FrontRange

Confirmed Speakers

• Peter Kageyama
  Peter is the author of For the Love of Cities, and a consultant with Creative Class. Peter has travelled the world learning and speaking about issues of local community development, talent attraction and retention and creative industries development.
• John Daggett
  John is the Executive Director for Embrace Northern Colorado, a multi-issue nonpartisan nonprofit organization that has been formed in Northern Colorado to provide analysis and action on a host of issues affecting the economy, development, the environment, transportation and the region’s quality of life. Embrace Northern Colorado brings together established and emerging leaders - from business, government, academia, labor, and the broader community – to identify issues and work toward innovative and collaborative solutions.
• Jim Tolstrup
  Jim is the Executive Director of the High Plains Environmental Center in Loveland, CO. Jim’s past work experience includes serving as Director of Shambhala Botanic Gardens and Preserve in Red Feather Lakes, CO and running his own landscape design business in Kennebunkport, Maine where he installed gardens at George and Barbara Bush’s “Summer White House.” Jim holds a certificate in gardening arts from Harvard University, he has written numerous articles on gardening and environmental stewardship for various publications, and is a past recipient of Denver Water’s Xeriscape Award and ALCC’s Excellence in Landscaping Merit Award.
• Eunny Jang
  Editor of Knitwear Magazine, Interweave Press
• Amy Prieto
  Associate Professor, Colorado State Univ. and CEO of Prieto Battery
• Cristian Buendia
  Local student from Be You Innovation Lab pursuing interests in soccer and film
• Joan King
  Entrepreneur and life coach for empowerment
• Chanda Hinton Leichtle
  Executive Director of The Chanda Plan, a healthcare initiative providing choices between traditional and integrative therapies.
• Don Proffit
  Director of Proffit Projects in Trenton NJ
• Nikolaus Correll
  Professor at University of Colorado in applied robotics
• Bryce Hach
  Director of Homeward 2020, an initiative to eliminate homelessness in Fort Collins by the year 2020.
• Blas Estrada
  Principal of Generation Prosper, a local distributor of backpacks on a Buy 1, Give 1 model
• Peter Harold
  Student at the Be You Innovation Lab
• Tony Monfiletto
  Principal of ACE Leadership Academy in Albuquerque NM
• Neil Almy
  Co-owner of Prairie Star, a zero-energy consumption community
• Randy Menzer
  Executive Director of Ameribotics in Denver advocating the use of robotics for whole-person education and development.
• Irene Fortune
  Board member of Front Range Ontrack, a advocacy organization for the use of rail for commuter transportation.
• Sierra Goldstein
  Student at the Be You Innovation Lab where she is exploring her own spirit of entrepreneurism at the age of 14.