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According to one of his reviews, “David Myers is one of the most exciting young playwrights we have; smart, radical and funny, his voice is as unique as it is beguiling.” David has performed with the Alley Theatre (Houston), Clubbed Thumb (New York), The Looking Glass Theater (New York), Gorilla Rep. (New York) and others. Recently, he performed in Charles Mee’s Orestes 2.0 at HERE Arts Center and in The Wikipedia Plays at Ars Nova. He has performed in numerous independent short films, including the upcoming Bad Luck City. His one-man show, No Man’s Land Greenland, played to sold out houses in Rhode Island and in Houston at Infernal Bridegroom’s Axiom Theatre. He has also traveled to Rwanda, where he performed in Kinyarwanda (the Rwandan language) as well as worked to develop plays by Rwandan Artists. Previous to that, he performed in Italian, with the Teatro ITC di San Lazaro in the Bologna Urban Area. He is a graduate of Brown University, Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and training programs at Circle in the Square Theatre School and Carnegie Mellon’s Drama Program. His favorite roles include: Woyzeck in Georg Buchner’s Woyzeck, Silvius in As You Like It and The Baron Docteur in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus. You can read more about him at www.swimdavid.com.

Thanks to technology pioneer, John Woolard, another of our eXciting speakers, and the largest solar energy deal in history, the sun will soon light up more than a million California households. The energy will come from BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generation System, the first commercial solar thermal power plant to break ground in CA in two decades.

Before joining BrightSource Energy as president and CEO, John co-founded Silicon Energy, one of the first successful clean tech companies, and was President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board from 1997 to 2003.

With numerous film and television credits to her name, Ahna O’Reilly is a fresh face and she has emerged as one of Hollywood’s most sought after young actors. Her movies include THE HELP starring alongside Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard and Sissy Spacek. This heartwarming drama set in 1960s Mississippi is about the development of a new sisterhood that defies the class and race boundaries of that time. Based on the best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett, O’Reilly’s previous film credits include the comedy FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL alongside Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis and Russell Brand as well as NANCY DREW with Emma Roberts, Amy Bruckner and Kay Panabaker. O’Reilly’s television credits include a recent appearance on NBC’s “Prime Suspect,” The CW’s “Vampire Diaries” as well as “CSI:NY,” and “Unhitched.” O’Reilly currently resides in Los Angeles and enjoys volunteering her time and talent to children with serious medical conditions at Art of Elysium, as well as contributing towards building a sustainable future for Los Angeles with the environmental nonprofit Tree People.

Take a walk with Iso Rabins, the founter of forageSF and The Underground Market, a wild foods community with the mission to connect Bay Area dwellers with the wild food that is all around them with wild edible food walks, Underground dinners, and the SF Underground Market . A chef, writer, eater, and forager, Iso tries to focus his work life to follow what interests and inspires him. A native of Santa Cruz, raised in Vermont, Iso returned to the west coast 5 years ago without any idea what to do with his life, and found it foraging in the hills.

Jamis MacNiven, another confirmed speaker, is the owner of Buck’s Restaurant: When I was a kid I imagined a life involving wandering around in toy stores, flying on borrowed private jets, driving fast cars, chatting with friends and strangers and being paid large amounts of money for doing practically nothing while eating in fine restaurants all over the world. It has worked far better than planned. People think of me primarily as a restaurateur and that is my main job but I also spend a lot of time in my shop building things out of all sorts of materials such as stainless steel, glass and epoxy resin. I would rather mix up a batch of toxic polyester and put my protective space suit on then go to the Academy Awards with Steven Spielberg (so there Steven!) I own Buck’s Restaurant in Woodside a place many of you have been to and I am the luckiest guy I’ve ever met because I am also a partner with my three sons Dylan, Tyler and Rowan in several restaurants is San Francisco. Not only are we in business together but they all live together in a big house they bought and we own a boat on the San Francisco Bay so we get to see one another a lot. Every month they send me a fat check so that’s good too. Sometimes young people ask me for careers advice. I always say the same thing. Borrow as much money from you parents as they can stand and travel. You will be working your whole life so get out and see the world first. Plenty of time to buckle down later. After all you don’t want end up with a career like mine do you?

Pat Burchat, one of our 31 confirmed speakers is a Physics Professor at Stanford University. She studies the universe at the smallest and the largest scales, using accelerators to probe the elementary particles and the fundamental interactions, and telescopes to investigate the cosmological evolution of the universe. She uses the gravitational bending of light by “dark matter” in the universe to study the evolution of “dark energy” in the universe. Professor Burchat is passionate about teaching and maximizing student learning. At Stanford, she has received the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Walter J. Gores Award for excellence in teaching. She was nominated as a Fellow of the American Physical Society and received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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