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 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 of the Japanese American National Museum’s Board of Trustees, and a member of the US-Japan Bridging Foundation Board of Directors. 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.

Apolo Anton Ohno claimed his first major speed skating title at the US Championships at the age of 14—after just six months of training. Over the next decade and a half, he went from kid prodigy to the most decorated US Winter Olympian in history—a title he still holds—earning eight Olympic medals in short-track speed skating across the 2002, 2006, and 2010 Winter
Games.

Following the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games, Apolo took his understanding of sport psychology and his personal experience with success and setbacks to develop a resilient and mission-driven approach to life. He wrote a book on this subject, Zero Regrets, which was released in 2011 and went on to become a New York Times best seller. Apolo remains involved in the Olympic movement. He was an NBC sports analyst for the Sochi 2014 and PyeongChang 2018 Winter Games, and is a global ambassador for the Special Olympics and the Winter Olympics. He is currently on the bid committees for the Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles, California. He has also continued to push himself in the world of sport, winning season 4 of ABC’s hit reality show Dancing with the Stars and finishing the 2014 Ironman World Championship Triathlon in Kona, Hawaii, finishing in less than ten hours.

Apolo has spent much of the past decade traveling the world and translating his successes and life lessons to business. The bulk of this time in Asia was spent immersed in exploration of various business sectors ranging from rare earth mining and development to infrastructure and software. He also completed the eight-week Executive Education Curriculum at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, alongside executive-track businesspeople from some of the world’s top companies.

Through his speaking engagements with hundreds of organizations—from Fortune 100 companies to nonprofits—Apolo has helped business leaders think about what it takes to develop a high-performance mindset and remains relevant in a world in which uncertainty is the norm. He has contemplated how individuals—be they executives or those on the front line—find motivation and consistently do their best work. He is passionate about helping others not only achieve but exceed what they believe to be possible in both life and in business.

A seasoned entertainment executive and the first openly gay studio cheif, Rich Ross formerly served as Group President of Discovery Channel and Science Channel, CEO of Shine America, President of Entertament 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.”

Gurinder Chadha is one of the U.K.’s most respected film makers with a body of work over 30 years.. She has produced, directed and written eight award-winning films, including BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM, BHAJI ON THE BEACH, BRIDE & PREJUDICE and VICEROY’S HOUSE, which have been critical and international box office successes. Gurinder was recently named the most prolific female director working today by the BFI’s Filmography study.

Gurinder’s most recent film, BLINDED BY THE LIGHT, broke sales records at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and released internationally to great acclaim.

Her recent drama series, BEECHAM HOUSE, will be televised by Masterpiece on PBS nationwide in June, 2020.

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”.

Honored with an appointment as a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Goodwill Ambassador in October of 2010, Lea vowed to act as an advocate for the Youth and United Nations Global Alliance initiative led by the FAO. Currently, Lea serves as a judge on the Philippines hit version of “The Voice” including the ratings juggernaut “The Voice Kids”. Mitoy Yonting, a member of Team Lea, was named the first season winner.

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.

Andrea Jung is President and Chief Executive Officer of Grameen America, the fastest-growing microfinance organization in the United States. Andrea was appointed by Grameen’s Founder and Chairman and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus to the position in April 2014. Founded in 2008, Grameen America is dedicated to helping women who live in poverty build small businesses to create better lives for their families. The organization has invested more than $870 million in women’s small businesses around the country.

Prior to her role at Grameen America, Andrea served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Avon Products, Inc., and has been a longtime champion of women’s issues. She served as CEO of Avon from 1999 through April 2012, and as Chairman from 2001 through December 2012. As Avon’s first woman CEO and Chairman and the longest-serving female chief executive in the Fortune 500, Andrea was also the first woman to serve as Chairman of the Cosmetic, Toiletry & Fragrance Association, and as Chairman of the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations. During her tenure at Avon, Andrea was responsible for developing and expanding economic earnings opportunities for over six million women in more than 100 countries. She has been lauded globally for her pursuit of public-private partnerships to end violence against women and to stem the breast cancer epidemic. Under her leadership, the Avon Foundation for Women raised and awarded nearly $1 billion to support health and empowerment causes, becoming the largest women-focused corporate philanthropy around the world.

Andrea’s efforts were recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative, which in 2010 honored her with the Clinton Global Citizen Award for her visionary leadership in solving pressing global challenges. Beyond her work at Grameen America, Andrea is a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc., Unilever, Rockefeller Capital Management, and Wayfair Inc. She previously served on the boards of General Electric and Daimler AG.

A Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning Hollywood producer with deep roots in China, Yang also sits on the Board of Governors for the Motion Picture Academy.

Yang’s extensive Film and television credits include “The Joy Luck Club”, “The People vs. Larry Flynt”, “Shanghai Calling”, “High Crimes”, and “Zero Effect”. Her upcoming films include the animated feature “Over the Moon” for Netflix.

Yang began her career bringing Chinese cinema into North America, and then representing the Hollywood studios to broker the first sale of American films into China. This in turn led to joining Steven Spielberg on the historic production of “Empire of the Sun”.

Yang has been named one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Hollywood” by the Hollywood Reporter. She is a co-founder of Gold House; is a member of the Committee of 100, as well as the National Committee on US-China Relations; and chairs the highly regarded U.S.-Asia Entertainment Summit for Asia Society Southern California.

Bill Imada is founder, Chairman and Chief Connectivity Officer of IW Group, a minority-owned and operated advertising, marketing and communications agency focusing on the growing multicultural markets. For over 25 years, Bill has worked with many leading domestic and global companies such as American Airlines, Coca-Cola, Fox, General Motors, HBO, Lexus, Verizon, Walt Disney Imagineering, Warner Bros. Pictures, and Walmart Stores. Outside of work, Bill has been a long-time champion for various communities.

He co-founded the Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF), the Asian/Pacific Islander American Chamber of Commerce & Entrepreneurship (National ACE), and the National Millennial Community. He also serves on the Boards of the Advertising Educational Foundation (AEF), Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), Coalition for Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE), Lagrant Foundation, PBS, and the PBS Foundation.

As Chief Diversity Officer for Omnicom Group, Tiffany leads the strategy that enhances Omnicom’s vision to be a world class, benchmark company for sustainable diversity and inclusion and aligning this critical practice with the company’s business objectives and clients’ results. Recognized as a leader and visionary in the field of diversity, Tiffany is a talent strategist with 21 years of championing diverse professionals in the advertising industry.

In 2005, she founded ADCOLOR and continues to serve as President, where she is deeply involved in the direction the creative industries are taking around diversity and inclusion. In addition to these roles, Tiffany serves on the boards of several organizations: the Ad Council, GLAAD, Brotherhood|Sister Sol, American Advertising Federation and The Ghetto Film School. She is also a member of the 4A’s Diversity Committee and the AAF Mosaic Center Executive Council, through which she helps prepare diverse talent to soar in careers with longevity and purpose.

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, private sector, and NGO’s – 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 on Global Youth Issues. 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.

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. Today, he is 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). Dado serves 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 PhilDev. Maria serves on the Boards of the Lucille Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, the Ayala Foundation USA, and the University of California, Berkeley Foundation.

David Henry Hwang’s works include the plays M. Butterfly, Yellow Face, Chinglish, 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. His latest show, Soft Power, written with Jeanine Tesori, premiered at LA’s Ahmanson Theatre and NYC’s Public Theater, where it was named Best Musical of 2019 by the Wall Street Journal. He is America’s most-produced living opera librettist, whose works have been honored with two Grammy Awards. Hwang wrote the Gold Record “Solo” with the late pop legend Prince, and worked for four seasons as a Writer/Producer for the Golden Globe-winning television series The Affair. He is currently penning the live-action musical feature film adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame for Disney Studios, as well as a feature film to star Gemma Chan.

Hwang serves as Head of Playwriting at Columbia University School of the Arts and as Chair of the American Theatre Wing, founder of the Tony Awards. He is a Tony Award winner and three-time nominee, a three-time OBIE Award winner, a two-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and has been inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.

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.

Janice Min previously served as co-president and chief creative officer of The Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group. She remains as an advisor to the Group and an owner of The Hollywood Reporter. During her tenure, the two publications’ combined digital audience nearly quadrupled and revenue more than doubled, garnering them numerous accolades year after year. Janice and her team also won an Emmy in 2014 for executive producing the televised roundtable “Hollywood in Focus: Wolf of Wall Street.”

Jeff Rosenthal is the Co-Founder of Summit, a global thought leadership community and ideas festival series. He’s the co-owner and principal designer of Powder Mountain and Summit Powder Mountain, Co-director of the Summit Action Fund, Founding Board member of the Summit Institute, creator of the Summit Fellowship and Summit Criminal Justice Policy Lab.

Jeff is also a founding board member of the Anti Recidivism Coalition, board member at Beyond Conflict, Street Soccer USA, and on the leadership council of Conservation International & Conservation Lands Foundation. Jeff is a founding partner of the Drawdown Fund, and senior advisor to Arabella Advisors, Laurel Strategies, GivePower, Loanpal, Calm, Inspire Energy, Seed, among others, and co-author of the forthcoming book Make No Small Plans, out in 2021 on Currency Press.

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.

Steve Chen is the Co-Founder and former Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. He helped lead YouTube through the Google acquisition for $1.65 billion, less than a year after launching the site. As the key technologist, Steve developed the company’s massive data centers and helped build YouTube into a premier entertainment destination, and one of the most popular websites on the Internet today. Steve has received prestigious honors and acknowledgments from the business and entertainment communities, including GQ’s “Men of the Year,” Time Magazine’s “Best Invention of the Year”, and Fortune’s “Most Powerful People in Business.” Steve currently serves as an Adviser to Google Ventures, the venture capital arm of Alphabet, Inc.