OUR SPEAKERS
Visionaries realize that progress without purpose is just motion.
ALL SPEAKERS

Dr. Gina Adam
Army Futures Command
Director, Medical Modernization & Integration

Aria Alamalhodaei
TechCrunch
Space Reporter

Vib Altekar
Saronic Technologies
Founder & VP of Software

Steven Aumeier
Idaho National Laboratory
Strategic Advisor, Strategic Programs

Dennis Bartow
Polemarchoi
CEO
and Founder

Will Bales
Team Hypershock
Biomedical R&D Engineer & BattleBots Builder

Dr. Angela Belcher
MIT
James Mason Crafts Professor, Bio. Engineering

Dr. Allison Brager
US Army
John F. Kennedy Warfare Center & School

Nathan Cardinell
Lockheed Martin
Subject Matter Expert, Rare Earth Metals and Alloys

Dr. Sandi Chapman
U of Texas
Chief Director at the Center for BrainHealth® (UT Dallas)

Dr. Wil Corvey
DARPA
Semantic Forensics Program Manager

Dr. Amruta Deshpande
Graphika
Senior
Research Scientist

Mike Dingus
TRI Austin
Vice President and Technical Director

Dr. Tracy Jill "TJ" Doty
US Army
Chief of the Sleep Research Center, Walter Reed

Clay Duarte
NavalX
Austin Lead

Nick Dufour
Misinformation Mitigation Researcher

Dr. Shereef Elnahal
Department of Veterans Affairs
Undersecretary
for Health

Scott Faris
Infleqtion
CEO

Richard Fink
Applied Nanotech
Vice President
and Chief Scientist

Andrea (Suarez) Gellatly
Team Witch Doctor
Team Captain

Varun Gupta
Caffeinated Capital
Partner

Andrew Jones
Checkerspot
Business Development Manager

Dr. Jeff Hansberger
Army Research Laboratory
Interface Researcher

Jayse Hansen
Spatial
UI VFX and Designer

Selina Hayes
Hayes Group International
CEO
and President

Dr. Ron Hirschberg
Harvard Medical School
Medical Director, Brain Health Program

Dr. Eugene Lipov
Stella Center
Developer of SGB as PTSD Treatment, CMO

Jay Long
JSOC
Innovation Officer and National Security Innovator

Xan Marshland
Checkerspot
Brand Development Manager

Mike Mayo
Nanohmics
President
and Co-Founder

Julie McEvoy
Heroic Hearts Project
Director
of Operations

BG Mike McGinley
AFRL
Lead, GigEagle Agile Talent Ecosystem

Chris McNamara
USSOCOM
Human Performance Lead, Evolution Athletics

Marshall Monroe
Marshall Monroe MAGIC
Founder & Chairman

Matthew Mottola
The Human Cloud
CEO, Venture Partner, Author, Forbes Contributor

Donie O'Sullivan
CNN
Correspondent, Politics
and Technology

Paul Rieckhoff
Righteous Media
President
and Founder

Emily Rowley
PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist

Dr. Kris Saling
US Army
Acting Director, Army People Analytics

Bob Smith
US Navy
Director, Navy SBIR/STTR

Maia Szalavitz
The New York Times
Contributor on science, public policy, and addiction

Dr. Matt Turek
DARPA
Deputy Director, Information Innovation

Dr. James Verbus
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Meg Vrabel
Capital Factory
Chief Operating
Officer (COO)

Dr. Cindy Vindman
Army Research Lab (ARL)
Assistant Program Manager for Synthetic Biology

Melodie Yashar
ICON
Vice President, Building Design & Performance
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