Keynote Speakers
Breakfast Keynote
Anirban Basu
 Anirban Basu is Chairman & CEO of Sage Policy Group, Inc., an economic and policy consulting firm in Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. Basu is one of the Mid-Atlantic region's most recognizable economists, in part because of his consulting work on behalf of numerous clients, including prominent developers, bankers, brokerage houses, energy suppliers and law firms. On behalf of government agencies and non-profit organizations, Mr. Basu has written several high-profile economic development strategies, including co-authoring Baltimore City's economic growth strategy.
Mr. Basu earned his B.S. in Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1990. He earned his Master's in Public Policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and his Master's in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park. His Juris Doctor was earned at the University of Maryland School of Law in 2003.
Luncheon Keynote
John Paling - “Surviving the Entrepreneurial Jungle”
 John Paling has enjoyed success in several interrelated careers. He started with 6 years teaching biology at Oxford University in England; then spent 23 years as an Emmy-awarded wildlife filmmaker for the National Geographic Society and PBS Nova. Then, after swimming with alligators over three years(!) he founded The Risk Communication Institute where he now teaches how to Manage Risks and Build Resilience in a wide variety of fields.
John uses examples from his time as a wildlife filmmaker to show that the forces of nature are not that different between the animal world and the world of entrepreneurs. We can all learn from Mother Nature's strategies for survival that have been proven over thousands of years of earth shattering changes.
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