Adam R. Nelson is Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

We present an approach to forecast customer orders of ready-to-launch new products that are similar to past products.

Speaker: Mirko Baruscotti, Department of Life Sciences, University of Milan

Dr. Diana L. Farmer​, chair of the Department of Surgery, UC Davis Health.

Lori Qingyuan Yue is Marshall Dean’s Associate Professor in Business Administration and Associate Professor of Management and Organization at University of South California-Marshall School of Business.

Whitfield Diffi, ​one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography and the 2015 A.M. Turing Award Laureate.

Dr. Xuhua Wang is a postdoctoral research fellow from Prof. Zhigang He's Lab at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Wim J. Quax is a professor of pharmaceutical biology at University of Groningen.

Eric R. Young is a professor of economics at the University of Virginia.

Arthur K. Ellis is Professor of Education and Director of the Center for Global Curriculum Studies at Seattle Pacific University.

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.