Lisa Randall

Award-Winning Physicist & Author

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe

Pamela Ronald

Scientist, Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of California - Davis; Expert in the Challenges of Farming

David de Rothschild

Environmentalist, Adventurer & Founder of Sculpt the Future Foundation

Shirley Ann Jackson

Theoretical Physicist & Inventor; President of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; National Medal of Science Recipient

Gary Wolf

Co-Founder, Quantified Self; Contributing Editor, WIRED

Miguel Nicolelis

Leading Neuroscientist At the Nicolelis Laboratory at Duke University

Joe Hanson

Science Writer, Biologist, Video Producer & Educator

Joel E. Cohen

Mathematical Biologist, Rockefeller University

M. Sanjayan

Executive Vice President & Senior Scientist at Conservation International

Jane Fulton Suri

Managing Partner and Co-Chief Creative Officer, IDEO

Drew Curtis

Drew Curtis is the founder and administrator of Fark.com. He is also the author of It's Not News, It's FARK: How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap as News in May 2007

Pavan Sukhdev

President, WWF International; Environmental Economist

Ari Berman

Political Correspondent & Author

Nolan Gasser, Ph.D.

Composer and Chief Musical Architect of the Music Genome Project

Dr. Monica F. Cox

Professor & Chair of the Department of Engineering Education at Ohio State University; CEO of STEMinent LLC

Ruha Benjamin

Sociology & African American Studies Scholar; Author of "People's Science" and "Race After Technology"

Ruha Benjamin - Spelman Convocation 2024

Adam G. Riess

Nobel Prize-Winning Astrophysicist

Professor Sandy Pentland

Director, MIT’s Human Dynamics Laboratory and the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program

Jamie Bartlett

Author, Journalist, and Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think- tank Demos