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This list includes members of the Advisory Board (A) and Speakers (S). More speakers will be added during the coming months. Editors from TIME Magazine (T) will be attending the conference. Click on photos for bios, and visit our bookstore to find books by these speakers. |
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James Watson Nobel Laureate, & President, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (A) (S) |
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Muin J. Khoury Director, Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (S) |
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David W. Beier Partner, Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P. (S) |
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Michael Kinsley Writer, Founding Editor, Slate (S) |
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Stewart Brand Co-founder, All Species Inventory Co-founder, Global Business Network (S) |
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Jeffrey Kluger Senior Writer, TIME Magazine (T) |
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Donald M. Bruce Director, The Society, Religion and Technology Project, Church of Scotland (A) (S) |
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Bartha M. Knoppers Professor of Law, University of Montreal (A) (S) |
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G. Steven Burrill Chief Executive Officer, Burrill and Company (S) |
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Robert Krulwich Network Correspondent, ABC News (S) |
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Daniel Callahan Director of International Programs, The Hastings Center (S) |
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Raymond C. Kurzweil Chairman and CEO, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc. (A) (S) |
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Vice Admiral Richard H. Carmona Surgeon General, United States of America Commander, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (S) |
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Jaron Lanier Chief Scientist, Advanced Network and Services, Inc. (A) (S) |
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Gary A. Cohen Vice President, Ethics & Corporate Responsibility Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (S) |
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Michael D. Lemonick Senior Writer, TIME Magazine (T) |
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Francis S. Collins Director, National Human Genome Research Institute National Institutes of Health (S) |
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Edison Liu Executive Director, The Genome Institute of Singapore (A) (S) |
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Catherine Crier Host, Court TV, and Author, The Case Against Lawyers (S) |
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James S. Logan Manager, Medical Informatics and Health Care Systems NASA (S) |
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Stan Davis Author and Consultant (S) |
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Thomas Lovejoy President, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment (S) |
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Richard Dawkins Simonyi Professor For The Public Understanding of Science, University of Oxford (A) (S) |
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Terry McCarthy Los Angeles Bureau Chief, TIME Magazine (T) |
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Phil Elmer-De Witt Senior Science Editor, TIME Magazine (T) |
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Ralph Merkle Vice President, Technology Assessment Foresight Institute (S) |
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Q. Todd Dickinson Partner, Howrey Simon Arnold & White Intellectual Property Practice Group (S) |
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Christopher Meyer Vice President, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Director, Center for Business Innovation (S) |
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Andrea Dorfman Science Correspondent, TIME Magazine (T) |
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Marc Van Montagu Chair, Institute of Plant Biotechnology for Developing Countries (IPBO) Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Ghent, Belgium (S) |
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Juan Enriquez Director, Life Sciences Project, Harvard Business School (A) (S) |
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Kate H. Murashige Partner, Morrison & Foerster Co-chair, Patent Group (S) |
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Carl B. Feldbaum President, Biotechnology Industry Organization (S) |
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Eileen Naughton Conference Host President, TIME Magazine (T) |
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John Gage Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (S) |
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Alice Park Senior Reporter, TIME Magazine (T) |
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John Gearhart C. Michael Armstrong Professor of Medicine, Institute of Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins Medicine (A) (S) |
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Ryan Phelan Cofounder, All Species Foundation (S) |
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Paul Gelsinger Vice President, CIRCARE (S) |
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Ingo Potrykus Emeritus of Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Science Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) (S) |
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Nancy Gibbs Editor-at-Large, TIME Magazine (T) |
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Matt Ridley Author, The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (S) |
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Alfonso Gómez-Lobo Ryan Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy, Georgetown University Member, President's Council on Bioethics (S) |
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Paul Saffo Director and Roy Amara Fellow, Institute for the Future (S) |
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Christine Gorman Senior Writer, TIME Magazine (T) |
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Ambassador Cynthia P. Schneider Associate Professor, Art History Georgetown University (S) |
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Baroness Susan Greenfield Director, The Royal Institution of Great Britain (A) (S) |
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Robert J. Semper Executive Associate Director, Exploratorium (S) |
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Brian Halweil Senior Researcher, The Worldwatch Institute (S) |
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Vandana Shiva Director, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (S) |
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Dean H. Hamer Chief, Gene Structure and Regulation Section, Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Cancer Institute (A) (S) |
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Greg Simon Chair, Infotech Strategies (S) |
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Nancy Hopkins Amgen, Inc. Professor of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S) |
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Larry Smarr Director, California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (A) (S) |
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Gengxi Hu Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, & CEO, Shanghai Health Digit Ltd. (A) (S) |
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Hamilton Smith Nobel Laureate & Scientific Director, Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives (IBEA) (A) (S) |
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Bill Joy Chief Scientist and Corporate Executive Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (S) |
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Rick Smolan President, Against All Odds (S) |
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Steve Jurvetson Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (A) (S) |
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Rudolph Tanzi Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, & Director, Genetics and Aging Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital (A) (S) |
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Kalev Kask Chief Executive Officer, EGeen International Corp. (Estonian Gene Bank Project) (S) |
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Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper USMC (Ret.) (S) |
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Caroline Kovac General Manager, IBM Life Sciences (S) |
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Craig Venter President, The Center for the Advancement of Genomics (S) |
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James Kelly Conference Host Managing Editor, TIME Magazine (T) |
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Edward O. Wilson Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, Pellegrino University Research Professor & Honorary Curator in Entomology of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (A) (S) |
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Kevin Kelly Editor-At-Large, Wired Magazine (WIRED) (S) |
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Wise Young Director, WM Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Rutgers University (A) (S) |
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David Kessler Dean, School of Medicine, Yale University (A) |
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Raymond A. Zilinskas Director, Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies (S) |
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Jonathan Glover Professor of Ethics, King's College University of London (S) |
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Michael Specter Writer, The New Yorker (S) |
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Leroy Hood President and Director, The Institute for Systems Biology (S) |
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Nancy Wexler Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology, Columbia University (S) |
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Maykin Ho Managing Director, Goldman Sachs (S) |
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Howard A. Zucker Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (S) |
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Margot Roosevelt National Correspondent, TIME Magazine (T) |
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