SPEAKER CATALOG Marion Adeney Alice M. Agogino Environmental Science Advisor, USAID Peru/South America Regional Program Professor, UC Berkeley Development Engineering at UC Berkeley @agogino Marion Adeney has spent one year as an Overseas AAAS Fellow at USAID Peru where she works with both the bilateral and South America Regional Environment teams. She focuses on incorporating use of geospatial and other scientific data, and on engaging the scientific and academic communities in USAID’s Amazon Conservation work. Marion spent two years at USAID Washington in the Office of Science and Technology (now the Global Development Lab). She has a PhD from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, where she studied impacts of climate and human interventions (such as roads and protected areas) on geospatial patterns of fire across the Brazilian Amazon. Alice M. Agogino is the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering and is affiliated faculty at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. She serves as Chair of the Development Engineering Graduate Group and co-teaches the core course titled Design, Evaluate and Scale Development Technologies. Agogino received a B.S. degree from the University of New Mexico (1975), M.S. degree from UC Berkeley (1978) and Ph.D. from Stanford University (1984). Prior to joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, Agogino worked in industry for Dow Chemical, General Electric and SRI International and continues to consult in product design. SPEAKER CATALOG Sandeep Ahuja Dr. Syed Imran Ali CEO, Operation ASHA Case Studies on Successful Scaling - Global Health @sandeepahuja12 Postdoctoral Fellow, Blum Center for Developing Economies, UC Berkeley @imranono Sandeep has led Operation ASHA as CEO since 2006. His sharp business acumen has earned praise and created a costeffective method of treating tuberculosis. He was member of the Board of the Stop TB Partnership from 2009-12 where he represented NGOs of developing countries. Before founding Operation ASHA, Sandeep served for many years as additional commissioner for the Government of India. He then travelled to the U.S., where he earned a masters degree in public policy at the University of Chicago and a certificate in health policy & administration. During his tenure at the University of Chicago, he was awarded the Harris Fellowship. He was also selected as a McCormick Tribune Community Leadership Fellow. Dr. Ali is an aid worker and academic focused on humanitarian challenges at the intersection of environment and public health. He is a water and sanitation specialist with Médecins Sans Frontières and has been part of emergency responses in South Sudan and Pakistan. Dr. Ali holds a doctorate in environmental engineering from the University of Guelph and received his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Queen’s University. Dr. Ali’s current research focuses on emergency safe water supply in refugee/IDP camps. In response to major knowledge gaps in humanitarian operations, his research aims to develop evidence-based guidelines for emergency safe water supply. SPEAKER CATALOG Dr. Susan Amrose John Anner Assistant Project Scientist & Lecturer, UC Berkeley Design for Sustainable Communities CEO, Thrive Networks @johnanner Dr. Susan Amrose is a Project Scientist and Lecturer in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Program Director at the LBNL Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies (LIGTT). At UC Berkeley, Susan heads the water program at the Gadgil Lab for Energy and Water Research and played a key role in the development of ECAR technology to affordably remove arsenic from drinking water in rural South Asia. She continues to work on the ECAR scale-up effort in West Bengal, India and manages ongoing projects in fluoride and brackish water treatment in East Africa and North India. Susan is co-founder and CSO at SimpleWater. John Anner has been the CEO of Thrive Networks, formerly the East Meets West Foundation, for 12 years. During that time, Thrive Networks has grown from one small country office in Vietnam engaged in small-scale grassroots development to having programs or projects in numerous countries in Asia and Africa, including India, Myanmar, Laos, East Timor, Benin, Ghana, Uganda and Rwanda. Thrive Networks was launched in September 2014, and represents a major transformation of the underlying business model. Prior to Thrive Networks, John was the founding Executive Director of the Independent Press Association, which operated a number of private companies supporting the social justice press in America. SPEAKER CATALOG Iana Aranda Dr. Peter Arimi Sr. Program Manager, Engineering for Change Trends in Engineering for Global Development @iana_aranda Senior Regional Health Specialist, USAID Perspective from USAID/East Africa's Buy-in to the SEAD Award Iana Aranda is a Senior Program Manager and serial intrapreneur in the Engineering for Global Development sector at ASME, a not-for-profit professional organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing and skill development across all engineering disciplines, while promoting the vital role of the engineer in society. Her primary focus at ASME is on the design, development and implementation of a portfolio of products and programs in emerging markets, social innovation and sustainable design. Iana has over 10 years of experience in academic, research and nonprofit sectors focusing on the intersection of engineering design, business development and social responsibility. Dr. Peter Arimi is a Senior Regional Health Specialist with USAID since 2008 and is based in Nairobi - Kenya. Prior to joining USAID, Dr Arimi held various international positions, including Senior Technical Advisor with Jhpiego Kenya program; Clinical Director with Clinton Health Access Initiative in Papua New Guinea; Clinical Research Coordinating Physician with Harvard School of Public Health in Botswana and Senior Medical Office with Ministry of Health in Botswana. Dr Arimi did his Internship at Kenyatta National Medical Training Hospital in Kenya. Dr. Arimi holds a Masters of Science degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and a Post Graduate Diploma in HIV and AIDS Management. SPEAKER CATALOG Greg Austic Banny Banerjee Project Coordinator, Kramer Lab (Michigan State) @gregaustic Director, Stanford ChangeLabs Human Centered Design at Scale- Designing with and for Communities @BannyBanerjee Before co-founding the PhotosynQ project, Greg designed games, made biodiesel and biodiesel technologies, and was involved in various open education and open technology activities in Ann Arbor, MI. His goal is to increase the amount of publicly available information in the world by developing technology with a naturally ‘open’ market path and directing existing technology towards open licenses and business models. Banny Banerjee is Director of Stanford ChangeLabs, a platform that is generating new theories and processes to drive transformations where scale, complexity, and urgency are all critical. ChangeLabs is a global network of institutions, innovation experts, behavioral scientists, and technology strategists all working towards new paradigms for scaled interventions towards sustainable and resilient solutions to global challenges such as climate change, energy, water, and financial inclusion. Banny teaches design and innovation strategy at the Stanford d.School and the Stanford Design Program. SPEAKER CATALOG John Beed Kathleen (Kate) Bergeron Mission Director, USAID/India Innovation Marketplace Judge Vice President, Hardware Engineering, Apple, Inc. Design for Scale @gulleron John Beed is the USAID Mission Director to India where he leads a bilateral partnership program directed at finding innovative solutions to key global challenges and shared India -U.S. goals in health, climate change, education, and food security. Mr. Beed previously served as Deputy Mission Director in Egypt, and in Tokyo as the U.S. Embassy Development Counselor responsible for promoting U.S.Japan global aid coordination. Mr. Beed also served as USAID’s Mission Director in Paraguay and as USAID’s Deputy Mission Director in Mexico. He directed USAID’s regional economic growth programs for Latin America and the Caribbean and also served in the Russian Federation. Kate Bergeron is a twenty year veteran of the technology industry. She has spent the majority of her career working in the consumer electronics and medical device fields. Kate is currently a Vice President at Apple, Inc., in the Ecosystem Products and Technologies Group. The team is responsible for the hardware engineering of Apple’s Input Devices, Soft Goods, Apple TV, iOS and Macintosh Accessories, Apple Packaging and Retail Display Engineering. Kate began her Apple career in 2002 as a Senior Mechanical Engineer on the first 17” Powerbook computer. After the 17” Powerbook, she moved to the iBook team, where the 12” and 14” notebook products set new volume, quality, and price points for Apple. SPEAKER CATALOG Alexis Bonnell Carol Bothwell Director, USAID Office of Engagement & Communications @GlobalDevLab Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Catholic Relief Services Innovation Marketplace Judge Alexis Bonnell is the director of the Office of Engagement and Communications in the U.S. Global Development Lab. Over her career, Bonnell has developed and delivered over a billion dollars of humanitarian and development programming in over 25 conflict, post-conflict and emergency countries, in almost every sector from education to stabilization, for more than 30 international bilateral donors, 10 U.N. agencies, the military and the private sector. She has held positions with every side of development including: implementers, donors, policy makers and beneficiaries. Bonnell has more than 20 years of experience in management and communications. Carol Bothwell is the Chief Information Officer of Catholic Relief Services (CRS). She leads the agency's federated IT organization, works with the agency's CEO and Executive Leadership team to align IT and business strategy, and manages the agency's global knowledge environment. She have been a leader in the effort to improve CRS programming through the use of technology in the field. Prior to joining CRS in October 2007, Carol was a Vice President and Chief Knowledge Officer with CSC, a global information technology services company with over 79,000 employees and operations spanning 59 countries worldwide. SPEAKER CATALOG Yael Braha Eric Brewer Creative Director, Obscura Digital @yaelbraha Professor, UC Berkeley VP of Infrastructure at Google @eric_brewer Originally from Rome, Italy, Yael is a Creative Director at Obscura Digital in San Francisco. She has worked in design, filmmaking, fine arts, and arts education for the past 20 years. Her understanding of art as narrative and dialog has shaped many national and international projects, including interactive installations, interactive media walls, and liveprojection mapping shows. Her interests push the boundaries of art, science and technology; her explorations involve computer vision, parametric, generative design, and interactivity utilizing electronics, visual processing, creative coding, and kinetic sculpture. Yael has received a Kodak Eastman Award, two Webby Awards, and two Muse Awards. Prof. Brewer leads the Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions (TIER) at Berkeley, whose projects have included long-distance WiFi for telemedicine in India, community cellular networks in Indonesia, and energy access projects in Kenya and India. He is also VP of Infrastructure at Google, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering for his work on scalable servers (now called Cloud computing). SPEAKER CATALOG Dr. Shashi Buluswar Lynelle Cameron CEO, LIGTT: Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies The 50 Most Important Technology Breakthroughs Required to Fight Global Poverty President & CEO, The Autodesk Foundation @lynellecameron Dr. Shashi Buluswar is the CEO of LIGTT, the Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies, at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. LIGTT was launched in 2012, to develop technological breakthroughs for combating global poverty and related problems. Before creating LIGTT, he was a Partner at Dalberg Global Development Advisors, where he served as a strategic adviser to a range of institutions in international development—NGOs, corporations, foundations, governments, social entrepreneurs, the UN, and the World Bank—on topics including health, agriculture, economic development, human rights, and climate change. He was previously an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company. With dual roles as President & CEO of the Autodesk Foundation and Senior Director of Sustainability at Autodesk, Lynelle Cameron is helping designers use technology to solve today’s most epic challenges. Under Cameron’s leadership, Autodesk created the Sustainability Workshop, an online learning platform teaching sustainable design that has reached over one million students worldwide, and launched two software donation programs, the Technology Impact program for nonprofit organizations, and the Clean Tech Partner Program for early-stage clean tech companies. Since Lynelle joined six years ago, Autodesk has received numerous awards for Autodesk as a sustainability innovator. SPEAKER CATALOG Shauna Carey Corinne Carland Communications Specialist, IDEO.org Crowd Sourcing Innovation: Designing Better, Together @shauna_ryann Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation - Household Water Filter Evaluation - Ahmedabad, India As Communications Specialist for IDEO.org, Shauna leads storytelling and strategic communications for the Amplify program, a five-year effort funded by the UK Department for International Development to make international aid more collaborative and human-centered. Shauna joined IDEO.org from Room to Read, a global organization dedicated to improving literacy and gender equality in education. Over the past decade, Shauna's work has focused on helping nonprofit organizations and start-up businesses tell their stories, with a breadth of experience in media relations, community management, cause marketing, and editorial writing. She also serves as an advisor for EMERGENCY USA. Corinne is a graduate student at MIT in the Technology and Policy Program (TPP). Her broad research interests are in scaling up health technologies and products in the developing world. She lived in India this summer studying the water filter market with CITE. Corinne graduated undergrad also from MIT in chemical engineering and biology. SPEAKER CATALOG Ann Mei Chang Karina Chavarria Chief Innovation Officer, Mercy Corps @annmei Ph.D. Student, UC Berkeley Ann Mei Chang is the Chief Innovation Officer at Mercy Corps, where she builds highly scalable social ventures and leverages mobile/internet to improve the lives of the poor. Previously, she served as the Senior Advisor for Women and Technology in the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues at the U.S. Department of State. At State she developed partnerships, influenced policy, and became a public voice on bridging the gender gap in access to mobile phones and the Internet, leveraging technology in improving the lives of women and girls in developing countries, and increasing the representation of women in the technology sector. She conceived and launched the Alliance for Affordable Internet. Karina's research interests include water quality in intermittent piped water supply in Mexico and Central America, the sustainability of small community water supplies, real-time water quality measurements, and the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve water and sanitation services. She is also interested in the social factors that influence the sustainability of water infrastructure, and the health and environmental impacts of WASH interventions in rural communities. She recently worked on an evaluation of a large-scale water and sanitation program in Mexico (PROSSAPYS) by the InterAmerican Development Bank. SPEAKER CATALOG Cathy Clark Karen Clune Director, CASE i3 and Co-Lead, SEAD, Duke University Impact Investing @cathyhc Innovation Advisor, USAID Innovation Marketplace Judge Cathy has been an active pioneer, educator and consultant for 25 years in the fields of impact investing and for-profit and nonprofit social entrepreneurship. A professor at the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, she founded the CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing and coleads the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD), a USAID-funded global health accelerator. She also coordinates global research for $4.5 billion of impact assets under management and from over 11,000 impact entrepreneurs in 29 countries. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, a BA from the University of Virginia. Karen is dedicated to providing quality care to women and children in underserved communities using innovative approaches. As the Global Health Bureau’s Innovation Advisor at USAID, Karen helps identify and develop initiatives, partnerships, and/or activities that support innovations in global health. More specifically, she manages the Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge partnership and projects, which aim to dramatically reduce maternal and neonatal mortality and stillbirths. To accelerate the impact of these and other global health innovations, she manages two acceleration programs: the Xcelerator, and the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke University (SEAD). SPEAKER CATALOG Beth Collins Eric Crawford Senior Advisor, Catholic Relief Services Director, Global Center for Food Systems Innovation Implications of Climate Change for Food Security and Nutrition @gcfsi Beth has a 25-year executive leadership career with global experience in corporate, non-profit and NGO sectors throughout Africa, South East Asia and other emerging market regions. After many years in the private sector, she started and ran one of the Clinton Foundation’s first (of three) country offices in Africa where she designed and implemented comprehensive health and agriculture programs. In that role, Beth worked very closely with the Rwandan Ministry of Health, Dr. Paul Farmer and his Partners In Health team to create and implement a model for comprehensive health care solutions that has since been adopted as the Rwandan government’s rural standard of care. She holds an MBA in Finance from NYU. Prior to his doctoral studies, Professor Eric Crawford worked on rural and agricultural development programs in Kenya for five years, initially as a Peace Corps volunteer. He joined the department at Michigan State in 1979 as an assistant professor focusing on international agricultural development. He has been a core faculty member of the department’s USAID-funded rural development and food security projects in Africa since 1980. Currently, he serves as Director of the Global Center for Food Systems Innovation, Co-Director of the Food Security Group within the department and is a co-PI on the Borlaug Higher Education Agricultural Research and Development (BHEARD) program. SPEAKER CATALOG Genevieve Croft Dr. Carol Dahl AAAS Fellow with HESN, USAID Town Hall: Student Engagement in International Development Executive Director, The Lemelson Foundation Inventing for Impact in Developing Countries Genevieve is a AAAS Science Policy Fellow on the USAID/ HESN team. She came to HESN following fellowships at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Academy of Sciences, both of which focused on STEM Education policy. Genevieve earned her PhD in Evolutionary Biology from Washington University in St. Louis, and a B.S. in Biology from Georgetown University. As part of the HESN team, she focuses on promoting Student Engagement and Innovation across the Network. She also joins the award management teams for Texas A&M's Conflict and Development Lab and UC Berkeley's Development Impact Lab. Dr. Carol Dahl is the Executive Director of The Lemelson Foundation. With a background in both discovery sciences and global health and development, Dr. Dahl leads the foundation’s work to use the power of invention to improve lives. The Foundation believes that invention can solve many of the biggest economic and social challenges of our time. The Foundation’s programs help the next generation of inventors in the US and developing countries acquire the education and support needed to turn their ideas into viable products and invention-based businesses that will take their ideas to impact. The Foundation works to strengthen the ecosystem that supports inspiring and educating inventors. SPEAKER CATALOG Michele Davenport Dr. Emmanuella Delva Higher Education Specialist, USAID Higher Education Advisor/Science, Technology, and Innovation Development Objective Team Leader, USAID/Indonesia Michele Davenport is currently the Senior Technical Advisor to the USAID/El Salvador Mission on Higher Education, Workforce and Youth Employment. She has over 20 years of international experience with US and Latin American education systems, with public and private institutions. Michele has positions such as National Director for Education Development in El Salvador and Regional Director in Central America for San Jose State University. Her professional Business and Education background combines extensive experience in higher education and international development, including international relations, public-private partnerships, senior level academic positions, and regional administrative positions. Emmanuella Delva, Ph.D., is the Higher Education Advisor and Mission’s Science, Technology and Innovation Development Objective Team Leader, for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Jakarta, Indonesia. Dr. Delva's focus lies on university partnerships and areas of synergy between science and technology and higher education in Indonesia. Dr. Delva also leads efforts in ensuring that all technical offices and development objective teams utilize scientific/innovative approaches in implementing activities, whenever possible, as well as developing activities to strengthened Indonesia’s science and technology ecosystem. Dr. Delva holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical and Biological Sciences from Emory University. SPEAKER CATALOG Dr. Samir K. Doshi Dr. Rajiv Doshi AAAS S&T Policy Fellow, USAID ICT4D Principles @samirkdoshi Executive Director (US) Stanford-India Biodesign Dr. Samir K. Doshi is an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s U.S. Global Development Lab. His work for the Digital Development Team and the Higher Education Solutions Network leverages academic-public-private partnerships and ICT4D applications to build inclusive, resilient and sustainable solutions to global grand challenges. Samir integrates his background in the fields of development economics, systems ecology, engineering, anthropology and governance to develop more sustainable and resilient societies. Samir was a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar and Fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Institute. Dr. Rajiv Doshi serves as the Executive Director (US) of Stanford-India Biodesign and is also a Consulting Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. The goal of Stanford-India Biodesign is to train the next generation of medical technology innovators in India. Funded by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, the program is a first of its kind collaboration between Stanford University, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Dr. Doshi has served as an advisor to the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India since the Stanford-India Biodesign program began in 2007. SPEAKER CATALOG Nicole Etchart Asim Fayaz Co-CEO, NESsT Graduate Student, UC Berkeley @asim_fayaz Nicole founded NESsT on the belief that social enterprise is a powerful tool that provides marginalized communities the skills, accessibility and technology needed to overcome social barriers and break the cycle of poverty. She currently leads NESsT´s strategy, growth and impact worldwide including entrance to eleven countries and investment in a diverse portfolio of high impact enterprises that have improved the quality of life of over 350,000 marginalized people. Nicole manages key donor relations and oversees a senior team to carry out NESsT´s goals while maximizing the organization´s resources and impact. Asim Fayaz is a development-minded entrepreneur passionate about solving problems in emerging markets using technology. He has worked with donors, governments, academia, private firms, nonprofits and launched start-ups, both for-profit and nonprofit. In the past, Asim co-founded the Technology for the People Initiative (www.tpilums.org), a public sector-focused applied research and design nonprofit in Pakistan that, in his leadership, raised over $300K to design innovative tech-driven solutions for the public sector and won the Making All Voices Count Global Innovation Competition. He also co-founded SMSAll.pk, Pakistan's first group SMS network that grew to over a million users. SPEAKER CATALOG Cauam Cardoso Ferreira Heather Fleming PhD Student & International Development Consultant, MIT @cauamcardoso CEO, Catapult Design @catapult_design Cauam Cardoso is a Consultant and a PhD student in International Economic Development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since the start of his career in 2002, he has lived on 6 different continents, and worked professionally on 5. After developing several socioenvironmental and sanitation projects in Brazil, he spent two years in Angola, where he worked with large-scale sanitation and solid waste management projects. Between 2010 and 2012, he worked for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), initially serving in Cambodia, and later at FAO’s headquarters in Italy, where he supported the development of food security projects worldwide. Heather Fleming is the CEO of Catapult Design, a product and service design firm partnering with international organizations to develop sustainable, market-based solutions to poverty. Heather has over a decade of experience in product design consulting and was formerly an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University and Senior Lecturer at California College of the Arts. In 2010 the World Economic Forum included Heather in their class of Young Global Leaders, a prestigious community for leaders under the age of 40. She is a prominent speaker and advocate for the role of design in international and economic development initiatives. She is also a Board member for the Navajo Chamber of Commerce. SPEAKER CATALOG Dr. Christine Geith Michael Hahn Assistant Provost, Michigan State University @christinegeith Product Development Manager, Sanergy Supporting in-country product creation and delivery through small and growing businesses Dr. Christine Geith is Assistant Provost and Executive Director, MSUglobal Knowledge and Learning Innovations, Michigan State University. She leads the development of new entrepreneurial approaches in higher education using technology, online learning and open models. Recently, she has worked with faculty to open up critical knowledge to help transform global food systems and agriculture. She leads teams using a comprehensive approach to planning, instructional development, and program evaluation and administration. Dr. Geith has experience in research, teaching, small business, internet startups, online and adult education, peer learning and open educational resources. Mike is the product development manager at Sanergy (Nairobi, Kenya) where he is developing the next generation of Fresh Life Toilet system and other products to enhance the Fresh Life brand. He is also a founding consortium member of Gearbox, Kenya’s first open space for design and rapid prototyping. He is especially hands-on, spending most of his time in the workshop producing prototypes and tooling for Sanergy’s needs. Hahn has a long history of fabrication experience in a wide range of manufacturing processes. Before Sanergy, he led sanitation product development processes for iDE, WSP, and UNICEF. He was a recent Fulbright Fellow in Cambodia. SPEAKER CATALOG Kifle Woldemichael Hajito Jeff Hamaoui Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Jimma University The Eightfold Path @hambear Kifle Woldemichael Hajito is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Medical Sciences, Jimma University, Ethiopia, where he teaches Epidemiology and research methods for both graduate and undergraduate students. He also serves as a Principal Investigator for Monitoring and Evaluation Training Program of the University and focal person for One Health Central and Eastern Africa (OHCEA) representing the College of Public Health and Medical Sciences. Moreover he is a Director of ResilientAfrica Innovation Lab (RI-Lab) for Horn of Africa. Professor Kifle has served as the chairperson of Council of Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative (EPHTI) (2006 – 2010). Jeff designs and builds innovation programs in partnership with government and industry and has been one of the principle partners collaborative innovation efforts such as LAUNCH, Invest Early, Conservation X Labs and NASA's Grand Challenges. Jeff has worked as an impact investor, foundation officer and consultant in the sustainability and green business field for over 20 years and is the founder and CEO of FURTHER by Design. SPEAKER CATALOG Dan Hammer R. David Harden Presidential Innovation Fellow, NASA @econohammer Mission Director, USAID/West Bank and Gaza Dan Hammer is a Presidential Innovation Fellow working on Data Innovation initiatives at NASA headquarters in the CTO’s office. Dan is an economist and data scientist. He was the Chief Data Scientist at the World Resources Institute, where he launched Global Forest Watch in partnership with Google, USAID, and many others. Dan is on leave from a PhD program at UC Berkeley, advised by Max Auffhammer and George Judge. Dan cofounded SpaceKnow and helps to organize the annual EcoHack conference alongside CartoDB. He teaches math at San Quentin State Prison as a lead instructor with the Prison University Project. Dan graduated with high honors in economics and mathematics from Swarthmore College. R. David Harden has been recommended for promotion to the rank of Minister Counselor in the Senior Foreign Service. He became the USAID West Bank and Gaza Mission Director in July 2013. Prior to this, he was the Deputy Mission Director for the USAID Mission in Iraq where he managed a multi-year $1.3 billion portfolio focused on governance (including capacity development in the health and education sectors), democracy and economic growth. Mr. Harden is an experienced Middle East veteran, having served for three years as the Senior Advisor to the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace. Mr. Harden earned his Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University. SPEAKER CATALOG Lawrence Hardy II Matt Higgins Mission Director, USAID/Brazil Innovation Marketplace Judge Senior Director, Digital Strategy + Media, Group SJR @RealMattHiggins Lawrence Hardy II is a Minister Counselor in the Senior Foreign Service Officer with 20 years of experience with USAID. He has served multiple tours in Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and South America. While in Brazil, he engineered and completed USAID's first transformed of a USAID country program from that of a traditional bilateral program to one of strategic partnership with the government, private sector, and people of Brazil.Prior to joining USAID, he consultant for a boutique management consulting firm that developed economic diversification strategies for Pacific Rim countries. Hardy received a Master's in Business Administration degree from UC Berkeley. Senior Director of the Digital Strategy + Media Group SJR (WPP), Matt is an evangelist for today’s paradigm shift in marketing and communications. He has extensive experience working as a specialist in digital strategy, content development and media campaigns for a clientele including TED, USAID, GE, Dell, and Coca-Cola. His background in television brings with it an understanding of science and global storytelling. Matt hails from Philadelphia and currently lives in Manhattan. SPEAKER CATALOG David Hill Bryan Hurren Senior Director, Industry Solutions, Hewlett-Packard Innovation Marketplace Judge Strategic Partnerships Manager, Facebook/Internet.org Exploring the Current Role & Potential of ICTs for Development @bryanhurren David Hill is the Senior Director for HP’s Industry Solutions organization. In this role, David is responsible for the strategic planning, product design, sales operations, and business development for the core Education and Healthcare verticals. Prior taking on this role, David was General Manager for HP’s US Consumer Online business where he was responsible for running HP’s eCommerce store. David has 15 years of experience in the technology industry in addition to 5 years of structural engineering practice. His diverse background, includes both a Professional Engineering certification and a Chartered Financial Analyst designation. David has an undergraduate Engineering degree and a Masters in Business Administration. Bryan Hurren is a Strategic Partnerships Manager at Facebook/Internet.org. He is responsible for Global Publisher and Civil Society relationships for the internet.org Free Basic Services program. Prior to Facebook, Bryan was a co-founder of SlingRide and Livemocha, and spent 10 years in various product management leadership roles at BlackBerry. SPEAKER CATALOG Michelle Jennings Nai Kalema Regional Engagement Latin America and the Caribbean Chief, USAID Careers in Development @Mijenni Project Coordinator, MIT International Development Innovation Network @nailee17 Michelle A. Jennings has been a Foreign Service Officer with the Agency for International Development (USAID) since 2003, serving overseas in East Africa and Central America for the last 9 years. Michelle’s work has focused on management and leadership, food security and agricultural development for the rural poor, natural resource management, climate change, and trade and market development. Michelle has worked on several whole of government Presidential initiatives such as Partnership for Growth, Feed the Future, and Global Climate Change. Prior to USAID, Michelle worked with several USG Agencies on domestic disaster preparedness and response programs. Nai Kalema is responsible for coordinating many of the International Development Innovation Network (IDIN) program's logistical, operational and financial processes, both at MIT and across its global-network of consortium partners and institutions. Additionally, Kalema has coordinated campus-wide IDIN student events featuring USAID leadership, by working with networks of student groups from MIT and Harvard. Kalema is a graduate of George Washington University, and as a student, served as Foreign Affairs congressional intern on Capitol Hill. Currently, Kalema is pursuing her Master of Liberal Arts in International Relations from Harvard University, Extension School. SPEAKER CATALOG Jennifer Keller Jackson Elizabeth Kountze Senior Program Officer, VentureWell How to Support Student Innovators and Early Stage Teams on Campuses Director of Outreach and Partnerships, Internews @lizziekountze Jennifer Keller Jackson is Senior Program Officer at VentureWell, a not-for-profit organization reaching more than 200 universities, VentureWell is the leader in funding, training, and early investment that brings student innovations to market. Jennifer oversees VentureWell’s faculty grants program, and she also leads the annual conference, Open, which brings together faculty and students from across disciplines. Her experience includes program development and management, technical proposal writing and business development. Elizabeth Kountze is the Director of Outreach and Partnerships for Internews, an international organization dedicated to helping communities in developing, postconflict, and in-conflict countries realize the benefits of independent media, technology, and the free flow of information. As Director, Kountze shares and leverages Internews’ expertise in media and developing economies to build collaboration with partners in technology and information access. Kountze has managed communications technology projects in Brazil, Haiti, India, Lebanon, Mexico, and throughout sub-Saharan Africa. She has designed outreach campaigns for innovation initiatives at USAID including Grand Challenges for Development. SPEAKER CATALOG Kimberly Bardy Langsam Rebecca Chandler Leege Program Director, SEAD, Duke University Project Director, All Children Reading Grand Challenge, World Vision @ReadingGCD Kimberly Bardy Langsam is the Program Director of the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD). Kim manages the research and evaluation agenda for SEAD, working with faculty, staff, and students to build the knowledge base around scaling innovations in global health. Additionally, Kim oversees SEAD’s student engagement activities, working with a student advisory council to identify ways to inspire and engage the next generation of development professionals who will bring innovative thinking to their work. Kim was previously a Health Development Officer in the Office of HIV/AIDS at USAID where she worked on PEPFAR’s supply chain management initiatives. Rebecca Chandler Leege is World Vision's Project Director for their partnership in All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development. Prior to this, she was World Vision US's Director for Child Development and Protection since 2007. Rebecca also worked with World Relief for four years, initially based in Kigali, Rwanda as their Director of Programs before relocating to their headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland USA as Director of Global Program Operations. She has lived and worked throughout Africa and Asia for over 10 years. Rebecca also spent six years working in the private sector in international human resources. SPEAKER CATALOG Dr. Benjamin Linder Amy Lockwood Associate Professor, Olin College of Engineering Sensing Change in Development Chief of Staff, Global Health Sciences, UCSF Venture Development Support: A Mini-Accelerator @amylockwood Dr. Linder works to enable people to engage design and creativity to lead more purposeful, hopeful lives. This effort is focused in the areas of environmental sustainability and international development. He is particularly interested in understanding how changing mindsets and agency through local innovation and collaboration can lead to more sustainable communities. The outcomes of his work include new techniques and approaches that further a more ecologically connected and socially just design practice. He co-leads the Design Stream at Olin College and co-organizes the Three College Collaboration Sustainability Certificate Program, and the Affordable Design and Entrepreneurship Program. Amy Lockwood is the Chief of Staff at University of California, San Francisco’s Global Health Sciences where she leads strategy and operations for the AIDS Research Institute and the Institute of Global Health Delivery and Diplomacy. Previously, Amy was the Deputy Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford, the Executive Director of Project Healthy Children, and the Director of the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Program and India Deputy Country Director for the Clinton Foundation. Prior to her work in global health, she was a consultant with a specialty in brand strategy. SPEAKER CATALOG Heather Kinlaw Lofthouse Daniel Lopez Assoc. Director, Partnerships, Development Impact Lab USAID/Colombia Heather Kinlaw Lofthouse is the Director of Special Projects at the Blum Center, supporting the operation and progress of the Center’s ongoing work and new projects, including the USAID-funded Development Impact Lab (DIL). She also serves as Associate Director of Partnerships for DIL. Prior to joining the Blum Center, she developed health and education programs for children in the US and Latin America as Managing Director of Absolute Return for Kids US, and managed and contributed to a body of research on social franchising while serving as Program Manager for the Private Sector Healthcare Initiative at UCSF’s Global Health Group. She has a Master’s in Public Policy and a Master’s in Public Health. Daniel Lopez is Colombian and has a background in agriculture. After being a farmer for seven years, decided to join the regional environmental authority in the Caldas department, where he was part of the planning direction and worked on the land use commission. Daniel has a post graduate diploma from the University of London in Environmental Management and did his Msc on Environmental Science and technology at the UNESCO-IHE in the Netherlands. He worked for the Global Water Partnership in supporting the development of national integrated water resources management plans, with a strong focus in African countries. Since 2008 Daniel works for USAID/Colombia. SPEAKER CATALOG Temina Madon Jose Magaña Paredes Managing Director, Development Impact Lab Development Engineering Graduate Student, Duke University-SEAD Building In-Country Capacity: Lessons Learned Temina Madon directs the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), a research network headquartered at the University of California, Berkeley that designs and tests solutions for the problems of poverty. In this role she also co-directs the Development Impact Lab, a USAID-funded academic initiative bringing science and engineering innovation to global development. She has been an advisor to the World Health Organization and has held positions in science policy at the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Senate, where she served as a AAAS Science and Technology Policy fellow. She holds a PhD in health sciences from UC Berkeley. Jose is a current graduate student at Duke University undergoing two masters programs: Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and Masters in Environmental Management (MEM). Jose's focus in the MBA program is Health Sector Management and Entrepreneurship. His focus in the MEM program is Ecotoxicology and Environmental Health. Jose hold a BA in Economics from UCLA and a professional Certificate in Finance from UC Berkeley. Prior to graduate school, Jose worked for a software company and for a regional hospital system, both in California. Jose spent this past summer (2014) helping a health services start-up in Queretaro, Mexico with business strategy and financial reporting. SPEAKER CATALOG Roy William Mayega Lauren McKown Deputy Chief of Party, ResilientAfrica Network ResilientAfrica Network: Community Driven Solutions to Resilience @RoyMayega Communications Coordinator, MIT IDIN Meet the IDIN Network @IDINetwork Dr. Roy William Mayega is a tenured Faculty at Makerere University School of Public Health, in the Department of Epidemiology and Bio-statistics. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Medicine, Master's Degree in Public Health and a PhD in Medical Science. He has over 16 years experience in public health related service delivery. His recent work is in Disaster Management and Chronic Diseases. His current interests are in innovating for resilience. He is the Deputy Chief of Party of the ResilientAfrica Network, one of the HESN partner labs. Lauren McKown is Communications Coordinator for MIT IDIN. The International Development Innovation Network empowers a diverse, global network of innovators to design, develop, and disseminate technologies to improve the lives of people living in poverty. IDIN is a consortium of academic, institutional, and innovation center partners headquartered at MIT D-Lab. SPEAKER CATALOG Karl Mehta Dr. Nathalie M. Me-Nsope Founder & CEO, EdCast Inc. OpenEducation for Impact @edcast Gender Lead, GCFSI, Michigan State University Karl Mehta is a serial entrepreneur, author, investor, engineer, and civil servant with over 20 years of experience in founding, building, and funding technology companies in the U.S. and international markets. He is currently Founder & CEO of EdCast Inc., a next-generation knowledge platform company and venture partner at Menlo Ventures, a leading VC firm of Silicon Valley with over $4B under management. Previously, he was the Founder & CEO of PlaySpan Inc., acquired by Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), the world’s largest payment network. Karl also served as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow, selected by the Obama Administration during the inaugural 2012-13 term. Dr. Nathalie M. Me-Nsope is the Gender Lead for the Global Center of Food Systems Innovation (GCFSI) at Michigan State University (MSU). She has a PhD in Agricultural Economics from MSU, an MA in Women and Development from the University of York, United Kingdom, and a BSc in Women and Gender Studies and Economics from the University of Buea, Cameroon. Her broad areas of interests include food security, improved nutrition and poverty reduction as outcomes of food system activities, and how these outcomes are influenced by intra-household dynamics and gender relations. She has worked in the Central, West, South and East regions Africa. SPEAKER CATALOG Brittany N. Montgomery Susan Murcott Ph.D. Student, MIT CITE Research Scientist, MIT Evaluating Technologies to Reach Scale Brittany N. Montgomery studies the political economy of infrastructure systems in cities of the developing world. As a doctoral student in the International Development Group at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, she investigates problems that stem from her professional experience in seven developing countries. Her current research examines the effects of shifts in political power on metropolitan infrastructure and service provision in Mexico. At MIT, she works with the USAID-sponsored Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation (CITE) on developing new pedagogies related to technologies for use in developing countries. She holds a S.B. in Civil Engineering from MIT. Susan Murcott is currently a Research Scientist in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, an instructor in DLab and the Senior Technical Advisor to the MIT Comprehensive Initiative for Technology Evaluation, Water Filter Project, India. Her work is dedicated to raising awareness of and making a contribution towards safe water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) and environmental well-being for all. Building on a foundation established during the 1980s and 1990s with her mentor, emeritus MIT Professor Donald Harleman, for the first decade of her engineering career, Murcott concentrated on wastewater treatment and reuse for mega-cities. SPEAKER CATALOG Deborah Naatujuna Ashley Napier Engagement Manager, ResilientAfrica Network Building in-country Capacity to Innovate for Resilience @ndeborah1 Junior Program Manager, AidData @AshNape Deborah Naatujuna is the Engagement Manager at ResilientAfrica Network. She holds an Master's in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science with Education. She has experience in working in higher education institutions, supporting academic institutions in Africa in the area of ELearning and fostering entrepreneurship skills among youth. At RAN (HESN Lab), she is in charge of stakeholder engagement and student engagement, she is involved in helping the Network to form strategic partnerships: The Partnership Accelerator focuses on enabling successful partnerships by connecting individuals and organizations that support innovations in the region to build resilient communities. Ashley Napier is a Junior Program Manager / Research Associate at AidData. Her work includes supporting the USAID HESN award, managing student engagement opportunities, and coordinating student research activities. Prior to joining AidData, Ashley was the Senior Research Assistant for the Reform Incentives project at ITPIR. Ashley received a BA in Public Policy and Finance from the College of William & Mary in May 2014. SPEAKER CATALOG Matt Nash Dr. Pouyan Nejadhashemi Center Director, Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator, Duke (SEAD) @nashcase, @dukesead Associate Professor, Michigan State University Matt Nash is the Center Director of the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD), a USAID development lab for scaling innovations in global health. Formerly the executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, Matt also serves at the managing director of social entrepreneurship for the Duke Initiative on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) and teaches an undergraduate course in social innovation at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy. Prior to joining the CASE team at Duke, Matt was a senior consultant in strategy and change management with the public sector practice at IBM Business Consulting Services. Dr. Pouyan Nejadhashemi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering at the Michigan State University (MSU). He has an extensive background in computer programming, developing decision support tools, geographic information systems (GIS), and soft computing techniques (artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic) for decision-making. He is currently leading the Decision Support and Informatics Units and the Climate Change Impact Assessment on Water Resources Group for the MSU Global Center for Food System Innovation. SPEAKER CATALOG Dr. Wanjiku Nganga Kamran Niazi Director of Innovation, ResilientAfrica Network @shikunganga Project Management Specialist, USAID/Pakistan Innovation Marketplace Judge Dr. Wanjiku Nganga is the Director of Innovation at ResilientAfrica Network (RAN), Makerere University, Uganda where she provides leadership and technical guidance on the sourcing and development of resiliencestrengthening innovations. She is also actively involved in developing a vibrant network of resilience innovators across RAN’s network universities and communities. She has also served as a senior faculty member at the School of Computing & Informatics, University of Nairobi in Kenya where she co-founded and managed the University’s Computing for Development lab (C4DLab) that is active in ICT-related R&D. She has collaborated on several international projects as a technology systems specialist. Kamran Niazi is an Economic Growth Specialist with the USAID Pakistan Provincial Mission to Punjab. He has worked extensively in public and private sector organizations in Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates and Iraq. His technical expertise in private sector development spans business enabling environment reforms, business linkages and value chain development, business development services, grants making and making markets work for the poor. He has been successfully involved in local economic development programming including facilitating the creation of sector development strategies, youth engagement, entrepreneurship development and small business mentoring, and foreign direct investment. SPEAKER CATALOG Dr. Alexander Nicholas Dr. Brandie Nonnecke Program Officer, The Lemelson Foundation Innovation Marketplace Judge Postdoctoral Scholar, Research and Development Manager, CITRIS Data & Democracy Initiative, UC Berkeley @Bnonnecke Dr. Alexander Nicholas is a Program Officer at the Lemelson Foundation and manages a portion of the Foundation’s education and technology dissemination grants. Alexander’s work supports the development of a pipeline of inventors and invention-based enterprises in the US and seeds technology development that could improve the lives of the poor in developing countries. Prior to joining the Foundation in early 2012, Alexander served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the US Department of Commerce. His portfolio included managing the work of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship subcommittee on Collaboration. Dr. Brandie Nonnecke is the Research & Development Manager of the CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on how information and communication technologies (ICTs) can be used as tools to support civic participation, to improve governance and accountability, and to foster economic and social development. She has published articles in Telecommunications Policy, Telematics & Informatics, Communications & Strategies, and Information Technologies & International Development. Brandie has an M.S. in Journalism and Mass Communication from Iowa State University and a Ph.D. in Mass Communications from The Pennsylvania State University. SPEAKER CATALOG Plavevski Ognen Dr. Dorothy Okello Architect, ICT4D Solutions Big Data @r0b0tn1k Director, Eastern Africa RILab @AfricaResilient As an architect for ICT4D Solutions, Plavevski is responsible for on-boarding new projects that require ICT4D, obtaining requirements, and suggesting solutions that are easily scalable, sustainable, and replicable across the agency. Plavevski is also responsible for updating and maintaining the ICT4D portfolio, which is a collection of solutions that fit the criteria for replicable and scalable solutions, which serve as a guideline for future projects. Dr. Dorothy Okello is Director of Eastern Africa RILab (EA RILab) at Resilient Africa Network. The ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) - www.ranlab.org - is a partnership targeting 20 Sub-Saharan African universities led by Makerere University in Uganda, together with Tulane University’s Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy (DRLA), Stanford University, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in the United States. RAN seeks to identify, develop and scale innovative solutions that will strengthen the resilience of African communities afflicted by natural as well as man-made shocks and stresses by applying science, technology, innovation and partnerships, and using evidence-based approaches. SPEAKER CATALOG Alexandria (Sandy) Oleksy-Ojikutu Kweku Opoku-Agyemang Senior Education Advisor, USAID Postdoctoral Fellow, Development Impact Lab Democracy Dilemmas: What Mobile Innovations Mean for Africa...and You @Kweku_OA Sandy Oleksy-Ojikutu has 25 years experience working with USAID. She has worked for 22 years at the field level in Ghana and extensively in Nigeria. For the past three, Sandy has served as a Senior Education Advisor with the Bureau for Africa, AID/Washington. While in Ghana, she implemented the first USAID education program in that nation. At USAID/Nigeria, Sandy served as the Acting Program Officer during the Foreign Assistance reform. She managed the establishment of the first education portfolio and Education Team, working with the GON and education stakeholders to define the USAID/Nigeria education strategy. Sandy has her PhD from Fordham University, NYC, in Educational Psychology. Kweku Opoku-Agyemang works on the political economy of development--how both economic and political factors affect social change, with current emphasis on technological innovations and impacts. Before becoming a fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Kweku was a Research Scholar with the Agricultural and Applied Economics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kweku Opoku Agyemang holds a doctorate in Development Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.A. in Economics from Ohio University, and a B.A. in Economics with Geography and Resource Development from the University of Ghana. Kweku was selected as a National Service Person with the Ghana Government. SPEAKER CATALOG Susan Owens Alexander Pan Division Chief, USAID/BFS Program Coordinator, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs @Alexpan77 Susan Owens leads the Human and Institutional Capacity Development/Board for International Food and Agriculture Development (BIFAD) Division in the USAID Bureau for Food Security Office of Agriculture Research and Policy. Prior to joining USAID, Ms. Owens worked for nearly 10 years at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She served as Director of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) Trade and Scientific Capacity Building Division, bringing together government and university partners to resolve issues related to barriers to two-way trade in agriculture. Earlier, Ms. Owens served as Director and Deputy Director of the Research and Scientific Exchanges Division. Alex Pan is a program coordinator at the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE). In this position, Alex helps to manage ANDE’s global network of regional chapters and facilitates collaboration and knowledge sharing among ANDE’s 200+ members. He also manages ANDE’s initiatives to systemically address the talent gap for small and growing businesses and leads ANDE’s efforts to create a more supportive ecosystem for science, technology and invention based entrepreneurship in the developing world. Before joining ANDE, Alex worked for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he assisted in the development of their impact investing policy. SPEAKER CATALOG Tapan Parikh Matt Podolsky Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley @tap2k Associate Director, DIL Data Analytics and Research Scientist, TIER @mattpodolsky Tapan Parikh is an Associate Professor at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Tapan's research interests include human-computer interaction (HCI), mobile computing, paper and voice UIs and information technologies for education, governance and international development. Tapan and his students have started several technology companies serving communitybased organizations (CBOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), governments and non-profits. He holds a Sc.B. degree in Molecular Modeling with Honors from Brown University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Washington. Tapan has also received the NSF CAREER award. Matt Podolsky is a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley in the Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions (TIER) group, and the Associate Director for Data Analytics at the Development Impact Laboratory, part of the USAID Higher Education Solutions Network. In addition to his two decades of networks research and development, he has worked on emerging regions technologies for the past 9 years. Through Intel’s Berkeley Research Laboratory and Rural Data Services groups he co-developed the Intel Rural Connectivity Platform, an inexpensive long distance wireless platform, and with UCB’s TIER group he has worked on inexpensive rural mobile, long distance wireless, solar, and microgrid technologies. SPEAKER CATALOG Josh Powell Edwin C. Price Director of Innovation, AidData @joshuacpowell Director, Center on Conflict & Development Breakthroughs in Conflict & Development @edpriceTAMU, @condevcenter Josh Powell is Director of Innovation at AidData and Development Gateway. Josh works with the AidData and Aid Management Platform teams, primarily focusing on geocoding, aid effectiveness and coordination, and transparency. In his time with AidData, he has worked on the World Bank's Mapping for Results initiative, the African Development Bank's mapping pilot, and the CCAPS program's Malawi multi-donor mapping initiative. Josh currently leads all innovation activities under the USAID Higher Education Solutions Network AidData award. He holds a BS in Finance from the University of Baltimore and an MA in Public Policy with an emphasis in International Development from Brigham Young University. Edwin C. Price leads the Center on Conflict and Development at Texas A&M, seeking to create and utilize an understanding of the role of development in preventing and mitigating armed conflict. He conducts research, teaching and development on fragile states, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Southern Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and other conflict affected regions. As founding director of the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture, he built international agriculture at Texas A&M University System reaching $75 million in grants and contracts in 2012. Price was the lead author and advocate of federal PL 106 373 Famine Prevention and Freedom From Hunger Improvement Act of 2000. SPEAKER CATALOG Javier Rosa Dan Runfola PhD Student, UC Berkeley (TIER) Research Assistant Professor, AidData @geogdan Javier Rosa is a Computer Science PhD student with the Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions (TIER) research group at University of California, Berkeley. He has been working on designing, building, and deploying adequately sized and efficient Smart Grids in developing regions. His main efforts are in the area of system management and communications as well as developing more general tools for measuring the impact of similar projects. Dan Runfola is AidData's Geospatial Scientist and a Research Assistant Professor at the College of William and Mary. He previously worked on research projects for both the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers examining the use of Geographic Information Science (GIS) in climate-change related decision making. Currently, he is working to integrate AidData's information into better decisions regarding aid allocation. Dan has widely published his work in a number of high profile outlets, including recent contributions to the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change fifth assessment report. Dan holds a PhD and MA in Geography from Clark University. SPEAKER CATALOG Dr. Leslie Ruyle Patricia Rwasoka-Masanganise Research Scientist, ConDev @Leslie.Ruyle Senior Agricultural Development Specialist, USAID Dr. Leslie Ruyle is a conservation ecologist, expedition leader, and project manager who has lived in four countries and traveled to over sixty in her career. She holds a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Georgia, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana, West Africa, and has led or participated in development and biodiversity science research initiatives around the world. Dr. Ruyle seeks to understand how conservation and protection of wild places can support communities and promote peace and stability. She is interested in creative interdisciplinary problem solving by tapping into the diversity of people, their experiences, and seeking local solutions for problems. Patricia Rwasoka-Masanganise is an Agricultural Economist, Development Specialist and Facilitator with more than 21 years of practical experience in agriculture, food and nutrition security, livelihoods development, agricultural research for development, climate change adaptation, HIV and AIDS, gender and children’s rights, policy analysis, including, training and writing on issues for improving food and nutrition security, expanding land access, improving land tenure security, and developing land markets for poverty alleviation and economic growth in developing countries. She holds a Master's Degree in Agricultural Economics with Distinction from University of London, United Kingdom. SPEAKER CATALOG Laura Sampath Dr. Jaspal Sandhu Senior Program Officer, Global VentureWell Lecturer, UC Berkeley School of Public Health Innovation Marketplace Judge @jaspal Laura Sampath is the Senior Program Officer for Global Programs at VentureWell (formerly NCIIA) where she oversees the planning, development, and execution of curriculum and training programs for global health innovators from the Grand Challenges programs. From 2007 to 2012, Laura ran the MIT International Development Initiative where she worked with students, faculty and alumni to develop effective models of engagement in emerging markets. Previously, Laura worked with USAID's Regional Conflict Management and Governance office in Nairobi, Kenya. She has also been a Fulbright Scholar as well as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Jaspal is co-founder and partner at the Gobee Group, a firm that innovates for social impact globally. Current Gobee initiatives include: creating a digital platform to improve the cost-effectiveness of HIV drug purchasing by African governments, sparking community innovation in the Best Babies Zone in East Oakland, and building innovation capacity in the health care safety net across California. Jaspal is also a Lecturer at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches graduate-level, interdisciplinary courses on the innovation process. In 2014, he taught a new course focused on the intersections of food, innovation, and health: Eat.Think.Design. SPEAKER CATALOG Bishwapriya Sanyal Robbie Schingler Professor, MIT Co-Founder & President, Planet Labs @schingler Professor Bish Sanyal is Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. He also heads the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program at MIT and is Director of the MIT Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation (CITE) as part of USAID’s Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN) which gave a $10 million grant under Professor Sanyal’s leadership to evaluate technologies for the poor. Professor Sanyal joined MIT in 1984, served as the Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning from 1994 to 2002, as the Chair of the MIT Faculty from 2007 until 2009, and most recently, as Head of the International Development Group. Robbie Schingler is the Co-Founder and President of Planet Labs. He is the executive sponsor responsible for strategic partnerships, launch, US government, international and Planet.org affairs. Prior to Planet Labs, Robbie spent 9 years at NASA. He helped to formulate the Small Spacecraft Office at NASA Ames Research Center and was Capture Manager for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Robbie had two tours at NASA Headquarters. He served as NASA’s Open Government Representative to the White House; and the White House recognized NASA as a model for openness in government. Robbie also served on the founding team as Chief of Staff for the Office of the Chief Technologist at NASA. SPEAKER CATALOG Joel Segre Lu Sevier Product Strategist, VentureWell So You've Perfected Your Product Senior Research Assistant, AidData Joel Segre is a product development strategist focused on increasing the impact of innovations in maternal, newborn and child health. In his consulting practice, Joel’s clients include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, General Electric, and others working on product development and distribution. Prior projects have included direct selling of health products (Uganda), pharmacy franchising (Ghana), and private sector distribution of anti-malarial drugs (Tanzania). Today, the products he helped develop are sold across India, Europe, and beyond. Joel has a BS in biomechanics engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Lu Sevier is a Senior Research Assistant with AidData, responsible for student management and geocoding. As a Biology major, she is interested in connecting International Development, Public Health, and GIS. On campus, Sevier is a member of La Casa Hispanica (a language house at W&M) and sings in a blues band. Sevier loves being a part of the AidData community and one day hopes to work or teach overseas. SPEAKER CATALOG Wallied Shirzoi Russell Siegelman Manager, Policy Design and Evaluation Lab Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business Wallied Shirzoi is Manager of the Policy Design and Evaluation Laboratory at UC San Diego. He is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operation of the lab. He is responsible for maintaining and strengthening working relationships with academics, research experts, officials at outside universities, institutions, federal governments and international ministry levels to further promote the goals and objectives of the projects undertaken at PDEL. Shirzoi received his Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the American University in Washington, DC and his Master of Arts in International Affairs from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Russell has been in high tech, software and the Internet for over 25 years, as both an operator and investor. He has a physics degree from MIT, and he was a programmer in the early 80's before going back to Harvard Business School. He spent 7 years at Microsoft where he started and ran MSN. He came to Silicon Valley in '96 and became a partner at KPCB and participated in 4 KP funds, leading over 20 investments. Currently he is an active angel investor, having made over 40 investments. He serves on the boards of seven private technology companies and three non-profits. He teaches several classes at Stanford Business School in entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and marketing. SPEAKER CATALOG Alice Siu Chuck Slaughter Associate Director, Center for Deliberative Democracy, Stanford University Founder and President, Living Goods @Living_Goods Alice Siu is the Associate Director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford University. Alice received her Ph.D. from the Department of Communication at Stanford University, with focus in political communication, deliberative democracy and public opinion. She received her B.A. degrees in Economics and Public Policy and M.A. degree in Political Science from Stanford University. During her graduate career, Alice worked closely with James Fishkin and Baogang He, where she played a significant role in conducting the first Chinese Deliberative Poll in Zeguo Township. Alice’s research interests include what happens inside deliberation, including examining the effects of socioeconomic class. Chuck earned both a BA and MBA from Yale. In 1991 he founded TravelSmith, a leading travel wear company, and grew it to over $100 million in catalog and online sales. In affiliation with Golden Gate Capital he participated in the acquisition and turnaround of major consumer brands with combined sales over $2 billion. In 2007 Chuck founded Living Goods, the ‘Avon of pro-poor products’, which empowers micro entrepreneurs to deliver life-changing products to the doorsteps of the poor. He serves on the boards of The Yale School of Management, Three Day Blinds, The Initiative for Global Development, and the Goldsmith Foundation. He received an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. SPEAKER CATALOG James B. Soukamneuth Alena Stern Deputy Chief, Regional Trade and Investment Office, USAID/West Africa Program Manager, AidData @AlenaStern A Private Enterprise Officer, James Soukamneuth has worked for USAID at both the Philippines and West Africa Regional missions. In West Africa, he currently manages the Regional Economic Growth team's monitoring and evaluation mechanism, the mission's Africa Center of Excellence, and the transport/logistics activities of the Trade/ Investment portfolio. At USAID/Philippines, he provide programmatic leadership on a variety of economic activities (such as mobile money, electronic payments, credit enhancements, energy, and urban development). James holds a Ph.D. in the Political Economy of International Development from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Alena is AidData's Program Manager for the USAID HESN award, whose portfolio includes donor relations, program management, monitoring and evaluation, and in-country civil society outreach and capacity building. She also manages AidData's Summer Fellows program. Prior to joining AidData, she worked as an Associate at Chemonics International. Alena received her BA in International Relations and Economics from the College of William and Mary. SPEAKER CATALOG Carrie Stokes Tamara Straus Agency Geographer & Director of the GeoCenter, USAID Editorial Director, UC Berkeley Blum Center for Development Economies @Blum_Center Carrie Stokes has worked for 25 years in international development and the environment. She currently serves as the first Geographer of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), headquartered in Washington, DC. She helped established and now directs the Agency’s GeoCenter, which works to incorporate geographic analysis into the strategic planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of USAID’s international development programs. Prior to becoming the Agency Geographer, Carrie served as the director of the SERVIR program for USAID, in a joint venture with NASA. She served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger, West Africa, and holds an M.S. in Environmental Science. Tamara Straus is Editorial Director at the Blum Center, where she works with students and faculty to communicate multidisciplinary approaches to tackling global development problems. Previously, she served as senior editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, news features editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, and senior writer and editor at AlterNet.org. She has written for The Nation, The New Republic, Salon.com, and Mother Jones, and holds a B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University. SPEAKER CATALOG Kofi Taha William Tarpeh Associate Director, D-Lab Coordinator, IDIN @IDINetwork PhD Student, UC Berkeley Down the Drain: How and Why We Should Reimagine Human Waste @Tarpehdiem Kofi primarily works on trainings that introduce design thinking as an asset-based approach that communities can use to develop their own livelihood and quality-of-life technologies. He has co-facilitated village-level trainings in Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana, and Haiti; worked with the Peace Corps to create appropriate technology centers in Zambia; and is coordinating support for local innovation centers in Brazil, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Kofi is also part of a team developing a Multicrop Thresher, part of D-Lab's management team, and has been known to mention that he is from the Bronx. He studied political economy at Columbia University and international development at MIT. William Tarpeh is an environmental engineering PhD student working to increase sustainable access to sanitation in the developing world. William received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering with a minor in African Studies at Stanford and his M.S. in Environmental Engineering at Berkeley. He has experience working on water and sanitation projects with multidisciplinary teams in Peru, South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Mexico. William researches new sanitation technologies and their distribution models, including ion exchange and electrochemical cells to recover nutrients from waste, and eventually hopes to implement them in subSaharan Africa. SPEAKER CATALOG Dr. Evan A. Thomas Dat Tran Assistant Professor, Portland State Technology and Global Health: Closing the Loop @PStateSweetLab Senior Venture Development Officer, VentureWell Evan A Thomas, PhD, PE, MPH is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Sweet (Sustainable Water, Energy and Environmental Technologies) Laboratory, and a Faculty Fellow in the Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University. Evan works at the interface of engineering, environmental health and social business, with professional experience working in government, industry, non-profits and academia. Evan is also a social business entrepreneur, currently as Chief Operating Officer of DelAgua Health, a social enterprise working with the Government of Rwanda Ministry of Health to implement a water treatment and improved cookstove program for 600,000 households. Dat’s passion is to improve life of young people through innovation and entrepreneurship. He has over ten years of global development experience, including providing entrepreneurial skills for university students in Tanzania. Dat is a graduate of Macalester College and the University of California, Santa Barbara where he earned his PhD in chemistry. He also holds a certificate in product and service design from Cornell University. In his down time, he relaxes with family and dreams about his daughter being an entrepreneur someday – to help girls in developing countries create their own ventures and make an impact on their economy. SPEAKER CATALOG Erin Troland Dr. Krishna Udayakumar PhD Candidate, UCSD Empowering Homegrown Community Monitors: Evidence from the Philippines Head of Global Innovation, Duke Medicine @krishna_u Erin Troland is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests is the relationship between governance, institutions and economic outcomes. She is particularly interested in local governance issues related to civil conflict, budgeting decisions, resource management and elections. Her research includes projects investigating (i) ICT solutions to weak governance and environmental crime, (ii) developing country local public finance, and (iii) civil conflict and economic activity. She received her B.A. in economics and French from the University of Kentucky. Dr. Krishna Udayakumar leads multiple initiatives at Duke in the fields of health innovation and globalization of healthcare. As Head of Global Innovation for Duke Medicine, he is responsible for the development and implementation of global strategy as well as global business development across Duke Medicine. Dr. Udayakumar has also led the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery (IPIHD), a non-profit co-founded by Duke Medicine, McKinsey & Company, and the World Economic Forum, since its inception in 2011. As Executive Director, he leads all aspects of IPIHD’s work to support the scale and replication of transformative health solutions globally. SPEAKER CATALOG Abby VanMuijen Phil Weilerstein Illustrator Visual Notetaking 101 @abbyvanmuijen President, VentureWell Innovation Marketplace Judge Abby specializes in visual communications-- particularly illustration, story art and illustrated video. She was the illustrator and story artist for the #GlobalPOV project at the Blum Center for Developing Economies and has since been working as a freelance artist in the Bay Area. In addition, she teaches courses and workshops on visual note taking, design thinking and design visualization. As an entrepreneur leading a not-for-profit organization, Phil has grown VentureWell (formerly NCIIA) from a grassroots group of enthusiastic university faculty to an internationally recognized resource supporting and promoting technology innovation and entrepreneurship to create experiential learning opportunities for university students, and successful, science and technology based socially impactful businesses. NCIIA does this by providing a linked sequence of programs that develop community and help move faculty and student entrepreneurs from innovative ideas to the launch of products and businesses. Phil began his career as an entrepreneur as a student at the University of Massachusetts. SPEAKER CATALOG Madeline Williams Regional Engagement Chief, Africa, USAID Madeline is a career Foreign Service Officer with more than 20 years of experience in democracy, human rights and governance and overall strategy development, project design and management and budget planning and execution subSaharan Africa, the Middle East and Latin America and the Caribbean. She currently works in the Center for Mission Engagement and Operations in the US Global Development Lab. In her current position, I lead the coordination of the Lab's various programs, tools and mechanisms to support the integration of science, technology, innovation and partnership for greater development impact in Mission-based development portfolios in the Africa region.