Jamie Metzl

Leading Technology & Healthcare Futurist; Founder & Chair, OneShared.World

Jamie Metzl Commencement Address

Alison Gopnik

Professor & World Leader in Children's Learning and Development

Julia Bacha

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, Creative Director at Just Vision

Jae Rhim Lee

Artist and TED Fellow Jae Rhim Lee Re-Imagines the Relationships Between the Body and the World

Rory Stewart

Foreign Affairs & Human Rights Expert

Rory Stewart | TEDxBath

Jeremy Gilley

Actor, Filmmaker & Founder of the Peace One Day Non-Profit

Maajid Nawaz

Counter-Extremism Activist

Harald Haas

Communications Technology Innovator & Chair of Mobile Communications at the University of Edinburgh

Thandiwe Newton

Award-Winning British Actress Best Known for her Role in Westworld

Thandie Newton Makes Great Banana Bread, But Watch This Before You Eat It

Josette Sheeran

President and CEO of the Asia Society; Former Vice Chairman of the World Economic Forum.

Adam Ostrow

Chief Digital Officer, TEGNA

Nathalie Miebach

The Intersection of Art and Science

Amy Lockwood

Deputy Director of Stanford's Center for Innovation in Global Health

Lucianne Walkowicz

Astronomer, Movement Artist & Educator

Robin Ince

The rational-minded Robin Ince conducts live experiments in comedy.

Wendy Chung

Physician, Clinical & Molecular Geneticist

Richard Wilkinson

Studied the Social Effects of Income Inequality and How Social Forces Affect Health

Lee Cronin

With his research group, Lee Cronin is investigating the emergence of complex self-organising chemical systems -- call it inorganic biology.

Svante Paabo

Max Planck Institute Director, Department of Genetics

Aparna Rao

A part of the Bangalore-based artist duo Pors & Rao, Aparna Rao works with electro-mechanical systems and interactive installations.

Elise Friedman

Genealogy Speaker, Specialty in Jewish Genealogy, Genetic Genealogy & Technology

Mark Pagel

Professor and Head of the Evolutionary Biology Group at the University of Reading

Nadia Al-Sakkaf

Former Yemeni Minister & Politician; Former Editor in Chief of the Yemen Times

Pavan Sukhdev

President, WWF International; Environmental Economist

Dr. Elisabeth Dykens

Professor of Psychology & Human Development; Director and Annette Schaffer Eskind Professor of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center

Stephen Friend

President, CEO & Co-Founder, Sage Bionetworks; Chairman of the Board & Co-Founder of 4YouAndMe, Non-Profit

Nancy Wexler

President, Hereditary Disease Foundation; Professor of Neuropsychology, Columbia University; Leading Researcher in Huntington's Disease

James Schwartz

Author of "In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA"

Mike Pazin

ENCODE Program Officer; Expert on Functional Genomics