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Dr. Rina Bliss is an associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University. Her research explores the personal and societal significance of emerging genetic sciences. Rina has written three books: Race Decoded:[…]
Denis Noble, CBE, FRS, held the Burdon Sanderson Chair of Cardiovascular Physiology at Oxford 1984–2004 and was appointed Professor Emeritus and Co-Director of Computational Physiology. He is one of the[…]
Edward Lee is the founder of nou NFT. He is a leading expert in Web3 and NFTs and is the author of Creators Take Control: How NFTs Revolutionize Art, Business,[…]
David R. Samson is an associate professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He has worked with a range of primate species and studied sleep in different types[…]
Richard Conniff is a National Magazine Award-winning writer and a past Guggenheim Fellow. His writing has appeared in Smithsonian magazine, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and other publications. Among his many books[…]
Dr. Kelle Dhein is a philosopher and historian of science who specializes in the history and philosophy of biology. He currently is a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Santa Fe[…]
Dr. Natalie Nixon is the Creativity Whisperer to the C-Suite, helping leaders achieve transformative business results by applying wonder, rigor, and foresight. A magnetic keynote speaker, Nixon shares why creativity[…]
Wesley C. Van Voorhis, MD, PhD is a professor of medicine, adjunct professor of global health and microbiology, and director of the Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (CERID)[…]
Sam Leith is literary editor of the Spectator, and contributes regularly to a range of UK newspapers and websites. He is the author of Words Like Loaded Pistols: The Power of Rhetoric[…]
Rob Cross is the Edward A. Madden Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College and the cofounder and director of the Connected Commons. He is the co-author of The Microstress[…]
Karen Dillon is an author and former editor at Harvard Business Review magazine. She co-authored The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems—and What to Do[…]
In Arabic, Irshad means “guidance.” My mission: to teach a critical mass of people the skills of moral courage — doing the right thing in the face of our fears.This[…]
Ronda Simpson is a Corporate Facilitator and Instructional Designer with over 20 years of experience. She specializes in skills training, train-the-trainers, and virtual platforms. She is also the author of[…]
James Hibbard studied philosophy at the University of California at Santa Cruz and Depaul University. A former UCI professional road cyclist and member of the U.S Cycling Team, he is[…]
Peter Cave is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, former member of the Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and Chair of Humanist Philosophers, and a Patron of[…]
Neil Theise is a professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and a longtime student of Zen Buddhism. His studies in complexity theory have led to interdisciplinary[…]
Mike Martin is a War Studies Senior Fellow at King's College London. His books include Why We Fight and How to Fight a War. He is also the Liberal Democrat[…]
Nathan Price is Chief Science Officer of Thorne HealthTech and Professor at the Institute for Systems Biology. Selected as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine by the National Academy of[…]
Leroy Hood, MD, developed the DNA synthesizing technology that made possible the Human Genome Project and is cofounder of the Institute for Systems Biology. A pioneer in the fields of systems[…]
Dr. Christel Gärtner is a professor of religion and politics at the University of Münster. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Frankfurt.
Chris Wiggins is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University, the Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times and a co-founder and co-organizer of hackNY. His books include How[…]
Matthew L. Jones writes about the history of science and technology, focusing on early modern Europe and on recent information technologies. His books include Data Mining, How Data Happened and Reckoning[…]
Cassandra Worthy is the world’s leading expert on Change Enthusiasm®. She is lighting the world on fire with her refreshingly unique take on not just ‘managing’ but growing through change.[…]
Dr. John V. Kane (@UptonOrwell) is an assistant professor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University. He teaches graduate courses on analytical skills, data analysis, and political[…]
Thomas Hertog is an internationally renowned cosmologist who was for many years a close collaborator of the late Stephen Hawking. He received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge and is currently professor of[…]
Dan Gardner is a journalist and the New York Times best-selling author of Risk and Future Babble and co-author of Superforecasting (with Philip E. Tetlock).
Bent Flyvbjerg is a professor at the University of Oxford, an economic geographer, and Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor and chair at the IT University of Copenhagen. He is principal author[…]