Peter Hirshberg has led emerging media and technology companies at the center of disruptive change for more than 25 years. As chairman of The City Innovate Foundation, Peter shapes strategies at the confluence of business and government. He leads civic innovation initiatives in San Francisco and founded the Maker City Economic Development initiative a collaboration of 100 U.S. cities and the White House. He has led the development of Urban Prototyping, a global movement that engages citizens in the co-creation and co-planning of their cities. He has contributed to the United Nations Global Pulse where he addressed the General Assembly on their initiative for real-time data analytics for international development.

During a nine-year tenure at Apple Computer, Hirshberg headed Enterprise Marketing. He is a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and a Henry Crown fellow of the Aspen Institute.

Peter is a frequent technology and media industry speaker, having presented at TED, the World Economic Forum, DLD, the Entertainment Gathering, and The Aspen Ideas Festival.

Peter earned his bachelor's degree at Dartmouth College and his MBA at Wharton.

Twenty-two-year-old human rights activist and North Korean defector Yeonmi Park is fast becoming a leading voice of oppressed people around the world. At the 2014 Oslo Freedom Forum and the One Young World Summit in Dublin, she became an international phenomenon, delivering a passionate and deeply personal speech about the brutality of the North Korean regime. Her escape from North Korea has given the world a window into the lives of its people. Due to her bravery, strength, and story, the BBC named her one of their Top 100 Global Women.
Born in Hyesan, North Korea, to educated parents, Yeonmi grew up in a society devoted to worship of Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il and hatred for enemies of his regime. However, after watching a pirated copy of the film, Titanic, the veil of tyranny began to fall. Yeonmi had caught a glimpse of a free world that one day she would yearn to join.
Yeonmi has released a memoir about her escape from North Korea called In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom, in 17 languages and 18 countries. She is currently on a speaking tour around the world advocating for human rights: at book stores, universities, newspapers, non-profit organizations (including the UN HRC), and on many TV and radio shows. Currently, she studies at Columbia University in the city of New York.