Dan W. Reicher

Entrepreneur, Investor, Lawyer & Policymaker; Executive Director of the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy & Finance at Stanford University; Authority on Renewable Energy

Jodi Halpern

Leading Voice on Empathy in Healthcare & Emotionally Resilient Leadership; Chancellor's Chair & Professor of Bioethics at UC Berkeley

Jodi Halpern - Aspen Ideas 2024

Franklin Leonard

Film Producer, Cultural Commentator, Professor, Activist & Entrepreneur

Timothy Doner

Hyperpolyglot; Portfolio Manager, State-Sponsored Threats at Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS)

Michael Archer

Paleontologist Michael Archer is working to bring back his favorite extinct animal: the Tasmanian tiger.

Katherine Kuchenbecker

Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department, with membership in the Bioengineering Graduate Group at the University of Pennsylvania.

Shelby Steele

Author; Columnist; Documentary Film Maker; Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution & Expert on Race Relations

Shelby Steele on Freedom

Nalini Nadkarni

Ecologist, Leading Expert in Canopy Research & Advocate for STEM Education; Professor of Biology at the University of Utah

Alia Crum

Principal Investigator for Stanford's Mind and Body Lab; Expert on Stress Mindset & Emotional Intelligence

Alia Crum - BrainMind Summit

Barbara Oakley

Professor of Engineering at Oakland University; Author of "Learning How To Learn"

Dr. Hendrik Poinar

Evolutionary Biologist Specializing in Ancient DNA; Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University

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Heather R. Younger

CEO of Employee Fanatix; Workplace Culture & Employee Engagement Expert

Lance Freeman

Professor in the Urban Planning Program & the Director of the Doctoral Program in Urban Planning at Columbia University

Jamie Paik

Founder & Director of the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab

Douglas McCauley

Professor at UC Santa Barbara, Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley & Director Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory

Jonathan Metzl

Professor of Sociology & Psychiatry, Director of the Center for Medicine, Health & Society at Vanderbilt University

Emily Oster

Professor of Economics at Brown University; Author on Personal Finance & Family Planning

Richard J. Davidson

Professor of Psychology & Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Rick Hanson, PhD

Neuropsychologist Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times Best-Selling Author

Thomas King

Award-Winning First Nations Writer