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Christine is the Executive Director of the Vermont Community Broadband Board, charged with getting every Vermont address connected to fiber optic internet.

Christine became CEO of the Vermont Electric Cooperative (VEC) in 2005. During her tenure, she took the financial rating of the group’s debt from just about “Junk” to A+.

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Ian Rowe is the Chief Executive Officer at Vertex Partnership Academies. an IB candidate charter high school in the Bronx, dedicated to the principles of equality of opportunity, individual dignity, and our common humanity.

Author of Agency, Every child in America deserves to know that a path to a successful life exists and that they have the power to follow it.

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Rebecca Gray is the CEO of Gardener’s Supply, an employee owned business started by Will Rapp. Rebecca has served as Vice President Of Merchandising with a demonstrated history of working in the retail industry. Strong marketing professional skilled in Trend Analysis, Merchandise Planning, Retail, E-commerce, and Store Management.

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Brad is an entrepreneur and seasoned business development executive with a passion for building companies and pushing the envelope of technological innovation. Brad has deep experience developing concepts including co-authoring three patents in search, geo-tagging, and personalization. Brad was a distinguished honor graduate West Point.

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Meltam is a Startup Technology Executive, Advisor and Neuroscientist with deep knowledge in the fields of Generative AI and Data Science.

She lives in Austin Texas but is starting a company in Vermont to develop data centers that harvest energy from hydropower and other alternative sources.

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Oliver Levis is one of the family owners of Earth Sky Time, a community farm and hearth that is certified organic and has been for three generations. On their property in Manchester, VT, the Levis family runs a wood fired bakery, concert venue and community of artists, musicians and friends.

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Teresa Davis (she/her), Founding Director of Davis Studio, holds a BA in education and spent several years as an elementary classroom teacher. For the past twenty years she has been enthusiastically focused on helping people of all ages find joy through the arts by tapping into their own creativity. Teresa also founded Davis Community School, a private arts and nature based school now serving students in PreK - 5th grade.

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Max is the co-founder of a little revolution called Plink! Winner of BevNET New Beverage Showdown.

Previously Max co-founded the VR World Building company, Origami Air.

Author of Trend-Driven Innovation, available at Wiley Press.

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Clayton Rabideau is the founder of Syntensor, a startup dedicated to building an accurate mechanistic model of human physiology to make complex biological processes tractable at scale for scientists, drug developers and clinicians.

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Kelly has been an EdTech leader and Culture Cultivator for many years.

She loves working with purpose driven, early stage companies. Kelly invest in people and companies who work on things that matter.

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Emma graduated from Cornell recently and is working for Smart Resource Labs in Burlington Vermont.

Emma will be participating in our Student Entrepreneur Panel at the Conference.

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Veronique knew that she didn't want to feed her daughter Francisca processed meat, a staple of most kids' diets. Unable to find any hot dog or lunch meat alternative she and her daughter enjoyed. The duo founded Green Slice Foods, in recognition of an ever-increasing need to improve the health of our natural world and its people.

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Meg Hammond is the Executive Director of Generator Space in Burlington, Vermont. Generator Space is a nonprofit leader working to advance mission-based organizations.

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Lauren Bass is the Executive Director of LaunchVT. Perviously, Lauren was an Instuctor at the University of Vermont Grossman School of Business.

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Co-Founder, FreshTracks Capital

Cairn previously moderated a discussion in 2022 with Véronique Beittel and Will Raap at the Conference.

Will was a panelist in 2022, and shared his excitment to bring Nordic Farm to the future as Earthkeep Farmcommon, through regenerative farming and the creation of an innovative agriculture hub.

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Founder and CEO of Beta Technologies, a leading designer and manufacturer of Electric Vertical Take Off and Landing aircraft.d

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Singer and songwriter. Half Irish and half African American, her original indie/soul songs blend soulful vocals with a lyrical delivery that doesn't let one get too comfortable.

Matty Benedetto is a self-proclaimed evil genius and the host of Unnecessary Inventions, a Youtube channel with over 3.7 million subscribers. Over the past three years, Matty has designed and fully prototyped over 350 new inventions that solve problems that don't exist, from his Design Studio in Burlington Vermont.

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Founder and CEO of Benchmark Space Systems, a satellite propulsion developer on a mission to make space more accessible and sustainable.

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Founder of Seventh Generation, Magic Hat Breweries, Co-Owner Higher Ground.

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After graduating from High School, Ethan moved his 3D printer company, Creative 3D Technologies, to Austin, Texas. Today, Ethan is an innovator and thought leader in decentralized & distributed manufacturing.

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Ben is the founder and CEO of Greensea Systems, a firm that develops a control and navigation platform OPENSEA to pilot unmanned underwater vehicles. Robots built with Greensea’s software enable underwater salvage operations, mine detection, and various deep-sea studies for companies and governments around the globe.

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