Here are just a few notable speakers from past years:
- Elizabeth Loftus, expert on the psychology of memory and eyewitness testimony from the University of California, Irvine
- Peter Schultz, chemist & biomedicine scientist at the Scripps Research Institute
- Tyrone B. Hayes, endocrinologist, National Geographic Society Explorer, and activist for environmental health from U.C. Berkeley
- Steven Strogatz, math scholar & New York Times online columnist
- Andrew Knoll, Harvard naturalist & author of “Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth”
- Steve Squyres, astronomer & recipient of the Carl Sagan Memorial Award