KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

Award-Winning Quantum Physicist, Author & Science Pioneer

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

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

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

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 Quantum & Molecular Technologies at Intel Labs

Professor of Planetary Science, Caltech

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"

Former NASA Rocket Scientist, AI 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.

Nobel Prize-Winning Astrophysicist; Known for Proving Universe is Expanding

Professor of BioSciences at Rice University; Co-Author of "A City on Mars" & "Soonish"

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

Historian at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Rocketeer & Author

Astrophysicist & Cosmologist