The Speakers
- Frances Moore Lappé (Keynote): Co-founder, Small Planet Institute
- Jessica Adelman: Vice President, Corporate Affairs NAFTA Region, Syngenta
- Penelope Anderson: Director of Food Security, Mercy Corps
- Jeffrey Ashe: Director of Community Finance, Oxfam
- Dennis Avery: Director of the Center for Global Food Issues, Hudson Institute
- Jennifer Schiff Berg: Director of the Graduate Program in Food Studies
and Food Management at New York University - Murielle Borst: Special Assistant to the North American Regional Representative to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
- Alison Cohen, Director of Programs, World Hunger Year
- John Coonrod: Vice President, Strategy and Impact, The Hunger Project
- Nan Dale: Executive Director, Action Against Hunger
- Noel Gurwick: Senior Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists
- Ellen Gustafson: Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, The FEED Project
- Robin Ludwig: Former UN Senior Political Affairs Officer
- Javier Molina Cruz: Food & Agriculture Organization Liaison Office of New York
- Ann Novak: Founder and Director, Growing Chefs
- Andrew Rice: The New York Times
- Christina Schiavoni: International Program Coordinator, World Hunger Year
- Xenia Von Lilien-Waldau: Liaison and Public Information Officer, International Fund for Agricultural Development
- Jessica Wurwarg: Adjunct Instructor at NYU’s School of Continuing
and Professional Studies