Bright Simons is a social innovator, multipatent-holding technology inventor, and policy activist. Through his work at mPedigree and with think tanks like IMANI, he contributes to the breaking of silos and crossing of boundaries necessary to finding lasting solutions to society's ever more complex problems. As a senior adviser to international NGOs, global multinationals, leading universities, and social movements around the world, his impact has been recognized with awards and prizes by multiple prominent institutions.

DAI’s Brigit Helms has nearly 30 years of experience pioneering innovative approaches to financial inclusion and seeking enterprise- and market-based solutions to poverty. She has lived and worked in more than 35 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

A communications professional, Briony Mathieson has spent over 25 years working across the full range of communications channels. She is currently the global head of marketing communications at Olam International, an agri-business listed in Singapore.

Brittany Boettcher has run several major programs for the Skoll Foundation since 2006, including the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship. She is experienced in identifying social entrepreneurs poised for systems-level impact and is passionate about driving more diverse, equitable, and inclusive practices in philanthropy to support underrepresented leaders on their path to scale.

Brittany Patterson is a senior manager on Chemonics’ peace, stability, and transition practice where she provides technical support to business development teams and projects across the globe. With expertise in post-conflict reconciliation processes, political transitions, conflict sensitive approaches to development, youth engagement, and violence prevention, Patterson has worked in more than 12 countries throughout Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe supporting PST programs.

Brittney Dunkins is a D.C.-based writer and editor with a passion for storytelling and all things content. She spends her days tracking trends on the higher education beat for GW Today and her nights pursuing an MBA in marketing communications at the George Washington University.

Based in Beijing, Brooke Avory is a manager in BSR’s global Partnership Development team. BSR works with its global network of more than 250 member companies to build a just and sustainable world. Ms. Avory's professional interests include sustainable development, cross-sector partnerships, and strategic philanthropy.

Bruce Byiers is a policy officer in the economic transformation team at the European Center for Development Policy Management, where he has worked since May 2011. He is currently working on issues related to the growing call to "engage the private sector for development," domestic resource mobilization, private sector investment in agriculture under CAADP, regional integration initiatives, aid for trade and trade facilitation.

Bruce Campbell is the director of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security and a staff member of the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). He was previously based in Zimbabwe, Indonesia and Australia, where he has worked in agricultural and forestry research for development. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles and more than a dozen books.

Bruce Campbell is the global coordinator of UNFPA’s Data for Development platform and sponsor of UNFPA’s innovation initiative. UNFPA is the lead United Nations agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.