STEM Speakers

Award-winning entrepreneur Justin Fishkin is a widely respected business strategist, innovator, and investor who focuses on business solutions to pressing global challenges. From his early career with Goldman Sachs through his time managing a broad portfolio of climate-focused...

Ariel Waldman transports audiences from the icy realms of Antarctica, where she films otherworldly life beneath the surface, to the vast expanse of space, tapping into her insights and experiences with NASA. An Antarctic explorer and filmmaker, Ariel’s...

"Dr. G" is a globally recognized chief medical officer, technologist, and bestselling author who helps leaders leverage a human approach to innovation, including rapid advances in AI, to achieve better health and business outcomes.

Best-known as the turnaround leader of the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), 33-year NASA veteran Gregory Robinson is credited with transforming a program that was billions over budget and years behind schedule into one of NASA’s greatest achievements...

José Morey, M.D., is a top health and technology keynote speaker, bestselling author of Latinx Business Success: How Latinx Ingenuity, Innovation, and Tenacity are Driving Some of the World's Biggest Companies, and a medical consultant for NASA, IBM,...

Tan Le is one of the most influential pioneers in the emerging field of brain-computer interface. As one of Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology, her work is on the cutting edge. Her interactive presentations showing how Emotiv...

A gutsy trailblazer, Vernice "FlyGirl" Armour's resume is an impressive collection of "firsts" including America's first black female combat pilot. She served two tours of duty in Iraq as a Marine and was a Diversity Liaison Officer to...

Dr. Leana Wen is an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University. She is a CNN medical analyst and contributing columnist for The Washington Post, where she writes a weekly column and anchors the new Post newsletter, "The Checkup with Dr. Wen"....

Anthony Mays is not your typical software engineer. Coming "straight outta Compton" as an abuse survivor and foster kid, to landing one of the most coveted jobs in the world at Google. Anthony is on a mission to...

A master storyteller, Dan Goods leaves his audience in a state of awe and wonder through his inspiring stories interweaving the cosmos, creativity, risk taking, and what it means to be human.

Alice Zhang creates next-generation medicines from human genomics. 

Veteran news anchor, businessperson, author, and filmmaker, Richard Lui lives up close with today’s seminal ideas – honed by three decades of exclusive access to national and global decision makers in politics, business, activism, and culture.

Alex Klein is founder and CEO of Kano, the computing company that has shown millions how to create technology, rather than just consume it.

"The increasing prevalence of infectious disease epidemics worldwide constitutes the need for a well-prepared response system. Ebola, SARS, COVID19 are not one off events. We are only as strong as our weakest link." – Syra Madad

As a clinical trial innovator, pharmaceutical executive and patient advocate, Craig Lipset has been at the forefront of innovation in clinical trials and medicine development.

Throughout his career, Greg Asner has strived to produce science capable of generating conservation actions worldwide. Today he shares with audiences the importance of taking care of the environment and how any organization can contribute.

"We all want our kids to be educated. What's changing is what an education is, and what 'being educated' means." – Marc Prensky

"The truth is in any ER in America on any given day we are always the front line…Yet even now, compassion still shines through most." – Ryan McGarry

JJ DiGeronimo provides action-based strategies to empower and advance women at work and in life. Her popular books, videos, retreats, and advice reach women of all ages as they are working to make their impact.