Sumbul Desai, MD, serves as Vice President of Health at Apple, overseeing health initiatives including clinical product development, medical research, and clinical (delete innovative) partnerships. She also leads the regulatory and quality teams at Apple. Apple is working with the world’s leading scientific institutions, including Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the American Heart Association, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the World Health Organization, to conduct landmark health studies and advance discovery with iPhone and Apple Watch, including a meaningful new approach to studying depression and anxiety with the University of California, Los Angeles. Apple recently launched its innovative new mental wellbeing tools and assessments for the millions of iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch users, as well as a new temperature sensing capability for retrospective ovulation estimates, adding to the many consumer health tools available including the ECG app, irregular rhythm notifications, sleep, cycle tracking and hearing health features.Dr. Desai recently served as Vice Chair in the Department of Medicine at Stanford Medicine, as well as Associate Chief Medical Officer at Stanford Healthcare. She also serves as Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine.

Grammy-nominated, singer/songwriter, Aloe Blacc, who is known for major hits such as “I Need A Dollar”, “The Man”, and “Wake Me Up”, pledged early in his career to use his music for positive social transformation. Aloe refers to his style of music as thematic, calling it “A.I.M.” which stands for affirmation, inspiration, and motivation. A recipient of RIAA diamond certification, his song “WAKE ME UP” with Avicii, has reached over 2 Billion streams on Spotify and YouTube respectively. Aloe is currently working on his next musical projects with a focus on amplifying the mission of non-profit organizations. In addition to music, Aloe is the founder of Major Inc, a biotech company focused on preventing future pandemics. With the help of accomplished PhD scientists, the company has conducted promising research to identify a medicinal candidate that blocks SARS-COV-2 from cellular binding, entry, and replication.

Farmer Greif has been performing with Aloe Blacc for over 20 years. In addition to Aloe’s keyboardist, tour manger, graphic artist, videographer, editor, and friend; Farmer has taken an interest in helping with Aloe’s recent bio technology ventures as well.

Dr. Diana Ramos is the Surgeon General of California. Prior to this role, she was director of state public health and prevention programs at the California Department of Public Health’s Center for Healthy Communities and before that she spent four years as CDPH’s public health medical officer.

Keith Humphreys is the Esther Ting Memorial Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.  Dr. Humphreys served on the White House Commission on Drug-Free Communities during the Bush Administration and as Senior Policy Advisor in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy under President Obama. He created and co-directs the Stanford Network on Addiction Policy, which brings scientists and policy makers together to improve public policies regarding addictive substances. He has also been extensively involved in addiction science and policy in the United Kingdom, for which Queen Elizabeth made him an Honorary Officer in the Order of the British Empire in 2022.

Elizabeth Horn is Founder and Executive Director of 2m Foundation, a California-based nonprofit featuring COMPASS as one of its major initiatives. Conceived in 2014, Compass now includes over 500 clinicians, scientists, IT experts, investors and families affected by autism all committed to finding answers by systematically gathering multi-omic data on individuals with ASD. She is also co-founder of the Autism Impact Fund, combining high-tech industry funding and startup process with philanthropy to accelerate progress in all aspects of autism research, development and support. Her involvement in helping biologically define ASD began with the co-founding of ChARMTracker, a patient portal, which became the foundational product of MedicalMine, Inc. and ChARM Health (which now hosts over 850,000 user/patients who connect to the over 1000 clinicians using ChARM EHR); and extends with the launch of COUNT, the first-ever precision autism pilot, in collaboration with Stanford and Simons Foundation. Elizabeth is also vice president and board member of BRAIN Foundation, as well as co-author of the 4Q campaign. She has a daughter with autism. Elizabeth believes we need to redefine autism to include biology and environment– and let that new precision definition drive lifespan choices.

Cloe Madanes is a world-renowned innovator and teacher of life coaching and family therapy. She has authored nine books that are classics in these fields: Strategic Family Therapy; Behind the One-Way Mirror; Sex, Love and Violence; The Violence of Men; The Secret Meaning of Money; The Therapist as Humanist, Social Activist and Systemic Thinker; Relationship Breakthrough; Changing Relationships; and Not By Accident, A Memoir.
She has presented her work at many national and international professional conferences and has given keynote addresses for the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, the National Association of Social Workers, the Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference, the Erickson Foundation, the California Psychological Association, and many other organizations.
Madanes has won several awards for distinguished contribution to psychology and has counseled outstanding individuals from all walks of life. She has been featured in Newsweek, the Washington Post, Vogue magazine, The Washington Jewish Weekly, and the Boston Globe. Her books have been translated to more than twenty languages.

Daniel Kraft is a Harvard-trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator and is serving as the Chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic &Health Alliance Task Force. With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has served as faculty chair for Medicine at Singularity University since its inception in 2008, and is founder and chair of Exponential Medicine. 6x TedX and TEDMED speaker. Voted Digital Health Top 50.

Dr. Sethi is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and founding Director of Metabolic Psychiatry Clinical program at Stanford University. She is board-certified in both Psychiatry and Obesity Medicine with additional expertise in adult eating disorders. She completed her residency in Psychiatry at Stanford University and specialized training in Obesity Medicine at Duke Medical Center. Dr. Sethi received her MD jointly from Duke University School of Medicine and the National University of Singapore. She received a Masters degree in Biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Sethi’s approach to psychiatric treatment incorporates detection and treatment of metabolic abnormalities, principles of obesity medicine, nutrition and metabolism. She was awarded funding by the Obesity Treatment Foundation and Baszucki Brain Foundation to study the effectiveness of a low – carbohydrate ketogenic dietary intervention in patients with bipolar illness or schizophrenia with overlapping metabolic abnormalities. Her previous research included a pilot randomized clinical trial testing an FDA-approved obesity medication for binge-eating disorder and bulimia nervosa at Stanford University funded by SPARK. She is a recipient of the Kuen Lau Bipolar Research Award and the Symonds Fellow Award from the Association of Women Psychiatrists for innovation in psychiatry and contributions to women’s health. She is a member of the Obesity Medicine Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and served on the council of the Northern California Psychiatric Association.

Nolan Williams, MD, is an Associate Professor within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Stanford Brain Stimulation Lab. He has a broad background in clinical neuroscience and is triple board-certified in general neurology, general psychiatry, as well as behavioral neurology & neuropsychiatry. Themes of his work include examining the use of spaced learning theory in the application of neurostimulation techniques, development and mechanistic understanding of rapid-acting antidepressants, and identifying objective biomarkers that predict neuromodulation responses in treatment-resistant neuropsychiatric conditions. His work has resulted in an FDA clearance for the world’s first non-invasive, rapid-acting neuromodulation approach for treatment-resistant depression.

Evelyn Jiayi Song is a researcher at Stanford Center for Precision Mental Health and Wellness, founder and president of the largest adolescent mental health society in China, author of Pain and Prejudice – a creative non-fiction on major depression. She is currently pursuing a self-designed degree in biological and digital intelligence at Stanford, focusing on artificial intelligence and neuroscience.

As President of One Mind, Brandon Staglin channels his deep experience in leadership, advocacy, and personal schizophrenia recovery to drive brain health research, innovation, and media to heal lives. His best-known advocacy work has been for the growth of science-driven, large-scale. continuously improving prevention and early intervention services for youth facing serious psychiatric illness. He has published numerous articles in well-known journals and earned numerous advocacy awards. Brandon has served on guiding councils of global, national, and regional influence including for the World Economic Forum, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, the State of California, Stop Stigma Together, and Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a member of the CEO Alliance for Mental Health. He has earned a Master of Science in Healthcare Administration and Interprofessional Leadership from UCSF, and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Engineering Sciences and Anthropology from Dartmouth College.

Ziv Lautman is pursuing a Ph.D. in Bioengineering at Stanford University under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Snyder. Having been awarded the William K. Bowes Jr. Stanford Graduate Fellowship, he leads a large-scale study on the use of wearable devices for the early detection and treatment of mental health conditions. Ziv also co-instructs the “Engineering Wellness” course, emphasizing precision medicine’s role in enhancing health-span, life-span, and overall well-being. Before his time at Stanford, Ziv co-founded and led a digital environmental-health company that was acquired by Google.

After a career in talent management & tech innovation, Ben realized that his true passion lies in Salutogenic Medicine —the medicine of health and thriving. As the Director of Stanford’s Healthcare Innovation Lab, Ben has a mission to fix the broken healthcare system. He is leading an effort with Stanford scientists to bridge the gap between technology and medicine. Their goal is to transition the world from healthcare 1.5 to healthcare 2.0 by providing breakthrough innovations that make personalized, precision healthcare an affordable reality for all people across the globe. He is also a founding partner at Arben Ventures.

Lindsay Briner is a research scientist, leadership development trainer and advisor offering a novel synthesis of best practices from cognitive neuroscience, transpersonal psychology, neurobiology of peak performance, sports psychology and meditation. Lindsay has discovered that discovered that flow states do not need to be temporary experiences. She teaches her Stabilized Flow method to individuals, groups, and business teams. It is her greatest joy to guide people to unlock their highest potential, to achieve persistent inner peace, to generate peak performance and to sustain their wellbeing.

Dr. Jeff Chen MD/MBA is a physician scientist on a mission to transform healthcare using non-pharmaceutical products. He is the Cofounder and CEO of Radicle Science, the “Proof-as-a-Service” pioneer conducting some of history’s largest clinical trials on supplements and natural health products. Radicle Science was named Top Ten US “Tech Innovator” by KPMG and “World Changing Idea” by Fast Company. Dr. Chen gave his TED talk on Proof-as-a-Service at the 2023 Main Annual TED Conference. Dr. Chen is also the Founder & former Executive Director of UCLA’s Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoids, one of the first such university programs in the world. He is a Medical Advisor at Healthline, Industry Mentor for the National Institutes of Health Innovation CORPs, and named a “Globalshaper” by the World Economic Forum. Dr. Jeff Chen has been interviewed by outlets including CNN, Wall Street Journal, TIME, NPR, Financial Times, ABC, NBC, CBS, and more. Domestically, he has advised Senator Feinstein’s Office and Governor Hickenlooper’s Office, and internationally he has advised the Mexico Senate and the Royal Court of the Kingdom of Bhutan.

Niku Sedarat is an avid youth mental health advocate and psychology-enthusiast, aiming to combat the youth mental health crisis. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of Unité, an organization committed to eradicating the stigma around mental health and fostering emotional resilience through enhanced psychoeducational resources. Leveraging a youth-driven and awareness-centric approach, Niku aims to use the power of psychoeducation as an intervention, equipping youth with the tools they need to navigate adversity with an improved sense of resilience. Niku is also the author of two books on mental health. Her first book, “Let’s Talk: Your Mental Health Matters,” is a non-fiction publication designed to empower adolescents with essential knowledge about their mental well-being, while her second publication, “Up, Up, & Away We Let Them Go” is a children’s book created to impart crucial lessons on emotional regulation and social skills to young minds. Above all, Niku’s mission is to cultivate a community in which our shared experience of mental health is nurtured and uplifted.

Zak Williams is passionate about developing best-in-class products and experiences to provide effective, sustainable products for supporting optimal mental wellness and alleviating anxiety, attention deficit, and depression through nutritional means. As a mental health advocate, he focuses his time and effort on sharing his story and his experiences to support initiatives and campaigns seeking to remove the stigma and address the challenges associated with mental health topics. Zak is CEO and founder of neurotransmitter health company PYM and is an investor in technology and consumer packaged goods companies. Formerly, Zak was COO of the recommendation platform Crossing Minds, the Director of Business Development for media company Condé Nast, and the marketing lead for gaming and media platform N3TWORK. Zak is a US trustee of the international advocacy organization United for Global Mental Health, a board member of mental health awareness non-profit Bring Change 2 Mind, and an advisor to national policy organization Inseparable and the mental health tech platform Project Healthy Minds. He received an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from New York university where he majored in Linguistics.

Jeffrey Becker, MD, trained at UCLA/NPI in both Medicine and Psychiatry with a focus on Neuropsychiatry and Functional Medicine. He is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology as well as the American Board for Integrative and Holistic Medicine. He maintains clinical offices in Santa Barbara and Westwood and is affiliated with UCLA/NPI as Volunteer Clinical Faculty. He is a leading expert on Ketamine Therapy and is the Founder and CSO of Bexson Biomedical.

Sam Langer is a storyteller, investor, and coach with a mission to foster cultural evolution. He works with heart-centered leaders, supporting them in bringing their value-driven visions to life. He coaches executives, artists, and fund managers and has invested in a dozen companies that support mental healthcare and cultural innovation. He loves creating events that blend mythology, food, music, and dance for unique community experiences. Most recently Sam and his wife Ruya purchased a farm where they are building a community center and incubator for cultural transformation.

Chris Pan is a social entrepreneur, growth hacker, and keynote facilitator making mental wellness fun and accessible through meaningful conversations and DIY jewelry at MyIntent.org and voice activation at VOMO.me. MyIntent.org has helped millions of people live more intentionally, having been featured on the Today Show, Oprah Magazine, and TEDx. Chris has been a keynote speaker at Intuit, GSK, Airbnb, P&G, Deloitte, Poshmark, and many others – with his unique interactive approach using singalongs to reinforce his message. Chris started his career in strategy consulting at McKinsey & Co, was a marketing director at PepsiCo, and led growth at Facebook 2007-2012. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Maggie is an embodiment guide and breathwork facilitator, she has been working for five years in the embodiment and meditation space as a practitioner and leader. Maggie’s passion stems from her personal journey as a professional dancer and her desire to help others to live a full happy life through movement, breathwork, and embodiment practices.

Dr. Raghu Appasani is an Integrative & Addiction psychiatrist and psychotherapist known for his innovative approach to mental well-being. With a deep commitment to evidence-based practices, he combines psychotherapy, pharmacology, nutrition, and holistic methods to provide personalized care. Dr. Appasani is also a dedicated neuroscientist, exploring the clinical applications of non-ordinary states of consciousness and delving into the human experience. As an entrepreneur, he founded The MINDS Foundation, a mental health NGO in India, and serves as the Chief Medical Officer at PYM Health. Dr. Appasani extends his expertise by advising various mental health organizations, including Mud\Wtr, demonstrating his unwavering dedication to improving mental health globally. He is additionally the Program Director of Nutrition/Youth/Metabolic Mental Health & Psychedelics at the California Institute for Stress & Resilience and a clinical professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and UCSF.

Yana Nakhimova, Ph.D. in Public Health, driven by a passion for unlocking the potential of body training, has explored the connection between physical experience and mental health. Yana has gathered scientific evidence linking movement to complex brain functions, and has developed and patented a Body Mind method that goes beyond traditional practice, offering a unique and holistic perspective. Her method focuses on deeply feeling and experiencing one’s body, improving cognitive skills, and encouraging positive behavioral changes. The pioneering nature of Body Mind has generated interest and support from industries ranging from yoga studios and fitness centers to educational organizations and forward-thinking companies looking to improve employee health and productivity. Get ready to embark on an exciting journey for new knowledge about yourself and opportunities for your mental health.

Stefanos Sifandos’s journey into the realm of breath work began amidst a tumultuous time marked by profound personal struggles and s*ic*dal thoughts. It was through breath work that Stefanos found a lifeline—a modality that not only helped save him but also transformed his life’s narrative. This profound experience propelled him to delve deeper into the study of breath facilitation and its potent effects. With a rich background in trauma-informed healing, psychology, behavioral science, and the dynamics of relationships, Stefanos’s expertise extends across a broad spectrum of personal growth disciplines. His unique approach is characterized by an incisive ability to penetrate the surface of confusion, addressing the core issues of pain, fear, and unhelpful patterns. As a facilitator, Stefanos cultivates a space free from judgment, blending somatic therapy, masculine intuition, developmental psychology, inner-child work, and transformational coaching. His philosophy is clear: “My role is not to heal but to guide. I provide a sanctuary for self-discovery on your own path. Everything you need resides within; I am merely here to illuminate your path, helping you to rediscover your wholeness.” Stefanos is based in Austin, Texas, where he enjoys life with his wife Christine Hassler and their beloved daughter Athena Grace Sifandos.

Don founded ProAttitude, a human performance firm that worked with Fortune 100 companies in alleviating employee stress and elevating people’s experience of work and life. Don also managed the department of psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School and directed the Center for Attitudinal Healing that pioneered a psycho-social-spiritual approach to overcoming catastrophic life events. The Center worked with people faced with some of the most stressful situations on earth – from people facing terminal illness to parents struggling with the loss of a child, to prisoners serving life sentences, First Nation people overcoming the trauma of the missionary schools, and refugees of the genocidal war in Bosnia struggling with extreme post- traumatic stress. In 2005, the Center was awarded the Excellence in Medicine prize by the American Medical Association. Don is also the author of the bestseller The End of Stress/Four Steps to Rewire Your Brain, and Mystic Cool/ Neuroplasticity, Thought, and the Power of Attitude.

Elizabeth Horn is Founder and Executive Director of 2m Foundation, a California-based nonprofit featuring COMPASS as one of its major initiatives. Conceived in 2014, Compass now includes over 500 clinicians, scientists, IT experts, investors and families affected by autism all committed to finding answers by systematically gathering multi-omic data on individuals with ASD. She is also co-founder of the Autism Impact Fund, combining high-tech industry funding and startup process with philanthropy to accelerate progress in all aspects of autism research, development and support. Her involvement in helping biologically define ASD began with the co-founding of ChARMTracker, a patient portal, which became the foundational product of MedicalMine, Inc. and ChARM Health (which now hosts over 850,000 user/patients who connect to the over 1000 clinicians using ChARM EHR); and extends with the launch of COUNT, the first-ever precision autism pilot, in collaboration with Stanford and Simons Foundation. Elizabeth is also vice president and board member of BRAIN Foundation, as well as co-author of the 4Q campaign. She has a daughter with autism. Elizabeth believes we need to redefine autism to include biology and environment– and let that new precision definition drive lifespan choices.

Manish Arora, Co-Founder and CEO of LinusBio, is an environmental epidemiologist and exposure biologist, recipient of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) for his research at the world-renowned Institute for Exposomic Research at Mount Sinai. He was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages. Manish is the author of the book “Environmental Biodynamics: A New Science of How the Environment Interacts with Human Health”, published by Oxford University Press in December 2021

Anat is a trained clinical psychologist, dancer, and was a close professional associate of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais for over a decade. She is the founder of Anat Baniel Method®  NeuroMovement®. She authored two highly acclaimed books about this transformational methodology: Move Into Life: NeuroMovement for Lifelong Vitality and Kids Beyond Limits. Anat’s method has helped thousands—from children with special needs to stroke survivors to high-performing athletes— overcome pain and limitation, and reach new heights of performance, making the seemingly impossible possible. She has worked with experts in the emerging brain plasticity field, helping “wake up the brain” to its greater potency for learning and change throughout life.

Dr. Kristin Bigos is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on neuropsychiatric drug development and a precision medicine approach to the treatment of mental illness. The Bigos Lab uses functional MRI as a biomarker to test the neural effects of drugs designed to treat symptoms of mental illness. Her lab currently has a pharmacoMRI study to develop a treatment for cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia. Kristi is also Senior Director CNS for Bullfrog.AI, an AI machine learning platform for healthcare. Bullfrog’s LEAP analytics platform is purpose-built for analyzing extremely large and complex data sets, something that is a known limitation for other analytical platforms. bfLEAP has demonstrated 99.9% accuracy in predicting the right targets across multiple data sets. The key to its success is the AI which requires no domain expertise. Instead, it uses unsupervised machine learning coupled with the world’s largest collection of analytical models— all operating in parallel.

Chris D’Adamo is an epidemiologist with expertise in the relationship between modifiable lifestyle factors and human health across the lifespan. He received his Ph.D. in Epidemiology in 2010 from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and is currently an Assistant Professor with dual appointments in the Departments of Family & Community Medicine and Epidemiology & Public Health. Chris serves as the Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the first academic-based integrative medicine center in the United States with an over 30-year history that has collectively published over 1,000 peer-reviewed scientific papers and received over $50 million of competitive research funding. He has been Principal Investigator on many clinical trials and observational studies and authored over 70 publications in peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals including Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition Research, American Journal of Health Promotion, Journal of Nutrition, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Nutrients, Journal of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Chris is a Fellow at the Nova Institute for Health and Senior Research Advisor to the Institute for Functional Medicine.

Jenny Frankovich is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy, Immunology Rheumatology (AIR) at Stanford University/Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (LPCH). Her clinical expertise is in systemic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases that co-occur with psychiatric symptoms. She completed her training in pediatrics, pediatric rheumatology, and clinical epidemiology at Stanford University/LPCH. She directs the Stanford PANS Program (2012- present) where she and her collaborators have created a longitudinal clinical database and large biorepository of patient and control biospecimens. In addition to generating clinical data to better understand the PANS illness, she is collaborating with 10 basic science labs who aim to understand the immunological underpinnings of the illness.

Tom Frazier is currently professor of psychology at John Carroll University and Executive Vice President for Virtual and Clinical care at Quadrant Biosciences, a molecular diagnostics company focused on neurological disorders and other health conditions. As a clinical psychologist, Tom spent more than 17 years in evaluation, treatment and research, with a focus on improving Autism identification; new treatment approaches; creating and refining measures of Autism symptoms; translational genetic studies; and quality of life in people with Autism and their families. He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed papers and numerous conference presentations. From 2017-2020, Tom served as Chief Science Officer of Autism Speaks, where he was responsible for overseeing all science initiatives, including the MSSNG genomic research project and the Autism Care Network. He is now on the Board of Directors of that organization.

Enrique Garcia-Rivera is a passionate scientist committed to advancing the discovery and development of therapeutics through the use of machine learning and predictive analytics. With extensive experience in early-stage drug discovery, data science, and financial knowledge, he provides a unique and advantageous perspective to biotechnology strategic decision making. He has led various high-throughput screening efforts at the Broad Institute, most notably for oncology and modulators of protein degradation. At nference, Enrique worked on combining orthogonal data types (-omics, literature, claims, EHR) for use in analytical challenges across the drug development cycle, from early-stage discovery and target identification to post-launch life cycle management. His extensive technical background includes development of sophisticated predictive models with biological data, deployment and management of predictive models in the cloud and large scale deployment of bioinformatic pipelines for processing genomic data. Enrique earned his Ph.D. in biological and biomedical sciences at Harvard Medical School.

Suzanne is Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Cortica, the largest provider of comprehensive health services for autism in the United States. Cortica began in Goh’s one-room medical office in San Diego ten years ago and has grown to a staff of more than a thousand doctors and therapists who serve tens of thousands of children with Autism and their families in the United States and abroad. A graduate of Harvard University, Oxford University, and Harvard Medical School, she is former Co-director of Columbia University’s Center for Autism and the Developing Brain, where she conducted research on the biological causes of autism and used brain imaging to identify patterns of neural circuitry and brain chemistry. Goh is currently a faculty member of the Medical Academy of Pediatric Special Needs and is a frequent speaker for parent advocacy organizations. Her new book “MAGNIFICENT MINDS: A Whole Child Approach to Autism” will be released this Fall.

Beth Lambert is a former healthcare consultant and teacher. As a consultant, she worked with pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostic and other health care companies to evaluate industry trends. She is the author of A Compromised Generation: The Epidemic of Chronic Illness in America’s Children (Sentient Publications, 2010). She is also a co-author of Epidemic Answers’ Brain Under Attack: A Resource for Parents and Caregivers of Children with PANS, PANDAS, and Autoimmune Encephalitis. In 2009, Beth founded Epidemic Answers and currently serves as Executive Director. Beth attended Oxford University and graduated from Williams College and holds a Masters Degree in American Studies from Fairfield University. She is a member of Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit Honor Society. Beth is also the mother of three young children.

Chris Male is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the Autism Impact Fund where he oversees the firm and leads AIF’s Business Services practice. His investment career includes a decade-plus of leading venture and middle-market equity financing across business services, impact, legal cannabis and real estate. Prior to founding AIF, Chris was Managing Director of RBG Capital LLC, his family’s private investment arm, where he was responsible for sourcing, structuring, negotiating transactions and supporting portfolio management teams execute on value creation strategies. Currently, he is a board member of Quantum Power GmbH, On Point Market Research Group and ACME Glass and, prior to the sale of each company, was on the boards of Dope Media LLC, Calyx Brands, and Headset. His son Duke’s diagnosis led him to become a catalyst for wholesale changes that improve the lives of people with Autism and their families.

Alexey V Melnik is the CEO and co-founder of Arome Science, a healthtech startup developing precision mass-spectrometry-based diagnostics for chronic diseases. Previously, he was a research scientist in Prof. Pieter Dorrestein’s mass spectrometry lab at UC San Diego. During his time there, Alexey became an expert in mass spec based metabolomics and published numerous high-impact articles on the human microbiome. Motivated by his passion for entrepreneurship and background in metabolomics, Alexey founded Arome Science in 2018 to commercialize advanced platforms he had created for data-driven biomarker discovery. As CEO, Alexey now leads Arome’s technology development to bring innovative diagnostic tests to market. His ultimate goal is to leverage Arome’s innovations to improve patient outcomes.”

James Morton, Ph.D. is an investigator in the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).  Prior to joining NICHD, Morton was an associate research scientist and research fellow at the Flatiron Institute at the Simons Foundation, where he focused on developing Bayesian methodologies to enable protein structural alignment and microbiome latent variable modeling.  He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at San Diego in 2018 and 4 B.S. degrees in computer science, electrical engineering, engineering physics and mathematics & statistics at Miami University of Ohio in 2014. Jamie’s goal is to develop machine learning methods that distill information from large multi-omics datasets to enable causal inference on large scale population studies and clinical trials.

Elizabeth Bonker is the Executive Director of Communication 4 ALL, a nonprofit with the mission to gain communication for the estimated 31 million non-speakers with autism worldwide. Elizabeth learned to spell at age six. Soon after, she began writing poems that were published in I Am in Here. Her decade of advocacy work has included a PBS feature, a TEDMED Talk at the Kennedy Center, and bipartisan support for her mission on Capitol Hill. Elizabeth is a member of Autism Society of America’s Council of Autistic Advisors. In May 2022, she graduated as a Valedictorian from the Honors Program at Rollins College. Her Commencement Address went viral with more than 4 billion impressions creating visibility and momentum. She has met with leading organizations, including the top accessibility executives at Google and Microsoft, to advance Communication 4 ALL’s mission. Elizabeth, an active member of the ASD community, focuses her efforts on “bringing a voice to the voiceless”.