC
Tuan Ho
Partner, Xfund
David Greenfeld
Serial Investor & Co-Founder Dream Pops
Gina Lucarelli
Founder of UN Accelerator Lab