2023 SPEAKERS

Marco Casalaina

Nicoletta Giordani

Director, GIES, Senior Exec. Service, Dept, of Defense

Dennis Bushnell

Chief Scientist (ret.), NASA Langley Research Center

Andra Keay

Managing Director & Founder,
Silicon Valley Robotics

Anil Rao

Vice President and General Manager Systems Architecture and Engineering Office of the CTO, Intel

David Karow

President & Chief Innovation
Officer, Human Longevity Inc.

Leroy Hood

CEO, Phenome Health

Vanessa Pegueros

Board Member, BECU And Carbon Black

Taylor Lorenz

Tech Journalist, Author, Content Creator & Technology Columnist, Washington Post

Dmitri Alperovitch

Co-Founder and Executive Chair, Silverado Policy Accelerator, and Co-Founder & Board Member, CrowdStrike

Mark Anderson

Chair & CEO, FiRe

David Brin

Author, NASA Tech/Physics Advisor, Futurist & Public Speaker

Berit Anderson

COO, FiRe

Emre Izat

Documentary Filmmaker & Co-Founder, Blue Gray Films

Stuart Sandin

Director, Center for Marine
Biodiversity & Conservation,
Scripps Institute of Oceanography

Esther Dyson

Angel Investor &
Founder, Wellville

Joern Tinnemeyer

CTO, EnerSys

Benjamin Smarr

Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering and
Data Science, UC San Diego

Brenda Cooper

Author & Director of
Information Technology,
Lease Crutcher Lewis

David Ewing Duncan

Author, Journalist &
CEO, ARC Fusion

John Payne

Ecologist & Data Scientist

Caitlin Cameron

Chair & CEO,
OtoNexus Medical
Technologies

Divya Chander

Chair of Neuroscience &
Faculty in Medicine,
Singularity University

Jonathan Ross

CEO & Founder, Groq

Gael Aitor

Co-Host, “Teenager Therapy”

Allana Helland

Growth Marketing Strategist, GAF Energy

Bernt Øyvind Børnich

CEO, 1X

Nina Vasan

Founder & Executive Director and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation, Stanford University

Larry Smarr

Distinguished Prof. Emeritus
CSE, UC San Diego

Evan Anderson

Deputy Program Director, FiRe

Matt Keener

Hardware Architect,
Pattern Computer

Hillery Nye

Corporate Counsel, Axiom & Angel Investor

Simon Hackett

Renewable Energy Advocate & Investor

Marlon Nichols

Managing General Partner, MaC VC

Bill McAleer

Managing Director,
Voyager Capital

Jody Westby

CEO, Global Cyber Risk

Olaf Groth

CEO & Professor, Cambrian Futures & UC Berkeley Haas School of Business

Tom Insel

Executive Chair, Vanna Health; Former Director, National Institute of Mental Health

Vicky Ward

Author & Investigative Journalist

John Carlin

Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Jonathan Hurst

Chief Robot Officer & Co-Founder, Agility Robotics

Marc Raimondi

Chief of Staff to the Executive Chair, Silverado Policy Accelerator & Founder, LexStrat LLC

Jeffrey Cardenas

CEO & Co-Founder, Apptronik

Meghan O’Hara

Director, Lion in the Sun Films

Bill Harris

Co-Founder & Board Chair, Innovation Advisory Partners, and Founding President & CEO (fmr.), Science Foundation Arizona

Gilman Louie

CEO, American Frontier Fund

Pete Mackey

Author & President and Executive Strategist, Mackey Strategies

Jeannie Fontana

CEO, TREAT California

John Mattison

Scholar-in-Residence, AI and Advanced Technologies, UCSD Center for Healthcare Design, UC San Diego

Joe Piscatella

Documentary Filmmaker

Navneet Trivedi

Co-Founder & COO, Vrinda

John Beane

CEO and Co-Founder,
MemComputing Inc.

Fabio Lorenzo Traversa

CTO, Co-Inventor and
Cofounder of
MemComputing, Inc

DK Strohl

FiReStarter

CEO, STR-ID

Mike Masnick

CEO, Copia Institute

Michael Redding

FiReStarter

Chief Technology Officer, Quantropi

Andrew Burton

Documentary Filmmaker, Roan Films

Della Carl

Newtok Village Council Member

Michael Kirby Smith

Documentary Filmmaker, Roan Films

Darja Djordjevic

Adult/Child/Adolescent Psychiatrist and Social/ Medical Anthropologist, Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation

Whitman Fulton

FiReStarter

CEO, ConnectDER

Molly Wood

Founder & Chief Storyteller, Molly Wood Media & Host, “Everybody in the Pool” podcast and newsletter

Mike Connolly

FiReStarter

CEO, Healionics

Ping Yeh

FiReStarter

CEO, VOCxI Health

Kevin Surace

Chair & CTO, Appvance.ai

Mark Godsy

FiReStarter

Chair & CEO, NaqiLogix

Mark Linao

Partner, Progression Fund

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