Angie Shy
Talk Title: “By Healing our Minds, We Heal the World”
Angie is a speaker and storyteller whose journey through addiction, recovery, and reinvention fuels her mission to redefine mental health care as civic responsibility. Her TEDx talk explores how minimizing our need for mental health care doesn’t just harm us — it harms the people we love and the strangers we interact with. She shows how hyper‑independence has become the biggest barrier to healing, and why caring for our mental health isn’t self‑indulgence but civic responsibility. When we heal ourselves, we help heal the world.
Social Media Channels:
LinkedIn @Angie Shy Podcast @Life Love Music & Space Travel Instagram @serenityjunkie1013
Corey Rich
Talk Title: “Lessons Through the Lens”
Corey Rich is an award-winning director and photographer, a best-selling author, and a global storyteller who has spent nearly 30 years documenting the world's best climbers and boldest adventurers. A Nikon Ambassador and co-founder of Novus Select, his work has appeared in National Geographic and The New York Times and powered global campaigns for Apple, Google, and Patagonia.
In his TEDx talk he shares lessons from a nontraditional career spent documenting elite athletes, leaders, and creatives in extreme environments, as well as what a life in pursuit of adventure and storytelling has taught him about success — on the wall, in the workplace, and in life.
Social Media Channels:
Instagram @coreyrichproductions
Natasha Lukasiewich
Talk Title: “Gritsilience: The Missing Skill Beneath the Surface”
Dr. Natasha Lukasiewich, DNP, MSN, MBA, LNC, RN, is a healthcare executive, author, educator, and creator of Gritsilience, a framework exploring how we sustain ourselves while navigating high-stakes environments. For more than two decades, Natasha has worked across emergency and critical care, flight nursing, search and rescue, rural healthcare, and healthcare leadership. Her career has placed her alongside people during some of life’s most difficult moments—and led her to question a familiar assumption: Is resilience really about how much we can endure?
Natasha’s talk explores what happens beneath the surface of those we often perceive as the strongest. Her approach to Gritsilience centers on three practices—Awareness, Recovery, and Connection—challenging the idea that strength means simply pushing through.
Social Media Channels:
LinkedIn @Natasha Lukasiewich Instagram @grenadiergritgirl Facebook @Natasha Lukasiewich
Maxwell Brodie
Talk Title: “From Trauma to a Future Beyond Wildfires”
Maxwell Brodie is a climate-tech and aviation founder reshaping society’s ability to respond to climate-driven disasters. As CEO of Rain, he leads the development of next-generation autonomous flight systems that enable firefighters to respond to ignitions in minutes.
Bringing a rare blend of personal wildfire experience, hard-tech leadership, and an optimistic, systems-level view of the future, Max offers a compelling lens on how autonomy, aviation, and abundance thinking can shift global climate outcomes. His inspiration for Rain traces back to his family’s personal experience of the 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park Firestorm, which triggered the largest mass evacuations in Canada since World War II. A serial entrepreneur, he has founded successful companies in both the aviation and education sectors.
Kimberly Templeton
Talk Title: “The Power of a Painted Rock”
After a series of devastating health crises left Kimberly immobile and fighting for her life, a simple, discarded painted rock found in a park became the catalyst for her emotional recovery. Her TED Talk explores how small, tangible acts of kindness can serve as vital anchors during our darkest moments. By sharing the "Painted Rock" movement, she hopes to inspire the audience to find purpose in their own adversity and understand that hope does not require grandeur, it only requires a willing heart to share light with others.
Alex Ramon
Talk Title: “What is the Secret of Connection”
Alex Ramon has mesmerized millions around the world with his magic, which has been described as, “Mystifying” by The New York Times and “Mind-Bending” by the Los Angeles Times. In September 2024, Alex won 1st place at the FISM North American Championships and became 1 of only 3 Americans invited to compete at World Championships in Italy representing the USA.
“After more than 25 years of studying magic, it wasn't the tricks I understood, because real magicians understand people. It's not how well I pull the trick off. It's getting them to see what I want them to see and feel what I want them to feel. Ultimately, creating an experience for them that is going to excite them. How do I do that? I must connect with my audience. I am going to do something a magician is never supposed to do... I am going to give away a secret. The Secret of Connection is... SURPRISE!”
Social Media Channels:
Instagram @alexramon
Francesca Ciucci
Talk Title: “The Freedom Trap”
Francesca Ciucci is a global speaker, educator, founder, and writer. Her path has never followed a straight line. A degree in Psychology and a Master's in Social Innovation and Policy. Years spent working across markets, cultures, and languages. Now, besides writing, she works as a fractional marketer and business advisor, with a lasting fascination for the brain and society.
Raised in multilingual environments and moving across countries from a young age, she learned early how freedom can shift as a concept. Her talk goes looking for the answer beneath the surface, beyond a version of freedom tangled up with happiness and sold like a one-size-fits-all t-shirt across generations. And part of the answer lies exactly where she began: a city with no straight roads.
Social Media Channels: Website @Francesca Ciucci LinkedIn @Francesca C.