Speakers
Evolutionary Biologist and Author
Author of the national bestseller Chasing My Cure | Co-founder and Executive Director of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network
Director of MIT’s Space Enabled Research Lab | Assistant Prof. of Media Arts and Sciences
President Emerita of MIT | Author of The Age of Living Machines
One of the World's Most Foremost Neuroscientists
Cognitive Scientist | Expert in the Fields of Language and Cognition
Evolutionary Biologist and Pandemic Expert | Former Co-Host of Daily Planet
Author of Everybody Lies | New York Times Op-Ed Writer | Former Google Data Scientist
The first Latina in Space | Dir. of NASA Johnson Space Center (2013-2018)
Cognitive Neuroscientist | Host of Startalk All-Stars with Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, and Upheaval
One of the World’s Most Distinguished Biologists
Theoretical Physicist and Novelist
Author of New York Times Bestselling Falter and The End of Nature | Leading Environmental Speaker and Founder of 350.org
Author of Enlightenment Now and The Better Angels of Our Nature
CEO of Phylagen, Inc. | TED Senior Fellow
Deputy Director of Surveillance, Data & Epidemiology for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Guest Host of The Nature of Things
Cybersecurity Expert | Author of Women in Tech
Director of MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative
Author of Black Hole Survival Guide and Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Contributing Writer for The New Yorker | New York Times Bestselling Author
Astrophysicist | TED Fellow | Blumberg Chair in Astrobiology
Author of Hidden Figures: the #1 New York Times bestseller, and inspiration for the #1 movie.
CEO and Co-Founder of EpiBone | TED Senior Fellow
Data Ecologist and Complexity Scientist
TED Speaker | Neuroscientist | Cofounder and CEO of Backyard Brains
Former Host of Angry Planet | Royal Canadian Geographical Society Explorer-in-Residence
New York Times Reporter for Science and Medicine; Author of Mercies in Disguise, Rethinking Thin, Ultimate Fitness, and Flu
Founder & CEO of The FRESHGLOW Co.
Author of Palaces for the People and Going Solo
Science Writer and Broadcaster | TED Speaker
Chief Experience Officer at Publicis Sapient | Author of How to Speak Machine (2019)
Neuroscientist and Author of Portraits of the Mind
Expert on Coronavirus and the spread of global pandemics | Founder of Metabiota Risk Management
Chairman and CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation, Innovation Speaker
Psychologist and Author of The Village Effect and The Sexual Paradox
Brown University Climate Scientist | Author of Rivers of Power
Author of Look Me in the Eye and Switched On