Alison Gopnik

Professor & World Leader in Children's Learning and Development

Ben Goldacre

Physician; Best-Selling Academic & Science Writer

Cynthia Kenyon

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

Rebecca MacKinnon

Founding Director of Ranking Digital Rights

Bunker Roy

Founder of Barefoot College

Josette Sheeran

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

Anna Dietrich

‎Entrepreneur; Consultant; Speaker; COO & Co-Founder of Terrafugia, Inc.

Lucianne Walkowicz

Astronomer, Movement Artist & Educator

Amy Lockwood

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

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.

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.

Lee Cronin

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

Pamela Meyer

Founder & CEO of Calibrate; Author of "Liespotting;" TED Speaker

Julia Bacha

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, Creative Director at Just Vision

Mikko Hypponen

Computer Security Expert; Chief Research Officer at WithSecure & Principal Research Advisor at F-Secure

If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable

Todd Kuiken

Biomedical Engineering Manager at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

Monika Bulaj

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

Yang Lan

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

Misha Glenny

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

Misha Glenny Speaker Showreel

Sonaar Luthra

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

Neil MacGregor

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

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.

Charles Hazlewood

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

Harald Haas

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

Geoffrey West

Theoretical Physicist, Distinguished Professor & Past President of Santa Fe Institute

Mike Biddle

Co-founder, MBA Polymers

Thandie Newton

Actress known for "Westworld"

Svante Paabo

Max Planck Institute Director, Department of Genetics

Richard Wilkinson

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

Daniel Wolpert

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