Judith Schwartz is an author who tells stories to explore and illuminate scientific concepts and cultural nuance. She writes for numerous publications, including The American Prospect, The Guardian, Discover, Scientific American, and YaleE360. Her latest book, “The Reindeer Chronicles”, is a global tour of earth repair, featuring stops in Norway, Spain, Hawai’i, New Mexico, and beyond. Judy has a B.A. from Brown University, an M.S.J. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Northwestern.

Ryan Allard is a company founder, a researcher, a speaker, and formerly a

business consultant and trader. He brings expertise in transportation systems and climate change in the USA, Europe and the Caribbean. He led transport research that fed the New York Times Bestseller: & Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming". He also led teams that analyzed and modeled climate solutions in buildings and several other sectors that contribute to global warming.

He has published international peer-reviewed research and presented at international conferences on mass transit, high-speed rail, car

technologies, and other sustainable transport. Prior to this, Ryan worked in the business consulting and finance industries.

Ryan has PhD and MSc degrees in transportation systems (from the Technical University of Lisbon, in Portugal), and he also has a BSc degree in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering (from MIT in the US).

Brian von Herzon obtained his A.B. in Physics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in Computer and Planetary Science from Caltech where he was the recipient of the prestigious Hertz Fellowship. While at Princeton, Brian spent four years working closely with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.  At Princeton, his dissertation on global climate models demonstrated how changes in the Earth’s orbit affects climate.  During his Caltech years Brian worked on models of the overabundance of carbon in Jupiter’s atmosphere.  Much of Brian’s career has been in Silicon Valley, where he developed innovative technical solutions for companies like Pixar, Dolby, Microsoft, and others. Among other projects, he designed field programmable gate array (FPGA) applications considered to be among the world’s fastest at the time.

Brian leads projects on land and sea with  individuals and groups in all parts of the world, including India, Africa, and the USA

Karl Burkart is the Deputy Director of One Earth, which supports academic institutions and NGOs working on the cutting edge of climate and energy science, biodiversity mapping, and sustainable agriculture. 

Prior to his work at the foundation, Karl was formerly the Director of Media, Science & Technology at the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, and creator of Greendig, a blog exploring the intersection between technology and environmental sustainability. He produced and wrote ‘Planet 100’, the Discovery Network’s first online video news show, and he led digital advocacy for the TckTckTck campaign, a global network of more than 450 NGOs working to secure a strong international climate agreement under the UNFCCC. 

Tenzin Seldon is a climate leader and solutionist who has been on the frontlines of migration, social enterprise, tech, and climate work for over a decade and half. Today Tenzin is Founder and Managing Partner of Pulse Fund. Pulse is an innovative climate fund, focused on investing big in the future of energy, infrastructure, mobility and food & agriculture. The team Tenzin leads has over 250 years experience in climate and investing.

Previously, Tenzin co-founded The Plant, with the bold vision of creating a net-negative global home for climate solutions through the redevelopment and adaptive reuse of historic buildings. Prior to The Plant, Tenzin worked at the United Nations Regional Office of Asia and the Pacific and the United Nations Environment Programme, where she monitored and recommended policy for the region’s disaster relief efforts. Her work has been recognized in Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30” list, as the social entrepreneur “Most Likely to Impact the Next Century”, and in OZY Magazine as one of their “5 Civil-Rights Leaders for a New Generation.”

Tom Chi has worked in roles ranging from astrophysical researcher to Fortune 500 consultant to corporate executive leading hardware/software team to develop innovative products & services. He pioneered and practices a unique approach to rapid prototyping and leadership that can jumpstart innovative new ideas and move large organizations at unprecedented speeds. He was head of Product Experience and a founding member of Google X, and current works to accelerate a future where humanity becomes a net positive to nature as Managing Partner of At One Ventures.

Chad Frischmann is the co-author, lead researcher and principal architect of the Drawdown Solutions Framework behind the New York Times best-seller Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, and all communications and engagement efforts at Project Drawdown, a leading resource for climate solutions. 

Leading a global team of researchers, Chad designed integrated global tools to assess the world’s most effective climate solutions and determine if, when, and how the world can reach “drawdown,” the point in time when the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases begins to decline on a year-to-year basis. As head of Drawdown Solutions since Project Drawdown’s inception, Chad is a key spokesperson and coalition-builder dedicated to sharing the message and model of the Drawdown Framework to the world.

Julia Jackson is the founder of Grounded, which convenes and fosters collaboration between the world’s foremost climate change experts: a diverse community of solutionists, scientists, policymakers, investors, executives and front-line organizations to cross-pollinate transformative ideas and innovative solutions. Julia is a passionate climate activist who is devoted to mitigating the climate crisis.

Marilyn Waite leads the Climate Finance Fund, focusing on mobilizing capital for climate solutions. Her writing has appeared in numerous media outlets, including the Financial Times, Forbes, and GreenBiz, where she serves as editor-at-large. Marilyn serves on a number of boards and investment committees.

Previously, Marilyn managed the climate and clean energy finance portfolio at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and led energy and cleantech investments at Village Capital, managed nuclear and renewable energy projects at AREVA (now Orano and Framatome), and served as a Senior Research Fellow at Project Drawdown, where she led a team to model, quantify, and forecast the viability of energy solutions to curb climate change.

Kurt Przybilla is an inventor, writer, producer, and educator. He invented Tetra Tops®, the world’s first spinning top with more than one axis of spin, which were inspired by the works of Buckminster Fuller and have been featured in the New York Times, Popular Science, Baby Einstein, Child and Discover Magazine, as well as at the Smithsonian Institute.

He is co-creator, writer and producer of the Molecularium Project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he has produced and co-written Molecules to the MAX!, a 3D animated film for Giant Screen IMAX theaters, Molecularium, an award-winning digital dome feature, and NanoSpace, an award-winning, game-based online