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Laura Lott

Laura Lott is CEO of the American Alliance of Museums, which helps develop standards and best practices for 4,500 museums in the US, including sustainable business models, museums’ growing role in the P-12 education ecosystem, and creative aging programming...

Darío Gil, Ph.D.

Darío Gil, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President and Director of Research at IBM where he leads, along with his 3,000 researchers, the technology roadmap directing innovation strategies in areas including hybrid cloud, AI, semiconductors, quantum computing, and exploratory science. He is also responsible for IBM’s intellectual property strategy and business and is a globally recognized leader of the ..

Kevin Lynch, Ph.D.

Kevin Lynch, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Robotics and Biosystems at Northwestern University. He is a recipient of Northwestern’s Professorship of Teaching Excellence and the Northwestern Teacher of the Year award in engineering. He received his B.S.E. with honors from Princeton University, and doctorate in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon U..

Ken Savin, Ph.D.

Ken Savin, Ph.D., is the Senior Program Director of In-Space Production at the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, (CASIS). Dr. Savin received his doctorate from the University of Utah and spent nearly two decades at Eli Lilly and Co. with roles in management and research in Drug Disposition, Lead Generation, Isotopic Chemistry, Acquisitions and Assessment, Process Chemistry, and Route..

Michael S. Rogers

Michael S. Rogers is a former United States Navy admiral who served as Commander of the Tenth Fleet and Second Commander of the United States Fleet Cyber Command, with responsibility for all the Navy’s cyberwarfare efforts. (USCYBERCOM). He concurrently served as the 17th director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and Chief of the Central Security Service (CSS)...

Richard Garriott

Richard Garriott is an American video game developer and entrepreneur. He is also the only person on the planet to have explored extremes of the known accessible universe, including the North and South Poles and the Marianna Trench, (the deepest oceanic location on Earth.) In January 2021, Garriott was elected president of the world-famous Explorer’s Club, a community of prestigious history maki..

Gitanjali Rao

Gitanjali Rao, 16, is an American inventor, author, scientist, and engineer. Honored as Forbes “30 Under 30 in Science” in 2019 and named TIME’s “Top Young Innovator.” In 2020, she was featured on the cover as TIME magazine’s very first “Kid of the Year.” ..

Henry Elkus

Henry Elkus became founder and CEO of HELENA.ORG when he was 21 years old. Members include Four-Star Generals, Fortune 100 CEOs, Nobel Peace Prize and Scientific Laureates, Academy Award Winners, former CIA Directors, leading Academics, NGO Leaders, and more. HELENA identifies potential solutions to critical global problems and implements them through individual projects...

David Cole

David Cole is the president and CEO of the Science History Institute (SHI), which interprets the history of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the life sciences, collecting and sharing stories of innovators and scientific discoveries that shape our lives. ..

Nick Furhman

Nick Furhman, Ph.D., is the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, at the University of Georgia. Also known as “Ranger Nick,” Dr. Fuhrman’s professional background is environmental education. He is also a TV personality and motivational speaker and has been honored by numerous prestigious teaching awards and is a TED speaker on “The One Thing All Great Teachers Do.” ..

Tyler Mathisen

Tyler Mathisen is IMAGINE SOLUTIONS’ HOST and an Emmy Award winning journalist for CNBC. He currently hosts two television series, “Power Lunch” and “High Net Worth.” He is a veteran of on-air journalism, having anchored numerous series on economics, finance and investing, including “Open Exchange,” “Nightly Business Report,” “Closing Bell” and “Business Center.” ..

Robert Langer

Robert Langer is the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and is the co-founder of Moderna. He is America’s most-honored scientist, receiving more than 220 major awards. He holds more than 1,400 granted or pending patents and is one of the world’s most highly cited researchers with an h-index of 294 with currently over 353,000 citations. ..

Jeremy Siskind

Jeremy Siskind is an American pianist, composer, and educator known for his innovative blending of jazz and classical music. Siskind is recognized as a visionary in the areas of ragtime and honky tonk piano. A top finisher in several national and international jazz piano competitions, Siskind is a two-time laureate of the American Pianists Association. ..

Benjamin Zander

Benjamin Zander is one of the world's most well - known classical musicians and is a source of profound inspiration to many people. He is a deeply insightful conductor, a master teacher of music, and an engaging speaker on leadership . Zander's emotionally ri ch and insightful performances stem from his endless pursuit towards deeper understanding of the masterworks of classical music. Generat..

Jean Bennett, Ph.D.

F. M. Kirby Professor of Ophthalmology Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Dr. Jean Bennett is a gene therapy expert recognized for her translational work on inherited retinal degenerations. She is known particularly for being the scientific leader of a team that translated reversal of blindness in animal models to the demonstration of efficacy and safety in children ..

Doris Anita Taylor, Ph.D., FACC, FAHA

Dr. Doris Taylor is an American scientist, a dynamic innovator, an entrepreneur, and a global thought leader in regenerative medicine. For nearly a decade she was the Director of Regenerative Medicine Research and Cell and Organ Biotechnology at the Texas Heart Institute (THI) in Houston. At THI Dr. Taylor led a team who are recognized for creating the huge breakthroughs in science and technology ..

Paul Stamets

Paul Stamets is an industry leader in fungi in medicinal use and production. He is the recognized leader in bringing Psilocybin to be an acceptable application in the medical world. Based on this research, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has described psilocybin as a breakthrough medicine. In addition, research by Paul and his team has led to innovative mycological solutions, including using..

Clea Conner

As the CEO of Intelligence Squared U.S. ( www.intelligencesquaredus.org ) , Clea Conner is on a mission to restore civility, respect, and intelligence to the public square. Intelligence Squared U.S. is a non - partisan, non - profit organization, founded in 2006 to address a fundamental problem in America: the extreme polarization of our nation and our politics. Their mission is to restore critica..

David Liu

David R. Liu is the Richard Merkin Professor, Director of the Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, and Mice - Chair of the Faculty at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences & Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University; and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. His major research interest..

Fabien Cousteauu

Fabien Cousteau is the first grandson of famed oceanographic explorer Jacques Cousteau and spent his early years aboard his famous grandfather's ships, Calypso and Alcyone. He learned to scuba dive by age 4 and is well known for his study of sharks. He's also known for working with local communities and children worldwide to help restore local water ecosystems . He continues to pursue these initia..