2021 Speakers

Rick Albin

Political Reporter, WOOD-TV 8

Dennis W. Archer Jr.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, sixteen42 ventures

Alize Asberry Payne 

Racial Equity Officer, Washtenaw County

Sandy K. Baruah

President and Chief Executive Officer

Jocelyn Benson

Secretary of State, State of Michigan

Hussein Berry

Vice President, Airport Operations DTW, Delta Air Lines

Rosalind (Roz) Brewer

Chief Executive Officer, Walgreens Boots Alliance

Douglas Brinkley

Best-Selling Author; CNN Presidential Historian; Rocket CompaniesKatherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History, Rice University

Antoine Bryant

Director, Planning and Development Department, City of Detroit

Kyle Caldwell

President and Chief Executive Officer, Council of Michigan Foundations

Tammy Carnrike

Chief Operating Officer, Detroit Regional Chamber

Raj Chetty

William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics, Harvard University

Nicholas A. Christakis

Social Scientist and Physician; Director, Human Nature Lab, Yale University; Co-director, Yale Institute for Network Science

Zoe Clark

Program Director, Michigan Radio

Kristine Coogan

Managing Director, Strategy, KPMG

Stephan Currie

Executive Director, Michigan Association of Counties

Mark de la Vergne

Vice President, Project Development Cavnue

Ric L. DeVore

Regional President, Detroit and Southeast Michigan, PNC Bank

Claudia Douglass

Principal, Health Services Provider, PwC

Todd Dubner

Principal, Global Strategy Group, KPMG

Mike Duggan

Mayor, City of Detroit

Carladenise Edwards

Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Henry Ford Health System

David Egner

President and Chief Executive Officer, Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation

Matt Elliott

President, Bank of America Michigan

Jay Farner

Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Rocket Companies

Nolan Finley

Contributor One Detroit and DPTV; Editorial Page Editor, The Detroit News

Richard Florida

Co-founder, Creative Class Group

Harold Ford Jr.

Executive Vice President and Vice Chairman, Corporate and Institutional Banking, PNC

Stephen Henderson

Executive Advisor, BridgeDetroit; Host, Detroit Today and American Black Journal

Bridget Hurd

Vice President, Inclusion and Diversity, and Chief Diversity Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Lloyd Jackson

Senior News Analyst, WJR NewsTalk 760 AM

Russell A. Kavalhuna

President, Henry Ford College

Steven Kiefer

Chairman, The Kiefer Foundation​;President, General Motors International, General Motors Co.

Ronia Kruse

President and Chief Executive Officer, OpTech LLC

Wright L. Lassiter III

Chairman, 2021 Mackinac Policy Conference; President and Chief Executive Officer, Henry Ford Health System

Daniel J. Loepp

President and Chief Executive Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Lisa Lunsford

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Global Strategic Supply Solutions (GS3)

Ryan Maibach

President and Chief Executive Officer, Barton Malow Holdings

Christy McDonald

Special Correspondent and Anchor, WDIV-TV 4, NBC

Marjace Miles

Consumer Marketing Manager, Autonomous Vehicles, Ford Motor Company

Mariam Noland

President, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan

Robert C. O’Brien

Former United States National Security Advisor, Trump Administration

Richard Pappas

President, Davenport University

Sandy Pierce

Senior Executive Vice President, Private Bank and Regional Banking Director and Chair, Huntington Michigan

Rick Pluta

Senior Capitol Correspondent, Michigan Public Radio Network

Jason Pontin

Partner, DCVC

Angelique Power

President and Chief Executive Officer, The Skillman Foundation

Michael Pricer

U.S. Consulting Industry Leader, Industrial Manufacturing, KPMG

Mark Reuss

President, General Motors Co.

Michael Robinet

Executive Director, Consulting, S&P Global

Alec Ross

New York Times Best-Selling Author; Huntington Michigan Former Senior Advisor for Innovation, State Department

Suzanne Shank

President and Chief Executive Officer, Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC

Nicole Sherard-Freeman

Group Executive, Jobs, Economy, and Detroit at Work, City of Detroit

Marc Siry

Vice President, Strategic Development, Complex Solutions, Comcast Business

Paul W. Smith

Host, WJR NewsTalk 760 AM

Michael Steele

Former Chairman, Republican National Committee; Former Lieutenant Governor, State of Maryland; Political Analyst, MSNBC

Vickie Thomas

Communications Director, City of Detroit; Black Business Minute Reporter, WWJ Newsradio 950

Trine Tsouderos

Health Research Institute Leader, PwC

John Tuttle

Vice Chairman and Chief Commercial Officer, New York Stock Exchange

Carla Walker-Miller

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Walker-Miller Energy Services LLC

Madison Weston

Marketing Specialist, HELLA

Joe White

Global Auto Industry Editor, Reuters

Arn Tellem

Pistons Sports and Entertainment

Gretchen Whitmer

Governor, State of Michigan