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Dickinson is also the CEO of Arlene Dickinson Enterprises (ADE) and YouInc.com, companies she founded in 2012 that are dedicated to serving and investing in entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial lifestyle. She is best known to Canadians as one of the venture capitalists on the award-winning CBC series’ Dragons’ Den and the series The Big Decision . She is also the author of the #1 bestselling book Persuasion and the creator of the Persuasion product line that includes coffee, wine, skin care, and chocolate. Her new book, All In , focuses on how to thrive in the entrepreneurial lifestyle—and how to avoid its pitfalls.

Stephen Lewis is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University in Toronto. He is the board chair of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which is dedicated to turning the tide of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and he is co-founder and co-director of AIDS-Free World, an international advocacy organization. Lewis is a Senior Fellow of the Enough Project. He is an immediate past member of the Board of Directors of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and Emeritus Board Member of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. He served as a Commissioner on the Global Commission on HIV and the Law; the Commission’s landmark report was released in July 2012. Lewis’ work with the United Nations spanned more than two decades. He was the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa from June 2001 until the end of 2006. From 1995 to 1999, Lewis was Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF at the organization’s global headquarters in New York. From 1984 through 1988, he was Canada's Ambassador to the United Nations. From 1970-1978, Lewis was leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party, during which time he became leader of the Official Opposition.

As Western companies and their leaders think about how to do business with China, they know that part of their success depends on crucial but elusive "soft" cultural issues that are always in play. What aspects of the culture are critical to the work and social dynamic between Americans and their Chinese colleagues and competitors? How can Americans look for and interpret similarities or differences with the Chinese in human qualities like humor, respect, trust, friendship, and identity? Fallows recently lived and worked in China for three years and traveled through every part of the country. She uses her own experience of coping with the Mandarin language as one model of how to be a good observer and a sensitive interpreter inside a different culture. She describes how some of her own foibles and missteps finally led to some insights. This is a talk that can encourage your company's people to thrive both professionally and personally, and may ultimately help your company in its mission with China.

Cities are the answer to climate change, energy challenges and resource scarcity. How we grow our cities, how we choose to get around in them, how we provide housing, how well we incorporate nature into the places we live-- these are the challenges that will largely determine our future... and the future of the planet. Steffen tackles the latest successful urban innovations and looks at how quality of life is actually improved in the process of retrofitting our cities for the seemingly impossible, yet surprisingly practical, goal of carbon neutrality.

Speaker Shlomo Benartzi is a Professor and co-chair of the Behavioral Decision-Making Group at UCLA Anderson School of Management. He's interested in combining the insights of economics and psychology to produce positive change on a massive scale. His book, On Screens: Using Behavioral Economics to Make the Most of our Digital Lives , is forthcoming from Penguin Portfolio in 2015. Benartzi's end goal in studying online behavior is to improve decision-making for millions of people. Along with Richard Thaler (co-author of Nudge ), he pioneered the Save More Tomorrow™ program (SMarT), designed to help employees increase their savings rates over time. At one organization, SMarT increased employee savings rates from 3.5% to 13.6%. The program is now offered by more than half of the large retirement plans in the U.S. and a growing number of plans worldwide. It's also been incorporated in the Pension Protection Act of 2006, helping millions of Americans boost their retirement savings. Benartzi has also advised government agencies in the U.S. and abroad, and has helped craft numerous legislative efforts.

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