KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science; Physicist, Cosmologist & Astrobiologist

Theoretical Cosmologist, NASA Advisor, U.S. Cultural Ambassador & Author; Host, "How the Universe Works," "Space Out" & "Ask a Spaceman"

Award-Winning Quantum Physicist, Author & Science Pioneer

Professor of Astronomy & Physics at Yale University; Author of "Mapping the Heavens"

Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Professor of Planetary Science, Caltech

Nobel Prize Winning Theoretical Physicist & Author, "The Science of Interstellar"

Award-Winning Astrophysicist & Astrobiologist; Director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell

Science Communicator and International Model

Director of Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of Michigan; Author of "The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boys' Club"

Director of Quantum & Molecular Technologies at Intel Labs

Former NASA Rocket Scientist, Author, TED Speaker & Artificial Intelligence Ethics Professor

Theoretical Physicist, Author & Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at John Hopkins University; Host of the Podcast "Mindscape" & "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe" YouTube Series

Entomologist; Focused on Practical Applications to Protect Honey Bee Populations

Mitchel Resnick is LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, Director of the Okawa Center, and Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab.

Aerospace Engineer, Founder of Pioneer Astronautics & Bestselling Author of “The Case for Nukes: How to Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future"

Nobel Prize-Winning Astrophysicist

Astronaut, Afrofuturism Artist & Geoscience Professor at the Maricopa Community Colleges

Astrophysicist & Cosmologist

Quant-Technologist, Entrepreneur, Educator & Author