Speakers as of June 11, 2025, in alphabetical order:
Imran Ahmed, CEO & Founder, Center for Countering Digital Hate
Elizabeth Al-Jbouri, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Calgary
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 and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Erin L. Belfort, MD, DFAACP, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine
Matthew Bergman, JD, Founding Attorney, Social Media Victims Law Center; Professor, Lewis and Clark Law School
John Brand, PhD, Research Scientist, Department of Epidemiology in the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College
Daniel Buck, MA, Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institution
Brandon Cardet-Hernandez, President, Mrs Wordsmith
Linda Charmaraman, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Founder/Director of the Youth, Media, & Wellbeing Research Lab, Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College
Jing Chen, MA, PhD Student, Department of Human Development and Family Science, Virginia Tech
Hyekyung Choo, PhD, Associate Professor of Social Work, National University of Singapore
Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH, Chief Health Officer, Special Olympics International; George Adkins Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine; Editor in Chief, JAMA Pediatrics; Chief Science Officer, Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development
Claire Christensen, PhD, Senior Education Researcher, SRI Education
Sarah M. Coyne, PhD, Professor Human Development, School of Family Life, Brigham Young University
Emma Cristini, PhD Candidate in Education, Université de Sherbrooke
Madelyn Curle, MPH, Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Katie Davis, EdD, Associate Professor, University of Washington
Leonna Davis, PhD, Developmental Psychologist and Assistant Professor, Bowie State University
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
Kyra Dingle, Medical Student, University of Irvine School of Medicine
Matías Dodel, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Caroline Fitzpatrick, PhD, Associate Professor, Université de Sherbrooke
Ben Forman, Honors Mechanical Engineering Student, University of Colorado
Alix Fraser, Vice President of Advocacy, Issue One
Meredith Gansner, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Assistant Professor, University of Rochester Medical Center
Josh Golin, Executive Director, Fairplay
Mahmut Sami Gurdal, PhD Candidate, Virginia Tech
David L. Hill, MD, FAAP, Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UNC School of Medicine
Alexis Hiniker, PhD, Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, University of Washington Information School
Elizabeth Hoffman, PhD, Associate Director, ABCD Study®, National Institute on Drug Abuse/NIH
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
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
Adelaide Delali Klutse, MS, CFLE, PhD Candidate, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Daniel Labrousse, PhD student, University of Pittsburgh
Amanda Lenhart, MA, Senior Fellow, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop; Affiliate, Data & Society Research Institute
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, Professor & Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Department of Psychology, University of Calgary and the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute
Lucía Magis-Weinberg, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Washington
Anne (Annie) Maheux, PhD, Assistant Professor & Winston Distinguished Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Winston Center on Technology and the Developing Mind
Sumudu Mallawaarachchi, PhD, Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child, University of Wollongong, Australia
AnneMarie McClain, PhD, MA, EdM, MS, Assistant Professor of Media Science, Boston University; Educational Consultant, GBH
Brandon T. McDaniel, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation
Jason M. Nagata, MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Lilach Graff Nomkin, MA, Research Psychologist, Doctoral Candidate in Psychology, Bar-Ilan University
Vincent Paquin, MD, Psychiatrist, McGill University; PhD Student, Maastricht University
Rebecca Parlakian, MA, Ed, Senior Director of Programs, ZERO TO THREE
Desmond Upton Patton, PhD, MSW, Schwartz University Professor / PIK University Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Teodora Pavkovic, MSc, Director of Wellbeing, Lead Online Safety and Digital Wellbeing Expert, Linewize by Qoria
Gretchen Peters, MA, Executive Director, Alliance to Counter Crime Online; Advisory Board, SOMI (Stichting Onderzoek Marktinformatie / Foundation for Market Information Research)
Zamaan Qureshi, Co-Chair, Design It For Us
Destinee Ramos, Undergraduate Student, Harvard College and Center for Digital Thriving
Stephanie M. Reich, PhD, Professor, Education (primary), Psychological Science, Informatics, University of California, Irvine
Rebecca Robins, PhD, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Sleep Scientist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Thomas N. Robinson, MD, MPH, The Irving Schulman Endowed Professor in Child Health and Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University
Mandy Sanchez, PhD, Director of Programming, Culture Reframed
Jane Shawcroft, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, The Ohio State University
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
Brendesha Tynes, PhD, Professor of Education and Psychology, University of Southern California Center for Empowered Learning and Development with Technology
S. Craig Watkins, PhD, Ernest A. Sharpe Centennial Professor, University of Texas at Austin; Executive Director, IC2 Institute
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
Jessica Younger, PhD, PBS Kids
Yihong Zhao, PhD, Professor of Data Science, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
