Misha Glenny

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

Misha Glenny Speaker Showreel

Sebastian Thrun

Scientist, Educator, Inventor & Entrepreneur

Rodney Brooks

Robotics Entrepreneur; Emeritus Professor of Robotics at MIT; CTO & Co-Founder of Robust AI

David Hanson

Robotics Designer & Researcher; CEO of Hanson Robotics

Yang Lan

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

Yasheng Huang

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

Cynthia Kenyon

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

Bobak Ferdowsi

NASA's Jet Propulsion Labs Flight Director; Curiosity Rover Landing

Ian Ritchie

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

Charles Hazlewood

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

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.

Hasan Elahi

When Hasan Elahi’s name was added (by mistake) to the US government’s watch list, he fought the assault on his privacy by turning his life inside-out for all the world to see.

Neil MacGregor

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

Tony Posawatz

President & CEO of Invictus iCAR

Dennis Hong

Roboticist, Magician, Chef & Professor

Eythor Bender

CEO and Co-Founder of UNYQ; Faculty Member at Singularity University

Leila Takayama

Research Scientist; Founder of UCSC's Re-Embodied Cognition Lab

Sonaar Luthra

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

Elizabeth Murchison

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

Mike Biddle

Co-founder, MBA Polymers