2025 Speakers
A producer, composer, and keyboardist for The Voidz and Cigarettes After Sex, with credits including Daft Punk and Mac DeMarco.
JEFF KITE
LUAM MELAKE
An artist and designer whose furniture and sculpture explore psychology and social connection.
ADAM SALEH
A designer and founder of Presq, based in Los Angeles. In 2023, he was named a Steve Jobs Archive Fellow for his work.
MATTY MO
An artist and entrepreneur known as “The Most Famous Artist,” recently founding Art City, a sculpture park and glamping site in Tucumcari, New Mexico.
IMANI JONES
An event producer and marketing consultant known for XChange Fashion Festival and X Sounds, with past clients including Redbull, Gucci, and Tiffany & Co.
AUSTIN KERR
A furniture and sculpture restorer with 25 years’ experience, serving Design Miami and leading Materials in Design, an online masterclass for artists and designers.
WILLIAM HOST
An entrepreneur and co-founder of Ascend Group, a national community empowering students through entrepreneurship.
LARA WHITLEY
An installation artist and Aspen Cultural Vibrancy Fellow known for transforming discarded materials into contemplative works.
ANN MULLINS
A landscape architect and former Aspen City Council member whose career bridges design, preservation, and public policy.
MATTHEW KOCHMANN
An entrepreneur and ecological visionary known for launching Uber in New York and pioneering Tree Burial.
HARRY TEAGUE
A Colorado architect and former director of the IDCA, where he shaped conversations around design and culture.
BRITT BURTZ
An executive, author, and Co Founder of iByond Inc., Founder and CEO at Universal Tutor, and President of the Educate America Foundation.
TRAVIS FULTON
A sculptor and creator known for the world’s first computerized dancing fountain and co-founding Anderson Ranch Arts Center.
A multidisciplinary artist and the founder of Raise the Moral (RTM), a creative studio with locations in Los Angeles, New York, and Portugal.
MORAL TURGEMAN
JILLIAN MAYER
A Miami-based visual performance artist and filmmaker whose works have been displayed at galleries and museums internationally and film festivals such as SXSW and Sundance.
SAAD RIAZ
A designer and founder of DFSG rethinking the human experience, who teaches undergraduate courses on human values in design and human-computer interaction at Stanford.
An entrepreneur and exchange, technology, and financial services executive who serves as the CEO of Abaxx Technologies, Inc., CEO of the Abaxx Exchange, and co-creator and board member of Menē Inc.
JOSH CRUMB
A partner at the design studio Swayspace, lecturer in the design program at Stanford University, and a resident artist in Palo Alto’s Cubberley Artist Studio Program.
PATRICK FENTON
MIKE JONES
An entrepreneur, internet executive, investor, and CEO of Science Inc., the studio behind companies like Liquid Death, Dollar Shave Club, Rover, and many others.
ZIO ZIEGLER
A visual artist known for his paintings and murals which appear in the Mission District of San Francisco, as well as Tokyo, Los Angeles, London, and Italy.
A writer, cinematographer, and Master's student in Design at Stanford University from Tokyo, Japan.
KOH TERAI
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