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Justin Harlan is the Managing Director of Experience Tulsa and Tulsa Remote, the largest remote worker relocation program in the country, which has helped nearly 4,000 remote workers move to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they have thrived with the support of their own managers and in-person community. Publications such as the Harvard Business Review and the Brookings Institution have studied Tulsa Remote as a prominent example of how remote work attraction programs are reversing the brain drain in smaller U.S. cities and have confirmed the economic impact of the program.

Justin has represented Tulsa Remote at international conferences like Web Summit and Collision Conference, where he has shared the power of the program’s community-building efforts and the benefits of remote work. Justin has dedicated his career to educational equity and entrepreneurialism. He previously served as the Senior Executive Director for Reading Partners Tulsa and while there, the organization worked with over 5,000 Tulsa area students, annually engaging over 1,500 community volunteers each program year.

Justin launched his career with Teach For America-Oklahoma when it opened in Tulsa in 2009, and quickly rose through the organization as it expanded across the state. Justin’s passion for promoting community growth and development extends to his personal life as well. He and his wife, Megan, run two fitness studios in Tulsa – Pure Barre South Tulsa and Row House South Tulsa. Justin holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Tulsa.

Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury is a Professor of Organisation Behaviour in the Management Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a globally recognized expert on the Future of Work. Prior to LSE, he served on the faculties at Wharton and Harvard Business School. In 2023, Forbes included him in their Future of Work 50 list, and in 2024 he was included in the TIME-Charter 30 list of thought leaders shaping the future of work. He is also an Associate Editor at Management Science and Strategic Management Journal and incoming co-Editor in Chief at Journal of Organization Design.

Raj studies how technology is changing where we work and how we work and has pioneered research on how ‘Work from anywhere’ (WFA) affects workers, organisations, communities, and smaller towns. He also studies the impact of AI on organisations and how AI, automation and Digital Twins can help both desk workers and deskless workers work from anywhere. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as Organization Science, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Development Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics and The Review of Financial Studies. His book, ‘The World is Your Office’ was published in April 2025 and became a National Bestseller in the United States.

His research has been cited by the BBC, CNN, Financial Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Forbes, Fortune, Freakonomics, Al Jazeera, El País, and Times of India, among other outlets. He has delivered keynotes and provided advice on the future of work to organizations as diverse as Atlassian, the British Parliament, the Council on Foreign Relations, Deel, Google, ITC, Young Presidents’ Organization, and the United Nations. Prior to academia, he worked at McKinsey & Company and Microsoft, obtained his doctorate from Harvard and earned degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Rebecca Hinds is the Head of the Work AI Institute at Glean, where she partners with leading AI experts to research how AI is transforming organizations. She holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Stanford University, where she studied how AI is reshaping the workplace and was awarded the prestigious Stanford Graduate Interdisciplinary Fellowship—one of the highest honors for doctoral students pursuing cross-disciplinary research.

From 2022 to 2025, Rebecca founded and led the Work Innovation Lab at Asana, pioneering bold, research-driven solutions to some of today's biggest workplace challenges. Rebecca is the bestselling author of Your Best Meeting Ever: 7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done.

Rebecca's work is consistently published in outlets like Harvard Business Review, Inc., Forbes, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, WIRED, CNBC, Fast Company, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, and TIME, as well as top academic journals like Organization Science and CSCW. She has spoken on major stages around the world—including SXSW, Dreamforce, INBOUND, and Ai4—and has appeared on top podcasts like Adam Grant's WorkLife.

Timothy J. Bartik is a Senior Economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, a nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization, where he has worked since 1989. He co-directs the Institute's research initiative on policies for place.

Bartik's research focuses on how broad-based prosperity can be advanced through better local labor market policies. This includes both policies affecting labor demand, such as state and local economic development policies, and policies affecting labor supply, such as place-based scholarships, early childhood programs,  and remote worker attraction programs.  

His 1991 book, Who Benefits from State and Local Economic Development Policies?, is widely cited as an important and influential review of the evidence on how local policies affect economic development. His 2019 book, Making Sense of Incentives: Taming Business Incentives to Promote Prosperity, continues that line of work. His 2011 book, Investing in Kids, examined how early childhood programs could promote local economic development.

More recently, Bartik has written many reports and articles outlining how governments can create broad-based prosperity in distressed local labor markets and neighborhoods. These reports include: How State Governments Can Target Job Opportunities to Distressed Places (2022); Federal and State Governments Can Help Solve the Employment Problems of People in Distressed Places to Spur Equitable Growth (2024); The Effects of Tulsa Remote on Inducing Moves to Tulsa: Estimates and Implications (2025).

Bartik received his B.A. from Yale University in political philosophy in 1975, and both his M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1982. Prior to joining the Upjohn Institute, he was an assistant professor of economics at Vanderbilt University.

Bonnie Dilber is a recruiting leader at Zapier and a long-time advocate for equity and transparency in hiring. A former educator, she manages Zapier's business recruiting team and has become one of the most influential voices in HR and career development on social media, with over 500,000 LinkedIn followers, 96,000 TikTok followers, and 20,000 Instagram followers.

Bonnie is known for bringing transparency to recruiting and hiring processes—helping job seekers understand the rules of the game and empowering them to navigate interviews, compensation negotiations, and remote work.

Before joining Zapier in 2021, she spent years in the education and nonprofit sectors, with Teach For America and IDEA Public Schools, where she managed a team that filled 1,500+ positions annually across 96 schools in Texas and Louisiana.

Her insights have been featured in Fortune, the BBC, the Huffington Post, and more. She also runs a newsletter on beehiiv where she answers reader questions and offers free career coaching resources.

Liba Wenig Rubenstein is the Director of the Future of Work Initiative at the Aspen Institute and co-founder of its Business Roundtable on Organized Labor. In these roles, she works to bridge the gaps between American workers and business leaders to shape a future of shared prosperity and resilient democracy.

Previously, Liba was the founding and lead social impact executive at MySpace, Tumblr, and 21st Century Fox, where she pioneered ways to harness companies' financial, human, cultural, and technological resources for social, civic, and environmental progress. She helped found the Civic Alliance, chaired the board of premier youth vote organization the Alliance for Youth Organizing, and served as a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Sustainable Consumption.

She has also advised nonprofits including Pop Culture Collaborative, KW Foundation, Vote.org, Social Impact Fund, CARE, Civic Nation, Why Tuesday?, and Invisible Children. She is a co-author of "The Labor-Savvy Leader," published in the Harvard Business Review (July–August 2023). Liba is a graduate of Yale University.

Allison Vendt is VP, People Operations & Head of Employee Experience at Dropbox, where she leads several teams dedicated to employee and workplace experience. In 2020, she spearheaded Dropbox’s efforts to create Virtual First, the working model of the future, and continues to lead efforts around advancing and evolving the operating model alongside modern work. Virtual First has been featured in Fortune, Time, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, and more for its unique approach to optimizing the remote-first work experience.

Prior to her current role, Allison spent a decade in a variety of learning and organizational development roles at Dropbox and in the education sector, as well as several years in advertising for clients like Coca-Cola, Marriott, and Clorox. Allison holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and a master's degree from New York University.

Jared Lindzon is a freelance journalist, author, and public speaker who has reported on technology and the future of work for over a dozen years. His first book, Do More in Four: Why It’s Time for a Shorter Workweek, serves as a rallying cry for the four-day workweek in the AI era, offering original case studies, research and playbooks for adoption. The book was co-authored by shorter workweek pioneer and CEO of Work Time Revolution Joe O'Connor, and published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2026.

Lindzon has also contributed articles to many of the world’s top news publications, including TIME, the BBC, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star.

As a public speaker Lindzon delivers keynote presentations on the future of work in the age of AI and appears on panels alongside some of the world’s leading business, political, and cultural leaders.

Born, raised, and based in Toronto, Lindzon earned a Master of Arts in Journalism degree from the University of Western Ontario, where he also received a Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies and a minor in Creative Writing.