Astronaut Ron Garan Joins Social Good Summit

The speakers roster for Social Good Summit — a three-day conference exploring how digital technology is impacting the world for good — is filling up fast. The Social Good Summit partners are hard at work planning sessions that address all of the world's greatest challenges, and the following new speakers have great messages:

Ron Garan: Astronaut Ron Garan has traveled 71,075,867 miles in 2,842 orbits around the Earth. Garan is also passionate about openness, collaboration and transparency, especially in government. He was involved in NASA's Open Innovation Initiative, and he's been involved with many global mass collaboration and citizen science programs. Garan's entrepreneurial spirit shines through numerous projects like Unity Node, which seeks to develop a universal, open source, collaborative platform to enable humanitarian organizations around the world to work together toward common goals.