Rachel is the co-author of the upcoming book "What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption" (Harper Business, October 2010). She consults, writes, and speaks on the power of collaboration and sharing through current and emerging technologies, and on how it will transform business, consumerism, and the way we live. She received her BFA (Honors) from the University of Oxford, and undertook her postgraduate studies at Harvard University. She has consulted to businesses around the world on brand and innovation strategy and was a former director at the William J. Clinton Foundation. Rachel has lived and worked in the UK, USA, Asia, and Australia.

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Adam Braun was backpacking across the developing world when he asked a small boy begging on the streets of India what he wanted most. The answer, "a pencil." What started by passing out one pencil led to travel through 50+ countries to understand community engagement and the power of education. Pencils of Promise was founded with just $25 and in less than two years has grown into an international movement of over 40,000 supporters that have partnered with local communities in Laos and Nicaragua to build 12 schools and counting.

Adam deeply believes that each person has the resounding capacity to create good regardless of age or status, and to demonstrate this over 90% of PoP's donations have been from youth and in amounts of less than $100. Adam is a graduate of Brown University and now serves as Executive Director of Pencils of Promise based in New York City.

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Jerri is the founder and managing partner of Lovely Day and a co-founder of the [Lovely Day] Social Innovation Lab. The Social Innovation Lab is a new model for working with corporate innovation needs that seeks to unlock potential in burgeoning (micro) social entrepreneurs from outside the business-in. Core to the Lab is the belief that unlocking human potential and spirit in others, to solve social issues and achieve prosperity together, is the future role of global business in the C21st.

A corporate social innovation strategist, she is a trail-blazer in leveraging social good to develop and scale the innovative businesses of tomorrow. As founding partner of All Day Buffet, The Feast, TBD, and social entrepreneur herself, Jerri has a deep understanding of and network in the social innovation space. Through her work, she has gained extensive knowledge of innovation, business strategy, new model research and integration, branding, communications and partnership development.

Her past work includes marketing and advertising experience working with major brands and development with a host of New York based startups. She is an advisor to The NYU Reynolds Program as well as a writer for the Huffington Post, Social Earth and USA Networks.

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John Forte is a Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and producer from Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Forte is a classically-trained violinist who is known for his work with the multi-platinum group "The Fugees." On November 24, 2008, Forte was granted a commutation by President George W. Bush after having served more than seven years of a fourteen-year federal prison sentence. Those who campaigned on his behalf include famed singer/songwriter Carly Simon and Senator Orrin Hatch (R) of Utah.

Prior to his incarceration Forte released two solo albums, PolySci (Columbia) and I, John (Transparent). On December 22, 2008, Forte walked out of Fort Dix Correctional Institution to resume his life and tell his story through music, film and prose. In addition to working on his album, Forte is a contributor to The Daily Beast and is working with at-risk youth through organizations such as "In Arms' Reach," a community-based arts, counseling and mentoring program for the children of incarcerated parents.

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Patri Friedman received a bachelor's degree in math from Harvey Mudd College, an MS in computer science from Stanford University, and an MBA from Cardean University. After four years at Google as a software engineer, he founded TSI in 2008. Patri has co-founded two intentional communities, served on the board of Humanity+, is a prolific writer on political theory and philosophy, and an active participant in festivals such as Burning Man and Pennsic (founded by his father).

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The Social Innovation Lab is a new model for working with corporate innovation needs that seeks to unlock potential in burgeoning (micro) social entrepreneurs from outside the business-in. Core to the Lab is the belief that unlocking human potential and spirit in others, to solve social issues and achieve prosperity together, is the future role of global business in the C21st. And will achieve resilience. She has explored this model most recently with Nokia, with a focus on unlocking social value in emerging markets.

Tamara is also the founding partner of Abundancy Partners, a UK think tank and consultancy. She is a strategist and entrepreneur working is at the intersection of sustainability challenges, social innovation opportunity, and Wellbeing Economics. She lives and works in both London and New York. Her work is also increasingly based out of BRIC countries. Tamara was the Managing Director and Head of Strategy for OZOlab - the sustainable innovation group and business incubator. She established OZOlab with the two founding partners in 2007 and led strategy since its inception, shaping each new OZO venture.

Her professional background combines 14 years in brand strategy and marketing, business strategy, (service) innovation and sustainability strategy - both as a consultant and an entrepreneur. She holds a Masters in Design, Strategy and Innovation and a Masters in Responsibility and Business Practice, both with Distinction. She has written for Treehugger.com, PSFK.com, WorldChanging.com and Sustainablelifemedia.com. She was named one of the "35 Outstanding Businesswomen Under the Age of 35" by World Business Magazine and INSEAD in 2007. Tamara is an adviser to Sustainable Brands International (SBi). She is an adjunct professor on the MA Interaction degree at The School of Visual Arts.

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Dr. Joachim is a leader in ecological design and urbanism. He is a Co-Founder at Terreform ONE and Terrefuge. He earned a Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MAUD Harvard University, M.Arch. Columbia University, and BPS SUNY at Buffalo with Honors. Mitchell is an Associate Professor at NYU and previously was the Frank Gehry Chair at University of Toronto. Earlier, he was faculty at Columbia, Syracuse, Washington, and Parsons. He was formerly an architect at Gehry Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed. He has been awarded fellowships at TED2010, Moshe Safdie Assoc., and Martin Society for Sustainability at MIT. He won the History Channel and Infiniti Excellence Award for City of the Future, and Time Magazine Best Invention of 2007, Compacted Car w/ MIT Smart Cities. His project, Fab Tree Hab, has been exhibited at MoMA and widely published. He was chosen by Wired magazine for "The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To". Rolling Stone magazine honored Mitchell in "The 100 People Who Are Changing America". In 2009 he was interviewed on the Colbert Report. Popular Science magazine has featured his work as a visionary for "The Future of the Environment in 2010".

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Naveen is co-founder of foursquare, a mobile-service which helps people connect with people and places around them. Prior to this, he was Lead Architect at Socialight and was a Senior Software Architect with the Global Digital Business group at Sony Music Entertainment. In this role, he oversaw and developed various applications that dealt with content management and distribution of mobile products and was the lead developer of Sony's Music Box mobile application. Before Sony, he consulted for New York-based Run Tones and has enjoyed software engineering stints at Sun Microsystems and Lucent Technologies. Naveen holds a Master's degree in computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

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In the post-mass media, post-great recession environment, the most interesting business ideas are considering of both economic and social impact and have the marketing baked into the "product" from the beginning. Gaining this perspective was an iterative process for Robbie, beginning with the questioning of the social impact and responsibility of his branding work for clients. If the objective was to "grow" businesses, could growth also be measured in terms of social benefit, environmental impact, social justice, etc.? Especially if these factors were, increasingly, core to the success of marketing communications. This led to his increased work upstream with innovative companies, aligning business mission with strategy/communications, working frequently on new line extensions, brand transformations, turnarounds, and startups. This practice crystalized following the experience of Katrina in New Orleans where there was an urgent need to for both economic and social impact/transformation. Not so incidentally, this work preceded the recession by two years, in effect giving those of us working this way in New Orleans a two year head start and creative laboratory to rapid prototype the "new normal," providing methods and experience instructive to the global socio-economic recovery. His joining NakedPizza in 2009 is a manifestation of that experience.

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Tony Wagner founded the Change Leadership Group (CLG) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education Co-Director and has served as its co-director since 2000. An initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CLG helps teams to be effective change leaders in schools and districts. He also consults widely to schools, districts, and foundations around the country and internationally. His previous work experience includes twelve years as a high school teacher, K-8 principal, university professor in teacher education, and founding executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility.

Tony is a frequent speaker and widely published author. His work includes numerous articles and four books. Tony's latest, The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need-And What We Can do About It was recently published by Basic Books and is being translated into Chinese.

Tony earned an M.A.T. and an Ed.D. at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

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Dong-Ping Wong is a co-founder of F A M I L Y New York LLC, an architecture office established in 2008 to determine more optimistic and productive typologies of ecological building.The work of the office is dedicated to redefining architectureʼs role in the consumption and production of energy, the optimization of valuable land and the innovative application of natural resources in order to look beyond an ability to sustain and towards a practice of prosperity. Projects include a contemporary art museum in Maribor, Slovenia, a high-density housing block in Dallas, Texas and a master-planning proposal for the Nordhavnen peninsula of Copenhagen.Prior to forming F A M I L Y, Dong was a lead designer at REX, formerly OMA New York. Dong holds a M.Arch from Columbia University and a B.A. in Architecture from the University of California Berkeley.

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