Momentum Speaker Directory
 
Speaker Title Plenary Year

David Chen

Commerce With Conscience

Through case studies of socially responsible enterprises, Chen shows how investors can unlock the value of assets by turning a problem on its head.

Capital 2009

Sony Kapoor

Changing a System of Our Own Creation

A former derivatives trader who switched sides, Kapoor employs vivid metaphors to argue that finance needs to be reigned in to bring us back to prosperity, in this, modern society's 90th such financial crisis.

Capital 2009

Lawrence Mishel

What the Economy Needs Now

A concise and cogent look at the economic crisis, how we got here, and how to get out, barring the hackneyed platitude "tough it out, America."

Capital 2009

Jacquette M. Timmons

The Crisis as a Message

Investor and financial coach Timmons paints the financial meltdown as a crisis of identity in a talk that links the economic to the personal.

Capital 2009

Melissa Bradley

Building Wealth for All

There is a big difference between getting a job and creating assets. The number of people in this country who are economically "at risk" is rising daily. Melissa Bradley outlines this issue and some ways we can help build wealth across the economic spectrum.

Money 2008

Jacob Hacker

Fixing America's Healthcare System

Policy analyst Jacob Hacker reviews the dangerous escalation of America'­s uninsured and underinsured, and presents an innovative new plan for reshaping America's healthcare system, and for providing universal coverage for all.

Health 2008

Rob Johnson

Too Big to Fail

Months before the economic crisis, the former director at Soros Fund Management talks about excessive risk and much needed reforms in the financial system and the tension between markets, taxpayers and basic values.

Money 2008

Peter Leyden

New Technologies to Transform Politics

Neighborhood 2008

Robert Ross

From Hope to Change

The President of the California Endowment re-imagines the philanthropic sector. How do you make change? You need to tell the stories, you need the data, you need the messages...and you need to address the sticky issue of power.

Health 2008

Premal Shah

Lending with Mutual Dignity

Premal Shah, president of Microlending phenom Kiva, talks about raising money "Howard Dean-style" (or "Barack Obama-style") might be able to bring down the cost of borrowing for the world's working poor.

Money 2008

Tom Steyer

Fair and Just Banking for Low Income Communities

Money 2008