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Our high-quality speakers are essential to ensuring our events engage audiences and provide relevant, up-to-date and innovative content for our delegates. If you are an innovator or influencer in your field, or know someone who is, please apply below.

Andrés Agres

Rector

Buenos Aires Institute of Technology

Edward Balleisen

Vice-Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies

Duke University

Phil Baty

Chief Global Affairs Officer

THE

Navakanta Bhat

Dean of the Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences

Indian Institute of Science

Timothy Chan

Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost of Strategic Initiatives

University of Toronto

Sara Custer

Editor-in-Chief

Inside Higher Ed

Gina DiBraccio

Acting Director of the Planetary Science Division

Nasa

Stuart Feldman

President and Chief Scientist

Schmidt Science Fellows

Mark Girolami

Chief Scientist

The Alan Turing Institute

Matt Goode

Deputy Executive Director

Schmidt Science Fellows

Sarah Hainsworth

Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research and Enterprise

University of Bath

Matt Hulver

Vice-President of Knowledge Enterprise Initiatives

Arizona State University

Sheenu Kachru

Business Leader

Health and Life Sciences

Megan Kenna

Executive Director

Schmidt Science Fellows

Omer Kemal Kinaci

Dean, Faculty of Naval Architecture and Marine Sciences

Istanbul Technical University

Jina Ko

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

University of Pennsylvania

Ottoline Leyser

Chief Executive Officer

UK Research and Innovation

Paul Nightingale

Deputy Director of the Science Policy Research Unit

University of Sussex Business School

Jason Owen-Smith

Executive Director of the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science

University of Michigan

Eric Perreault

Vice-President

Northwestern University

Jamie Ramacciotti

Director, Global Events

THE

Duncan Ross

Chief Data Officer

THE

Mary Ryan

Vice-Provost of Research and Enterprise

Imperial College London

Nigel Shadbolt

Principal of Jesus College and Professorial Research Fellow in Computer Science

University of Oxford

Niels Taatgen

Research Director and Professor

University of Groningen

Stephen Toope

President and Chief Executive

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

Ian Waitz

Vice-President for Research

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Denis Wirtz

Vice-Provost of Research

Johns Hopkins University

Alice Wong

Associate Vice-President of Research

The University of Hong Kong

Billy Wong

Principal Data Scientist and Head of Engineering

THE

Katherine Yelick

Vice-Chancellor of Research

University of California, Berkeley

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