Speakers

Tera Allas

Senior Fellow and Director of Research, McKinsey Center for Government (UK)

Igor Asanov

University of Kassel (Germany)

Esther Bailey

PhD Student, University of California, Irvine (USA)

Jon Baron

Vice President of Evidence-Based Policy, the Arnold Foundation (USA)

Kelly Bidwell

Director, Office of Evaluation Sciences, General Services Administration (USA)

Balaji Bondili

Head, Deloitte Pixel, Enterprise Crowdsourcing (USA)

Katy Börner

Professor of Engineering and Information Science, Indiana University (USA)

Kirsten Bound

Executive Director of Research, Analysis, and Policy, Nesta (UK)

Chandra Briggman

Director, Venture Cafe Kendall (USA)

Albert Bravo-Biosca

Director, Innovation Growth Lab, Nesta (UK)

Miriam Bruhn

Senior Economist, The World Bank (USA)

Eva Camerer

Head of Innovation Policy and Analysis, Innovation Norway (Norway)

Marcio Cruz

The World Bank Group (USA)

Sameeksha Desai

Director of Knowledge Creation and Research, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (USA)

Iqbal Dhaliwal

Executive Director, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (USA)

Tris Dyson

Executive Director, Challenge Prize Centre, Nesta (UK)

Triin Edovald

Principal Researcher, Innovation Growth Lab, Nesta (UK)

Dyan Finkhousen

Director, Open Innovation & Advanced Manufacturing, GE Global Operations (USA)

Teo Firpo

Researcher, Innovation Growth Lab, Nesta (UK)

Jaime Frias

Senior Economist, The World Bank Group (USA)

Alfonso Gambardella

Professor, Bocconi University (Italy)

Ina Ganguli

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA)

Rodney Ghali

Assistant Secretary, Cabinet of the Impact and Innovation Unit, Privy Council Office (Canada)

Alex Glennie

Principal Researcher, Nesta (UK)

Gary Gray

Director of Technology and Innovation, Harvard Catalyst, The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center (USA)

Jenn Gustetic

Program Executive, Small Business Innovation Research, NASA

César Hidalgo

Associate Professor of Media Arts and Science, MIT and Director, Collective Learning Group, MIT Media Lab (USA)

Justin Hill

Senior Private Sector Specialist, The World Bank Group (USA)

Matt Homer

Chief Innovation Officer, Future State (USA)

Sandrine Kergroach

Senior Economist and Policy Analyst, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (France)

Rembrand Koning

Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School (USA)

Karim Lakhani

Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School and Director, Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (USA)

Bas Leurs

Head of Learning Experience Design, Nesta (UK)

Sam Liss

Executive Director, Strategic Partnerships, Harvard Office of Technology Development (USA)

William Maloney

Chief Economist, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions, World Bank Group (USA)

Denis Medvedev

Lead Economist, The World Bank Group (USA)

Juan Mateos-Garcia

Head of Innovation Mapping, Nesta (UK)

Michael Menietti

Laboratory for Innovation Science Harvard (USA)

Lesley Millar-Nicholson

Director, MIT Technology Licensing Office (USA)

Mike Morris

CEO, Topcoder (USA)

Geoff Mulgan

Chief Executive, Nesta (UK)

Jonathan Ortmans

President, Global Entrepreneurship Network (USA)

James Phipps

Principal Researcher, Innovation Growth Lab, Nesta (UK)

Josep Miquel Piqué

President, International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation and former CEO, Barcelona 22@ Innovation District (Spain)

Steve Rader

Deputy Manager, NASA Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (USA)

Benjamin Reid

Head of International Innovation, Development Programmes, Nesta (UK)

Laura Rosendahl Huber

Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Germany)

Chad Syverson

Eli B. and Harriet B. Williams Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business (USA)

Mark Zachary Taylor

Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

Misha Teplitskiy

Laboratory for Innovation Science Harvard (USA)

Chatale Tippett

Principal Researcher (Innovation Systems), Innovation Mapping, Nesta (UK)

John Van Reenen

Gordon Y. Billard Professor of Management and Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management (USA)

Jennifer Vey

Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution (USA)

Paulina Villa

Medellin's Innovation District Manager, Ruta N (Colombia)

Sarah Weisberg

Chief Scientist, Biobus (USA)

John Williams

Director of Innovation and Technology, US Small Business Administration (USA)

Christy Wyskiel

Senior Advisor to the President, Head of John Hopkins Technology Ventures, John Hopkins University (USA)