To fuel your sprint, we’re surrounding you with people who know how to build big things.
Every week during Hack Your Summer we host live, interactive fireside chats with leaders across aerospace, artificial intelligence, public policy, entertainment, and community organizing.
Speaker lineup
Cady Coleman
Chemist, retired U.S. Air Force colonel, and former NASA astronaut who logged over 4,300 hours in space across three missions, including a six-month stint aboard the International Space Station.
Reid Hoffman
Co-founder of LinkedIn, Inflection AI, and Manas AI, and an early investor in AirBNB, Facebook, and OpenAI. Partner at Greylock and host of the podcasts Masters of Scale and Possible.
Michelle Khare
YouTuber, TV host, stunt performer, actor, and former professional cyclist. Creator and host of the documentary series Challenge Accepted.
Franklin Leonard
Founder & CEO of the Black List, which he grew from an annual survey of Hollywood's most-liked unproduced screenplays into a discovery platform for new writers.
Jennifer Pahlka
Technologist and former founder of Code for America and U.S. Digital Response; also served as U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer, and is the author of Recoding America: Why Government is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better.
Vivek Murthy
Physician and public health advocate. Led national initiatives on mental health and loneliness as the 19th and 21st U.S. Surgeon General and a Vice Admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
Megan Smith
Entrepreneur, engineer, former 3rd U.S. Chief Technology Officer and Assistant to the President. Former VP at Google and CEO of Planet Out, now CEO of shift7.
Jeff Weiner
Former CEO of LinkedIn who led the company's growth through its IPO and acquisition by Microsoft. Now Executive Chairman of Next Play Ventures.
Plus live sessions and workshops with people who’ve built careers at:
18F — a16z — Adobe — Amazon — Anthropic — Apple — Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — Cisco — Council on Foreign Relations — Dell — Devoted Health — eBay — Eventbrite — Fast Company — GitHub — Google — IBM — Intel — LinkedIn — Lyft — Masters of Scale — Meta — Microsoft — NASA — the NBA — Nike — NOAA — NVIDIA — Oracle — PayPal — Pinterest — Salesforce — Smithsonian Museum of Natural History — Square — StitchFix — TED Conferences — Twitter / X — Wealthsimple — White House Office of Science & Technology — Yahoo! — Zoom
Including:
Alyssa Fu Ward, Executive coach and Data Scientist | Ex-Meta, Ex-Twitter
Angelica “Angie” Quirarte, Director of State Initiatives @ Recoding America | former White House Senior Advisor
Chris Kuang, Co-Founder and former Director of Operations @ Coding it Forward
Austin Steinhart, Data Visuals Editor @ Council on Foreign Relations
Brandon Middleton, Head of Education @ Replit | Adjunct @ Stanford & Campus.edu | ex-AWS
Christopher Goranson, Distinguished Professor & Director @ Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at CMU
Dan Whalin, Principal/Senior Director Agentic AI Developer Advocacy @ Microsoft/GitHub
Daniel Whiteson, Physics Prof @ UC Irvine | Podcast host and TV show creator for PBS Kids
Elizabeth Dwoskin:,Silicon Valley Correspondent @ The Washington Post | Pulitzer Prize winner
Jai Rodgers, Talent Community Manager @ U.S. Digital Response
Eve Troeh, Executive Producer @ Masters of Scale | Former Senior Editor/Producer at NYTimes, ESPN, and Marketplace.
Faye Zheng, Product, Life Sciences @ Datavant
Kyleigh Russ, Senior Director, Future of Government @ Democracy Forward
Harrison MacRae, Former Director of Emerging Technologies @ the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Jeff Luszcz, Staff Product Manager, Open Source Program Office @ GitHub
Kyle Frankovich, Senior Data Scientist @ Harvard | Ex-Apple
Laura Roenick, Partner & SVP, People @ United Talent Agency
Leslie Fine, Startup advisor & Founder @ Iremia Advisory
Marina Nitze, Crisis Engineer & Partner @ Layer Aleph | Former VA CTO
Sherman Leung, Emergency Physician @ Stanford | Venture @ a16z bio+health
Stephanie Mari, Coach @ Autotelia | Former Learning & Development Lead @ Alloy, Harry’s, and Better.com
Tony Bries, Senior Software Engineer @ GitHub
Ariana Soto, CEO and Co-Founder @ Coding it Forward
Tracy Mausisa, Director, Early Career Programs @ Gap Inc.
Trisha Prabhu, Founder and CEO @ ReThink Citizens
Vinay Reddy, former Chief Presidential Speechwriter | ex-VP Strategic Comms @ the NBA
Victoria Kui, Associate Manager, HR @ Trepp, Inc.
Interested in contributing your expertise?
Special thanks to our partners
We are thrilled to give Hack Your Summer participants direct access to resources, thanks to in-kind contributions from our generous partners.
