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Creative technology pioneer with a passion for human experience and technology. Over 20 years experience in software engineering, design, scaleable server technologies and business development. More recently he has turned his attention to multi-platform mobile, wearables, IoT and software. Tim and his team currently deliver world class design and technology to numerous startup and emerging companies as well as the Fortune 50 in a variety of industries.

Paul Durham is a musician/singer/songwriter, music business innovator, and human development explorer. After two major label record deals, radio singles, MTV play, and international tours, as well as dozens of tracks in films, trailers, TV shows, and commercials, he built an indie label for his band, Black Lab. Along the way he also picked up a number of professional and psychological facilitation processes, working with executives and small businesses in the U.S. and Europe.

Elysa spends her time working at the intersection of design thinking, education, and art. She is currently designer-in-residence at Google where she focuses on design and innovation. Prior to Google, she worked at IDEO as a toy inventor, senior designer, and project leader. At IDEO, Elysa specialized in design for learning where she developed the Design Thinking for Educators platform (www.designthinkingforeducators.com).  Elysa teaches courses at the Stanford d.school and works with Catapult Ideas bringing design and innovation to high schoolers. She is a creative ninja by day, artist by night. Check out her current projects @ goodguild.com and thecreativenomadproject.com.

Passionate about making learning fun, Charlotte’s work focuses on finding tools to challenge and equip the problem solvers of tomorrow. A former teacher, she spent 7 years in the toy industry and now works as Director of Communications for Curriculum Associates, a K-12 edtech publisher. With a Masters in education and an MBA, her work blends a kids-first conviction with a business mindset to find meaningful ways to improve learning. She is an avid yogi, eater of all things, travel junkie, TEDx speaker and organizer.

Elke Govertsen is the founder of Mamalode (magazine-- print, online, events.) An origin Magazine Top 100 Creative, Elke loves to ideate. Her superpower is naming things.

Dougal studied Product Design Engineering at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. After spending the majority of his design career at university turning mundane briefs to be toy and game related, he decided to pursue the big toy dream and joined Hasbro in 2008. After 4 years in the EU HQ, Dougal consulted for the Hasbro Germany team and accepted his current role of Product Acquisition and Inventor relations for Hasbro Gaming. Dougal recently made the leap across the big pond and relocated to Rhode Island from Germany.

Saul Kaplan is the founder and Chief Catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory (BIF) and author of The Business Model Innovation Factory: How to Stay Relevant when the World Is Changing.

Kaplan started BIF in 2005 with a mission to enable collaborative innovation. BIF helps leaders design, prototype and test new business models and social systems in the real world. Kaplan shares his innovation musings on Twitter (@skap5) and his blog (It’s Saul Connected).

Dan Klitsner is Founder and creative director of KID Group. (www.kid-group.com )Since 1990 the San Francisco studio has specialized in combining physical play with digital experiences while creating addictive game play that gets kids up and active. KID is most well known for inventing games involving interactive musical play such as Hasbro's "Bop It", and the Perplexus line of interactive labyrinths, the 2013 TOTY Game of the Year.

Dan has been issued over 75 patents, and his personal design expertise is often put to use judging product innovation, including the IDSA international design co

Yarrow Kraner is Founder of HATCH, a Director at Virgin Produced, an Aspen Institute Fellow, and also named 2015 top 100 creatives in the U.S. by Origins Magazine. He is also featured in the recently released book Talent for Humanity. Yarrow’s ideas and work have been recognized internationally, and he is currently packaging a feature film, Wind in the Fire, based on the remarkable story of Bobbi Gibb. Yarrow was also the Founder of Superdudes / Supernation, one of the pioneer social networking sites, founded in 1999, sold to Fox in 2004.

Yarrow's current focus is in growing the global HATCH network through HATCH Latin America, HATCHedu, & HATCH labs.

AJ Paron-Wildes, LEED AP ID+C, Allied ASID, Associate Member IIDA, and Associate Member AIA, has been involved in the interior design industry for over 20 years. She currently leads the Architectural & Design Team for Allsteel in North America. She focuses on design for corporations, higher education, K-12 education, public sector and non-profits. She has spent 17 years being a thought-leader for designing for autism where she has designed countless projects, pioneered research and written three books on the design principles surrounding this special population.

Erica is a formative researcher who recently completed a master's in Technology, Innovation, and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Erica aspires to apply her knowledge of child development and research methodology to the educational media industry. Erica currently resides in NYC and works at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Out of the Blue Enterprises to conduct academic and formative research related to children’s educational media. When she isn’t testing preschool shows, Erica loves to perform soul, pop/R&B, jazz, and soft rock as the vocalist for Accidental Duet.

San Rahi is passionate about helping global brands become positive influencers of human behavior. An award-winning Strategist and Creative Director, San has spent 15 years working with some of the world’s largest brands to create business and marketing opportunities where consumers, entertainment and technology intersect. His clients have ranged from consumer products and automotive to sports and entertainment brands.

San is an Emmy winner and member of both the Television Academy and the Director's Guild of America.

Philip Sheppard is a virtuoso cellist, composer, producer and creative thinker. Philip’s talent for bridging musical genres, media and industries has led to rather interesting collaborations. He’s worked with David Bowie, Alexander McQueen, Jeff Buckley, UNKLE, Pretty Lights, The Weeknd and Queens of the Stone Age. He has scored more than 30 films including In the Shadow of the Moon, winner of the Sundance Audience Award. He was a producer on the Beijing & London Olympic Games & his music was recently used by JJ Abrams and Disney to promote Star Wars VII, the Force Awakens.

Entrepreneur, connector, marketing/CX expert & catalyst for ideas. She’s passionate about why & how people connect and believes in the importance of “people fit” to drive meaningful results. She founded Sparks Ideas, which connects brands like Disney, Oakley & USC to their most passionate customers through social media, digital & more. Through her 20+ years of marketing experience inside “passion brands”, she’s unlocked the need for people to be happy@work and is building, BProsperUs, to improve matching of passion, people & teams. She’s working with HATCH to build out partnerships.

PeaceLove Co-founder Jeff Sparr is a man on an audacious mission – a mission to make mental illness cool. Not cool to have, but cool to support.

A family man, mental health advocate, teacher and self-taught artist, Jeff is above all a survivor, battling Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) much of his life.

Diagnosed in college, Jeff spent decades waging a daily war against his illness. While launching a textile company, getting married and starting a family, he remained desperate for an outlet to relieve his mental anguish.

On a whim, and with no background or training, Sparr decided to try

Jimmy is building the world's most sustainable modern town in the jungles of Panama, Kalu Yala. Raised in real estate finance and educated in marketing, Jimmy has since come to spend his time working to change higher ed and incubate startups off-the-grid.

After graduating with a Film/Photo degree in 2013 John has been working in the film industry non stop. Starting out at NBC as a director of photography/ editor he won two telly awards for best local commercial of the year. He then caught the eye of Chisel Industries and was brought on as a shooter/editor.
John has since started his own aerial video/photography company and has filmed everything from ice climbing competitions and car commercials to HBO documentary's and real estate.

Parker Thomas is the Managing Partner of Mirus Labs, an educational design studio that creates spaces and experiences that encourage creativity, wonder and learning. He is a cofounder of Urban Montessori Charter School and STEAM Factory, an Oakland makerspace currently building a two-person, 30 mph hovercraft. Prior to Mirus, he built and sold 2 companies, built 2 airplanes and co-invented Maker Studio, a building toy currently sold in toy stores across the country. In his spare time, he makes drones, boats, pens, knives, zip lines, treehouses and anything else his kids want to make.

Evan Twyford is an industrial designer with a fascination with design for extreme environments, and a specialization in human centered design as it applies to small vehicles and spacecraft.

Twyford spent 7 years at the NASA Johnson Space Center where he worked on the design of numerous space vehicle and habitation concepts such as the Orion capsule and Small pressurized Rover. He currently works as an independent freelance concept designer where he continues to offer his design services to clients around the world such as Google [x], MPC LA, and TAXA/Cricket Trailer.

I am Tom Hanks’ character, Josh, from the movie Big. I am an adult body that represents the kid point of view to a room full of adults who can’t remember what it’s like to be a kid anymore. I am also an Educational Psychologist with a Doctorate in Educational Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. I bring a background in education and learning theory combined with 20+ years of sitting on the floor talking with kids to capture and bring their point of view to the making of quality, educational media for children (Amazon Kids Originals, Speakaboos, Cartoon Network,Nick Jr., PBS Kids ).

David is a designer, full time inventor, engineer and co-owner of Salient Technologies. If he isn’t working with brands, designing indestructible dog toys or working on valves for NASA he can be found giving tractor rides, building forts, or down on the floor making up new games for kids. Driven by creativity, received a Mechanical Engineering degree from Montana State University. With an imaginative point of view, he pursued the world of consumer product design and now develops hundreds of products for start-ups and leading brands.