Julia S. Gouw is the Chairwoman of Piermont Bank, a commercial bank in New York. She was the former President and Chief Operating Officer of East West Bank.

Gouw was ranked one of the “25 Most Powerful Women in Banking” five times by American Banker magazine and has received the Los Angeles Business Journal’s “Women Making a Difference” award two times in recognition of her achievements and philanthropic contributions.

Gouw was a board member of the Trusteeship, an International Women’s Forum affiliate organization that connects preeminent women in leadership positions across various professional fields.

Gouw currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Pacific Life and Vizio (NYSE: VZIO).

Gouw is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. She was the founding chair of the Executive Advisory Board of UCLA Women’s Health to promote women’s health both in research and medical treatments. She also endowed the UCLA Chair of Mood Disorders Research especially in women in memory of Dr. Lori Altshuler.

Born and raised in Indonesia, Gouw came to the United States in 1978 where she earned her B.S. degree in accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Zeenat Rahman is the Director of the Inclusive America Project at the Aspen Institute.  She is an expert on global youth issues, interfaith and diversity engagement, and is a former diplomat. Her experience spans national security, foreign policy, and leadership development through work in government, the private sector, and NGOs – effectively bridging the gap between policy and community solutions.

Zeenat was recently a Presidential Political Appointee, serving as Special Adviser to Secretaries Clinton and Kerry on Global Youth Issues at the U.S. Department of State.  In this position, she encouraged foreign governments to respond to youth issues through policy change and created opportunities for young people to pursue their economic and civic aspirations.  She created private sector partnerships focused on youth employment and skills development, worked with U.S. embassies to create an extensive network of more than 75 Youth Councils worldwide, and built global entrepreneurship programs to support nascent entrepreneurs in emerging economies. Prior to this appointment, she served as Director of the Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships at the United States Agency for International Development. In this role, she led external engagement efforts with various faith-based and community organizations to build support for USAID priorities.

Zeenat is a frequent speaker and commentator who has spoken at venues such as the United Nations, the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, and the White House and appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and many international news outlets. She is a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the British Council’s Transatlantic Network 2020, a Truman National Security Fellow, and a Next Generation Project Fellow.   She received a master’s degree in Middle East studies from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in psychology from the University of Illinois.

As Executive VP, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer for Sony Music Group. In this newly created role, Tiffany will expand equity and inclusion activities and policies across of all Sony Music Group’s (SMG) global recorded music, publishing and corporate divisions, reporting directly to SMG Chairman Rob Stringer.

Recently as the Senior VP, Chief Diversity Officer for Omnicom Group, Tiffany led the strategy that supported Omnicom’s vision to be a world class, benchmark company for sustainable diversity and inclusion and align this critical practice with the company’s business objectives and clients’ results. She oversaw a team focused on Omnicom-wide change efforts for the advancement and retention of top performing talent inclusive of women, people of color and LGBT professionals in an inclusive work culture. Recognized as a leader in the field of diversity, Tiffany is a talent strategist with 22+ years of championing diverse professionals in the creative industries. In 2005, she founded ADCOLOR, which has launched the ADCOLOR Conference, Awards and FUTURES program. As President of ADCOLOR, she deeply impacted and has been widely recognized for in the progress and direction the creative industries have taken around diversity, equity & inclusion. In addition to her roles at Sony Music Group and ADCOLOR, Tiffany serves on the boards of several organizations: the Ad Council, GLAAD, Brotherhood|Sister Sol, American Advertising Federation, MAKERS and The Ghetto Film School. She is a Trustee of Bentley University. Tiffany was honored as an Advertising Age Woman to Watch, AAF District 2 “”Role Model”” Diversity Achievement Award, AAF Hall of Achievement Inductee and The Jack Avrett Volunteer Award Recipient, AAF Pioneer in Diversity Award (Omnicom Group), 4A’s MAIP Gladiator Award, the National Association Black Journalists’ Patricia L. Tobin Media Professional Award Recipient, The European Diversity Awards’ Global Diversity Champion Award, AOL MAKER, the New York Urban League’s Frederick Douglass Medallion and the AAF Barton G. Cummings Gold Medal for Distinguished Service, the 4A’s 100 People Who Make Advertising Great List, Ebony 100 and John A. Reisenbach Distinguished Citizenship Award, Black Enterprise Top Executive in Diversity 2019, Do

Something.org 2020 Empower Player and 2021 Henry Crown Fellow. A native Bostonian and the oldest of ten children, Tiffany is a proud graduate of The Winsor School and Bentley University and still finds the time to mentor over 100+ professionals personally.

For nearly three decades, activist and advocate Tarana J. Burke has worked at the intersection of racial justice, arts and culture, anti-violence, and gender equity. Fueled by commitments to interrupt sexual violence and other systemic inequalities disproportionately impacting marginalized people, particularly Black women and girls, Tarana has created, led, and participated in various campaigns focused on increasing access to resources and support for impacted communities, including the ‘me too.’ movement, which to date has galvanized millions of survivors and allies around the world.

Steve Chen was the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. Steve arrived in Silicon Valley in 1999 to join PayPal. On his first day at PayPal, Steve met Chad Hurley, who would become his YouTube co-founder, together with Jawed Karim.

Steve was instrumental in building YouTube into a viral video phenomenon. He helped lead YouTube through the Google acquisition for $1.65 billion, less than a year after launching the site. As the company’s key technologist, Steve developed the company’s massive data centers and helping build YouTube into a premier entertainment destination, and one of the most popular Web sites on the Internet today.

Sarah Kate Ellis is the President & CEO of GLAAD, the world’s most visible LGBTQ organization and the largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization. She has run GLAAD since 2014 and expanded the organization’s mission by launching advocacy work beyond news and entertainment media to include advocacy efforts with global business, social media, video games, sports, and other drivers of culture. GLAAD’s model of social change is to work through these creators of culture to tell LGBTQ stories and distribute LGBTQ messages which accelerate LGBTQ acceptance. In 2018, she launched the GLAAD Media Institute, which has taught tens of thousands of LGBTQ advocates around the world how to best lead advocacy campaigns in their own communities. The Institute has also trained employees of businesses including P&G, Dow, Google, Netflix, Delta, Hilton, and more on LGBTQ terminology and issues. Sarah Kate is a sought-after commentator on LGBTQ issues who has appeared dozens of times on CNN, MSNBC, and across online and print outlets including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, and the Associated Press. She resides in New York with her wife Kristen and their two children.

Robert A. Iger is Executive Chairman of The Walt Disney Company and Chairman of the Board of Directors. He assumed the role of Executive Chairman in February 2020, having served as Chief
Executive Officer since 2005. Over his 15 years leading the Company, Mr. Iger built Disney into one of the world’s largest and most admired media and entertainment companies, expanding on its rich history of unforgettable storytelling with the acquisitions of Pixar (2006), Marvel (2009), Lucasfilm (2012) and 21st Century Fox (2019); the landmark 2016 opening of Disney’s first theme park and resort in Mainland China, Shanghai Disney Resort; and the release of a number of record‐setting films including the No. 1 movie of all time, Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame and the groundbreaking movie Marvel’s Black Panther.

Always one to embrace new technology, Mr. Iger has made Disney an industry leader through its creative content offerings across multiple platforms, most recently leveraging cutting edge direct‐to‐consumer technology with the highly successful launch of the Disney+ streaming service in November 2019, which achieved nearly 100 million subscribers globally in just over a year.

Mr. Iger was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in January 2020, and the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame in 2015. He serves on the boards of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and Perfect Day; and as chairman of the capital campaign for the new Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Museum in Los Angeles. In 2012, he became a member of the Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. Mr. Iger is the author of the New York Times Best Seller “The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of The Walt Disney Company,” published in 2019. He is a graduate of Ithaca College.

A seasoned entertainment executive and the first openly gay studio chief, Rich Ross formerly served as Group President of Discovery Channel and Science Channel, CEO of Shine America, President of Entertainment at Disney Channel, and Chairman of Walt Disney Studios. Under his tenure at Disney Channel, Rich established Disney’s dominance of the tween market with shows such as “Hannah Montana,” “Lizzie McGuire,” “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody” and “That’s So Raven.” He also launched the worldwide hit “High School Musical” series, as well as the “Camp Rock” and “The Cheetah Girls” series. At Walt Disney Studios, Rich oversaw some of the highest-grossing films of all time, such as “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” “Alice in Wonderland,” and “Toy Story 3.”

Michelle Yeoh, an internationally acclaimed actress and producer, has starred in more than fifty films including global hits James Bond’s “Tomorrow Never Dies”, Oscar-winning “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon”, “Memoirs of a Geisha”, “Sunshine”, “Mummy 3”, the soul-stirring biopic “The Lady”, Marvel smash “Guardians of The Galaxy Vol 2” and sci-fi franchise TV series “Star Trek: Discovery” as a first Asian female Starfleet Captain. Through her films, she has challenged the traditional views of Asian women by creating very strong female roles.

Her acclaimed performance in the period epic “”Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon””, directed by Ang Lee, earned her three nominations for Best Actress at the Taipei Golden Horse Awards, the Hong Kong Film Awards and the BAFTA Awards in 2001. Michelle has a prolific acting career with a diverse list of roles, she won acclaim for her powerful performance in Crazy Rich Asians. Michelle served on the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival in 1999 and 2002 respectively. Michelle will be next seen in James Cameron’s “Avatar” sequels, Israeli film director Navot Papushado’s “Gunpowder Milkshake”, Daniel’s “Everything Everywhere All At Once” and Destin Daniel Cretton’s Marvel superhero film “Shang-chi”.

Michelle has received numerous awards and honors, including the highest French civilian distinction “Commander of the Legion of Honour” by former French President François Hollande in March 2017; the Excellence in Asian Cinema award during the seventh annual Asian Film Awards in March 2013; and the highest honorable title Tan Sri conferred by the Malaysian state government in June 2014. In 2020, she was listed on BBC 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for her continuous contributions on Gender Equality and Asian Representation.

Michelle has devoted a major part of her time to charitable and social endeavors. She has been appointed as Goodwill Ambassador of United Nations Development Programme to raising awareness and mobilizing support for the recently launched Sustainable Development Goals around the world since 2016. She has been invited to speak at United Nations High-Level Meetings and World Bank on Peacebuilding, Gender Equality and Sustainable Fashion. Since 2008 Michelle has been a leading campaigner for the Make Roads Safe campaign, including leading its successful ‘Call for a Decade of Action’ at the events around the world, and also travels widely to film the documentary ‘Turning Point’ which was broadcasted worldwide on the BBC in 2009. She is also a Global Road Safety Ambassador for the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 and a member of the Commission for Global Road Safety, which advocates for road injury to be recognized as a global public health and development priority.

Michelle is a passionate advocate for wildlife conservation and environmental protection. She worked together with National Geographic to make the documentary “”Amongst the Great Ape” in order to raise awareness about Wildlife conservation in Sabah, Malaysia in 2009. She is also ambassador of amfAR (The foundation for AIDS research), AIDS Concerns, Hong Kong Cancer Fund, Live to Love and The Brain & Spine Institute (ICM).

Michael B. Jordan is a force for change when it comes to equity and inclusivity on and off screen, as an actor, producer and businessman.

In 2016, he launched Outlier Society, a production company focused on bringing diverse stories and voices to market, which recently inked an overall studio deal and 360-degree partnership with Amazon Studios. The partnership will allow creative cross-collaborations amongst different businesses including film, TV, product, fashion, publishing, podcast, music and more – all tied back to the power of diverse content/storytelling. Jordan’s next film, Tom Clancy’s WITHOUT REMORSE, in which he both stars in and produced, will release globally on Amazon Prime Video April 30. He is currently in production on the Denzel Washington-directed JOURNAL FOR JORDAN, based on Dana Canedy’s best-selling memoir.

Through Outlier Society, the Outlier Society Fellowship program was born in 2019 with the support of the Obama Foundation and My Brother’s Keeper to develop the next generation of media, arts and entertainment industry leaders from underrepresented backgrounds and communities.

Jordan first garnered industry-wide attention for his breakout role in FRUITVALE STATION. Most recently, Jordan starred in and produced the 2020 film, JUST MERCY – the first film made under Warner Media’s new company-wide inclusion policy. He starred in and produced CREED II and received high-level recognition for his portrayal of the tormented Erik Killmonger in BLACK PANTHER. He will re-team with director Ryan Coogler on WRONG ANSWER; and will reprise the role of Adonis Creed in CREED III.

Spanning over four decades, celebrity Chef Martin Yan has traveled around the world, sharing the best of Chinese and American culture, food, and personal enrichment with multiple generations of audiences. His grand vision is shaped by more than 3,500 culinary and travel TV shows, 32 cookbooks, and several restaurants in North America and Asia, which include M.Y. China, a highly rated culinary hot spot in San Francisco. Today, Chef Yan is one of the most recognizable Chinese American icons on mass media. He is a tireless promoter of many social causes and cross-cultural exchanges between Asia and North America. For his efforts, Chef Yan has been awarded multiple James Beard Awards, and has been named culinary ambassador or the cities of Chengdu, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, China.

Mark Tatum was appointed NBA Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer on Feb. 1, 2014, following unanimous approval by the NBA Board of Governors. Tatum, who joined the NBA in 1999, is responsible for the NBA’s business operations, including leading the NBA’s international efforts. He also oversees the Global Partnerships, Marketing, Communications and Team Marketing and Business Operations departments in addition to the NBA G League.

Prior to joining the NBA, Tatum worked for Major League Baseball in Corporate Sponsorship and Marketing, the Clorox Company as a Regional Sales Manager, Pepsi-Cola Company in their Sports Marketing department, and Procter & Gamble in sales management. Tatum sits on numerous boards including USA Basketball, the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, LA 2028 Summer Olympics, and Harvard Business School Board of Dean’s Advisors. He is Chair of the Harvard Business School Club of New York, and a member of the Executive Leadership Council, a national organization that empowers African-American corporate leaders to make impactful contributions. Tatum received a B.S. in Business Management from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard University.

Lisa Ling is an award-winning journalist who currently executive produces and hosts her own CNN Original Series, “This is Life,” which explores the far corners of America.

Before coming to CNN, Ling was a field correspondent for “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and contributor to ABC News’ “Nightline” and National Geographic’s “Explorer.” She has reported from dozens of countries, covering stories about gang rape in the Congo, bride burning in India and the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, among other issues that are too often ignored. Ling got her start in journalism as a correspondent for Channel One News where she covered the civil war in Afghanistan at 21 years of age.

She later went on to become a co-host of ABC Daytime’s hit show “The View,” which won its first daytime Emmy during her time at the show. Ling has also served as a special correspondent for CNN’s “Planet in Peril” series and is a contributing editor for USA Today’s USA Weekend magazine. In 2011, her acclaimed documentary journalism series, “Our America” with Lisa Ling, was created and began airing on OWN.

Ling is the co-author of “Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood” and “Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home,” which she penned with her sister, Laura. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the California Museum.

Multiple award-winning actress and singer Lea Salonga is renown across the world for her powerful voice and perfect pitch.  She is best known for her Tony Award winning role in Miss Saigon. In addition to the Tony, she has won the Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards, in the field of musical theatre. She was also the first Asian to play Eponine in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway and returned to the beloved show as Fantine in the 2006 revival. Many fans of all ages recognize Lea as the singing voice of Princess Jasmine from Aladdin and Fa Mulan for Mulan and Mulan II. For her portrayal of the beloved princesses, the Walt Disney Company bestowed her with the honor of “Disney Legend”.

Most recently, Lea starred in the critically acclaimed Sony musical-drama YELLOW ROSE which hit theaters in October. Additionally, in August, Lea released her single “Dream Again” with all profits donated to charities aiding in COVID-19 relief around the world, including The Actor’s Fund. In November 2020 Lea Salonga: Live with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra from Sydney Opera House aired as part of Great Performances on PBS. A live album of the performance was subsequently released by Broadway Records.

In her 40-year career, Lea has performed for six Philippine presidents (from Ferdinand Marcos to Benigno S. Aquino III), three American Presidents (George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush), and for Diana, Princess of Wales and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. She began her career as a child star in the Philippines, making her professional debut in 1978 at the age of seven in the musical The King and I. She went on to star in productions of Annie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Fiddler on the Roof, The Rose Tattoo, The Sound of Music, The Goodbye Girl, Paper Moon, The Fantasticks and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song on Broadway.

An avid techie and gamer, Lea divides her time between Manila, Philippines with her family and the United States.

Jim Lee is a world-renowned comic book artist, writer, and editor, and the Publisher and Chief Creative Officer of DC, a division of WarnerMedia. Known for his detailed and dynamic artistic style, Jim is one of the most revered and respected artists in American comics. He started his professional career at Marvel comics, where his work on the X-Men continues to hold the all-time sales record for single-issue sales. Prior to his current post at DC, Jim served as Editorial Director, where he oversaw WildStorm Studios and was also the artist for many of DC's bestselling comic books and graphic novels. He also oversaw the launch of the DC Universe Online massively multiplayer action game from Sony Online Entertainment as the Executive Creative Director. A legend in the industry, Jim has received numerous accolades, including the Harvey Special Award for New Talent. Jim earned his B.A. in psychology from Princeton University.

Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in 1995 and served on the Board of Directors until January 2012. While at Yahoo, he led several initiatives, including two of the biggest investments in the internet sector: Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group.

Mr. Yang currently works with and invests in technology entrepreneurs through AME Cloud Ventures, his innovation investment firm. Mr. Yang serves as a director on the boards of Workday Inc., Lenovo Group, and Alibaba Group, as well as on a number of his portfolio boards. He also serves on the Stanford University’s Board of Trustees and is a board member for the National Committee of US-China Relations. Mr. Yang is a member of the Brookings China Advisory Council, the Committee of 100, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Yang holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He is widely recognized as a visionary and pioneer in the internet technology sector.

Jeff is the Co-Founder of Summit, best known for hosting global ideas festivals and events, and is the co-owner, principal designer, and developer of Summit Powder Mountain and Powder Mountain ski resort in Eden, Utah. Jeff currently serves on the Leadership Council at Conservation International, and on the boards of Beyond Conflict and Street Soccer USA. He is a Founding Partner of the Drawdown Fund, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Jeff serves as a Senior Advisor to many for profit, and non-profit organizations, including Inspire Energy, Calm, Scopely, Seed Biosciences, Learn Capital, GivePower Foundation, Arabella Advisors, a leading philanthropy and impact investing consultancy, and Laurel Strategies, a global business advisory and strategy firm. Jeff is on the Leadership Circle of the Conservation Lands Foundation, the Advisory Board of Whistleblower Aid and Save the Waves Foundation, and a Senior Advisor to One Community Films. Jeff was a founding board member of the Summit Institute, the Summit Fellowship, Senior Advisor to TPG Rise and TPG Growth, former Director of the Summit Action Fund, and founding board member of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition. Jeff is the recipient of the Tribeca Disruptive Innovator Award, and is also the co-author of Make No Small Plans, coming out 2021 from the Crown Publishing Group.

Janice Min is a contributing editor at TIME, covering culture, business and entertainment across multiple platforms, and most recently wrote about the gender and racial discrimination at Pinterest. Earlier, she was the longtime co-president of the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Entertainment Group, where she engineered a publishing rebirth of The Hollywood Reporter hailed as a “stunning transformation” by the New York Times. Previously, as editor-in-chief of Us Weekly (2002-2009), she was cited as having transformed modern popular culture, creating a Zeitgeist phenomenon that was named publishing’s Top Performer of the Decade by Cappell Circulation Report. She also has served as a consultant to NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, and developed news programming for the streaming service Quibi.

A Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning Hollywood producer with deep roots in China, Janet Yang also sits on the Board of Governors of the Motion Picture Academy and is Chair of the Membership and Governance Committee. Yang came to prominence through her collaboration with Steven Spielberg on Empire of the Sun. That was followed by a long partnership with multiple Academy Award-winner Oliver Stone—where she served as Executive Producer on the iconic The Joy Luck Club, and as a Producer on the Golden Globe- winning The People vs. Larry Flynt. Among her many other credits are: the Sundance award- winning Dark Matter with Meryl Streep; The Weight of Water directed by Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow; Fox’s High Crimes with Morgan Freeman; a Chinese adaptation of the Disney franchise High School Musical; cult favorites Zero Effect by Jake Kasdan and Shanghai Calling with China Film Group, and most recently, the animated feature Over the Moon for Netflix.

Yang has been named one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Hollywood” by the Hollywood Reporter. Yang began her career by running the first distribution company to market Chinese films into North America. She also brokered the reintroduction of American studio films to the Chinese marketplace after a decades-long hiatus. Yang is a co-founder of Gold House, the most prominent organization of Asian-Americans; a member of the prestigious Committee of 100, an organization of prominent Chinese- Americans; and an advisory board member of Asia Society Southern California where she also chairs its highly regarded US-ASIA ENTERTAINMENT SUMMIT. Yang has been featured on numerous national and global media outlets. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Yang holds a B.A. from Brown University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.

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Gurinder Chadha is one of the U.K.’s most proven and respected filmmakers with an illustrious body of work over 30 years. Her award-winning films as a Writer, Director and Producer have earned over $300 million at the international box office. The British Film Institute’s recent filmography study on British Cinema history named Chadha as the U.K’s most prolific female director working today. She began her career as a broadcast journalist for BBC News and moved into directing with her first documentary I’M BRITISH BUT… for Channel 4 and the BFI in 1989 and subsequently made several award-winning documentaries for BFI, BBC and Channel 4. Chadha directed her first short film, NICE ARRANGEMENT, in 1990. Her first feature, the landmark comedy-drama BHAJI ON THE BEACH, which centred on the experiences of a group of Asian women from three generations on a day trip to Blackpool, received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best British Film and the Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Newcomer to British Cinema. Chadha’s next feature, WHAT’S COOKING?, a comedy-drama that tells the story of four different families (Latino, Vietnamese, African-American and Jewish) all preparing for Thanksgiving Dinner, was the Opening Night Film of the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and was the first British script to be invited to the Sundance Institute’s Writer’s Lab. The film was voted joint Audience Award winner in the New York Film Critics’ 2000 season (with Billy Elliott).

Her next film, BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM, was the highest-grossing British- financed, British-distributed film ever at the UK box office (at time of release) and topped box office charts internationally. The film received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), a BAFTA Award nomination for Best British Film, a European Film Academy nomination for Best Film, and a Writers Guild of America nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Her other hit films include BRIDE & PREJUDICE – a film that marries Jane Austen with Indian and Western musicals – which was the first film ever to open at #1 in the UK and India on the same day; ANGUS, THONGS AND PERFECT SNOGGING, based on the international bestseller which was released worldwide by Paramount in 2008/2009; IT’S A WONDERFUL AFTERLIFE, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival before releasing internationally in 2010; and VICEROY’S HOUSE, an epic drama on Indian Independence and Partition, starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal and Huma Qureshi. The film, which made its world premiere at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, received critical acclaim and achieved global box-office success. In 2015, Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges mounted the stage musical version of BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM in London’s West End to five-star reviews and critics’ awards. Gurinder’s most recent film, BLINDED BY THE LIGHT, broke sales records at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was released internationally by Warner Bros to great acclaim.

Chadha’s TV company, Bend It TV, creates diverse scripted and unscripted global TV content. Her BAFTA-Nominated drama series, BEECHAM HOUSE, launched on ITV in the UK in 2019, and on Masterpiece / PBS in the U.S., June, 2020. Chadha has received several Honorary Doctorates from British Universities and was awarded an O.B.E. in the 2006 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for her services to the British Film Industry.

George Takei is a social justice activist, social media superstar, Grammy-nominated recording artist, New York Times bestselling author, and pioneering actor whose career has spanned six decades. He has appeared in more than 40 feature films and hundreds of television roles, most famously as Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek, and he has used his success as a platform to fight for social justice, LGBTQ+ rights, and marriage equality. His advocacy is personal: during World War II, Takei spent his childhood in United States internment camps along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans.

He now serves as Chairman Emeritus and a member of the Japanese American National Museum’s Board of Trustees. Takei served on the board of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission under President Bill Clinton, and, in 2004, was conferred with the Gold Rays with Rosette of the Order of the Rising Sun by the Emperor of Japan for his contribution to US-Japan relations.

Far East Movement has always had dance music in their DNA; their early breakout hit “Like a G6” established the LA trio as a major dance powerhouse around the world, making them the first Asian American group to top the Billboard Music Charts in history. Since then, their ever-growing catalog of music has been supported by celebrated artists such as Skrillex, Diplo, and Afrojack. They have also performed at some of the most prestigious festivals like Ultra Music Festival and Electric Daisy Carnival, continually showcasing FM as one of the most exciting touring acts in dance music.

Outside of performing, FM has expanded their scope by managing artists, including Dumfoundead and Yultron, under their company Transparent Agency and opened up a new joint label with Trap City, the largest Trap Channel in the world, named BredNButter.

David Ono is the anchor for ABC7 Eyewitness News at 4pm and 6pm, the top rated newscasts in all of Southern California. He also anchors Eyewitness News on KDOC-TV at 7pm. David joined ABC7 in 1996 and has covered some of the biggest stories of a generation.  From the Pope to the President, global disasters, terrorist attacks, royal weddings, David has witnessed history. David has produced multiple award winning civil rights films, even having his work wind up at the Smithsonian Institution. David has won 8 Edward R. Murrow awards, 25 Emmys, 2 RTDNA National Unity Awards, 6 AAJA National Journalism Awards, and was honored with the Distinguished Journalist Award by the Society of Professional Journalists.

David Henry Hwang’s work includes the plays M. Butterfly, Chinglish, Yellow Face, Golden Child, The Dance and the Railroad, and FOB, as well as the Broadway musicals Aida (co-author), Flower Drum Song (2002 revival) and Disney’s Tarzan. Hwang is a Tony Award winner and three-time nominee, a three-time OBIE Award winner, and a three-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the most-produced living American opera librettist, whose works have been honored with two Grammy Awards. He co-wrote the Gold Record “Solo” with the late pop icon Prince, and was a Writer/Consulting Producer for the Golden Globe-winning television series The Affair. Hwang serves as Head of Playwriting at Columbia University and as Co-Chair of the American Theatre Wing. His newest work, Soft Power, written with composer Jeanine Tesori, premiered at Los Angeles’ Ahmanson Theatre and New York’s Public Theater. It received eleven Drama Desk nominations, four Outer Critics Honors, a Grammy nomination, and was a Finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize.

Daniel Dae Kim has captivated global audiences with his transformative performances across film, television and theater. He continues to evolve his body of work in powerful roles and compelling narratives as an actor, director and producer.

This April, Kim will star in Joe Penna’s Stowaway, opposite Toni Collette, Anna Kendrick and Shamier Anderson. After a stowaway is discovered on a mission to Mars, the crew is faced with an existential decision that may jeopardize all their lives. An intensely personal human drama, Netflix will be releasing the film worldwide this April. Kim also recently lent his vocal talents to Disney +’s Raya and The Last Dragon, which also features the voices of Kelly Marie Tran, Awkwafina, Gemma Chan, Benedict Wong and Sandra Oh.

Next year, Kim can be seen in AMC’s Pantheon, the ambitious one-hour animated drama, based on a series of short stories by Ken Liu about Uploaded Intelligence. AMC has ordered two seasons of the timely drama, which also features the voices of Katie Chang, Paul Dano, Rosemarie DeWitt, Aaron Eckhart, Taylor Schilling and Ron Livingston. Pantheon will premiere in 2022. Kim is currently in production on the second installment of National Geographic’s scripted anthology series, The Hot Zone: Anthrax.  Based on the domestic terror attacks following 9/11, Kim stars as the federal agent on the case, opposite Tony Goldwyn.

The prolific actor is a longtime champion of increased diversity and Asian American representation in Hollywood, and has served as an important voice throughout the current surge of violence towards people of Asian descent. His work as an advocate has been documented in the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC News Nightline and a ground-breaking five-part PBS documentary.

In 2015, Kim forged a new path in his career by creating his own production company, 3AD. With a first look deal with Amazon Studios, 3AD strives to feature those traditionally underrepresented in front of, and behind the camera. 3AD has had four successful seasons producing the ABC hit The Good Doctor, which Kim adapted from a Korean format about a doctor with autism and serves as Executive Producer, and has several more projects in development, including a highly anticipated heist movie with Randall Park.

Prior to his seven-season portrayal of Chin Ho Kelly on the juggernaut series Hawaii Five-0, Kim was perhaps best known for his role as Jin Soo Kwon on the hit TV series Lost, for which he shared a 2006 Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble and was individually honored with an AZN Asian Excellence Award, a Multicultural Prism Award and a Vanguard Award from the Korean American Coalition, all for Outstanding Performance by an Actor. He has been repeatedly recognized with the prestigious KoreAm Driven Award in the field of Arts and Entertainment.

In 2016, Kim received a Broadway Beacon Award for his role as the King of Siam in Lincoln Center’s Tony Award-winning production of The King and I, as well as the Theater Legacy Award from New York’s Pan Asian Repertory Theater.

Previous credits include the films: Hellboy, Insurgent, Allegiant, The Jackal, For The Love of The Game, The Hulk, Spider-Man 2, as well as the Academy Award® winning film Crash.  Previous television credits include: The Legend of Kora, Flack, New Amsterdam, Crusade, and 24.

Kim has also lent his voice talents to animated series and films, such as the award-winning Studio Ghibli film,The Tale of Princess Kaguya, as well as the PBS nature documentary series, Big Pacific, and Asian Americans.  Kim has also voiced characters for several video games, most notably, Johnny Gat in the bestselling series,Saints Row.

Born in Busan, South Korea, and raised in New York and Pennsylvania, Kim discovered acting while a student at Haverford College. After graduation, he moved to New York City, where he began his career on stage, performing in classics such as Romeo and Juliet, Ivanov and A Doll’s House. Despite early success, he chose to further his knowledge of the craft by enrolling in New York University’s Graduate Acting Program, where he earned his Master’s Degree.

When not working, Kim and his family make their home in Hawaii.

Dado and Maria Banatao are not only visionaries in technology and entrepreneurship, but also in philanthropy and community involvement. Dado invented two of the foundation technologies still in every PC: the PC chip set and the graphics acceleration architecture. He served as the managing partner and founder of Tallwood Venture Capital, a venture firm focused on semiconductor technology solutions for computing, communication, and consumer platforms.

Dado and Maria also established the Banatao Family Filipino American Education Fund and the GLOBE Center for Global Learning and Outreach from Berkeley Engineering (GLOBE). They have received awards from UC Berkeley as founding members of CITRIS. Dado continue to serve on the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) Advisory Board and the Berkeley Engineering Advisory Board, and is the founder and Chairman of PhilIppine Development Foundation. Maria has served in the past on the Boards of the Lucille Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, and the University of California, Berkeley Foundation and is currently a Trustee with Philippine Development Foundation and a Chancellor Fellow of University of California, Berkeley.

Reinvention is at the core of Apolo Anton Ohno. He acquired and honed this skill over a decade of Olympic speed skating competition during which he became the most decorated US Winter Olympian of all time. Apolo continually adapts that performance mindset to support ongoing personal and professional growth. He has drawn on this acumen to become a global cross-industry entrepreneur, a successful sports broadcaster and television personality, a New York Times best-selling author, and a lifelong scholar inside and outside the university setting. Apolo harnesses these experiences to educate and inspire organizations on how to foster a sustained leadership mindset needed to overcome current business challenges.

For nearly 50 years, Co-founders and Co-CEOs of Panda Restaurant Group, Andrew and Peggy have combined their talents to propel Panda to become the world leader in Asian dining experiences.

Under Andrew and Peggy’s leadership, Panda Restaurant Group was named one of America’s best employers by Forbes and ranked the number one Asian quick-service concept for over a decade by QSR Magazine. Additionally, the founders have been inducted into the National Restaurant Association’s Hall of Fame and recognized by Carnegie Corporation of New York as Great Immigrants.

With a mission of inspiring better lives, the Cherngs are deeply committed to giving back to the communities in which Panda restaurants operate through Panda Cares Foundation, the company’s philanthropic arm that has donated more than $216 million to non-profit organizations, schools and children’s hospitals since its founding in 1999.

Ajay Banga is executive chairman of the board of directors of Mastercard. He moved into this role following 11 years as the company’s president and chief executive officer. Ajay is a co-founder of The Cyber Readiness Institute, chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce and a trustee of the United States Council for International Business. Ajay is a founding trustee of the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum, a member of the U.S.-India CEO Forum and is chairman emeritus of the American India Foundation. He served as a member of President Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. He is a past member of the U.S. President’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. He was awarded the Padma Shri Award by the President of India in 2016, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2019 and the Business Council for International Understanding’s Global Leadership Award. He is a fellow of the Foreign Policy Association and was awarded the Foreign Policy Association Medal in 2012.

Ajay is a member of the Weill Cornell Medicine board of fellows. In addition, Ajay serves as a director of Dow Inc. and is a member of its compensation and governance committees.

Prior to Mastercard, Ajay served as chief executive officer of Citigroup Asia Pacific. During his career at Citigroup, he held a variety of senior management roles in the United States, Asia
Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He also oversaw the company’s efforts in microfinance.

Ajay began his career at Nestlé, India, where for 13 years he worked on assignments spanning sales, marketing and general management. He also spent two years with PepsiCo, where he was instrumental in launching its fast food franchises in India as the economy liberalized.

He is a graduate of Delhi University and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.