2025
Dr. Zeb Hogan ~
Research Associate Professor of Biology. University of Nevada, RenoNick Orenstein ’01 ~
Founder and CEO of HStar; Board Member of SpaceXAndrés Ruzo ~
Founder and Director of the Boiling River Project
2024Joey Beckman ’03 ~
Technical Program Manager, AeroVironmentJoshua H. Choe ’16 ~ PhD candidate, Harvard University
Dr. Qixing Huang ~ Associate Professor of Computer Science at UT Austin
2023
Dr. Stacy Pritt
~ Associate Vice President, Research Support and Regulatory Management, UT Southwestern Medical Center Andrew Gatherer ’14
~ Guidance, Navigation and Control Engineer, SpaceX Sara Ord
~ Director of Species Restoration, Colossal
2022
Jeb Beckwith ‘80 ~
CFO/CAO, Clean Origin
Leanne Su ~ Ph.D. Candidate in Aerospace Engineering at the Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory at the University of Michigan
Dr. Lizzie Mcleod ~ Global Reef Systems Lead, The Nature Conservancy
Rubik Sheth ~
Branch Chief, Life Support Systems Branch at NASA’s Johnson Space CenterDr. Austin Fowler ~
Senior Research Scientist, Google’s Quantum Hardware Lab
2021
featuring discussions with professionals and researchers in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, and Space Exploration.
2020
Alan Katz ~
Former Chief Technology Officer of ES Xplore IncNaia Butler-Craig ~
Aerospace Engineering PhD student and GEM Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology; NASA Pathways InternJodi Cooley ~
Assistant Professor at SMU, dark matter researchMurat Çobanoğlu ~
Distinguished Fellow at the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics at U.T. Southwestern Medical Center, computational drug discovery
2019
Wyatt Smith ~
Head of Business Development for Uber ElevateGideon Powell ~
Co-Founder and CEO of Autonomous Crypto Corp.Taft Armandroff ~
Professor of Astronomy at UT AustinDr. Kesha Harris-Henderson ~
Radiation Oncologist at Baylor University Medical Center
2018
Dr. Rhonda Bassel-Duby ~
Department of Molecular Biology at UT Southwestern Medical CenterKaren Morton ~
Collections Manager, Perot Museum of Nature and Science)Bill Woodburn ~
Founding Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners
2017
Jeremy Ginsberg ’96 ~
Software Engineer; Former VP of Engineering at TwitterWill Ferenc ’09 ~
Lead Sensors Development Engineer, SpaceXAmy Patrick ~
Forensic EngineerLydia Pyne ~
Science Writer and Historian
2016
Mark Stevens ’05 ~ Software Engineer, Google
Dr. Chess Stetson ’97 ~ CEO, Helynx, Inc.
Dr. Bradford Hirsch ’87 ~ Oncologist; Senior Medical Director, Flatiron Health; Co-Founder, SignalPath Research
Dr. Gary Weinstein ~ Chief of Pulmonary/Critical Care, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital
Carl Zimmer ~ Science writer, New York Times contributor
2015Anna Kuchment ~
Scientific JournalistDr. Max Klein ’00, Ph.D. ~
CTO of SCI Technology, Inc.,Heather Olins ~
Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology2014 Conference Guests
Dr. Brett Giroir ~ Biomedical Researcher
Dr. Michael Gould ~
Agricultural Engineer
Dr. David Genecov ’82 ~
Craniofacial and Cosmetic surgeon
Dr. Alan Stern ’75 ~
Planetary Scientist