Alex Luebke has led climate related programs like grid scale energy storage, zero emission fuels and carbon sequestration technologies. Alex is an Aerospace Engineer by trade and has extensive innovation and leadership experience in bringing global scale projects into reality.

Ken Mankoff is a senior scientist who studies ice sheets, glacier hydrology, and polar oceanography. He has participated in or led ~30 field campaigns to Greenland, Antarctica, Svalbard, Norway, and Alaska.

Drawing on her training as a theoretical physicist and her work experience in international disaster mitigation at the United Nations, Jenny Suckale’s research group at Stanford works on understanding and reducing the disaster risk created by nature’s extremes.

Robert Axelrod is a political scientist best known for his work on cooperation. He received the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest honor for scientific achievement and leadership.

Vinton Cerf is one of the fathers of the Internet and serves as Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He has received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the US National Medal of Technology and the IEEE Medal of Honor.

William Colgan is a Senior Researcher at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, with expertise in ice-bed interactions. Co-investigator within the Center for Ice-Sheet and Sea-Level Prediction, a joint US-DK initiative. Scientific Editor with the International Glaciology Society, focusing on ice dynamics.

Stephen Crocker is an Internet pioneer best known for his work developing the protocols for the Arpanet and, more recently, chairmanship of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Dr. Crocker is the recipient of the IEEE Internet Award and a member of the Internet Hall of Fame.

Meda DeWitt is a Tlingit traditional healer, author, ethno-herbalist, culture and traditional knowledge bearer, and educator on Indigenous Sciences at Alaska Pacific University and the University of Alaska. She is dedicated to preserving Indigenous health practices and fostering environmental stewardship blending ancestral wisdom with modern approaches. A member of the Naanyaa.aayí clan and child of the Kaach.aadi.

Christine Dow is an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo and holds the Canada Research Chair in Glacier Hydrology and Ice Dynamics. Her research focuses on water flow under ice sheets and glaciers, examining its impact on ice dynamics in a warming climate.

Baruch Fischhoff is a decision scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, best known for his work on risk analysis and risk communication. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon is Iñupiaq and an enrolled Tribal member of the Nome Eskimo Community. She is a sustainability scientist, researcher, evaluator, and technical assistance provider. She has 13+ years of experience in participatory research, working with Indigenous Peoples/Tribes/Nations supporting self-determination as a foundation of community sustainability and wellbeing. She strives for all her work to have impact and address policies that need changing.

Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer.  He is the author of about twenty books, including the internationally bestselling Mars trilogy, and more recently Red Moon, New York 2140, and The Ministry for the Future.  He was part of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program in 1995 and 2016, and a featured speaker at COP-26 in Glasgow, as a guest of the UK government and the UN.  His work has been translated into 29 languages, and won awards including the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. In 2016 asteroid 72432 was named “Kimrobinson.” 

Dr. Katharina Ruckstuhl’s research focuses on the intersections between science/technology and Indigenous communities. She has led mission-led research programmes and is the recent NYU Engelberg Centre ENRICH Global Chair for Indigenous data sovereignty. She leads many regional environmental tribal projects for Kāti Huirapa ki Puketeraki, with her Ngai Tahu confederated tribe having customary rights over sub-Antarctic Mōtū Maha (Auckland Islands).

Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann is a member of Kāti Huirapa ki Puketeraki, an indigenous tribe of Aotearoa New Zealand. She has worked across multiple fields of arts practice and community development, supporting engagement with local ecologies. She is about to embark on a PhD exploring the intersection of body-based creative practice, Regenerative Design and Development, and indigenous knowledge.

Prof. Sławomir (Sławek) Tułaczyk is a field glaciologist who studied the Antarctic ice sheet's subglacial conditions and climate sensitivity for over three decades. Cumulatively, he spent more than three years doing field research in the Arctic and the Antarctic and authored over 130 peer-reviewed scientific papers.

Lexi Wright is a climate communications and engagement consultant who tells the stories of the projects at the tipping points of climate change through EarthPulse Solutions. Her interest in climate communications stems from an urgent desire to avoid the misinformation that delays climate action.