​Clement Kao
Clement Kao is a Product Manager at Blend, a San Francisco-based startup that partners with lenders and technology providers to re-imagine consumer finance. He is also the Product Manager-in-Residence at Product Manager HQ (PMHQ), where he’s published 60+ best practice articles, provides advice in the PMHQ Slack community (7,800+ members), and curates the PMHQ newsletter (27,000+ subscribers). Clement is fascinated by the intersection between tech, business, and life, and he's passionate about enabling people and organizations to overcome obstacles.

Simmone Park

She is an award-winning international speaker, corporate trainer, real estate consultant, actor, and standup comedian. An avid traveler, Simmone has lived/worked in ten countries and traveled to over fifty countries to date. Her work has been featured in Forbes Magazine, The Toronto Star, My Vegas Mag, CREW Magazine, and more. Simmone Park is passionate about driving global change through comedy, innovative social projects, and philanthropic endeavors. A Master Global Connector with the ability to communicate in multiple languages, Simmone is a natural at creating synergistic partnerships all over the world. 

Dr. Karen Le Roche

Dr. Le Roch has more than 20 years' experience in drug discovery, cell cycle, and functional genomics in eukaryotic organisms with a particular interest in Plasmodium, the protozoan that cause malaria in humans. Since joining the UCR CNAS faculty in 2006, she has been investigating new high-throughput functional genomics methods. Dr. Le Roch is currently the Director of the UCR Center for Infectious Disease and Vector Research, which finds new approaches to control the spread of infectious diseases in general.

Zachary Burton

Zachary Burton is a geology Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, and is the recipient of over 30 awards and grants for his work. He is a researcher of Mars-like materials with the NASA Astrobiology Institute and SETI Institute and of energy resources with the U.S. Department of Energy. He has worked as a social impact analyst in southern India for the Stanford business school and as an energy policy analyst for the Precourt Institute for Energy. Zachary is the founder of Stanford’s Energy Policy Community, which has held 22 events for hundreds of students. He is co-founder of the play, “The Manic Monologues,” which highlights true stories to disrupt the stigma surrounding mental illness, and has been featured by The Washington Post, NPR, Broadway World, and others. In his free time, he composes science poetry, which has been featured in The Wall Street Journal.

More speakers will be announced in the future.