Dr. Eduardo Alfonso
Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Director, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
NaplesNEXT 2020 Speakers
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
Nick Casalanguida
Deputy County Manager, Collier County
Shannon Sedgwick Davis
CEO, Bridgeway Foundation and Author, To Stop A Warlord
Tim Ellis
Co-founder and CEO, Relativity Space
Nona Evans
Executive Director, Whole Cities Foundation & Whole Kids Foundation, Whole Foods Market
Thomas Felke, Ph.D.
Chair of the Department of Social Work, Florida Gulf Coast University
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
Maria Jimenez-Lara
CEO, Naples Children & Education Foundation
Sarah Kauss
Founder, 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
Chris Norton
Motivational Speaker, Author and Founder, Chris Norton Foundation
Dr. Ilissa Ocko
Senior Climate Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund
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
Tim Rosaforte
Golf Journalist
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
Dr. Greg Tolley
Executive Director, The Water School, Florida Gulf Coast University
Colonel Terry Virts
Astronaut, Photographer & Author
Dr. Norman Waldrop
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Andrews Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Consultant
Past and Present
NaplesNEXT Speakers
2020
Dr. Eduardo Alfonso
Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Director, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
2020
Lindsay Autry
Top Chef Star and James Beard Award Nominee
2019
Tiffanie Barriere
"The Drinking Coach," Top 50 Tastemakers of the South award winner
2020
Dr. Nir Barzilai
Director, Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
2020
Elisa Villanueva Beard
CEO, Teach for America
2019
Natasha Bertrand
National Security Report, The Atlantic
2019
Vincenzo Betulia
Chef & Owner, Osteria Tulia & The French Brasserie Rustique (Naples, FL)
2020
Susan Block
Chief Executive Officer, Early Learning Coalition of Southwest Florida
2020
Mark Bontrager
Vice President, Spaceport Operations, Space Florida
2019
Tim Brando
FOX Sports Basketball National Play-by-Play Broadcaster
2019
Susan Braun
CEO, The V Foundation
2020
2019
Christine Brennan
Sports columnist; commentator on ABC News, CNN, PBS NewsHour and NPR
2019
John Brennan
CIA Director (2013–2017), Senior National Security and Intelligence Analyst for NBC News and MSNBC
2019
Arthur Brooks
President of the American Enterprise Institute, Beth and Ravenel Curry Scholar in Free Enterprise
2020
Scott Burgess
CEO, David Lawrence Center
2019
Laura Bush
First Lady of the United States (2001-2009)
2020
Brendan Byrne
NPR Space Reporter and Radio Host
2020
Nick Casalanguida
Deputy County Manager, Collier County
2019
Tony Chvala
COO, 4Ocean
2019
Eileen Connolly-Keesler
President & CEO, Community Foundation of Collier County
2020
Shannon Sedgwick Davis
CEO, Bridgeway Foundation and Author, To Stop A Warlord
2019
Ellen Dunham-Jones
MSUD Director School of Architecture; Fellow, Brook Byers Institute of Sustainable Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology
2019
Eric Eikenberg
CEO, Everglades Foundation
2020
Tim Ellis
Co-founder and CEO, Relativity Space
2020
Nona Evans
Executive Director, Whole Cities Foundation & Whole Kids Foundation, Whole Foods Market
2020
Jim Furyk
Professional Golfer
2019
Julie Glenn
News Director, WGCU
2020
2019
Susan Goldberg
Editor-in-Chief, National Geographic
2020
Solomon Goldstein-Rose
Author, Climate Change Researcher and Former Massachusetts State Rep.
2020
Allan Golston
President, U.S. Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2019
Gregory Gourdet
National James Beard Foundation Chef, Star of Top Chef Season 12, Chef & Owner, Departure (Portland, OR)
2020
Christine Greider
Retired 20th Judicial Circuit Judge, Unified Family Court
2019
Nathan Hecht
Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Texas
2019
Martin Horner
Designer, Co-Founder, Soucie Horne, Ltd
2019
Steve Horowitz
Partner, Inner Circle Sports
2019
Fabrizio and Ingrid
Chefs & Owners, Sea Salt Naples, Barbatella, Dorona (Naples, FL) & Sea Salt St. Pete (St. Petersburg, FL)
2019
Peter Jacobsen
Professional Golfer and Commentator - NBC and Golf Channel
2020
Maria Jimenez-Lara
CEO, Naples Children & Education Foundation
2020
Sarah Kauss
Founder, S’well
2020
General John F. Kelly
Retired four-star Marine General and Former White House Chief of Staff (2017-19)
2019
Sam Kennedy
President & CEO, Boston Red Sox
2019
Soraya Kilgore
Chef & Owner, MadLab Creamery (Miami, FL)
2019
Cedric King
U.S. Army Master Sergeant (Ret.)
2019
Alain Kornhauser
Professor of Operations Research & Financial Engineering; Director, Transportation Program, Princeton University
2019
Jorge Labarga
Chief Justice, Florida Supreme Court (2014-2018), current Florida Supreme Court Justice
2019
Julia Landauer
Champion NASCAR Racer
2020
Richard LeBer
President and CEO, Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida
2019
Jonathan Lipman
Chief Justice of the New York Court of Appeals (2009-2015)
2020
Armando Llechu
Chief Administrative Officer, Golisano Children's Hospital
2019
Massimiliano Locatelli
Architect, Winner of 2018 Milan Design Week
2019
Robert Gatenby, M.D.
Department Chair in Radiology; Co-Director Cancer Biology and Evolution Program, Moffitt Cancer Center
2019
Kimberly L. Blackwell, M.D.
"Vice President, Early Phase Development and Immuno-oncology, Eli Lilly and Company"
2020
2019
Jon McDaniel
Founder & CEO of Second City Soil, Winner, Food + Wine Magazine's 2018 Sommelier of the Year
2019
Denis McDonough
White House Chief of Staff (2013-2017)
2019
Alyssa Miller
Head of Information Security Practice, CDW
2019
Rob Moher
President & CEO, Southwest Florida Conservancy
2019
Kris Moon
COO, James Beard Foundation
2019
David Moulton
Co-host, Miller and Moulton Morning Show, SW Florida's Fox Sports Radio
2019
Dr. Laurie Mulvey
Co-Founder, World in Conversation Center for Public Diplomacy, Penn State University
2020
Maye Musk
Model, Dietitian & Author
2020
Chris Norton
Motivational Speaker, Author and Founder, Chris Norton Foundation
2019
Maureen O'Connor
Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio
2020
Dr. Ilissa Ocko
Senior Climate Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund
2020
S. Jay Olshansky
Professor, School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Chief Scientist, Lapetus Solutions, Inc.
2020
Dr. Kamela Patton
Superintendent, Collier County Public School System
2020
Janet Petro
Deputy Director, NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center
2019
William G. Nelson, M.D., Ph.D
Director & Professor of Oncology; Director of Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins
2019
Warren A. Kibbe, Ph.D
Chief of Translational Biomedical Informatics and Chief Data Officer, Duke Cancer Institute
2020
Thomas Felke, Ph.D.
Chair of the Department of Social Work, Florida Gulf Coast University
2019
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
Professor of Architecture; Director of the Master of Urban Design Program, University of Miami
2020
Dr. Phil Poekert
Director, Lastinger Center for Learning, University of Florida
2019
Reince Priebus
White House Chief of Staff (2017); Chairman of Republican National Committee (2011–2017)
2020
Kevin Rambosk
Collier County, FL Sheriff
2019
Dr. Samuel Richards
Race & Cultural Relations Professor & Sociologist, Penn State University
2020
Tim Rosaforte
Golf Journalist
2020
2019
David Rubenstein
Philanthropist, Co-Founder & Co-Executive Chairman, The Carlyle Group
2020
Nick Schifrin
Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
2020
Reinhold Schmieding
President and Founder, Arthrex
2020
Dr. Tom Shanley
President and CEO, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
2019
Sam Skinner
Former Secretary of Transportation & White House Chief of Staff
2020
Olasimbo Sojinrin
Nigeria Country Director, Solar Sister
2019
Shea Soucie
Designer, Co-Founder, Soucie Horner, Ltd
2019
Mac Stone
Professional Photographer
2019
Kurt Summers
Treasurer of the City of Chicago (2014-19)
2019
Asif Syed
Chef & Owner, 21 Spices (Naples, FL), Naples Winner of Food Network's "Beat Bobby Flay"
2020
Dr. Malu Tansey
Director, Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease, University of Florida
2019
Jett Thompson
Principal, Jett Thompson HOME
2019
Rob Tilliss
Founder, Inner Circle Sports
2020
Dr. Greg Tolley
Executive Director, The Water School, Florida Gulf Coast University
2020
Colonel Terry Virts
Astronaut, Photographer & Author
2020
Dr. Norman Waldrop
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Andrews Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Consultant
2019
Elaine Wynn
Business Leader, Crusader for Children, Philanthropist
2019
Shelley Zalis
CEO, The Female Quotient