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Featured Speakers

Dr. Enric Sala

National Geographic Explorer in Residence | Founder, Pristine Seas

Cristina Mittermeier

Photographer | Co-Founder, SeaLegacy

Kiliii Yuyan

Photographer

Christian Cooper

Writer and Editor

Steve Burns

Roller Coaster Road Productions

Kelsey Juliana

Plaintiff, Juliana v. the United States

Dr. M. Sanjayan

CEO Conservation International

Dereck and Beverly Joubert

Filmmakers, Conservationists and Explorers

Paula Kahumbu

Conservationist

Dr. Erika Woolsey

Marine Biologist, Designer, VR filmmaker & National Geographic...

Dr. Renée Lertzman

Researcher, Educator and Eco-engagement Strategist

Vic Barrett

Plaintiff, Juliana v. the United States

Mundiya Kepanga

Papuan Chief

Dietram A. Scheufele

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Taylor-Bascom Chair in Science Communication and Vilas Distinguished...

Malaika Vaz

National Geographic Explorer, wildlife presenter and filmmaker

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

Environmental Activist

Speakers

Martha Aimé Cardona "Mac"

Founder and CEO of cWave Labs

Mohamed El Aboudi

Director, School of Hope

Pamela A. Aguilar

Senior Director of Programming and Development for PBS

Aneeta Akhurst

Seeker

Director of Programming

Hashem Al-Ghaili

Filmmaker, Video Producer and Science Communicator

Pelika Andrade

Brian Armstrong

Red Rock Films

President

Scott Atkinson

Managing Partner and Co-Head of Global Sustainability at Heidrick &...

Alison Barrat

Vice President of Production and Development for Love Nature

Dr. Colleen Begg

Niassa Lion Project

Co-founder and Director

Eric Bendick

Grizzly Creek Films

Series Producer

Vanessa Berlowitz

Wildstar Films

Co-founder and Executive Producer

Ruth Berry

Producer, Director and Writer

Dr. Shivani Bhalla

Ewaso Lions

Founder and Executive Director

Mariasole Bianco

Marine Conservationist and Ocean Advocate

Scott Hoffman Black

Xerces Society

Executive Director

Dr. Giulio Boccaletti, Ph.D.

Chief Strategy Officer of The Nature Conservancy

Paola Bouley

Associate Director - Dept. of Conservation Gorongosa National Park

John Bredar

Vice President of National Programming

Faith Briggs

Documentary Filmmaker

Nicola Brown

Impact Producer

Katie Bryden

Senior Video Producer

Colin Butfield

WWF-UK

Conservation Advisor, Our Planet

Natalie Cash

Wildlife Conservation Society

Executive Producer

Meghan Cassin

Vice President of development for National Geographic Channels

Ally Christos

Red Rock Films International

Development Executive

Brian Cimagala

Senior Producer, Seeker

Adam Cole

The Mind, Explained

Writer and Director

Rocky Collins

Vulcan Productions

Executive Producer, School of Hope

Elliott Connor

Founder & CEO of Human Nature Projects

Christi Cooper

Director & Producer of YOUTH v GOV

Inka Cresswell

Wildlife Filmmaker and Underwater Camera Operator.

Geoffrey Daniels

Executive Vice President of Global Unscripted Entertainment

Mark Deeble

Cinematographer and Director/Writer

Dr. Amy Dickman

Ruaha Carnivore Project

Director

Dr. Stephanie Dolrenry

Lion Guardians

Co-founder and Director of Science

Resson Kantai Duff

Ewaso Lions

Deputy Director

Tania Escobar

Camerawoman

Dr. Lauren Esposito

500 Queer Scientists

Assistant Curator and Schlinger Chair of Arachnology

Justine Evans

Wildlife Cinematographer

Jacqueline Farmer

Saint Thomas Productions & Nature Through Her Eyes

Samreen Farooqui

RoundGlass Sustain

Creative Head, Videos

Dr. Mónica Feliú-Mójer

Ciencia Puerto Rico

Director of Communications and Science Outreach

Jeffrey Flocken

Humane Society International, President

Jorge Franzini

CuriosityStream

Director of Content and Development

Hélène Ganichaud

ARTE France

Deputy Head of the Specialist Factual Unit

Bill Gardner

PBS Content Strategy, Development and Production

Alan Gershenfeld

E-Line Media

Co-Founder/President

Chip Giller

Grist

Founder

Dr. Jane Goodall

Primatologist, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and Roots &...

Noel Guevara

Conservation Photographer and Filmmaker

Ben Hamilton

Conservation Filmmaker & Owner of Wild Agency

Dr. Leela Hazzah

Lion Guardians

Executive Director and Co-founder

Stanley Heckadon-Moreno

Anthropologist

Morgan Heim

Conservation Photographer & Filmmaker

Andrea Heydlauff

Chief Marketing and Communications Officer for African Parks

Nina Holler

Sustainability Manager & Production Coordinator

Jonnie Hughes

Silverback Films

Supervising Producer, Our Planet

Brian Hutchinson

Oceanic Society

Vice President of Outreach

Sara Hylton

Photographer

Joanne Jackson

Long Haul Big Hearts Productions

Producer

Gail Jenkinson

Director of Photography

Jeremy Jones

Filmmaker, Entrepreneur, Environmentalist and Snowboarding Pioneer

Ashwika Kapur

Science Communicator & Natural History Filmmaker

Jane Kim

Visual Artist, Science Illustrator, and the Founder of Ink Dwell

Walter Koehler

Founder and CEO of the internationally acclaimed Terra Mater Factual...

Noel Kok

Nature, Environment & Wildlife Filmmakers (NEWF)

Co-founder and Executive Director

Kalee Kreider

Chief Communications Officer to the National Geographic Society

Elizabeth Leiter

Director/Producer

Brian Leith

Creative Director of Brian Leith Productions & Executive Producer,...

Jared Lipworth

Executive Producer and Director of Impact HHMI Tangled Bank Studios

John D. Liu

Ecosystem Ambassador, Commonland Foundation

Susanne Lummer

Executive Producer, Terra Mater Factual Studios

Louise Mabulo

Chef, Farmer, and Entrepreneur

Ru Mahoney

Impact Producer

Reyhaneh Maktoufi

NOVA | GBH

Rita Allen Foundation Civic Science Fellow in Misinformation

Taira Malaney

Director and Editor

Sofía López Mañán

Photographer

James Manfull

Executive Producer

Ben Masters

Fin and Fur Films

Tom Matzek

Head of Specialist Factual, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation

Tracey S. McNamara, D.V.M., Diplomate, A.C.V.P.

veterinary pathologist and a Professor of Pathology at Western...

Tiffany McNeil

Cinematographer/Director/Digital and New Media Strategist

Gunjan Menon

Natural History Filmmaker and Writer

Tamara Merino

Documentary Photographer and Visual storyteller

Nonhle Mngadi

Wild Women Media Lab Fellow

Social Ecology Technician, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife

Yanda Montahuano

Filmmaker and Founder of ‘Tawna: cinema from the territory’

Patrick Morris

Executive Producer, The Age of Nature

Iva Moss-Redman

Northern Arapaho

David Murdock

Producer, Writer, Director

Josh 'Bones' Murphy

Director

Catherine Nchimbi

Wild Women Media Lab Fellow

Conservation Enterprise and Marketing Officer for Tanzania People and...

Arielle Ness-Cohn

Production Designer

Dan O'Neill

Wildlife Filmmaker, Presenter

Farah Obaidullah

Independent Ocean Advocate, Consultant and the Founder of Women4Oceans

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Maatalii Okalik

Etienne Oliff

Filmmaker, Educationalist and Conservationist

Julia Olson

Our Children’s Trust

Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel

Dr. Alayne Oriol-Cotterill

Founder and Director, Lion Landscapes

David Hernández Palmar

Filmmaker, Independent Curator and Film Programmer

Chipanipani the Pangolin

Gina Papabeis

Impact Producer

Pragna Parsotam-Kok

Nature, Environment & Wildlife Filmmakers (NEWF)

Executive Director

Roshan Patel

Filmmaker

António “Tonecas” Paulo

Senior Wildlif e Veteranarian Gorongosa National Park

Sonya Pemberton

Genepool Productions

Creative Director

Nigel Pope

Founder and Creative Director of Maramedia

George Pretty

Photographer & Filmmaker

Bill Pullman

Actor, Director, Producer

David Quammen

American author and Journalist

Tracy Rector

NIA TERO - MANAGING DIRECTOR, STORYTELLING

SR

Scott Ressler

Director

Ted Richane

Senior Director of Strategy, Engagement and Impact at Vulcan...

Rufo Roba

Researcher

Marisa Rodrigues

Honey Project Manager at Gorongosa National Park

Joern Roever

Head of the Natural History Unit of the German public broadcaster NDR...

Lisa Rose

Head of Impact at the WaterBear Network

Norah Rotich

Wild Women Media Lab Fellow

Conservationist

Brooke Runnette

The Explorer Accelerator

Hind Saih

Producer, School of Hope

Melina Sakiyama

Biologist and Socio-environmental Justice Activist

Caitlin Saks

Producer, NOVA | GBH

Chloe Sarosh

Series Producer/Show Runner

Jackie Savery

Founder and Producer at Maramedia

Christel Scheske

Project Coordinator

Vanessa Serrao

National Geographic Society

Executive Producer of Impact Media

Neeshad Shafi

Founder & Executive Director Arab Youth Climate Movement Qatar

Gautam Shah

National Geographic Fellow | Founder, Internet of Elephants

Emmanuela Shinta

Dayak activist and Filmmaker

Simangele Sithole

Wild Women Media Lab Fellow

Ecosystem Services Ecologist, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife

Christina Karliczek Skoglund

Director of Photography and Underwater Filming Specialist

Cynthia Smith

National Marine Mammal Foundation

Executive Director

Sally Snow

Zoologist and Filmmaker

Nitye Sood

Director & Producer, Peng Yu Sai

Jessie Springer

Nat Geo WILD

Associate Manager, Development

Danielle Steinberg

PBS Nature

Digital Lead

Maggie Burnette Stogner

Executive Director Center For Environmental Filmmaking American...

Victoria Stone

Director / Producer

Rachael Strecher

Senior Director for Storytelling at the National Geographic Society

Howard Swartz

Discovery Channel

Senior Vice President of Production and Development, Documentaries...

Loren Syer-Willoughby

Acquisitions Executive, Off the Fence

Tom Synnatzschke

NDR Natural History Unit

Executive Producer

Fiona Tande

Wildlife Filmmaker

Priscila Tapajowara

Indigenous Activist, Climate Activist, Photographer & Producer

Josefa Cariño Tauli

Steering Committee of the Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN)

Kynan Tegar

Filmmaker

Tria Thalman

Smithsonian Networks

Executive Producer for Natural History

Tshering Tobgay

Former Prime Minister of Bhutan

Carole Tomko

Chief Content Officer

Sany Montahuano Ushigua

Filmmaker, Tawna Films.

Crista Valentino

Founder, CoalitionWILD

Pertti Veijalainen

Producer, School of Hope

Alannah Vellacott

Marine Ecologist, Coral Farmer and Science Communicator

Janet Han Vissering

Senior Vice President of Development and Production for Nat Geo WILD

Thayer Walker

Author and Correspondent for Outside magazine

Dr. Samuel Wasser

Research Professor & Director of the Center for Conservation Biology

Dr. Mele Wheaton

Stanford University

Research Scholar

Aulani Wilhelm

Senior Vice President for Oceans at Conservation International

Ellen Windemuth

CEO/Founder, Off the Fence Productions

Kim Woodard

Co-Founder and Co-President, Lucky 8