Featured Presenters & Guests
Entrepreneurs |
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 Ted Leonsis Founder, Chairman, Majority Owner, CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment and Former President of AOL |
 Desh Deshpande Chairman, Sycamore Networks & A123 Systems |
 Naveen Jain Founder of Moon Express, Intelius and InfoSpace and on Forbes List |
 Jeff Sandefer Founder, Acton Foundation, Sandefer Capital Partners, & Sandefer Offshore |
 Howard Leonhardt Co-Founder, Bioheart |
 Atul Jain Founder, TEOCO |
 John Katzman Founder, Princeton Review & Founder, 2tor |
 Brien Biondi President & COO, League Asset Corp & Former President, Entrepreneurs’ Organization |
 Steven Koltai Founder, Koltai & Co. & Serial Entrepreneur |
 Jeff Hoffman Founding Team, Priceline.com |
 Anthony Delmedico Founder, CEO, and Author, Del Visionaries and the Little Green Money Machine |
 Bo Fishback Founder, Zaarly and Former Vice President of Entrepreneurship, Kauffman Foundation |
 Tom Adams CEO, Rosetta Stone |
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Government |
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 Mike Pompeo Congressman, 4th District of Kansas |
 David Loebsack Congressman, 2nd District of Iowa |
 Mary Landrieu Senator, Louisiana |
 Pete Sessions Congressman, 32nd District of Texas |
 Cedric Richmond Congressman, 2nd District of Louisiana |
Margaret Spellings Former U.S. Secretary of Education |
 Paul Corson Acting Director, Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Department of Commerce |
 Jose Fernandez Assistant Secretary, Department of State |
 Shelly Porges Director, Global Entrepreneurship Program, Department of State |
 Marie Johns Deputy Director, Small Business Administration |
 Allen West Congressman, 22nd District of Florida |
 Aneesh Chopra United States Chief Technology Officer |
 Pradeep Ramamurthy Deputy Counselor for Innovation, USAID |
 John Fernandez Assistant Secretary, Department of Commerce |
 Jared Polis Congressman, 2nd District of Colorado |
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Foundations
 Thom Ruhe Director of Entrepreneurship, Kauffman Foundation |
 Michael Hennessy CEO, Coleman Foundation |
 Mauro De Lorenzo Vice President, Templeton Foundation |
 Susan Koehler Senior Manager, Community Relations |
 Nishith Acharya Executive Director, Deshpande Foundation |
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Entrepreneur Support Organizations
 Steve Mariotti Founder, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship |
 Stan Anderson Director, Campaign for Free Enterprise, US Chamber of Commerce |
 Ken Yancey CEO, SCORE |
 Kristie Arslan President & CEO, National Association for the Self-Employed |
 Karen Kerrigan President & CEO, Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council |
 Jennifer Kushell Founder, Your Success Network |
 Jack Kosakowski President & CEO, Junior Achievement |
 Ed Davis CEO, DECA |
 Guy Pfeffermann Founder & CEO, Global Business School Network |
 Jon Yasuda CEO, Opportunity International |
Higher Education
 Patricia Green President’s Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship, Babson College National Academic Advisor,Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Initiative |
 Mary Sue Coleman President, University of Michigan |
 William Scott Green Senior Vice Provost & Dean of Undergraduate Education, University of Miami |
 Mitzi Montoya Vice Provost & Dean, College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University |
 Michael Morris Director, School of Entrepreneurship, Oklahoma State University |
 George McLendon Provost, Rice University |
 Jeff Reid Director, Entrepreneurship Center at Georgetown University |
 Donald Snyder President, Lehigh Carbon Community College |
 Jim Dean Dean, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School |
 Megan Mitchell Senior Associate Director, Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs, University of Pennsylvania |
 Kevin Drumm President, Broome Community College |
 Daniel Larson President, Cayuga Community College |
 Chuck Terrell President, Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College |
 Michael Schneider President, McPherson College |
Associations
 Becky Gann Executive Director, United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship |
 Heather Van Sickle Executive Director, National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship |
Media
 Brian Moran Director, Wall Street Journal |
 Jan Brown Director of Education, USA Today |
 Donna Fenn Contributing Editor, Inc. Magazine |
 Rieva Lesonsky CEO & President, GrowBiz Media |
 Alfred Edmond Senior Vice President, Black Enterprise |
 Laura Vanderkam Freelance Writer on Entrepreneurship |
 Joshua Moss Managing Editor, Portfolio.com |
 Rob Levin CEO, New York Enterprise Report |
 Ramon Ray Founder & Editor, Smallbiztechnology.com |
 Bridget Williams VP of Business Development, Business Insider |
 Rod Kurtz Executive Editor, Huffington Post Small Business |
 Laura Lorber Executive Online Editor, Entrepreneur Media Inc |
Publishers
 Daniel Ambrosio Editor, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
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