Past Speakers

Sylvia Acevedo - CEO, CommuniCard, LLC
Eddie Aldrete - Senior Vice President, IBC Bank
Jose Aliseda - State Representative, R-Beeville
Lucia Athens - Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Austin
Joseph S. Bailes - Vice Chairman, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
Katherine Barnett-White - Sustainability Administrator, City of Denton
Charles E. Begley - Professor, University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston
Nora Belcher - Executive Director, Texas e-Health Alliance
Spencer Berthelsen - Managing Director, Kelsey-Seybold Clinic
David Blackmon - Senior Adviser for Government and External Affairs, El Paso Exploration and Production Company
Dan Branch - State Representative, R-Dallas
Michael Burgess - U.S. Representative, R-Lewisville
Fred Burton - Vice President of Intelligence, STRATFOR
Meria Joel Carstarphen - Superintendent, Austin Independent School District
Julián Castro - Mayor, San Antonio
Garnet Coleman - State Representative, D-Houston
John Cornyn - U.S. Senator
Henry Cuellar - U.S. Representative, D-Laredo
Curtis Culwell - Superintendent, Garland Independent School District
Dianne White Delisi - Former State Representative, R-Temple
H.B. “Trip” Doggett - President and C.E.O., Electric Reliability Council of Texas
Raymond N. DuBois Jr. - Provost and Executive Vice President, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Ian Duncan - Associate Director and Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, UT-Austin
Anne Dunkelberg - Associate Director, Center for Public Policy Priorities
Rob Eissler - State Representative, R-The Woodlands
Blake Farenthold - U.S. Representative, R-Corpus Christi
Steven Farr - Chief Knowledge Officer, Teach for America
Jessica Farrar - State Representative, D-Houston
Mike Feinberg - KIPP Co-Founder and Superintendent, KIPP Houston
John M. Folks - Superintendent, Northside Independent School District
Charles C. Foster - Co-Chairman, FosterQuan, LLP
Chad Foster - Former Mayor, Eagle Pass
Justin Furnace - President, Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association
Tony Garza - Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Jeanne Goka - Principal, Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders
Veronica Gonzales - State Representative, D-McAllen
Lisa Graybill - Legal Director, ACLU of Texas
Jay Harvey - Partner, Winckler & Harvey, L.L.P
Talmadge Heflin - Director, Texas Public Policy Foundation's Center for Fiscal Policy
Scott Hochberg - State Representative, D-Houston
Laura Huffman - Executive Director, the Nature Conservancy of Texas
Michael Hull - Partner, Hull Hendricks, L.L.P.
David A. Hyman - Director, Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy at the University of Illinois
Alejandro Junco de la Vega - Publisher, Grupo Reforma
Gregory Kallenberg - Director, "Haynesville: A Nation's Hunt for an Energy Future"
James L. Keffer - State Representative, R-Eastland
Renu Khator - Chancellor, University of Houston System; President, University of Houston
Chris Lash - Renewable Resources Manager, City of McAllen
Leo Linbeck III - President and CEO, Aquinas Companies
R. Bowen Loftin - President, Texas A&M University
Howard Marcus - Chairman, Texas Alliance for Patient Access
Dee Margo - State Representative, R-El Paso
James D. Marston - Director, National Energy Program at the Environmental Defense Fund
Thomas G. Mason - Former General Manager, Lower Colorado River Authority
Michael McCaul - U.S. Representative, R-Austin
F. Scott McCown - Executive Director, Center for Public Policy Priorities
Don McLeroy - Former Chairman, State Board of Education
Kathy Miller - President, Texas Freedom Network
Laura Miller - Texas Director of Projects, Summit Power
Steve H. Murdock - Former Director of the U.S. Census Bureau
Héctor Murguía Lardizábal - Mayor, Ciudad Juárez
Amy Myers Jaffe - Director of the Energy Forum at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University
Diana Natalicio - President, the University of Texas at El Paso
Dan Patrick - State Senator, R-Houston
Jerry Patterson - Texas Land Commissioner
Deborah Peel - Founder and Chair, Patient Privacy Rights
Aaron Peña - State Representative, R-Edinburg
T. Boone Pickens - Chairman, BP Capital Management
Bill Powers - President, The University of Texas at Austin
Thomas Ratliff - Member, State Board of Education
Silvestre Reyes - U.S. Representative, D-El Paso
Richard M. Rhodes - Incoming President, Austin Community College
Cecile Richards - President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Allan Ritter - State Representative, R-Nederland
José Rodríguez - State Senator, D-El Paso
J. James Rohack - Former President, American Medical Association
Jonathan Saenz - Director of Legislative Affairs, Liberty Institute
Raul G. Salinas - Mayor, Laredo
Andrew Sansom - Executive Director, River Systems Institute
Robert Scott - Texas Commissioner of Education
Thomas A. Shannon, Jr. - U.S. Ambassador to Brazil
Florence Shapiro - State Senator, R-Plano
Bryan W. Shaw - Chairman, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Tom “Smitty” Smith - Director of Public Citizen’s Texas Office
Barry T. Smitherman - Texas Railroad Commissioner
Laura Spanjian - Director, Office of Sustainability, City of Houston
Margaret Spellings - Former U.S. Secretary of Education
Mary Beth Stanek - Director, Federal Environment and Energy Federal Affairs, General Motors Company
Todd Staples - Commissioner, Texas Department of Agriculture
Michael Stearns - President and CEO, e-MDs
Tom Suehs - Executive Commissioner, Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Neera Tanden - Former Senior Obama Adviser on Health Reform
Doug Ulman - President and CEO, Lance Armstrong Foundation
Michael Webber - Associate Director, Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Texas at Austin
Arlene Wohlgemuth - Executive Director, Texas Public Policy Foundation
Judith Zaffirini - State Senator, D-Laredo
John Zerwas - State Representative, R-Simonton