CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
- Rocco Landesman, Chairman, National Endowment of the Arts
- Shaun Donovan, Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Roy Kienitz, Under Secretary, Department of Transportation
- Jason Schupbach, Design Director, National Endowment of the Arts
- Mayor Richard M. Daley, City of Chicago, L
- Mayor Elizabeth Kautz, City of Burnsville, MN
- Ronald Bogle, President, American Architectural Foundation
- Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr., City of Charleston, SC
- Thom Mayne, Design Director, Morphosis
- Lee Bey, Executive Director, Chicago Central Area Committee
- Gerald Adelmann, President, Openlands
- Barbara Gaines, Artistic Director, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
- Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, City of Los Angele, CA
- Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation
- Peter Park, Manager of Community Planning and Development, City of Denver, CO
- Marilyn Jordan Taylor, Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Design
- Mayor Michael A. Nutter, City of Philadelphia, PA
- Mary Margaret Jones, President, Hargreaves Associates
- Richard Baron, CEO, McCormack Baron Salazar
- Mitchell Silver, Planning Director, City of Raleigh, NC
- Chris Leinberger, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
- Teddy Cruz, Principal, Estudio Teddy Cruz
- John Tolva, Director of Citizenship and Technology, IBM Corporation
- David Burney, Commissioner, New York City Department of Design and Construction
- Toni Griffin, Adjunct Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design
