Civic Engagement

Charles Montgomery

Founder of Happy Cities | Award-Winning Journalist | Author of Happy City

The city you live in has a powerful effect on how you behave. How, then, do we design happy cities?

Eric Klinenberg

Author of Palaces for the People and 2020 | Award-Winning Sociologist | Director of NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge

To save our democracy, we must invest in our cities, our people, and our institutions today.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Former Mayor of Baltimore | Founder, SRB & Associates

Someone is going to step up and make a change in your community. There's no reason it couldn't be you.

Cas Holman

Award-Winning Toy Designer of the World-Renowned Rigamajig | Founder and Principal Designer at Toy Company Heroes Will Rise

Play encourages curiosity, collaboration, and creativity for the world's most innovative companies.

Skylar Tibbits

Founder and Director, MIT Self-Assembly Lab | Associate Professor of Design Research, MIT

The robots of the future won't require batteries. We can use simple materials to build smart, sustainable, and scalable solutions to real-world problems.

Abdul El-Sayed

County Public Health Director | Author of Healing Politics and Medicare for All | Host of America Dissected

A great leader needs to find their unifying story—one that explains who they are to three key stakeholders: themselves, their team, and their future allies.

Michael Landsberg

Founder of #SickNotWeak | Former host of TSN's Off The Record

When we talk openly, frankly, and honestly about mental health, we’re one step closer to healing.

Most of the world’s population lives in cities, with more people migrating to urban centers every day. Our civic engagement speakers are using technology, psychology, science, and art to figure out how we can build happier, more sustainable places to live.

Charles Montgomery

Eric Klinenberg

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Cas Holman

Skylar Tibbits

Michael Landsberg

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