Speaker Lineup
Ben Katchor
Comic Artist & Author | Exploring Urban Life Through Illustration
"Comics of bygone New York"
Bill Strickland
MacArthur Genius | Social Innovation & Community Transformation
"Rebuilding a neighborhood with beauty, dignity, hope"
Chris Anderson
TED's curator and author | Revealing the art of world-class speaking
"TED's nonprofit transition"
Chris Bangle
Automotive Design Visionary | BMW Design Chief Who Reshaped Global Car Brands
"Great cars are great art"
Dan Dennett
Philosopher of mind and consciousness | Pioneer in cognitive science
"Dangerous memes"
David Kelley
Design Thinking Pioneer | Founder of IDEO and Stanford d.school
"The Power of Human-Centered Design"
David Rockwell
Architect | Designing Transformative Experiences
Dean Kamen
Inventor of Segway and founder of FIRST Robotics | Over 1,000 patents
"To invent is to give"
Emily Levine
Humorist & Trickster | Science and the Human Condition
"A theory of everything"
Frank Gehry
Legendary Architect | Design Innovation & Visionary Thinking
"A master architect asks, Now what?"
Jane Goodall
Pioneering Primatologist | Revolutionizing Understanding of Chimpanzee Behavior
"What separates us from chimpanzees?"
Kary Mullis
Nobel Laureate | Pioneering DNA Replication Technology
"Play! Experiment! Discover!"
Keith Bellows
Editor-in-Chief | National Geographic Traveler & Transformative Storytelling
"The camel's hump"
Mae Jemison
Astronaut & Physician | The Promise of Diversity in STEM
"Teach arts and sciences together"
Moshe Safdie
Acclaimed Architect | Designing Sustainable Communities
"Building uniqueness"
Natalie MacMaster
Virtuoso Fiddler | Energetic Cape Breton Music Performances
"Cape Breton fiddling in reel time"
Niels Diffrient
Design Visionary | Human-Centered Design Innovations
"Rethinking the way we sit down"
Pamelia Kurstin
Electronic Music Innovator | Design Thinking & Brand Design
"The untouchable music of the theremin"
Raspyni Brothers
World Record Jugglers & TV Entertainers | Masters of Corporate Comedy
"Juggle and jest"
Richard Dawkins
Oxford Professor and Author | Pioneering Evolutionary Biology Insights
"Militant atheism"
Robert Full
Biologist | Revolutionizing Robotics Through Nature's Engineering
"Robots inspired by cockroach ingenuity"
Stephen Petranek
Emerging Technology Futurist | TED Talks Exploring Tomorrow's World
"10 ways the world could end"
Sessions with video
10 ways the world could end
Stephen Petranek
A master architect asks, Now what?
Frank Gehry
A memorial at Ground Zero
David Rockwell
A theory of everything
Emily Levine
Building uniqueness
Moshe Safdie
Cape Breton fiddling in reel time
Natalie MacMaster
Comics of bygone New York
Ben Katchor
Dangerous memes
Dan Dennett
Juggle and jest
Raspyni Brothers
Play! Experiment! Discover!
Kary Mullis
Rebuilding a neighborhood with beauty, dignity, hope
Bill Strickland
Rethinking the way we sit down
Niels Diffrient