David is the President and William H. Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute. David’s research explores the evolution of intelligence and stupidity on Earth. This includes studying the evolution of genetic, neural, linguistic, social, and cultural mechanisms supporting memory and information processing, and exploring their shared properties. He served as the founding director of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, the co-director of the Center for Complexity and Collective Computation, and professor of mathematical genetics, all at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has been a visiting fellow at the Genomics Frontiers Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, a Sage Fellow at the Sage Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a long-term fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, and visiting professor of evolution at Princeton University. In 2012, he was included in the Wired Magazine Smart List: Fifty People Who Will Change the World. In 2016, he was included in Entrepreneur Magazine’s list of visionary leaders advancing global research and business. He was previously chair of the faculty and a resident professor and external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. A graduate of the University of London, where he went on to earn degrees in biology and computer science, Dr. Krakauer received his D.Phil. in evolutionary theory from Oxford University in 1995. He remained at Oxford as a postdoctoral research fellow, and two years later was named a Wellcome Research Fellow in mathematical biology and lecturer at Pembroke College.

Derek Cabrera (PhD, Cornell) is an internationally known systems scientist who in 2021 was inducted as a Member of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS) for outstanding contributions to the field. Derek serves on the faculty of Cornell University, is Faculty Director for the Graduate Certification Program in Systems Thinking, Modeling, and Leadership (STML) and is senior scientist at Cabrera Research Lab. He serves on the United States Military Academy at West Point’s Systems Engineering Advisory Board. He has given two TED Talks, holds two US patents, written and produced a rap song, a children’s book on cognition, and numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles. His research has been profiled in peer-reviewed journals, trade magazines, and popular publications. His work in public schools was documented in the full-length documentary film, RE:Thinking. He was Research Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) for the Study of Complex Systems and National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow in Nonlinear Systems in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Cornell University. In 2018, he received the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) for his work in cognitive mapping. He is author of ten books including, The Origin of Ideas: Empirical Studies in Cognitive Complexity (forthcoming 2022), Systems Thinking Made Simple (winner of the 2017 AECT outstanding book award), Thinking at Every Desk, and Flock Not Clock. He is credited with discovering universal organizing rules of systems and systems thinking (DSRP Theory) and organizations (VMCL Theory). He was invited by LinkedIn Learning and eCornell to deliver online courses in Systems Thinking and Leadership. He was Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of Plectica (since sold to Frameable) where he invented several software applications including Plectica systems mapping and virtual whiteboard. Cabrera is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Systems Thinking (forthcoming 2022) and on the editorial board of the international, peer-reviewed journal, Systems. He is the Editor in Chief of the peer-reviewed Journal of Systems Thinking. As a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow, he developed new techniques to model systems approaches in the evaluation of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Cabrera was awarded the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ K. Patricia Cross Future Educational Leaders Award. His contributions to the field of systems thinking have been integrated into NSF, NIH, and USDA-NIFA programs, K-12, higher education, NGOs, federal agencies, corporations, and business schools. His systems models are used by many of Silicon Valley’s most innovative companies. His books are used as introductory text for undergraduate and graduate students in numerous colleges and universities including Cornell University, the US Military Academy at West Point, and the US Army War College. Cabrera has developed a suite of systems thinking tools for use in academia, business, and beyond including the first validated personal inventory of systems thinking. Prior to becoming a scientist, Cabrera worked for fifteen years around the world as a mountain guide and experiential educator for Outward Bound and other organizations and has climbed many of the world’s highest mountains. He also worked extensively with the Conservation Corps and Restorative Justice movements. He holds a PhD from Cornell University and lives in Ithaca, NY, with his wife, Laura Cabrera, three children, and four dogs.

Tien Tzuo, widely recognized as one of the thought leaders in the software-as-a-service industry, founded Zuora in 2007. As Zuora’s CEO, Tzuo has not only built one of the fastest growing SaaS companies, he’s also evangelized the shift to subscription based business models and the complex billing structures they inherit, coining the phrase Subscription Economy. In an effort to empower this new Subscription Economy, Tzuo has spent over six years working with the best companies in the world to build an award-winning platform powerful and flexible enough to fuel any subscription business. Before Zuora, Tzuo was one of the ‘original forces’ at salesforce.com, joining as employee number 11. In his 9 years at  salesforce.com, Tzuo built  salesforce.com’s original billing system and held a variety of executive roles in technology, marketing, and strategy organizations, including building out the product management & marketing organization, serving as Chief Marketing Officer for two years, and most recently as Chief Strategy Officer. Tzuo holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a master’s in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was named CMO of the Year Finalist by the CMO Council and BusinessWeek Magazine while at  salesforce.com and is on DestinationCRM’s Who’s Who in CRM list. He is on the Board of Directors for Network for Good.

Chief Strategy and Operations Officer Daisy Hernandez brings over 20 years of enterprise software experience to Zuora. Previously, she spent the last decade at SAP, most recently serving as Global Vice President of Product for the collaboration and communities portfolio. Leading a global cross-functional organization, she was responsible for driving business growth by creating verticalized solutions and enabling marketing and sales through multiple routes to market. Organizations experienced benefits of nearly $31 million over three years versus costs of $4.2 million, adding up to a net present value (NPV) of $26.8 million and an ROI of 631%. Daisy also defined the business & commercial subscription model for one of the first multi-tenant SaaS solutions at SAP. Prior to SAP, Daisy held leadership roles in business operations, engineering program management, and software development at high tech and telecommunications companies such as Oracle, BEA, Plumtree, Syndeo, Excite@Home, and Pacific Bell. Daisy graduated from the University of California Berkeley with a BS in Chemical Engineering.

Curtis R. Carlson, Ph.D., is currently a professor at Northeastern University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he teaches innovation to students, professors, and companies based on the Innovation for Impact (i4i) value creation methodology he developed with his many partners.  At Northeastern a free version of the methodology is now available online at Coursera. With Len Polizzotto he is developing an online interactive platform using the i4i methodology that will be available in 2021. Carlson is a pioneer in the development and use of innovation best practices and an evangelist for innovation, education, and economic development, sharing best practices with government agencies, businesses, and foundations around the world. Carlson is widely sought as a speaker and thought leader on innovation and global competitiveness. He advises U.S. governors, prime ministers, economic ministers, and education ministers around the world on innovation, competitiveness, and educational reform. He has been a senior adviser to the government’s of Malaysia, Japan, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, and Finland. In 2014 he was the keynote speaker for Taiwan President Ma’s announcement of the first National Innovation Awards. His insights on R&D and value creation led to creation of the Innovation for Impact (i4i) process, which has been shared with organizations worldwide through client workshops and other partnerships. Government agencies in the United States, Sweden, Finland, Chile, Malaysia, Japan, Brazil, Taiwan, and other countries are applying these innovation practices for economic growth and job creation. Carlson served as SRI’s President and CEO from 1998 to 2014. During this time SRI’s revenue more than tripled, and SRI became a global model for the systematic creation of high-value innovations, such as HDTV, Intuitive Surgical, Siri, and many other world-changing advances. These innovations created tens of billions of dollars of new economic value. Mayfield Ventures partner, David Ladd, said, “SRI is now the best enterprise at turning its technology into economic value.” Carlson led the expansion of SRI, with new laboratories and innovation centers in Saint Petersburg Florida (oceanographic research) , San Luis Obispo California (software and systems), San Diego California (artificial intelligence and analytica), State College Pennsylvania (intelligent systems), Ann Arbor Michigan (intelligent systems), Plymouth Michigan (clinical trials), Helena Montana (software and systems), and Harrisonburg Virginia (bio-sciences). Before joining SRI, Carlson spent more than 20 years with RCA Laboratories, GE, and the Sarnoff Corporation. He joined RCA Laboratories in Princeton, N.J., which became in 1987 the Sarnoff Corporation, an SRI subsidiary, and in 2011 it was fully integrated into SRI. In 1977 he started and helped lead the high-definition television (HDTV) program that became the U.S. standard, and in 1997 the Sarnoff team won an Emmy Award for outstanding technical achievement. In 2000 another Sarnoff team started by Carlson won an Emmy for a system to optimize satellite broadcast image quality. These were team awards and many superb individuals played key roles in making them happen. For HDTV essential roles were played by Dr. James Carnes (then CEO of Sarnoff) and Glenn Reitmeier (Technical Director: HDTV). For optimizing image quality, Dr. Jeff Lubin was an essential champion. With partners, he has helped form more than two dozen new companies while at Sarnoff and SRI. In 2006, Carlson won the Otto Schade Prize for Display Performance and Image Quality from the Society for Information Display with Roger Cohen. They developed the first quantitative model for predicting perceived image quality. Carlson was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2012. He was honored with the Medal of Excellence Award by Rutgers University’s School of Engineering (2007) and the Dr. Robert H. Goddard Award from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) for his professional achievements (2002). He also received the the Suffolk University’s first Global Leadership in Innovation and Collaboration Award. He was selected to serve on President Obama’s National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Singapore National Research Foundation. And he served on the Scientific Advisory Board of Taiwan and the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Advisory Council. He was a member of the Air Force Science Advisory Board, the Defense Science Board Task Force on Bio-Defense, multiple National Laboratory Review Panels, the Army’s Federated Laboratory Task Force, and the Galvin Navy Laboratories Task Force. Carlson served on the National Academy of Engineering Committee on Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation. He was a founding member of the Innovation Leadership Council for the World Economic Forum. He has received honorary degrees from the Malaysian Technical University (MTU), Stevens Institute of Technology, Kettering University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he is also a trustee. He was a visiting distinguished scientist at the University of Washington, and he is a Kobe Ambassador for SRI’s contributions to Kobe, Japan. He has also given commencement addresses at the University of Richmond in Virginia and Shantou University in China. Carlson has been a member of numerous boards, including Nuance Communications, Pyramid Vision Technologies, Sensar, and Sarif. He was a member of the General Motors’ Science and Technology Advisory Board. With co-author William Wilmot, Carlson wrote Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want, published by Random House and selected by BusinessWeek as one of the top 10 business books for 2006. Innovation describes the innovation best processes they developed over their careers and applied at SRI and at other organizations. Carlson received his B.S. degree in physics from WPI and was named in Who’s Who Among Students. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Skull. His M.S. and Ph.D. degrees were from Rutgers University. Carlson has published or presented numerous technical publications and holds fundamental patents in the fields of image quality, image coding, and computer vision. At 15 he was a professional violinist in the Rhode Island Philharmonic.

General George W. Casey, Jr., enjoyed a 41-year career in the US Army following his graduation from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 1970. He is an accomplished soldier and an authority on strategic leadership. As the Army Chief of Staff, he led one of the nation’s largest and most complex organizations during one of the most extraordinary periods in our history. He is widely credited with restoring balance to a war-weary Army and leading the transformation to keep it relevant in the 21st Century. Prior to this, from July 2004 to February 2007, he commanded the Multi-National Force – Iraq, a coalition of more than 30 countries where he guided the Iraq mission through its toughest days. Currently, he lectures internationally on leadership to the leaders of national and multinational corporations and at other business schools. He serves on corporate boards and numerous boards of organizations that support our servicemen and women, our veterans, and their families. He also teaches international relations at the Korbel School in Denver. He has published a book, Strategic Reflections, Operation Iraqi Freedom, July 2004-2007 (October 2012), about his experiences in Iraq, and two articles on leadership: “Leading in a VUCA World,” Fortune Magazine (March 20, 2014), and “Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous: Leadership Lessons from Iraq,” Chapter 1, Changing Mindsets to Transform Security, (December 2013). General Casey holds a master’s degree in international relations from University of Denver, and served as a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States, a foreign policy think-tank. He has broad international experience. Born in Japan, he served in operational assignments in Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East.

Laura Cabrera (B.S., M.P.A, & PhD, Cornell) currently teaches Systems Thinking and Modeling and Systems Leadership at Cornell University at the Institute for Policy Affairs. She is also Program Director for Cornell’s Graduate Certification Program in Systems Thinking, Modeling, and Leadership (STML). Cabrera serves as faculty for the SC Johnson College of Business, where she delivers Executive Education Programs to executive teams in both systems thinking and systems leadership.She is co-founder, and chief research officer at Cabrera Research Lab. She was Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer of Plectica (now Frameable). Over the past decade, Laura has applied her expertise in research methods and translational research to increase public understanding, practical application, and dissemination of sophisticated systems science and systems thinking models. She was also invited by eCornell to deliver the online certificate course in Systems Thinking and Leadership, as well as the eCornell courses that are part of the Executive MPA Program. She was the acting Executive Director of ThinkWater, a USDA-funded initiative designed to implement systems thinking nationwide in water-based research, extension, and education. In 2018, she received the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) for her work in cognitive mapping. She has more than twenty-five years of research and teaching experience at Cornell University, which includes:  teaching coursework on families and social policy in Cornell’s Department of Human Development; Senior Research Associate  at the Center for Translational Research; Principal Evaluator for the Eat Smart New York Program for the NYS Food Stamp and Nutrition Education Program; Project Director for the National Science Foundation Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Systems Evaluation Capacity Grant to evaluate STEM Education nationwide and to develop a systems thinking approach to STEM education; and Co-Principal Investigator for Cornell’s Parenting in Context Initiative.  Prior to Cornell, Cabrera conducted research at the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. Department of Justice. She has authored five books including Systems Thinking Made Simple: New Hope for Solving Wicked Problems and Thinking at Every Desk: Four Simple Skills to Transform Your Classroom (Norton), Flock Not Clock: Design, Align, and Lead to Achieve Your Vision, and is currently co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Systems Thinking. Her work in public schools was documented in the full-length documentary film, RE:Thinking. Dr. Cabrera holds a PhD in Policy Analysis and Management and a Master’s in Public Administration, and a bachelor’s degree, all from Cornell University. She is a member of the United States Military Academy at West Point’s Systems Engineering Advisory Board. She specializes in translating cutting-edge research from the learning sciences for broad application–whether in corporations, schools, nonprofits, government agencies, or for parents interested in the psychosocial development of their children. She lives in Ithaca, NY, with her husband, Derek Cabrera, three children, and four dogs.

Hise Gibson is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. He teaches Technology and Operations Management (TOM), Inclusive Leadership, and FGI: FIELD Global Immersion in the required curriculum. He graduated from West Point, where he was a member of the Division-1A Army football team. Following graduation, he was commissioned in the US Army as an Aviation Officer in the UH60 Blackhawk Helicopter. He served with distinction in various command and staff positions for over 25 years with his most recent operational assignment being as a Battalion Commander in the historic 82nd Airborne Division, earning the rank of Colonel before retiring in 2021. He has led soldiers in combat. Among his military decorations are the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Master Aviator badge, Parachutist badge, and the Air Assault badge. He has an MS in Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School and a Masters in Operational Art and Science from the Air Command and Staff College. Dr. Gibson earned his Doctorate of Business Administration from Harvard University in Technology and Operations Management. Until July of 2021, Colonel Gibson served as an Academy Professor in the Systems Engineering Department at the United States Military Academy. He also established and directed the Systems Decisions and Analysis Center as well as directed the department’s core engineering sequence and engaged in strategic outreach as a Fellow at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Professor Gibson’s research and consulting activities have been in the areas of technology integrations, operational effectiveness, leadership, leader development, human capital development, change management, and leading teams through crisis. He currently lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with his wife Nicole and two daughters.

Mr. Berg Wig has background from Norsk Hydro in different positions. He has been in the leadership of developing TQM practice in Norway during the last 20 years. He is educated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology and Juran Institute Inc. in USA. He has experience from several hundreds of improvement teams and projects in Norway and abroad. Bjarne Berg Wig is one of the most practical experienced management and leadership coaches in Europe and is the author of several books on management quality. His unique background as industrial skilled worker, soldier, union leader, sportsman, local parliament member, industrial manager, and cluster facilitator makes him a real “heavy weight” in developing learning communities. Mr. Berg Wig is an excellent and very popular speaker at conferences and has been invited speaker at management conferences in Norway, Europe, USA, Singapore and China. Bjarne is a part time teacher in quality management and Lean at Bergen Univeristy College. Mr. Berg Wig is chairnan of Leartec Cluster wich is Norwegian partner in the EU project Learing Layers. Present he Publishes a new book “LEAN. Leadership for learning organisations (Gyldendal Only in Norwegian) In 2019 he and partners from several countries will develop “Institute for Learning Organizations” – a combination of digital learning fore millions, and a “sensei” advisory network for Learning Leadership.

As a policy and advocacy associate, Arturo Castellanos Canales helps lead aspects of the National Immigration Forum’s immigration reform work focusing on the visa system. Prior to joining the Forum in April 2021, Arturo earned practical experience in the field of immigration working as a legal fellow at Cornell’s Farmworkers Legal Assistance Clinic, as a visiting scholar at Colombia’s Constitutional Court, as a research fellow at Human Rights Watch, and as a policy consultant at the Organization of American States. In 2020, Arturo became the first Mexican to graduate as a Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.) from Cornell Law School after defending his dissertation titled “The Right of Suffrage of Shosics (Noncitizens) in the United States.” Besides the J.S.D., Arturo holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Cornell Law School and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City.

Patrick Kastner is a systems engineer passionate about empowering people by finding, implementing & scaling solutions to systemic problems. His expertise is in environmental modeling to inform the multi-objective decision making of architects and urban planners. His current project is Eddy3D, a performance-driven design toolkit to predict outdoor thermal comfort in cities. Eddy3D is currently used at KPF, Henning Larsen, Gensler, and Foster & Partners, and by researchers and educators at institutions including the TU Munich, AIT, ETH, MIT, UPenn, University of Toronto, Harvard, and Cornell. He holds a M.S. in Systems Engineering from Cornell, a M.Sc. in Sustainable Building Science from TU Munich, and a B.Sc. in Energy Engineering from FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg. While completing his M.Sc., he joined the Technology Management program at the Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) and led operations at TEDxTUM, helping to organize four major events around Munich that hosted 1500+ attendees.

Christian's transdisciplinary research looks at the markets through the lens of complex systems science. He is currently working to develop a Market Ontology (MO), an approach that combines applied philosophy, complexity economics, and agent-based modeling to build and analyze market structures and processes to give new understanding for defining markets, monitoring how they work, and guidance in how to evolve healthier complex adaptive markets. Christian's empirical work is particularly interested in developing a national monitoring system of local school choice markets. Here, he applies MO to generate empirical questions about the effects of market structural and process characteristics on market outcomes. Post-graduation, Christian plans to continue his work on mapping out what markets are, how they evolve, and contributing to the development of healthier real-world markets. Christian received his B.S. in Applied Mathematics and B.A. in Economics from Boise State University. There he also received an M.S. in Economics before coming to Cornell University to finish his graduate work in the Systems Ph.D program.