David Rubenstein
Philanthropist, Co-Founder & Co-Executive Chairman, The Carlyle Group
Currently Scheduled to Appear in 2020
Stay tuned for additional NaplesNEXT 2020 speaker announcements!
Susan Goldberg
Editor-in-Chief, National Geographic
Allan Golston
President, U.S. Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Nick Schifrin
Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
Sarah Kauss
Founder & CEO, S’well
Jon McDaniel
Founder & CEO of Second City Soil, Winner, Food + Wine Magazine's 2018 Sommelier of the Year
NaplesNEXT SPEAKERS
2019
- Mixologist, Opening Night Reception
Tiffanie Barriere
"The Drinking Coach," Top 50 Tastemakers of the South award winner
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)
2019
- Bracket Genius Lunch
Tim Brando
FOX Sports Basketball National Play-by-Play Broadcaster
2019
- Victory Over Cancer
Susan Braun
CEO, The V Foundation
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
2019
- Closing Keynote
Laura Bush
First Lady of the United States (2001-2009)
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
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
2019
- Civil Discourse in a Polarized Society
Julie Glenn
News Director, WGCU
2020
- What's NEXT in Environmental Sustainability.
- What's NEXT in Health and Wellness.
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 Corporate Philanthropy.
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)
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 Corporate Philanthropy.
Sarah Kauss
Founder & CEO, S’well
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
2019
- Access to Justice
Jonathan Lipman
Chief Justice of the New York Court of Appeals (2009-2015)
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
2019
- Access to Justice
Maureen O'Connor
Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio
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
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)
2019
- Civil Discourse in a Polarized Society
Dr. Samuel Richards
Race & Cultural Relations Professor & Sociologist, Penn State University
2020
- What's NEXT in Corporate Philanthropy.
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
2019
- Washington Insiders: Inside the Most Powerful Office in the World
Sam Skinner
Former Secretary of Transportation & White House Chief of Staff
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"
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
2019
- Female Trailblazers
- The Future of Philanthropy
Elaine Wynn
Business Leader, Crusader for Children, Philanthropist
2019
- Female Trailblazers
Shelley Zalis
CEO, The Female Quotient