Brett is an education architect and storyteller for the future. He leads a global research lab on the future of learning and serves on the faculty of Singularity University, where he has led global K12 initiatives and speaks on the business and social implications of technological disruption. Early in his career, Brett spent nearly a decade in international development as head of an NGO working in global security, weapons reduction, and civil society. His work since has included lecturing at a private university in Russia, publishing research on the evolution of human psychology through periods of social change, and launching educational programs that have reached more than a million people in over 75 countries. Brett recently launched his first book for kids to solve global challenges and is currently designing the Museum of Solutions, a new 10-story children’s problem-solving museum being built in central Mumbai.

Brian Finlay is president and CEO of the Stimson Center, a nonpartisan public policy think tank in Washington, DC. His areas of expertise include nonproliferation, transnational crime, counter-trafficking, supply chain security, and private-sector engagement. Brian is also an adjunct instructor in the School of International Service at American University in Washington. He previously served as a researcher at the Brookings Institution, and a program officer at the Century Foundation. He was also a project manager for the Laboratory Center for Disease Control/Health Canada, and worked with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He chairs the board of directors of iMMAP, an information management and data analytics organization focused on improving humanitarian relief and development coordination. He also serves on the advisory board of Black Market Watch, a Geneva-based NGO that works to raise awareness around illicit global trade, and on the editorial board of Global Security, a journal of health, science, and policy published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

Brian Payne works on projects that communicate complex ideas and concepts through graphic design, illustration, and objects. This includes designing printed publications, creating original artwork, prototyping products, developing graphic identities, and other tools for interpretation and learning. Brian has an MA in industrial design from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and a BFA in illustration from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). He is based in Providence, RI, and his clients include RISD, University of Maryland, the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, the Center for the Advanced Study of Language, and the National Consortium for the Study and Response to Terrorism. He is also a visiting lecturer at RISD and has exhibited work in Baltimore, New York, and Philadelphia.

Carrick Pierce believes strongly in nuclear arms control, that there is no greater existential threat facing our world today. A former options trader who graduated from Georgetown University and also studied at Carnegie Mellon, Carrick has spent a career on Wall Street designing and developing derivatives trading platforms. He’s worked for hedge funds, banks, and exchanges and also served as CEO of a derivatives software firm. While Carrick continues with his day job, he is increasingly involved in helping to raise awareness of the nuclear threats we live under today.

Daniel Pedraza is passionate about leveraging technology at scale. He relates with techno-optimist philosophies but is fully aware of the risks inherent in all new technology. Daniel was recently selected to participate in the 2018 Assembly program held at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University and the MIT Media Lab, where he will be part of a cohort looking at challenges and governance of AI. Daniel is cofounder of Veilos, a deep-learning startup rethinking global insights for agriculture. As data innovation specialist for the United Nations Global Pulse, Daniel has looked at open challenges to harnessing data for sustainable development and humanitarian action. An advisor to N Square, Daniel helps spark tech-related ideas to nuclear threat reduction. As a child Daniel dreamed of becoming an astronaut, leading him to study aerospace engineering, focusing on computational methods and aerodynamics.

Born and raised in New Mexico, Elizabeth Kistin Keller received her BA in political science and Latin American studies as a Morehead-Cain Scholar at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and her MA and PhD in international development studies (a combination of political science, economics, and anthropology) as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. Before joining Sandia National Laboratories, Elizabeth spent several years working on water conflict and cooperation in North America, Southern Africa, and South and South East Asia. She currently works in Sandia’s Systems Analysis Department (Org. 159) where she leads work on strategic foresight, global security dynamics, and policy analysis, including the future of nonproliferation. Elizabeth also serves as an adjunct professor in the University of New Mexico’s department of geography and environmental studies and an affiliate of the Utton Transboundary Resources Center at the UNM School of Law.