Dr. Eduardo Alfonso
Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Director, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
What's NEXT in Women's Leadership
Maye Musk
Model, Dietitian & Author
WHAT'S NEXT IN VALUES-BASED LEADERSHIP
Allan Golston
President, U.S. Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
MONDAY NIGHT RECEPTION
Chef Lindsay Autry
Top Chef Star and James Beard Award Nominee
What's NEXT in Global Foreign Policy and Global Markets
David Rubenstein
Philanthropist, Co-Founder & Co-Executive Chairman, The Carlyle Group
Scheduled NaplesNEXT 2020 Speakers
Stay tuned for additional NaplesNEXT 2020 speaker announcements!
Dr. Nir Barzilai
Director, Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Elisa Villanueva Beard
CEO, Teach for America
Susan Block
Chief Executive Officer, Early Learning Coalition of Southwest Florida
Mark Bontrager
Vice President, Spaceport Operations, Space Florida
Christine Brennan
Sports columnist; commentator on ABC News, CNN, PBS NewsHour and NPR
Scott Burgess
CEO, David Lawrence Center
Brendan Byrne
NPR Space Reporter and Radio Host
Shannon Sedgwick Davis
CEO, Bridgeway Foundation and Author, To Stop A Warlord
Jim Furyk
Professional Golfer
Susan Goldberg
Editor-in-Chief, National Geographic
Solomon Goldstein-Rose
Author, Climate Change Researcher and Former Massachusetts State Rep.
Allan Golston
President, U.S. Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Christine Greider
Retired 20th Judicial Circuit Judge, Unified Family Court
Sarah Kauss
Founder & CEO, S’well
General John F. Kelly
Retired four-star Marine General and Former White House Chief of Staff (2017-19)
Richard LeBer
President and CEO, Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida
Armando Llechu
Chief Administrative Officer, Golisano Children's Hospital
Maye Musk
Model, Dietitian & Author
S. Jay Olshansky
Professor, School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Chief Scientist, Lapetus Solutions, Inc.
Dr. Kamela Patton
Superintendent, Collier County Public School System
Janet Petro
Deputy Director, NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center
Dr. Phil Poekert
Director, Lastinger Center for Learning, University of Florida
Kevin Rambosk
Collier County, FL Sheriff
David Rubenstein
Philanthropist, Co-Founder & Co-Executive Chairman, The Carlyle Group
Nick Schifrin
Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
Reinhold Schmieding
President and Founder, Arthrex
Dr. Tom Shanley
President and CEO, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Olasimbo Sojinrin
Nigeria Country Director, Solar Sister
Dr. Malu Tansey
Director, Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease, University of Florida
Colonel Terry Virts
Astronaut, Photographer & Author
Past and Present
NaplesNEXT Speakers
2020
- State of the Community Summit: Pediatric Healthcare
Dr. Eduardo Alfonso
Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Director, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
2020
- Featured Chef, Monday Night Reception
Lindsay Autry
Top Chef Star and James Beard Award Nominee
2019
- Mixologist, Opening Night Reception
Tiffanie Barriere
"The Drinking Coach," Top 50 Tastemakers of the South award winner
2020
- What's NEXT in Healthcare Innovation
Dr. Nir Barzilai
Director, Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
2020
- State of the Community Summit: Early Learning and Education
Elisa Villanueva Beard
CEO, Teach for America
2019
- Global Security: Combating Cyber Threats
Natasha Bertrand
National Security Report, The Atlantic
2019
- Improving Food Sustainability
Vincenzo Betulia
Chef & Owner, Osteria Tulia & The French Brasserie Rustique (Naples, FL)
2020
- State of the Community Summit: Early Learning and Education
Susan Block
Chief Executive Officer, Early Learning Coalition of Southwest Florida
2020
- What's NEXT in Space Travel
Mark Bontrager
Vice President, Spaceport Operations, Space Florida
2019
- Bracket Genius Lunch
Tim Brando
FOX Sports Basketball National Play-by-Play Broadcaster
2019
- Victory Over Cancer
Susan Braun
CEO, The V Foundation
2020
- Master of Ceremonies
2019
- Building a Championship Sports Culture
- The Inside Deal: Buying a Professional Sports Team
Christine Brennan
Sports columnist; commentator on ABC News, CNN, PBS NewsHour and NPR
2019
- Global Security: Combating Cyber Threats
John Brennan
CIA Director (2013–2017), Senior National Security and Intelligence Analyst for NBC News and MSNBC
2019
- Love Your Enemies
Arthur Brooks
President of the American Enterprise Institute, Beth and Ravenel Curry Scholar in Free Enterprise
2020
- State of the Community Summit: Pediatric Healthcare
Scott Burgess
CEO, David Lawrence Center
2019
- Closing Keynote
Laura Bush
First Lady of the United States (2001-2009)
2020
- What's NEXT in Space Travel
Brendan Byrne
NPR Space Reporter and Radio Host
2019
- Water & the Environment: Red Tides, Plastics and Your Role
Tony Chvala
COO, 4Ocean
2019
- The Future of Philanthropy
Eileen Connolly-Keesler
President & CEO, Community Foundation of Collier County
2020
Shannon Sedgwick Davis
CEO, Bridgeway Foundation and Author, To Stop A Warlord
2019
- Building the Cities of Tomorrow
Ellen Dunham-Jones
MSUD Director School of Architecture; Fellow, Brook Byers Institute of Sustainable Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology
2019
- Water & the Environment: Red Tides, Plastics and Your Role
Eric Eikenberg
CEO, Everglades Foundation
2020
- What's NEXT in Golf
Jim Furyk
Professional Golfer
2019
- Civil Discourse in a Polarized Society
Julie Glenn
News Director, WGCU
2020
- What's NEXT in Environmental Sustainability
- What's NEXT in Women's Leadership
2019
- Female Trailblazers
- Water & the Environment: Red Tides, Plastics and Your Role
- Building the Cities of Tomorrow
Susan Goldberg
Editor-in-Chief, National Geographic
2020
- What's NEXT in Environmental Sustainability
Solomon Goldstein-Rose
Author, Climate Change Researcher and Former Massachusetts State Rep.
2020
- What's NEXT in Values-Based Leadership
Allan Golston
President, U.S. Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2019
- Improving Food Sustainability
Gregory Gourdet
National James Beard Foundation Chef, Star of Top Chef Season 12, Chef & Owner, Departure (Portland, OR)
2020
- State of the Community Summit: Child Advocacy
Christine Greider
Retired 20th Judicial Circuit Judge, Unified Family Court
2019
- Access to Justice
Nathan Hecht
Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Texas
2019
- Design with Purpose: Trends in Architecture & Design from Here and Abroad
Martin Horner
Designer, Co-Founder, Soucie Horne, Ltd
2019
- The Inside Deal: Buying a Professional Sports Team
Steve Horowitz
Partner, Inner Circle Sports
2019
- Improving Food Sustainibility
Fabrizio and Ingrid
Chefs & Owners, Sea Salt Naples, Barbatella, Dorona (Naples, FL) & Sea Salt St. Pete (St. Petersburg, FL)
2019
- Lunch: Teeing it Up with Peter Jacobsen
Peter Jacobsen
Professional Golfer and Commentator - NBC and Golf Channel
2020
- What's NEXT in Values-Based Leadership
Sarah Kauss
Founder & CEO, S’well
2020
- Keynote Address
General John F. Kelly
Retired four-star Marine General and Former White House Chief of Staff (2017-19)
2019
- Building a Championship Sports Culture
Sam Kennedy
President & CEO, Boston Red Sox
2019
- Improving Food Sustainibility
Soraya Kilgore
Chef & Owner, MadLab Creamery (Miami, FL)
2019
- Opening Keynote
Cedric King
U.S. Army Master Sergeant (Ret.)
2019
- Building the Cities of Tomorrow
Alain Kornhauser
Professor of Operations Research & Financial Engineering; Director, Transportation Program, Princeton University
2019
- Access to Justice
Jorge Labarga
Chief Justice, Florida Supreme Court (2014-2018), current Florida Supreme Court Justice
2019
- Female Trailblazers
Julia Landauer
Champion NASCAR Racer
2020
- State of the Community Summit: Child Advocacy
Richard LeBer
President and CEO, Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida
2019
- Access to Justice
Jonathan Lipman
Chief Justice of the New York Court of Appeals (2009-2015)
2020
- State of the Community Summit: Pediatric Healthcare
Armando Llechu
Chief Administrative Officer, Golisano Children's Hospital
2019
- Design with Purpose: Trends in Architecture & Design from Here and Abroad
Massimiliano Locatelli
Architect, Winner of 2018 Milan Design Week
2019
- Victory Over Cancer
Robert Gatenby, M.D.
Department Chair in Radiology; Co-Director Cancer Biology and Evolution Program, Moffitt Cancer Center
2019
- Victory Over Cancer
Kimberly L. Blackwell, M.D.
"Vice President, Early Phase Development and Immuno-oncology, Eli Lilly and Company"
2020
- Sommelier, Monday Night Reception
2019
- Sommelier, Sunday Night Reception
Jon McDaniel
Founder & CEO of Second City Soil, Winner, Food + Wine Magazine's 2018 Sommelier of the Year
2019
- Washington Insiders: Inside the Most Powerful Office in the World
Denis McDonough
White House Chief of Staff (2013-2017)
2019
- Global Security: Combating Cyber Threats
Alyssa Miller
Head of Information Security Practice, CDW
2019
- Water & the Environment: Red Tides, Plastics and Your Role
Rob Moher
President & CEO, Southwest Florida Conservancy
2019
- Improving Food Sustainability
Kris Moon
COO, James Beard Foundation
2019
- Bracket Genius Lunch
David Moulton
Co-host, Miller and Moulton Morning Show, SW Florida's Fox Sports Radio
2019
- Civil Discourse in a Polarized Society
Dr. Laurie Mulvey
Co-Founder, World in Conversation Center for Public Diplomacy, Penn State University
2020
- What's NEXT in Women's Leadership
Maye Musk
Model, Dietitian & Author
2019
- Access to Justice
Maureen O'Connor
Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio
2020
- What's NEXT in Health and Wellness
S. Jay Olshansky
Professor, School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Chief Scientist, Lapetus Solutions, Inc.
2020
- State of the Community Summit: Early Learning and Education
Dr. Kamela Patton
Superintendent, Collier County Public School System
2020
- What's NEXT in Space Travel
Janet Petro
Deputy Director, NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center
2019
- Victory Over Cancer
William G. Nelson, M.D., Ph.D
Director & Professor of Oncology; Director of Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins
2019
- Victory Over Cancer
Warren A. Kibbe, Ph.D
Chief of Translational Biomedical Informatics and Chief Data Officer, Duke Cancer Institute
2019
- Building the Cities of Tomorrow
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
Professor of Architecture; Director of the Master of Urban Design Program, University of Miami
2020
- State of the Community Summit: Early Learning and Education
Dr. Phil Poekert
Director, Lastinger Center for Learning, University of Florida
2019
- Washington Insiders: Inside the Most Powerful Office in the World
Reince Priebus
White House Chief of Staff (2017); Chairman of Republican National Committee (2011–2017)
2020
- State of the Community Summit: Child Advocacy
Kevin Rambosk
Collier County, FL Sheriff
2019
- Civil Discourse in a Polarized Society
Dr. Samuel Richards
Race & Cultural Relations Professor & Sociologist, Penn State University
2020
- What's NEXT in Global Foreign Policy and Global Markets
- What's NEXT in Values-Based Leadership
2019
- The Future of Philanthropy
David Rubenstein
Philanthropist, Co-Founder & Co-Executive Chairman, The Carlyle Group
2020
- What's NEXT in Global Foreign Policy and Global Markets
Nick Schifrin
Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
2020
- What's NEXT in Sports Medicine
Reinhold Schmieding
President and Founder, Arthrex
2020
- State of the Community Summit: Pediatric Healthcare
Dr. Tom Shanley
President and CEO, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
2019
- Washington Insiders: Inside the Most Powerful Office in the World
Sam Skinner
Former Secretary of Transportation & White House Chief of Staff
2020
- What's NEXT in Women's Leadership
Olasimbo Sojinrin
Nigeria Country Director, Solar Sister
2019
- Design with Purpose: Trends in Architecture & Design from Here and Abroad
Shea Soucie
Designer, Co-Founder, Soucie Horner, Ltd
2019
- Everglades Photography Exhibition
Mac Stone
Professional Photographer
2019
- The Future of Philanthropy
Kurt Summers
Treasurer of the City of Chicago (2014-19)
2019
- Improving Food Sustainability
Asif Syed
Chef & Owner, 21 Spices (Naples, FL), Naples Winner of Food Network's "Beat Bobby Flay"
2020
- What's NEXT in Healthcare Innovation
Dr. Malu Tansey
Director, Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease, University of Florida
2019
- Design with Purpose: Trends in Architecture & Design from Here and Abroad
Jett Thompson
Principal, Jett Thompson HOME
2019
- The Inside Deal: Buying a Professional Sports Team
Rob Tilliss
Founder, Inner Circle Sports
2020
- Photography Showcase: View from Above
Colonel Terry Virts
Astronaut, Photographer & Author
2019
- Female Trailblazers
- The Future of Philanthropy
Elaine Wynn
Business Leader, Crusader for Children, Philanthropist
2019
- Female Trailblazers
Shelley Zalis
CEO, The Female Quotient