​What happens when cultural thought leaders, education innovators, investors, futurists, pioneers, and AI experts gather with a shared commitment to shape the future?

​You get a room that stops predicting what’s coming and starts building it.

​This gathering is a collaboration between the Lewis Latimer Fellowship Program and Dream Machine Academy.  These two forces are preparing decision-makers who will define the next decade.

​The Lewis Latimer Fellowship Program has cultivated a global cohort of innovators fluent in technology, design and systems thinking. They know how to move bold ideas from concept to reality.

​Dream Machine Academy ensures that underestimated and overlooked communities are not just participants in the future-but architects, owners and leaders of it.

​Together, we’ll explore how leaders with an exponential mindset are reshaping education, capital formation, virtual world-building and global systems.

​In Partnership with Bank of America / Merrill — Brunk, Klevan & Associates.

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​AGENDA

​Future of Education: Designing the “Unicorn Ranch”

​Willie Deese, Deese School of Business, North Carolina A&T

​Jon Cropper, Lewis Latimer Fellowship Program

​Van Jones, Dream Machine Academy

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​Black Unicorn Case Study: Reginald Lewis

​Jesse Wineberry & Jenell Randall , Producers of Reginald Lewis Biopic starring Jamie Foxx

​Moderator: Jon Cropper 

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​From Players to Worldbuilders: Imagination, Play, and Participation in the Future

​D. Fox Harrell, Director of the MIT Virtuality Lab and Latimer Fellow

​Titus Walker, CEO of Ultimate Endgamers League and Latimer Fellow

​Lisa Dyson, Founder and CEO of Air Protein and Latimer Fellow

​Karla Ballard, Founder and CEO of HUMN

​Inayah Bashir (Moderator) Dream Machine Academy

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​Fireside Chat: Exponential Mindset 

​Nichol Bradford, Executive in Residence, AI + Human Enablement, The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

​Steve Pargett, Dream Machine Academy

​Networking + Ideation