Dr. Hendrik Poinar

Evolutionary Biologist Specializing in Ancient DNA

Gabriel Victora

Professor & Head of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics

Michael Archer

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

Daniel Pauly

Daniel Pauly is the principal investigator at the Sea Around Us Project, which studies the impact of the world's fisheries on marine ecosystems. The software he's helped develop is used around the world to model and track the ocean.

Penny Chisholm

Award-Winning Oceanographer

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.

David Baker

Director of the Institute for Protein Design

Melody Swartz

William B. Ogden Professor in the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago

Dan Shiebler

Head of Machine Learning at Abnormal Security

SDS 451: Translating PhD Research into ML Applications — with Dan Shiebler

Michael West

Founder & CEO of AgeX Therapeutics; Gerontologist & Leader in the Field of Regenerative Medicine

Dr. Adam Summers

Associate Director of University of Washington's Friday Harbor Laboratories, Biomechanic

Marla Spivak

Entomologist; Focused on Practical Applications to Protect Honey Bee Populations

Next Generation of Parks: Parks & Pollinators with Dr. Marla Spivak

Dr. Tierney Thys

Marine Biologist, Educator & Filmmaker

Lauren Sallan

Paleobiologist & TED Senior Fellow at University of Pennsylvania

Tracey Goldstein

Virologist, Associate Director of One Health Institute & Co-Principal Investigator on The PREDICT Project

Yaniv Erlich

Computational Geneticist, Professor & Researcher at Columbia University

Linda Partridge

Director, UCL's Institute of Healthy Ageing; Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing

Christine Seidman

Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Michael Ruggiero

Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont

Dario Gil

Senior Vice President & Director of IBM Research at IBM

Dario Gil's Keynote: What's Next in Software

Emily Lakdawalla

Senior Editor at The Planetary Society

Dan Gibson

Vice President of DNA Technology

Simon Lin

Chief Research Information Officer in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital

Fabian Hemmert

Design Researcher & Professor of Interface and User Experience Design at University of Wuppertal

Stefan Savage

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego

Regina Barzilay

Computational Linguist

James Peyer

Managing Partner at Apollo Ventures

Mary Ann Piette

Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Ben Polly

Senior Research Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Osh Agabi

Founder & CEO of Koniku Inc.