Speakers as of March 28, 2025, in alphabetical order:

Imran Ahmed, CEO & Founder, Center for Countering Digital Hate

Ran Barzilay, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; Attending Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Erin L., Belfort, MD, DFAACP, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine

Brandon Cardet-Hernandez, President, Mrs Wordsmith

Jing Chen, MA, PhD Student, Department of Human Development and Family Science, Virginia Tech

Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH, Chief Health Officer, Special Olympics International; George Adkins Professor, University of WA School of Medicine; Editor in Chief, JAMA Pediatrics; Chief Science Officer, Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development

Sarah  M. Coyne, PhD, Professor Human Development, School of Family Life, Brigham Young University

Emma Cristini, PhD Candidate in Education, Université de Sherbrooke

Katie Davis, EdD, Associate Professor, University of Washington

Michelle De Mooy, Director, Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Tech and Public Policy Program

Sumita Deb, Senior Online Audience Analyst, Ofcom – the UK’s Online Safety Regulator

Caroline Fitzpatrick, PhD, Associate Professor, Université de Sherbrooke

Alix Fraser, Vice President, Technology Reform, Issue One

Meredith Gansner, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Assistant Professor, University of Rochester Medical Center

Josh Golin, Executive Director, Fairplay

David L. Hill, MD, FAAP, Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UNC School of Medicine

Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, PhD, Associate Professor Educational Neuroimaging Group Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel Neuropsychology Department; Associate Professor, Kennedy Krieger Institute Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Lisa M. Jones, PhD, Research Professor, University of New Hampshire

Heather Kirkorian, PhD, Laura M. Secord Chair in Early Childhood Development, Professor and Chair, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sunny Xun Liu, PhD, Director of Research, Stanford Social Media Lab

Carlene MacMillan, MD, Co-Founder Fermata, Chief Product Officer Radial

Sheri Madigan, PhD, R.Psych, University of Calgary

Sumudu Mallawaarachchi, PhD, Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child, University of Wollongong, Australia

Brandon T. McDaniel, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation

Jason M. Nagata, MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco

Vincent Paquin, MD, Psychiatrist, McGill University; PhD Student, Maastricht University

Rebecca Parlakian, MA, Ed, Senior Director of Programs, ZERO TO THREE

Zamaan Qureshi, Co-Chair, Design It For Us

Stephanie M. Reich, PhD, Professor, Education (primary), Psychological Science, Informatics, University of California, Irvine

Mandy Sanchez, PhD, Director of Programming, Culture Reframed

Jennifer Silk, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh

Medha Tare, PhD, Senior Director of Research, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop

Luka Todorović, MSc, Phd Candidate,Developmental Psychology, University of Amsterdam

Desmond Upton Patton, PhD, MSW, Schwartz University Professor / PIK University Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Paul Weigle, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Associate Medical Director, Hartford Healthcare; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Yihong Zhao, PhD, Professor of Data Science, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

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July 13-16, 2025 | Washington, DC