KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Director of the Institute for Protein Design

Addiction Psychiatrist, Mindfulness Expert, Neuroscientific Researcher

Evolutionary Biologist Specializing in Ancient DNA; Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University

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

Minister Of Basic and Senior Secondary Education & Chief Innovation Officer for the Government of Sierra Leone

Rehabilitation Innovation Specialist & Long COVID Expert; Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at the Icahn School of Medicine

Molecular Biologist

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

Technology Entrepreneur & STEM Education Advocate; Founder & Executive Board Member, Labster

Laser Spectroscopist & Author of "Quantum Mechanics in Everyday Life"

Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University & Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute

Physician, Clinical & Molecular Geneticist

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.

Bestselling Innovation Author, Global Thought Leader on Design Thinking, Founder of FORTH Innovation Methodology

Founder of Barefoot College

Former Director of Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae; Founder of UpCycle Systems

Renowned Ocean Explorer, Scientist, Retired Navy Officer & Professor of Oceanography

CEO & Founder of Twist Bioscience

Structural Biologist & Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences and Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin

Primatologist; Professor of Psychology, Philosophy & Neuroscience at Georgia State University