KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

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

Award-Winning Quantum Physicist, Author & Science Pioneer

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

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

Executive Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics; Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation; Co-Founding Partner of Montrose Lane

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"

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

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

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

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

Science Communicator and International Model

Quant-Technologist, Entrepreneur, Educator & Author

Director of Quantum & Molecular Technologies at Intel Labs

Award-Winning Journalist; Best-Selling Author of "The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids - And the Kids We Have"

Italian Theoretical Physicist & Writer

Professor of Planetary Science, Caltech

MIT Engineer, Author, Emmy-Nominated Science TV Host of "Emily's Wonder Lab"

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

Entomologist; Focused on Practical Applications to Protect Honey Bee Populations