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Theme: NextGen: TBD

This event occurred on
March 7, 2015
12:00pm - 6:00pm EST
(UTC -5hrs)
Baltimore, Maryland
United States

This conference will consider events of the past and present to predict what the "NextGen" will be. Each aspect of our world will be analyzed; from the arts, to the sciences, and to economics. Yet, the theme's tagline - "TBD" (To Be Determined) - further suggests that the ideas presented in the talks are not the entire story of what tomorrow will be like. Instead, the purpose of the event is to inspire people to positively shape the next generation, because it is the collective actions of society that ultimately determines what the future will be like.

Hackerman Hall Room, B17
3330 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland, 21218
United States
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Astha Berry

Astha is the winner of our TEDx Student Speaker Competition. She’s in her first year at Johns Hopkins studying in the Public Health and Writing Seminars programs. She uses this combination of studies to observe the meaning behind words through both an analytical and subjective lens. A native of Milwaukee, she was noted as the Distinguished Young Woman of Wisconsin. Astha is also an active member of The Hop and the treasurer of MedLife.

Doreen Bolger

Since 1998, Doreen Bolger has served as Director of The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), which is recognized nationally and internationally as a center for 19th-century, modern, and contemporary art. Among her many accomplishments are redefining the Museum’s artistic focus and placing greater emphasis on its world-class collection, initiating several major traveling exhibitions, expanding educational programs, and eliminating general admission fees. She is currently overseeing a $28 million phased renovation to improve visitor amenities and provide more imaginative experiences with art that will culminate with the opening of a new center for learning and creativity in fall 2015. Bolger also plays a leadership role in the region’s cultural community. She is the Vice Chair of Maryland Citizens for the Arts, and on the boards of the Charles Street Development Corporation, Design Center Baltimore, and Station North Arts & Entertainment, Inc.

Fred Bronstein

Fred Bronstein – an accomplished pianist, dedicated music educator, and successful chief executive of American symphony orchestras – began his appointment as dean of the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University on June 1, 2014. He came to Peabody after serving as president of the renowned St. Louis Symphony since 2008. His stints as president of the Omaha Symphony and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra where he also led the search for a new music director, and more recently in St. Louis, have all involved significant audience development and educational outreach. As a performer, he toured for eight years and could be heard on New World Records as part of Aequalis, a chamber group he co-founded with a focus on new American music, innovative programming and educational outreach.

John Krakauer

Dr. John Krakauer is a Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, the Director of the Center for the Study of Motor Learning and Brain Repair, and the Director of Brain, Learning, Animation, and Movement Lab (BLAM) at Johns Hopkins. He received his undergraduate and master’s degree from Cambridge University and earned his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. His clinical and research expertise is in stroke, ischemic cerebrovascular disease, cerebral aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, and venous and sinus thrombosis. He co-founded the KATA project that combines concepts of neurology and neuroscience with interactive entertainment and motion capture technology to learn how lesions affect motor learning and to aid patients in recovering from brain injury.

Kellogg Schwab

Dr. Kellogg Schwab is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and Director of the JHU Water Institute. The Water Institute integrates Hopkins researchers from public health, engineering, chemistry, materials science, medicine, behavior, policy, and economic disciplines to address the critical nexus of water, food, and energy. Dr. Schwab’s research laboratory focuses on environmental microbiology and engineering with an emphasis on the fate and transport of chemicals, emerging contaminants and pathogenic microorganisms in water, food, and the environment. Recent international work has focused on evidence-based assessments of point of use and community level treatment systems designed to provide water and sanitation to individuals in low income countries.

Kelly Peeler

Kelly is the Founder and CEO of NextGenVest, a New York City based start-up that is helping a global community of students effectively manage their money to pursue their passions. NextGenVest provides students with mobile education and student-based advice on key decisions around student loans, budgeting, investing, and employment. Since its recent inception, NextGenVest has grown to help high school and college students in 15 states and 8 countries. Kelly Peeler has always been interested in empowering young people through economic strategies. She studied the history of financial crises at Harvard and as an undergraduate started Business Across Borders, a non profit that helped Iraqi University students rebuild their own economy by starting their own companies. She was selected as one of the eight Kauffman Foundation Global Scholars and as Goldman Sachs 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs.

Mario Macis

Mario Macis is Assistant Professor of Economics and Management at Johns Hopkins University, Carey Business School. His main research fields are labor, health and experimental economics. Mario has conducted large-scale randomized controlled trials in the US and abroad in partnership with blood banks (including the American Red Cross) to study the interplay between intrinsic motivation and incentives in pro-social behavior (funded by the National Science Foundation). In ongoing work, he is conducting field experiments in India to analyze the effect of financial incentives on tuberculosis detection (research funded by the World Bank’s Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund), and in Nigeria to find ways to improve quality of care in primary healthcare facilities (World Bank study funded by the Gates Foundation).

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