June 18, 2026, 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM CST Chicago Council Conference Center

Cohort, 2017, Industry, Business & Consulting, Sector, Private Sector, Based in Chicago, Julie Steffen-Layda leads the Midwest hub for the international desk for JLL. In this role, she is responsible for expanding the growth of the company's international business across the Americas, Europe, the...

Cohort, 2017, Industry, Law, Sector, Private Sector, Kruti Trivedi is previously an assistant US attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, where she served in the securities and commodities fraud section. A federal prosecutor based in Chicago, Trivedi has investigated and prosecuted a wide ...

Cohort, 2014, Industry, Business & Consulting, Sector, Non-profit, Before joining the Zeno Group, Courtney Thompson served as Boeing's government operations leader for the Great Lakes region, which included Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. In this capacity, she led the compa...

Cohort, 2011, Industry, Advocacy & International Development, Sector, Academia, Before teaching at the University of Rochester, Milena Novy-Marx worked at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, co-leading a two-year effort to develop the foundation’s initiative on global migration a...

Cohort, 2014, Industry, Law, Sector, Private Sector, Before joining Boeing, Anthony P. Garcia was with the US Department of Justice. His last assignment was to the gangs and narcotics section in the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois. He served as the US Department of Just...

Cohort, 2025, Industry, Law, Sector, Private Sector, Social Media, Michael R. Jarecki is the principal and founding attorney of Jarecki Law Group, LLC, a Chicago-based full-service United States immigration law firm, and he’s a board member of the Federal Bar Association’s Immigration Law Sec...

Cohort, 2025, Industry, Education, Sector, Private Sector, Social Media, Matt Meltzer is the founder and CEO of Sage Corps, an international internship program that sends college students to work abroad with entrepreneurs at tech startups. Before Sage Corps, he was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, ...

Cohort, 2025, Industry, Banking & Finance, Sector, Private Sector, Social Media, In the financial services industry since 2013, Ryan Schomburg currently works for HSBC Asset Management where he assists corporate clients with their investment needs. Previously, he worked in corporate banking relat...