Suzanne Tick

Weaving trash into treasure: The Power of Art to Transform our Lives

Textile Designer

Benjamin Heckendorn

Solving the World’s Problems One Maker at a Time

Ben Heck: master modder and host of element14’s The Ben Heck Show

Jay Bhatti

Recipe For Geo Based Innovation

Jay is a venture capitalist with a focus on consumer internet & e-commerce.

Bernadette Mullen

Autism, Avatars and Alleviating Social Skills Disorders

Speech and Language Pathologist, Special Education Teacher, Owner of Speech Start, Lecturer and Curriculum Director for SiLAS for Social Skills

Zaritza

Following Rachmaninoff to Monmouth County

Zaritza creates modern electro-pop/rock music infused with dramatic, romantic elements from her Russian classical roots.

Akin Shoyoye

It’s Time We Build

Community Organizer for Autonomous Vehicles and Auto Enthusiast

Leonard Zax

City of the Future

A lawyer and city planner, Leonard is now President of the Hamilton Partnership for Paterson.

Garry Kvistad

Good Vibrations (A Life of Harmony).

Founder/owner of Woodstock Chimes®, member of Steve Reich and Musicians and NEXUS.

Christopher Dudick

Autism, Avatars, and Alleviating Social Skills Disorders

Entrepreneur, Artist, Teacher and creator/founder of Small Factory Productions and SiLAS Solutions.

Yesi Morillo-Gual

Breaking The Cycle: Making a Life

Corporate Executive, Graduate Student, Extraordinary Mom, Entrepreneur, and Founder of Proud To Be Latina. She is the author of Rise, and the upcoming novel Stay.

Helge Seetzen

Technology Transfer in the 21st Century

General Partner, TandemLaunch Ventures

Florence Williams

Making Spaces of Awe and Restoration

Author, Journalist

Dina Long

What Superstorm Sandy Taught me about Leadership

Dina Long, Mayor of Sea Bright Borough and fellow Sandy survivor.

Michael Paoli

To Eat or Not to Eat, that is the Question on Class Pets

School is both an essential and ridiculous environment for growing kids and there is nowhere else I’d rather be.

Ken Carbone

Making Day by Day

Ken Carbone is a designer, artist, musician, author, teacher and blogger. He is the Chief Creative Director of the Carbone Smolan Agency in NYC.

Armand Ferranti

Invent the life you want

The Most InterestED Man in the World

Kevin Ryan

HopeMakers: Helping Homeless Youth Embrace Life

President and CEO of Covenant House International

Melissa Febos

Telling Your Secrets Can Set You Free

Author, Assistant Professor at Monmouth University

Eileen Huang

The potential of a poem

As a poet in a STEM school, 16-year-old Eileen Huang navigates through many clashing cultures.

Andrea Syrtash

How to Make Love (Outside the Bedroom)

Relationship expert, author and on-air television personality.

Gary Mottola

Making Asbury

Real-Estate Developer

John Stepper

Working Out Loud: The making of a movement

Author of “Working Out Loud”

Eric Clough

INTO MYSTERY: Crowdsourced Architecture

Principal at 212box, a New York-based multidisciplinary design firm, Eric Clough thinks outside his box

Rinde Eckert

The Power of the Blank Page

interdisciplinary artist - singer, writer, actor, composer, and director.

Maureen Langan

The Business of Making Fun

Maureen Langan, Standup Comic and Radio Talk Show Host

Anna Zhang

Conquering My Fear of the Unknown

Photographer and founding editor of Pulse Spikes magazine.