Scott Heiferman is Co-Founder and Chair of Meetup, the world's largest network of local community groups. Over 100 million people signed up to "use the internet to get off the internet" - with over 10,000 Meetup gatherings happening each day. Scott believes bringing people together will make a better world.

Charles Vogl is an executive consultant and award winning author. He works with leaders in tech, finance, media, government and social change organizations to make them more effective in creating change.

His book "The Art of Community" won the Nautilus Silver Award in Business & Leadership.

As a Ministry Innovation Fellow at Harvard Divinity School, Angie co-authored How We Gather and Care of Souls, two reports profiling new forms of social and spiritual connection.

She's also Director of Formation at On Being Impact Lab. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and on NPR.

Along with Angie Thurston, Casper produced a seminal report with the Harvard Divinity School called How We Gather. It's well worth a look, as it speaks to the root causes driving this conference.

Kyle is a community designer with a decade of hands-on experience and expertise in the fields of distributed networks, grassroots organizing, civic engagement and creative exploration.

His work in these fields has been amplified by a national student network of 10,000 international development advocates at Engineers Without Borders Canada while serving as their first Creative Director, a city-wide volunteer community of 150+ grassroots park community groups in Toronto as Park PeopleÕs Communications, Events & Community Manager, and nearly 200 chapters of the global creative speaker series CreativeMornings, where he serves as COO.

As a host and facilitator of 1000+ events that have welcomed over 500,000 people, Kyle is fascinated by the connections people make with each other and the opportunity that forms around each of those connections.

In addition to having started Startup Weekend and Startup Week, both of which have grown to global-scale gatherings, Andrew has also been an active local organizer in his current home town of Boulder, Colorado.

There, he has been leading Ignite, TEDx, and other similar community events.

Founder of one of the world's longest-running, world-renowned, and beloved coworking spaces, Alex has been a passionate leader in the global coworking movement as well as an advocate for authentic, meaningful communities.

He's educated countless thousands of community orgnaizers through his forum contributions, blog posts, podcasts, consulting offerings and more.

Saron has an amazing and inspirational journey to share! CodeNewbie started as a weekly TwitterChat to connect people learning to code by Saron. Since then it's grown into a supportive, international community of people learning to code.

Katie is passionate about creating avenues for intentional community among fellow non-religious millennials and across traditions. In Grand Rapids, MI first and now based in Boston, MA, Katie helped create and continue to coordinate Nuns & Nones, a growing movement of Catholic Sisters and unaffiliated millennials coming together to explore questions of spirituality, community, and justice.

Additionally, Katie is the Ministry Innovation Coordinator for How We Gather, which builds networks and resources for spiritual innovators and entrepreneurial community leaders across the country.

Previously, Katie spent several years organizing interfaith community programs, campus initiatives, and leadership programs, with the Kaufman Interfaith Institute in west Michigan as well as the national organization Interfaith Youth Core.

Katie is currently getting an MTS in religion, politics and ethics at Harvard Divinity School. She also holds an MA of Interfaith Action from Claremont Lincoln University, and a BA in Religious Studies and Political Science from Alma College.

Kristine is a trained public speaker and facilitator who holds a Masters of International Studies specializing in Rural Development.

Prior to joining StartingBloc, she worked in international development for six years, founding and leading teams across the African continent and in India. Kristine is also the Raleigh-Durham facilitator for Tide Risers: a year-long, cohort experience for women leaders committed to social good.

Rabbi Amichai has been hailed as "an iconoclastic mystic" by Time Out New York, a "rock star" by the New York Times, a "Judaic Pied Piper" by the Denver Westword, a "maverick spiritual leader" by The Times of Israel and "one of the most interesting thinkers in the Jewish world" by the Jewish Week.

In 2016 The Forward named him one of the thirty-two "Most Inspiring Rabbis" in America, and in 2017 he was top five on "The Forward 50," their annual list of the most influential and accomplished Jews in America.

Having matchmade thousands of people in New York City over the past 10+ years, Amy knows as much as anyone what it takes for people to find lasting love in the modern world.

A relentless entrepreneur and passionate advocate for helping others get their start, Felecia went from starting a popsicle business to running one of Miami's premiere code schools, Code Fever, as well as Black Tech Week, and Space Called Tribe.

A champion of decentralized organizations, Richard's experience with Occupy, Enspiral, Loomio, and now his new consultancy, the Hum, will offer us tremendous insights into what it takes to cultivate leaderful culture.

Jill started the Founding Moms, a collective of over 12,000 members. Those members connect through offline meetups and online resources where mom entrepreneurs can exchange, connect and learn from one another.

Jaudia's been helping grow Launchhouse to multiple locations across the Cleveland area, supporting new businesses and spinoff communities along the way.

Nick turned a personal passion for giving great museum tours into a thriving business. Now, he's organizing amazing cocktail parties that incorporate all sorts of handy best practices. He has much wisdom to share!

David is Founder of CMX & VP of Community at Bevy. Above all else, David seeks to help and empower community builders. He started CMX Summit and CMX Hub after he noticed that the thousands of community builders in the world weren't talking to one another.

Before CMX, David co-founded an online cooking school called Feast (part of 500 Startups) and BlogDash, a platform to help businesses with blogger outreach.

As a consultant and employee, David has worked with some amazing companies such as Zaarly, LeWeb, Udemy, Seatgeek, Binpress, and more.

Hailing from New York originally, he now lives in the Mission District of San Francisco.

Jillian is a professional community builder, public speaker and writer. She's most known for being the founder of The Joy List, a weekly newsletter with the mission of reducing loneliness. She's been sending it out every Monday morning for two years in New York City. Her new book, Unlonely Planet, hits the bookshelves March 2019.

Jeremy Redleaf is Daytime Emmy Award winning artist and entrepreneur. He creates original content and experiences through all platforms via his shingle, Brackets Creative.

He is the co-founder of CAVEDAY, a company dedicated to re-defining our relationship with work through events, products and services.

Follow him on the platforms as @Theleafisred, but donÕt distract yourself in doing so.

In addition to founding Prescott, Airzona's coworking space, Wing Space, Melanie is a Holistic Health Coach, Author, Artist, Workshop Facilitator, Community Builder.

Jon is a co-founder of Major League Hacking, National Director of the StartupBus and was formerly a Developer Evangelist at Twilio.