Month: April 2025

PG&E Builds Upon Risk-Informed Safety Actions That Prevented Major Wildfires in 2023 and 2024

OAKLAND, Calif., April 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Building upon proven layers of protection that ensured no major wildfires resulted from the company’s equipment in 2023 and 2024 and infused with technological innovation, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today shared its robust, risk-informed strategy to continue that progress in light of an ever-changing climate. 

PG&E’s 2026-2028 Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP), submitted to California’s Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety (Energy Safety), details the company’s relentless actions to construct, maintain and operate its system to minimize the risk of catastrophic wildfires and help keep its customers and hometowns safe. The plan fully integrates high-tech tools and solutions including inspecting assets with drones, using artificial intelligence to improve weather forecasts and installing sophisticated sensors that can detect vibrations, sounds and light that could indicate potential anomalies on an electric circuit that could lead to an ignition. 

PG&E’s WMP outlines critical layers of protection that work together to reduce wildfire ignition risk and strengthen PG&E’s electric grid in Northern and Central California locations where risk is most severe. These measures include strengthening 570 miles of overhead powerlines and poles; putting nearly 1,100 more miles of powerlines underground; using drones to get a bird’s-eye view of electric assets; benefitting from a mature network of weather station and high-definition cameras with AI; trimming trees and more. 

When wildfire risk is elevated, these efforts are bolstered with highly-effective operational mitigations such as Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings (EPSS), and Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) that protect customers.   

“Our system is safer today than it was yesterday, and it will be even safer tomorrow. Our Wildfire Mitigation Plan employs multiple layers of protection we’re using to stop catastrophic wildfires in our hometowns. The combination of tools, technology and the expertise of our coworkers is working to mitigate risk, reduce ignitions and prevent catastrophic wildfires,” said PG&E Executive Vice President, Operations and Chief Operating Officer Sumeet Singh.  

“Our focus on improving customer experience related to our wildfire mitigation efforts is unwavering,” Singh said. “We want — and we know our customers deserve — a future where both, safe and reliable service, is a reality. We are working every day to make that possible.”  

Technology for Today and Tomorrow
Even as capabilities such as wildfire cameras, weather stations and our 24/7/365 Hazard Awareness & Warning Center (HAWC) mature and become more beneficial, PG&E continues to seek out innovative technologies in the wildfire space. For example, the utility is in the early stages of building real-time monitoring to obtain more dynamic insights into the state of electric assets in light of weather volatility. 

The WMP introduces multiple new technology solutions that are being tested, evaluated and, in some cases, deployed in concert with proven wildfire risk reduction programs, including the following:  

• Gridscope devices. Gridscope pilot deployment started in 2023 and expanded in 2024 with more than 10,000 Gridscope devices now in use across 900 circuit miles (or approximately 3.5% of miles in areas with the highest fire risk) These pole-mounted sensors can detect vibrations, sounds and light that could indicate potential anomalies that could lead to an ignition. In July 2024, during a record-setting heat wave, an electric troubleshooter who traveled to a location identified via a Gridscope alert found vegetation smoldering on an energized line. The line was de-energized, averting an ignition and possible wildfire. PG&E’s evaluation of the devices continues as wider deployment is considered. 
• Early Fault Detection (EFD). It’s like the power grid’s version of the check-engine light in your car. Thanks to PG&E’s new radio frequency (RF) monitoring technology, a growing network of EFD sensors on power poles provide a comprehensive understanding of emerging equipment hazards such as damaged conductor strands or vegetation encroachment that would otherwise be challenging to detect. Promising early results have led PG&E to consider expanding deployment of advanced RF technology. These purposeful investments in technology could change the paradigm of utility asset management. 
• Aerial Span Inspections. This new inspection tool gets added eyes-on-risk on equipment in areas of extreme wildfire risk. Leveraging aerial inspections in 2024 (220,000 poles) and 2025, the span inspections will entail a review of a streamlined, specialized set of photos tailored to identify conditions on equipment that pose the highest risk, including locations mid-span (between poles). These inspections will take place in the middle of the established three-year inspection cycle and be piloted in 2026-2028. 

Proven Layers of Protection  
The WMP highlights layers of protection that have proven to be effective in reducing wildfire risk. Using these tools, no major wildfires resulted from the company’s equipment in 2023 and 2024.  

• Undergrounding powerlines in high fire-risk areas is a permanent protection that reduces the ignition risk from overhead electric distribution lines. PG&E plans to underground 1,077 miles of powerlines between 2026 and 2028.  
• Overhead System Upgrades such as installing covered conductor, strengthened poles, and wider crossarms will provide long-term ignition risk reduction by improving how the grid is constructed and operated. The WMP calls for making these overhead upgrades across 190 circuit miles each year of 2026, 2027 and 2028, resulting in 570 miles over three years. 
• Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings protect 1.8 million PG&E customers living and working in areas with elevated or extreme wildfire risk. In 2024, these settings contributed to more than 72% reduction in California Public Utilities Commission-reportable ignitions when enabled on primary distribution lines, compared to the 2018-2020 average. More than half of customers protected by EPSS did not experience a power outage while EPSS was enabled in 2024.  

PG&E recognizes that outages on EPSS-enabled circuits, when they do occur, are an inconvenience. Through the end of 2024, the average duration of outages on an EPSS-enabled circuit decreased 17% from the prior two-year average. PG&E also will install additional sectionalizing devices and animal/avian protection equipment to further reduce the impact of EPSS outages.  

• Vegetation Management programs continue to evolve using a data-driven, risk-informed approach to help reduce both outages and potential ignitions caused by vegetation contacting PG&E’s equipment.   
• Inspections and Repair Efforts are informed by risk models and are part of comprehensive monitoring and data collection programs providing insight into changing environmental hazards around assets to inform mitigation actions.   
• Situational Awareness Improvements include enabling artificial intelligence to process wildfire camera data and provide automated wildfire notifications. PG&E will continue using state-of-the-art weather forecasting and a comprehensive monitoring and data collection network that uses high-definition wildfire cameras and weather stations to help detect, prevent, and respond to the risk of wildfires.  
• Public Safety Power Shutoffs are a last resort during extreme weather conditions to reduce the risk of catastrophic fire. PG&E’s experienced meteorologists use cutting-edge weather models to forecast risk on a granular basis and factor in vegetation in proximity to overhead electrical lines. In recent years, PG&E’s use of PSPS has evolved and been refined in terms of the size and duration of events. In 2023, three PSPS outages affected 5,000 customers. With 2024’s more severe weather, PG&E initiated six PSPS events protecting 50,000 customers in 23 counties.    

About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is a combined natural gas and electric utility serving more than 16 million people across 70,000 square miles in Northern and Central California. For more information, visit pge.com and pge.com/news.

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PG&E Builds Upon Risk-Informed Safety Actions That Prevented Major Wildfires in 2023 and 2024

OAKLAND, Calif., April 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Building upon proven layers of protection that ensured no major wildfires resulted from the company’s equipment in 2023 and 2024 and infused with technological innovation, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today shared its robust, risk-informed strategy to continue that progress in light of an ever-changing climate. 

PG&E’s 2026-2028 Wildfire Mitigation Plan (WMP), submitted to California’s Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety (Energy Safety), details the company’s relentless actions to construct, maintain and operate its system to minimize the risk of catastrophic wildfires and help keep its customers and hometowns safe. The plan fully integrates high-tech tools and solutions including inspecting assets with drones, using artificial intelligence to improve weather forecasts and installing sophisticated sensors that can detect vibrations, sounds and light that could indicate potential anomalies on an electric circuit that could lead to an ignition. 

PG&E’s WMP outlines critical layers of protection that work together to reduce wildfire ignition risk and strengthen PG&E’s electric grid in Northern and Central California locations where risk is most severe. These measures include strengthening 570 miles of overhead powerlines and poles; putting nearly 1,100 more miles of powerlines underground; using drones to get a bird’s-eye view of electric assets; benefitting from a mature network of weather station and high-definition cameras with AI; trimming trees and more. 

When wildfire risk is elevated, these efforts are bolstered with highly-effective operational mitigations such as Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings (EPSS), and Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) that protect customers.   

“Our system is safer today than it was yesterday, and it will be even safer tomorrow. Our Wildfire Mitigation Plan employs multiple layers of protection we’re using to stop catastrophic wildfires in our hometowns. The combination of tools, technology and the expertise of our coworkers is working to mitigate risk, reduce ignitions and prevent catastrophic wildfires,” said PG&E Executive Vice President, Operations and Chief Operating Officer Sumeet Singh.  

“Our focus on improving customer experience related to our wildfire mitigation efforts is unwavering,” Singh said. “We want — and we know our customers deserve — a future where both, safe and reliable service, is a reality. We are working every day to make that possible.”  

Technology for Today and Tomorrow
Even as capabilities such as wildfire cameras, weather stations and our 24/7/365 Hazard Awareness & Warning Center (HAWC) mature and become more beneficial, PG&E continues to seek out innovative technologies in the wildfire space. For example, the utility is in the early stages of building real-time monitoring to obtain more dynamic insights into the state of electric assets in light of weather volatility. 

The WMP introduces multiple new technology solutions that are being tested, evaluated and, in some cases, deployed in concert with proven wildfire risk reduction programs, including the following:  

• Gridscope devices. Gridscope pilot deployment started in 2023 and expanded in 2024 with more than 10,000 Gridscope devices now in use across 900 circuit miles (or approximately 3.5% of miles in areas with the highest fire risk) These pole-mounted sensors can detect vibrations, sounds and light that could indicate potential anomalies that could lead to an ignition. In July 2024, during a record-setting heat wave, an electric troubleshooter who traveled to a location identified via a Gridscope alert found vegetation smoldering on an energized line. The line was de-energized, averting an ignition and possible wildfire. PG&E’s evaluation of the devices continues as wider deployment is considered. 
• Early Fault Detection (EFD). It’s like the power grid’s version of the check-engine light in your car. Thanks to PG&E’s new radio frequency (RF) monitoring technology, a growing network of EFD sensors on power poles provide a comprehensive understanding of emerging equipment hazards such as damaged conductor strands or vegetation encroachment that would otherwise be challenging to detect. Promising early results have led PG&E to consider expanding deployment of advanced RF technology. These purposeful investments in technology could change the paradigm of utility asset management. 
• Aerial Span Inspections. This new inspection tool gets added eyes-on-risk on equipment in areas of extreme wildfire risk. Leveraging aerial inspections in 2024 (220,000 poles) and 2025, the span inspections will entail a review of a streamlined, specialized set of photos tailored to identify conditions on equipment that pose the highest risk, including locations mid-span (between poles). These inspections will take place in the middle of the established three-year inspection cycle and be piloted in 2026-2028. 

Proven Layers of Protection  
The WMP highlights layers of protection that have proven to be effective in reducing wildfire risk. Using these tools, no major wildfires resulted from the company’s equipment in 2023 and 2024.  

• Undergrounding powerlines in high fire-risk areas is a permanent protection that reduces the ignition risk from overhead electric distribution lines. PG&E plans to underground 1,077 miles of powerlines between 2026 and 2028.  
• Overhead System Upgrades such as installing covered conductor, strengthened poles, and wider crossarms will provide long-term ignition risk reduction by improving how the grid is constructed and operated. The WMP calls for making these overhead upgrades across 190 circuit miles each year of 2026, 2027 and 2028, resulting in 570 miles over three years. 
• Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings protect 1.8 million PG&E customers living and working in areas with elevated or extreme wildfire risk. In 2024, these settings contributed to more than 72% reduction in California Public Utilities Commission-reportable ignitions when enabled on primary distribution lines, compared to the 2018-2020 average. More than half of customers protected by EPSS did not experience a power outage while EPSS was enabled in 2024.  

PG&E recognizes that outages on EPSS-enabled circuits, when they do occur, are an inconvenience. Through the end of 2024, the average duration of outages on an EPSS-enabled circuit decreased 17% from the prior two-year average. PG&E also will install additional sectionalizing devices and animal/avian protection equipment to further reduce the impact of EPSS outages.  

• Vegetation Management programs continue to evolve using a data-driven, risk-informed approach to help reduce both outages and potential ignitions caused by vegetation contacting PG&E’s equipment.   
• Inspections and Repair Efforts are informed by risk models and are part of comprehensive monitoring and data collection programs providing insight into changing environmental hazards around assets to inform mitigation actions.   
• Situational Awareness Improvements include enabling artificial intelligence to process wildfire camera data and provide automated wildfire notifications. PG&E will continue using state-of-the-art weather forecasting and a comprehensive monitoring and data collection network that uses high-definition wildfire cameras and weather stations to help detect, prevent, and respond to the risk of wildfires.  
• Public Safety Power Shutoffs are a last resort during extreme weather conditions to reduce the risk of catastrophic fire. PG&E’s experienced meteorologists use cutting-edge weather models to forecast risk on a granular basis and factor in vegetation in proximity to overhead electrical lines. In recent years, PG&E’s use of PSPS has evolved and been refined in terms of the size and duration of events. In 2023, three PSPS outages affected 5,000 customers. With 2024’s more severe weather, PG&E initiated six PSPS events protecting 50,000 customers in 23 counties.    

About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is a combined natural gas and electric utility serving more than 16 million people across 70,000 square miles in Northern and Central California. For more information, visit pge.com and pge.com/news.

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PITTSBURGH, April 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — “I wanted to create a new solar energy collector that would better blend in with the natural outdoor landscape,” said an inventor, from West Delray Beach, Fla., “so I invented the SILENT ENERGY SOLAR TREE. My unique design in solar energy collection would be not only functionally more efficient, and effective, but also more visually pleasing. By using a volume based rather than an area-based approach for solar energy collection.”

The invention provides an improved solar energy collection system. In doing so, it offers a more effective and natural-looking alternative to currently popular rooftop solar energy systems. As well as would provide a higher-power output with a smaller footprint in comparison to a traditional flat panel solar cell-based system. As a result, it provides an enhanced visual appearance, and it could harvest more solar energy. The invention features an environmentally friendly, attractive, and modular design that is easy to install, expandable, and mobile. Thus, it is ideal for homes and urban areas where space is limited.

The original design was submitted to the Fort Lauderdale sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 23-FJK-496, InventHelp, 100 Beecham Drive, Suite 110, Pittsburgh, PA 15205-9801, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp’s Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com. 

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BEIJING, April 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On the occasion of World Health Day 2025, Power Construction Corporation of China (“POWERCHINA” or “the Company”) is celebrating the recent construction and handover of multiple hospitals in Laos and Peru. This initiative underscores POWERCHINA ‘s consistent commitment to building a global health community through concrete actions.

Themed “Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures,” this year’s World Health Day calls on governments and the healthcare community to accelerate efforts to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths, and to prioritize women’s longer-term health and well-being. POWERCHINA’s recently completed construction and handover of multiple hospitals in Peru and Laos directly address these goals by providing comprehensive support for local healthcare systems, ranging from infrastructure development and the expansion of medical resources to technology transfer and talent training, with a particular emphasis on contributing tangible efforts toward improving long-term health and well-being for mothers and children.

Since entering Laos in 1996, POWERCHINA has leveraged its technical expertise to deliver high-quality projects, boosting the economy and national development. The opening of Luang Prabang Hospital has enhanced healthcare in northern Laos and exemplifies China–Laos health cooperation. It is the first Chinese government aid project POWERCHINA helped to construct and hand over in Laos. Construction began in September 2022 and was completed in July2024. The project includes 5,918 square meters of new construction and 8,308 square meters of renovations, featuring surgery and cardiovascular buildings, apartments, and sewage treatment facilities. Dr. Phouvana, hospital director, noted the hospital’s dedicated toilet and barrier-free passage benefit women and babies, while independent operating rooms ensure female patients’ privacy.

Huancayo Libertad Hospital, located at 3,259 meters above sea level, is the third hospital officially handed over by POWERCHINA in Peru and the largest modern facility in the area. Spanning 13,000 square meters, it consists of a five-story main building and four one-story auxiliary structures. The hospital features 42 beds, a comprehensive operating room, a delivery room, outpatient and emergency care areas, laboratories, and advanced medical equipment. Serving 120,000 residents, it created over 200 medical jobs and significantly improves local healthcare. Dr. José Chávez praised its obstetric equipment and neonatal intensive care unit. San Ignacio Hospital, the only comprehensive hospital in northern Cajamarca, spans 7,599 square meters with four floors and 40 beds. Benefiting 150,000 residents, the projects are of great significance for ensuring the level of basic medical services in cities and promoting the development of urban medical systems. Local resident Juan Calderón highlighted the hospital’s convenience, reducing long travel times for care.

In addition to the recently completed hospital projects in Peru and Laos, POWERCHINA is also constructing hospitals in Angola, Equatorial Guinea, and Colombia. These projects have significantly enhanced local healthcare services, created jobs, and advanced infrastructure, demonstrating China’s active role in global health governance and humanitarian cooperation. By providing modern facilities, expanding medical resources, and enhancing emergency and inpatient care, POWERCHINA is aligned with the World Health Organization’s call for global cooperation to improve maternal and infant health by improving accessibility and bolstering public health resilience. POWERCHINA’s ongoing efforts will continue to contribute to a more equitable and accessible global health system, inspiring confidence and progress.

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Dial®, the #1 Teacher recommended antibacterial hand soap*, continues to support teachers and students in classrooms across the country through national partnership with U.S. Soccer

STAMFORD, Conn., April 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Henkel’s Dial® brand, a trusted brand for over 75 years, is proud to announce its new ‘Clean Sheet’ program partnership with the U.S. Soccer Federation. As part of this program, Dial® will donate an initial $50,000 to DonorsChoose, an education nonprofit that supports public school teachers and students nationwide, and for every clean sheet in a U.S. Senior National Team soccer match, Dial® will donate an additional $5,000 for a total contribution of $100,000 over the next year.  Dial® hopes to engage soccer fans as they cheer on the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Teams while giving back to the teachers who do so much for students around the country.

“Preventing the opposing team from scoring any goals, delivers a ‘clean sheet’ match for the winning team. This is a mark of defensive excellence and is a significant achievement for both the goalkeeper and the entire defensive line, demonstrating the power of teams,” said Phil Schaffer, Corporate Senior Vice President of Henkel Consumer Brands North America. “Like the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Teams, Henkel’s success is also driven by our passion for team play, which is why we are so excited to not only celebrate with the fans, but also to give something back to the community through education grants to engage and inspire the future generation.”

A longtime goal and brand mission of Dial® is to give educators the tools they need to teach the next generation and foster healthier communities by providing resources that support clean skin and proper hygiene practices now and in the future. To help continue Dial® ‘s brand mission to support educators and future generations, the brand has once again partnered with DonorsChoose to support its new ‘Clean Sheet’ program.

“Henkel is a proud partner of the U.S. Soccer Federation, and we at Dial® are thrilled to take the partnership further with the launch of our ‘Clean Sheet’ program,” said Allison Feldman, VP of Marketing – Personal Care at Henkel.  “For years, a primary goal for the Dial® brand has been to support charitable organizations that focus on helping their local communities. Donations as a result of the ‘Clean Sheet’ program will enable us to show our commitment to local communities and support future generations to chase their goals.”

Announced in November 2024, Henkel’s multi-year portfolio partnership with U.S. Soccer is designed to help to grow the game, elevate performance, and inspire the next generation of players. In addition to the Clean Sheet program, through the partnership, Henkel is also the presenting partner of U.S. Soccer’s Young Player of the Year Awards and community youth soccer clinics, and a supporting partner of the Arthur M. Blank U.S. Soccer National Training Center. The partnership marks Henkel’s first-ever portfolio deal and will leverage a range of its more than 30 popular brands in North America, to promote the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Teams, as well as the Youth and Extended National Teams, during the most exciting, unprecedented time for the sport in the United States over the next several years.

For more information on Henkel’s partnership with U.S. Soccer and Dial’s ‘Clean Sheet’ program, please visit henkel-northamerica.com.

*antibacterial liquid and foaming

About Dial®

America’s trusted brand for 75 years, Dial® delivers clean, healthy feeling skin for you and your family with products for Women, Men, and Kids. From bar soap, body wash, and hand soap, our products provide a wide variety of cleansing benefits for our consumers. See www.dialsoap.com for full details.

About Henkel in North America

Henkel’s portfolio of well-known brands in North America includes all®, Purex® and Persil® laundry detergents, Snuggle® fabric softeners, Dial® soaps, Schwarzkopf® hair care, as well as Loctite®, Technomelt® and Bonderite® adhesives. With sales close to 6.5 billion US dollars (6 billion euros) in 2024, North America accounts for 28 percent of the company’s global sales. Henkel employs around 8,000 people across the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. For more information, please visit www.henkel-northamerica.com and on Twitter @Henkel_NA.

About DonorsChoose
DonorsChoose is the leading way to give to public schools. Since 2000, 6.3 million people and partners have contributed $1.7 billion to support over 3 million teacher requests for classroom resources and experiences. As the most trusted crowdfunding platform for teachers, donors, and district administrators alike, DonorsChoose vets each request, ships the funded resources directly to the classroom, and provides thank yous and reporting to donors and school leaders. Charity Navigator and GuideStar have awarded DonorsChoose, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, their highest ratings for transparency and accountability. For more information, visit www.donorschoose.org.

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Annual Summit marks its final gathering with valuable insights from T.D. Jakes, Mellody Hobson, Dr. Myron Rolle, James Meeks and Others

ORLANDO, Fla., April 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Never before has it been so important for leaders to be future-ready: to anticipate and act on change before it happens and to pivot strategies to stay a step ahead. T.D. Jakes’ annual International Leadership Summit, presented by Wells Fargo, will give leaders at the intersection of faith and business a leg up on navigating a rapidly changing world as they learn from global leaders making an impact as innovators, entrepreneurs, and church and business leaders when the event returns to Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center, April 10-12.

Mellody Hobson, co-CEO and president of Ariel Advisors and chairman of the board of trustees for Ariel Investment Trust, will join T.D. Jakes on stage Friday, April 11. Named by Time Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world in 2015, Hobson served as Ariel Advisors’ president for nearly two decades prior to being named co-CEO. She is also the founder of Project Level® to change the game in women’s sports. Hobson co-founded Ariel Alternatives, LLC in 2021 and its inaugural private equity fund, Project Black® to scale minority-owned businesses. Beyond Ariel, she serves as a director for JPMorgan Chase and is the former chairman of Starbucks Corporation. Hobson was a long-standing board member of the Estée Lauder Companies and chairman of the board of DreamWorks Animation until the company’s sale in 2016.

Now in its final year, the International Leadership Summit, presented by Wells Fargo, will focus on the theme, “Changing of the Guard,” concentrating on advancing a new generation of ministry and business leaders as they continue to glean wisdom from past generations. Although this is the final year for the International Leadership Summit, next year will usher in a revolutionary platform curating high-level summits and conversations designed to engage leaders in deeper, more impactful ways. More details are forthcoming.

Speakers at the 2025 International Leadership Summit embody a variety of skilled leaders, shaping the conversation about navigating challenging times, the importance of women in leadership, leadership and wealth generation, turning technology into a competitive edge, and the changing of the guard. Some of the other speakers include:

Dr. Myron Rolle, pediatric neurosurgery fellow at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, chairman and founder of the Caribbean Neurosurgery Foundation. A resident of Orlando, Rolle is a Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital trained neurosurgeon serving as the current pediatric neurosurgery fellow at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. He is a Rhodes Scholar, best-selling author, former All-American Florida State University football player, and former National Football League player for the Tennessee Titans and Pittsburgh Steelers. He published the Rolle Scoring System – a public health rating scale used to determine a developing country’s governance around helmet safety to prevent traumatic brain injury.

James Meeks, founding pastor of Salem Baptist Church of Chicago, CEO Hope Center Foundation. Meeks is the founding pastor of Salem Baptist Church of Chicago, which has been recognized as one of the fastest growing megachurches in the United States. Starting with 125 members in 1985, under Meeks’ leadership, Salem has grown to a congregation of 9,000 members around the country. In 2005, he led Salem in the building of Hope House, a 10,000-seat community and worship center on the South Side of Chicago and, upon his retirement from pastoral ministry in 2023, became CEO of the Hope Center Foundation, a nonprofit that helps residents of the urban Chicago community successfully transition out of poverty to living wage and into generational wealth. Meeks has served as an Illinois State Senator and is the author of two books.

Launched in 2011, the International Leadership Summit remains a crucial gathering of business and spiritual leaders discussing the most pressing issues of today while working together to solve society’s most complex problems. The summit is one of the most transformative leadership conferences as a standard-bearer for values-based business learning and professional development.

The International Leadership Summit will be the first of three conferences the T.D. Jakes Group will host in 2025. Presented by Wells Fargo, each of the three conferences aims to empower leaders and communities around the world. Following the International Leadership Summit, Good Soil will take place June 12-14, 2025, at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas to catalyze and support a broad range of business owners. Sarah Jakes Roberts’ Woman Evolve is set to host its next conference at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, July 31-Aug. 2, 2025. Woman Evolve’s mission is to equip women through spiritual and practical development with the tools necessary to evolve into the highest version of themselves. At all three of the T.D. Jakes Group conferences, women will be keynote speakers as the organization joins partner organizations as a part of the transformational agenda to prepare leaders.

The International Leadership Summit will welcome these key industry leaders.

WHO:

• T.D. Jakes, CEO of the T.D. Jakes Group
• Mellody Hobson, co-CEO and president, Ariel Advisors and chairman of the board of trustees, Ariel Investment Trust
• Steven Furtick, faith leader and author
• Cindy Trimm, founder and CEO, Trimm Institute of Global Leadership + Trimm Global Charities
• Carla Harris, senior client advisor, Morgan Stanley
• Dr. Myron Rolle, pediatric neurosurgery fellow at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
• Joel Tudman, senior pastor, The Faith Center
• James Meeks, CEO, Hope Center Foundation
• Lambert Gates, president, L.W. Gates Ministries
• John Hope Bryant, founder and CEO, Operation Hope
• Courtney McBath, Courtney McBath Leadership and president of Virginia Christian College
• … and more leaders of business and faith found on the website.

WHERE:
Orange County Convention Center
9800 International Dr.
Orlando, FL 32819

WHEN:
April 10-12, 2025

About the International Leadership Summit
Founded by T.D. Jakes – real estate mogul, New York Times best-selling author, pioneering CEO and entrepreneur, global humanitarian, devoted philanthropist, senior pastor of The Potter’s House – the International Leadership Summit is an annual transformative conference. Since 2011, the conference has cultivated aspiring and tenured entrepreneurs and leaders with the tools to become successful in for-profit and not-for-profit industries.

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