Paul Snelgrove

Paul Snelgrove led the group that pulled together the findings of the Census of Marine Life -- synthesizing 10 years and 540 expeditions into a book of wonders.

Yang Lan

Co-Founder & Chairperson of the Sun Media Group & Sun Culture Foundation; Called the 'Oprah of China'

Read Montague

Neuroscientist & Popular Science Author

R.P. Eddy

Chief Business Officer of Zume; Founder & Chairman of Ergo; & Best Selling and Award Winning Business Author

Misha Glenny

Award-Winning Journalist, Author; Expert on Cybersecurity, Global Organized Crime & Geopolitics

Misha Glenny Speaker Showreel

Cynthia Kenyon

Molecular Biologist & Biogerontologist; Vice President of Aging Research at Calico

Yasheng Huang

Yasheng Huang asks us to rethink our ideas about China and other large emerging economies.

Danielle de Niese

Her voice described as a sweet gleaming soprano, Danielle de Niese breathes new life into opera, astonishing critics and making audiences sit up and listen.

Elizabeth Murchison

Elizabeth Murchison studies a mysterious (and contagious) cancer that threatens to wipe out Tasmanian devils.

Jarreth Merz

Jarreth Merz\' new film, \"An African Election,\" follows the 2008 presidential elections in Ghana from start to finish.

Sonaar Luthra

Sonaar Luthra is the creator of Water Canary, a water-testing device that collects real-time water-quality data from the field.

Monika Bulaj

Monika Bulaj’s stunning, painting-like photographs blur religious and cultural divisions, exploding stereotypes. She is a TED Fellow.

Mike Biddle

Co-founder, MBA Polymers

Ian Ritchie

Ian Ritchie is chair of iomart plc. and several other computer and learning businesses, including Computer Application Services Ltd.

Neil MacGregor

The writer and presenter of the BBC Radio 4 series "A History of the World in 100 Objects" and the accompanying book.

Peter Fankhauser

Peter Fankhauser is the leader of a team of students working on Rezero, a robot that balances on a single sphere.

Daniel Wolpert

A neuroscientist and engineer, Daniel Wolpert studies how the brain controls the body.

Charles Hazlewood

Award-winning conductor and musical revolutionary; Speaker, and Artistic Director of Paraorchestra

Markus Fischer

Markus Fischer led the team at Festo that developed the first ultralight artificial bird capable of flying like a real bird.

Allan Jones

As CEO of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, Allan Jones leads an ambitious project to build an open, online, interactive atlas of the human brain.