Dr. Sweta Chakraborty is the CEO of North America, We Don’t Have Time. She is a partner at Pioneer Public Affairs. She is also the founder and principal of Adapt to Thrive, a venture that seeks to better inform individuals, businesses, and government entities on the complex, interconnected challenges, such as food insecurity and disease, already existing and emerging from a warming planet.

Dr. Marian M. Chau is the Head of Seed Banking for Terraformation and the founder and Co-Chair (2016-2024) of the IUCN Seed Conservation Specialist Group, a collaboration of over 100 specialists worldwide that provides expertise to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. For over 5 years, Marian served as the Seed Conservation Laboratory Manager at Lyon Arboretum and Research Leader for the Hawai‘i Seed Bank Partnership, and was lead author on a publication summarizing over 20 years of seed storage research in Hawai‘i. She completed a sponsored Technical Training Attachment at the Millennium Seed Bank - the world’s largest seed bank for native species, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England; and her mentors also include leading experts at the USDA National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation.

Dr. Stephen Fitch, Founder & CEO of Eden Reforestation Projects (Eden), is a visionary leader who developed a solution for deforestation and extreme poverty through the establishment of Eden’s "Employ to Plant" methodology. Beginning in 2005, Eden has scaled dramatically and become the most prolific non-profit tree-planting organization in the world. By June 2022, Eden will have surpassed the one billion tree planting milestone. Amazingly, over one million additional trees are planted each day all through the dedication of Eden’s 11,500+ employees who operate as agents of native species forest restoration.