Hill Gates is an anthropologist and the author of Footbinding and Women’s Work in Sichuan, China’s Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism and Looking for Chengdu: A Woman's Adventures in China.

Professor Patrick Maxwell​, Regius Professor of Physic and Head of the School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Stephen M. Gilbert is a Professor of Operations Management at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

David Saintillan, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego

Irene M. Gamba, Professor in Mathematics, W.A. Tex Moncreif, Jr. Chair in Computational Engineering and Sciences III. Leader for the ICES Applied Mathematics Group, the University of Texas at Austin

Luis A. Caffarelli, Sid Richardson Chair, the University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Alex L. Kolodkin​ is a Charles J. Homcy/Simeon G. Margolis Professor of Neuroscience, in the Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and an investigator of Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Yibin Kang is a Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University.

Speaker: Armida de la Garza, Director of International Strategy for the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, and Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities.

Joachim Messing is a professor of Molecular Biology and the fourth director of the Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University.

Adeo Ressi is CEO of the Founder Institute, a startup launch program that operates in nearly 200 cities worldwide, and he is a recognized mentor for fast-growing technology businesses.

Javier Pozueta Romero, professor at Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and co-founder of Iden Biotechnology SL.

Dr. LONG Manyuan, Edna K. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution and the College, The University of Chicago.

Vijaya Raghavan is a James McGill Professor at McGill University and President of the Canadian Society of Bioengineering.

Pasko Rakic is a Yugoslav-born American neuroscientist, who works in the Yale School of Medicine Department of Neuroscience in New Haven, Connecticut. His main research interest is in the development and evolution of the human brain.

Riccardo Fodde is full professor of “Experimental Pathology” at the Department of Pathology, Erasmus University Medical Center.