Contract Magazine - May 2017 - S5

KEYNOTES
Arianna Huffington
Co-founder of the Huffington Post
and CEO of Thrive Global
Date Monday, June 12
Time 11:30 a.m.
Location NeoCon Theater in Motorola,
19th floor, theMART
Arianna Huffington is a co-founder of the Huffington
Post, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and
the author of 15 books, including, most recently,
Thrive and The Sleep Revolution. In May 2005,
she launched the Huffington Post, a news and blog
site that quickly became one of the most widely
read and frequently cited media brands on the
Internet. In August 2016, she launched Thrive Global,
a corporate and consumer well-being and productivity
platform with the mission of changing the way
we work and live by ending the collective delusion
that burnout is the price we must pay for success.
She has been named to Time magazine's list of the
world's 100 Most Influential People and Forbes's
list of the World's Most Powerful Women.

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Jessica Green
Founding director of the Biology and the Built
Environment (BioBE) Center and co-founder
and chief technology officer of Phylagen
Date Tuesday, June 13
Time 8:30 a.m.
Location NeoCon Theater in Motorola,
19th floor, theMART
Jessica Green is a world-renowned scientist who
inspires people to think about bacteria in entirely
new ways. An Alec and Kay Keith Professor of
Biology at the University of Oregon and a professor
at the Santa Fe Institute, Green is helping us see
how the microbial blueprint of our bodies, homes,
cities, and forests impacts our world and our future.
At Phylagen, a DNA data-harvesting and analytics
company, Green envisions a future for urban
design that promotes sustainability, human health,
and well-being.
Green is currently spearheading efforts
to model urban spaces as complex ecosystems
that house trillions of diverse microorganisms
interacting with one another, with humans,
and with the environment. She calls it the "built
environment microbiome." As founding director
of the BioBE Center, she works with architects
and engineers to advance our understanding
of how microbial communities assemble, interact,
evolve, and influence public health.

John Ronan, FAIA
Principal of John Ronan Architects
Date Wednesday, June 14
Time 8:30 a.m.
Location NeoCon Theater in Motorola,
19th floor, theMART
John Ronan, FAIA, founded John Ronan Architects
in Chicago in 1999. He is known for his abstract yet
sensuous work, which explores materiality and
atmosphere. Ronan holds a master of architecture
degree with distinction from Harvard University
Graduate School of Design and a bachelor of science
degree from the University of Michigan.
Ronan is a professor of architecture at the Illinois
Institute of Technology College of Architecture,
where he has taught since 1992. His firm has been
the recipient of two AIA Institute National Honor
Awards-for the Poetry Foundation and the Gary
Comer Youth Center, both in Chicago-and was
on the final shortlist to design the Obama
Presidential Center.
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