Xiao Yin Zhao, Executive Director of the World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana, highlights the importance of learning more about people around the world, especially through programs such as Global Citizenship Education, Guest Speakers, International Visitors and the Sister Cities Programs.

Dr. Magdalena de la Teja, Former Vice President for Student Development Services at Tarrant County College, Northeast Campus in Texas, explains how students will develop new skills to effectively operate in an interdependent, interrelated and complex world and confront problems as income inequality, racism and climate change.

Professor Felix Dodds, Author of “Stakeholder Democracy-Represented Democracy in a time of Fear,” delineates the challenges to achieving a sustainable, participatory democracy, especially in light of the recent assault by insurrectionists inspired by Donald Trump to overthrow a free and fair election.

Stewart Levine, Resolutionary and Author of “Agreements for Results,” offers suggestions as to how the United Nations, governments, the private sector and the general public can resolve thorny differences when confronting the climate crisis, income inequality, gender equity and systemic racism.

Tim Ward, Author and Publisher of Changemakers Books, details how our thinking processes must change to confront new challenges from communities that have not been created yet in a diverse ecosystem and transformational activities, especially in combating the climate crisis by utilizing the UN Green Climate Fund and international climate agreements.

John Orian, Futurist and Creator of the PlayAtCreation concept, focuses on the unique role that older persons or elders can play in the future, especially in tandem with the emerging trends of vibrant longevity, working from home, the climate change crisis and new innovative cities.

John Carver, Educator and Former Superintendent of Schools and Change Agent, delineates how the traditional methods of educational instruction need to be overhauled dramatically to be effective in a system that is undergoing rapid pedagogical transformations.

Don Macke, Leader of the e2Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, describes how rural areas are being challenged by climate change, lack of health care facilities, minimal broadband and leaders who are using traditional programs and concepts that are not meeting the needs of rural dwellers nor preparing for a high-tech, interdependent, transformational 21st Century.

Kevin Cassidy, Director of the UN's International Labor Organization’s U.S. office in Washington, D.C., highlights efforts around the US to focus on projects that deal with education and reskilling for the field of work, the use of robotics and the development of intra and interpersonal skills for the challenges of the 21st Century.

Teena Halbig, Past President of the Kentucky Division of the United Nations Association of the USA and the Kentucky League of Women Voters, discusses UN Sustainable Development Goal #6 on Clean Water and Sanitation, plastic pollution of waterways and oceans and the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations.

Rick Smyre, a futurist and author of “Preparing for A World That Doesn’t Exist-Yet: Framing a Second Enlightenment for the Communities of the Future (COTF),” and president of the Center for Communities of the Future, highlights his latest initiative to mobilize creative thinkers to develop suggestions in a COTF Project for transformational leadership that will propel both society and the economy.

Andrew Hudson, head of the UN Development Program's Water & Ocean Governance Programme, discusses environmental efforts to confront major ocean-related problems, such as overfishing, pollution, habitat loss, ocean acidification and plastic pollution, as well as one of the primary causal problems: climate change.

William Shields, Executive Director of the American Society for Public Administration, identifies how well-trained public administrators are critical to every society, as well as to how Donald Trump bungled the anti-Covid-19 campaign and incited insurrectionists to attack American democracy, the constitutional process and attempt a coup to overthrow a free and fair election.

Jim Damicis, Senior Vice President for Camoin Associates, discusses how future economic opportunity is in a transformational stage and the evolution of entrepreneurship is a pathway to community development to be utilized by businesses, Chambers of Commerce, planning agencies and governments, just to mention a few.

Dr. Linda Quinn, a dancer, actress and Dean at Tarrant County College Northeast, is developing Transformational Learning concepts, especially through her Wheel of Creativity that helps students, faculty and diverse disciplines prepare for a future the will be more fast-paced, interconnected and complex.

Kris O’Daniel, a Danish National, is a dairy scientist, engineer and journalist who focuses on what can be done to move more rapidly to clean energy, develop a carbon-free economy, enhance sustainable development practices and preserve the delicate ecosystem on planet Earth.

Kevin Cassidy, Director of the UN's International Labor Organization’s U.S. office in Washington, D.C., focuses on initiatives to deal with climate change, green jobs, health/wellness and biodiversity in such US states as Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas, Colorado and Hawaii.

Stephen Schlesinger, author of the prize-winning history of the UN “Act of Creation: Founding of the UN,” highlights how the UN has become more important over the years and how the Trump Administration’s withdrawal from several UN agencies and agreements, such as the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Accord, was detrimental to the US and world at large.

Dr. Michael Cairo, Professor of Political Science at Transylvania University, focuses on the vast disparities between the Israelis and Palestinians, plus how the Trump Administration created more chaos and suffering by defunding the UN Relief Works Agency, moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem and tacitly recognizing illegal Israeli settlements, which combine to make a two-state solution more difficult to achieve.

Rachel Pittman, Executive Director of the United Nations Association of the USA, updates how UNA-USA provides objective information to Americans as to how the US benefits from US leadership at the UN in a wide-range of agencies that deal with health, peacekeeping, education and human rights, just to mention a few.