Crystal draws on her deep experience and interdisciplinary background in local and state government, law, business and social equity. She cultivates strategic partnerships and networks that foster public engagement to move the world toward scaling climate solutions. She speaks publicly about climate solutions and serves as an expert resource for news media, interest groups and advocacy organizations.

Johan Falk is a leader and entrepreneur in exponential strategies for climate and business. Falk is the CEO and Co-founder of Exponential Roadmap Initiative, with the mission to accelerate exponential climate action. Falk is the co-lead author of Exponential Roadmap and 1.5°C Business Playbook. Falk is a former Senior Innovation Fellow at Stockholm Resilience Centre and Future Earth. Falk was one of the initiators of the Global Carbon Law idea, together with Owen Gaffney and Johan Rockström, inspired by Moore's Law. Further, Falk was part of Intel Corporation 2006-2018, responsible for Intel IoT Ignition Lab and heading up the Intel Edge Cloud Game Changer program for 5G networks. Falk received the Intel Global Design Win of the Year 2010 for accelerating the telecom business exponentially to a multi-billion dollar business.

Bjarke Kovshøj is a co-creator with several years of experience turning climate action into tangible solutions. Working in the intersection between cities and citizens, Bjarke is actively driving and promoting the entrepreneurial programme Climathon, a platform for cities and citizens to rethink their cities climate action.

David is a Climate Reality Leader and the African Regional Coordinator for Citizens Climate Lobby. A highly efficient & dedicated individual with over 10 years' combined experience in community mobilization, passionate about environmental management, sustainable agriculture and renewable energy, dedicated to enabling sustainable development in Sub Saharan Africa. David is the Founder and Executive Director of GIFSEP- Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation based in Nigeria; David Michael advocates, educates and mobilizes communities to respond to a changing climate.

Donnie has been working with entrepreneurship and innovation for over 25 years, both running his own companies and helping others start theirs. For the past 10 years he has helped shape and build KTH Innovation, the innovation support office at KTH. He is also the founder of the Entrepreneurs Without Borders Foundation, a Swedish organization with global reach on a mission to help local founders start and grow sustainable businesses that can employ.

Miguel has dedicated his career to building a healthy environment and clean climate across Africa. In 2018 he co-founded APET Renewable Energy Services to curb environmental pollution in Nigeria through the conversion of bio-waste into electricity. In 2019 he founded Afrigod, a creative initiative that proffers solutions to the environmental and climate crisis through strategic social projects in Africa. Miguel is also an ambassador for We Don’t Have Time since November 2019 and is putting together a combined sports and cleanup competition for the climate in Lagos, Nigeria.

Bernadette is a Berlin-based electro-pop musician, singer-songwriter and theatre director with a passion for political & social issues and utopian ideas. Since 2014 she wrote 5 climate songs for the festival "Save the world". She performed her song "I'm an island" for the opening of the COP23 in Bonn together with 200 children and the Beethoven orchestra. She wrote the song "I need air" for the COP 24 in Katowice, and she recorded her song "Save the world with this melody" together with her singing partner Nick Nuttall, the former spokesperson and communication director of the UNFCCC.

Gerhard is an art historian, a philosopher, rector of the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, academic director of futur.io Institute Hamburg, and a member of the board of directors at the Berlin School. He founded BSSF, a private university of applied sciences newly conceived, from the ground up for anyone who would like to develop sustainable and intercultural innovations and implement them with professional success through media.

Chad is a co-author and the lead researcher of the New York Times best-seller Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. In collaboration with a global team of researchers, he designed integrated global models to assess the world’s most effective climate solutions and determine if, when, and how the world can reach “drawdown,” the point in time when the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases begins to decline on a year-to-year basis. Chad works as a systems strategist to build a new, regenerative future with cascading benefits to the environment and to human well-being.

25 years in the IT industry running a range of different business teams. 2010 Started a new life in Portugal as a safe place to survive climate change. Engaged with politics starting Citizens’ Climate Lobby in Portugal in 2015. Created EU focus in 2018 to enable National and European climate policy. 2019 founded Citizens’ Climate Europe to directly engage EU Parliament.

Mitchell is publisher of The Energy Mix, a free, usually thrice-weekly e-digest on climate, energy, and carbon-free futures. He's been involved with renewable energy and energy efficiency/conservation since 1977, climate change since 1997, and delivered a TEDx talk in Ottawa in October 2019 on how to build broader public support for faster, deeper carbon cuts. A proudest moment was building a model wind turbine out of wooden stir sticks with his then-11-year-old daughter, and improv comedy practices are often the best part of his week.

Antti Vihavainen is Co-Founder and CEO of Puro.earth, the world’s leading carbon crediting platform focused solely on carbon removal. Puro.earth's mission is to mobilize the world’s economy to reward carbon net-negative emissions.

Joachim Karthäuser is physical chemist and started his career with the German Parliament Study Commission on ozone hole and climate change in 1989. Being a science nerd, he needed 15 years commercial education in companies like Shell, NKT and AGA/Linde Gas, working in functions like R&D, sales and business development, before he was able to become a serial entrepreneur. In 2011, he co-founded Climeon, a company with the mission to be the #1 Climate Solver by converting heat to electricity.

Rosmarie am a social entrepreneur who mobilise movements and develops solutions to solve the climate crisis. Ms Sundström has a journalist exam and will soon also have an agronomist exam. For over fifteen years she have worked within NGO:s and during that time I have founded Save the Children Youth Sweden, the Co-Grow food movement and the Climate Students movement.

Nigel Topping, CMG, is a renowned figure in climate action, serving as the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP26, where he launched global initiatives like Race To Zero and Race To Resilience. Nigel is now a Senior Advisor to FSD Africa, Global Ambassador to the High-Level Climate Champions, and an External Member of the Advisory Committee for AXA IM. He also advises governments, financial institutions, and private companies on climate strategy, with a focus on mobilizing climate finance and catalyzing exponential change in climate action. Nigel's commitment to sustainability earned him the CMG distinction in 2022 and recognition as a key leader in shaping a sustainable future.

Devapriyo is senior communications advisor for Sustainability at Ørsted, a leading renewable energy company, which was recently ranked the world's most sustainable company in the Global 100 index. Previously, he worked as a newswire and newspaper journalist, and more recently as a corporate communications professional in the biotech industry. He's an Indian citizen having lived and worked in the UK, India, Uganda and now Denmark.

Peter is a member of the Earth Day Switch team from its inception in early 2020. Predominantly researching prior to launch, helping to build the metrics upon which UK banks and energy companies could be measured. Since the launch, I have been helping with outreach and business liaison, involving finding avenues to reach new users and managing relationships with businesses featured. Earth Day Switch launches on 22.3.20.

Cassie Flynn is the Global Director of Climate Change at UNDP. The portfolio supports over 150 countries to take bold climate action. She previously served as the Strategic Advisor on climate change to UNDP’s Administrator and Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister of Fiji as COP23 President. Cassie is an internationally recognized expert on the treaty negotiations on climate change and has been a featured expert by CNN, BBC, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, New York Times, and other publications. Cassie earned her master's degree from Yale University and undergraduate degrees from Bowdoin College.

Dan Reed is the program director of Planet Forward, an environmental storytelling platform housed in the School of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University. Planet Forward’s mission is to inspire and empower the next generation of storytellers focused on environment, science and sustainability. Planet Forward publishes original, student-produced media on the environment and sustainability and is partnered with more than 25 colleges and universities across the country.

Sam Hunt is the MobilizeU campaign manager, creating a powerful network of university students and campuses around the world committed to standing up for the planet. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and global sustainability from the University of Virginia.

Head of Sustainability at Telia Company. Previous roles include Head of Sustainability and Head of Corporate Engagement at the Church of Sweden, and working as a journalist and board member of NGOs such as Swedwatch and Fairtrade. Sara will share insight on how using big data for the climate can decrease carbon and other emissions from the transport sector, a major contributor to climate change. Mrs. Nordbrand shares a current concern she has: "My main worry right now is that crucial initiatives - by governments, companies or other players - won't happen or will be postponed due to corona".

Maria Djupström is the sustainability strategist of Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. She is responsible to coordinate the Chalmers strategic sustainability plans, the reporting and communication regarding the SDGs and the climate strategic plan of Chalmers. Maria has a PhD in Environmental Physics and did research about long distance transported particular air pollutants. She is also a businesswoman, helping companies with their strategic environmental work and ISO 9001 and 14001 management systems. She is also a certified auditor for these standards.

Prof. Dr. Johan Rockström is the Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Science at Potsdam University. Rockström is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues, who led the development of the new Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is a leading scientist on global water resources, with about 25 years of experience from applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 150 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability. Aside from his research helping to guide policy, Rockström consults several governments and business networks. He also acts as an advisor for sustainable development issues at noteworthy international meetings, such as the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences (UNFCCC). Supplementary, he chairs the advisory board for the EAT Foundation and the Earth League.

Amos Taylor is a futurist and researcher at Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku. He works in the Academy of Finland funded project Bioeconomy & Justice BioEcoJust, that considers the coming transformations for the next 100 years and the ethical decisions that arise. His work explores highly participatory and creative approaches to engage alternative futures.

Dr. İdil Gaziulusoy is Professor of Sustainable Design at Aalto with a background in sustainability science (PhD) and design research. Her research and consulting work focuses on sustainability transformations from a design & innovation, urban transitions and business transformations perspective.

Jirimiko advises his corporate clients on reputation, responsibility and foresight. Over the years, he has helped numerous Fortune Global 500 companies on strategic initiatives. He sees stakeholder pressure intensifying fast with the escalating ecological crisis. To succeed, enterprises will need to engage in a race to create shared value, and metrics beyond financial return will gain in relevance.

Katri is the strategy and foresight director at Sitra, the Finnish innovation fund, where she is leading strategy work and impact evaluation. Her foresight and insight team provides perspectives on different possible futures over the long term and as part of a dialogue. Katri is interested in the futures of society, and how to contribute to the future by creating social impact and systems changes.