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Russian journalist and APB speaker Dmitry Muratov has made good on his promise to sell his 2021 Nobel Peace Prize medal to help Ukrainian child refugees. On World Refugee Day in June, he sold the medal at auction for $103.5 million. All proceeds will go to UNICEF's humanitarian response for Ukrainian ​children displaced by war. 

Joanne “Coach P” McCallie, former NCAA Division I women’s basketball head coach for 28 years, has taken on her greatest role yet. She is forging a path to destigmatizing mental health and is coaching those afflicted to paths for full and productive lives. She knows what worked for her as an elite coach under national scrutiny while protecting her secret—a mental health diagnosis hidden across years of her career so as not to impede her success or impact her family’s livelihood. In her high-energy speeches and leadership seminars, Coach P engages, educates and inspires with discussions on mental health, sports, faith and leadership.

Mike Hayes, former Commanding Officer of SEAL Team TWO and Author of Never Enough, was a recent guest on the Jocko Podcast. The show, hosted by retired Navy SEAL and fellow APB speaker Jocko Willink, focuses on discipline and leadership in business, war, relationships and everyday life.

With our online and offline lives becoming increasingly blurred, it is critical that individuals and organizations are equipped with tools and strategies for protecting their online space. The speakers below open our eyes to the vulnerabilities in our interconnected cyber world and empower audiences to take control of their security.

American democracy is at a crossroads and it's time to decide who we are as a nation. Written and narrated by APB exclusive speaker, award-winning author and Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr., History is US is a six-part audio documentary about race and the history of the United States produced and directed by C13Originals that asks questions about who we are as a nation, and what race might reveal about our current crisis.

Russian journalist and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dmitry Muratov has been named to Time magazine’s TIME100 Most Influential People List for 2022. Muratov was recognized in the Icons category.

APB speaker Vaclav Smil, a renowned expert on energy, environment, food and technical advances, was recently featured in The New York Times Magazine. The Q&A article focused on Smil’s view on climate change and how climate activists need “to get real.” Smil argues that the goal set at last fall’s 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference to reduce carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 is unrealistic. “This is undoable because there’s just eight years left, and emissions are still rising,” Smil says in the article. “People don’t appreciate the magnitude of the task and are setting up artificial deadlines which are unrealistic.”

A luminary emerging among CGI influencers, Joerg Zuber is taking the concept of digital communication to unconventional heights. His combined love for fashion, beauty, and self-expression led him to create Noonoouri, one of the most successful virtual influencers on Instagram with 374,000 followers and counting.

Imagine having lived two lives: 1) A highly successful Black corporate executive 2) A former gang member who served multiple prison sentences. Larry G. Miller seemed like he had it all. With hard work, leadership skills and lots of smarts, he climbed the corporate ladder and had risen to the pinnacle of success: leading Nike’s Jordan Brand from a $150 million sneaker company to a $4 billion global apparel juggernaut. And yet for the past five-plus decades, he has also been haunted by a violent act he committed at just 16-years-old and the subsequent years he spent in prison—a fact that he kept secret after being turned down for a job because of his record.

Is your business ready for the next phase of the internet? Experts in their fields, these speakers explain what means for you.