CRAIG VEZINA

Craig is a long-time international educator and counselor who now works with schools, NGOs & impact businesses to harness the power of innovation for people and the planet. He is the Executive Director of the global education non-profit the Z-17 Collective and co founder of the award-winning Spaceship Academy. With a great passion for impact entrepreneurship, Craig has been a leading voice around the power of innovation for social impact and the power of design and innovation for sustainability. He is a regular presenter at an array of global education, sustainability and impact events, including SXSW, ChangeNow, EdTechX, the UN Festival of Action and many more. He also serves on the working group of OECD’s Education & Skills 2030 Global Forum and is a Global Advisory Board member for Education for Sharing. He currently lives with his family in Paris.

GREG VAN KIRK

Greg is a practicing social entrepreneur, educator, facilitator and consultant. He's a founding member of Future Shapers Group and Social Entrepreneur in Residence for The Spaceship Academy. Greg is an Ashoka Fellow and World Economic Forum "Social Entrepreneur of the Year for 2012." He's a former Ashoka Leadership Group Member where he led the Changemaker Schools initiative. Over the course of over 20+ years he’s founded, led and/or consulted for dozens organizations in 20+ countries.

Greg has designed (social) entrepreneurial experiences, taught courses and led workshops for thousands of high school students, university students and professionals. He's led partnerships with universities including Columbia University, Cornell University, Duke University, NYU, University of Notre Dame, Northwestern University, Stanford University and many others. He's designed and led professional development/ experiential learning programs for organizations including Deloitte, Levi Strauss & Co. and Warby Parker. He's designed and taught a social innovation course at The American School of Paris.

He also contributes time as “Social Entrepreneur in Residence” at universities and has designed and taught social entrepreneurship and innovation courses at Columbia University, NYU, Miami University, Lehigh University, University of New Hampshire, and University of Wisconsin. He has served as a strategic advisor for the Miami University Institute for Entrepreneurship.

Greg began working in rural small business development as a Guatemala Peace Corps volunteer in 2001. He worked in investment banking in San Francisco and New York for five years before arriving in Guatemala. Two deals he led at UBS during this time won "Deal of the Year" honors from Structured Finance International magazine. Greg lives with his family in New York City.