CEO and co-founder of EpiBone, the world’s first company growing living human bones for skeletal reconstruction. She is the co-author of Super Cells: Building with Biology, a book that explores the new frontier of biotech. Nina has also been awarded Crain's New York, Forty Under 40; Ernst & Young, Winning Woman; and Goldman Sachs, 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs.

Founder and Managing Principal of MSquared. Nationally recognized expert in impact investing, urban development, infrastructure finance, job creation and housing policy. Twice named Crain’s “Most Powerful Woman in NYC.” Chair of the Trust for Governors Island and Chair of women.nyc. Board of Common and Lex Markets.

Faculty in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, Professional Engineer, and author of Making Things Move: DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists. She helped put two robots on Mars and was previously a co-founder and CEO of Sage (a smart irrigation startup). She is passionate about engineering education, evidence-based teaching, and creating opportunities for student success in and out of the classroom.

Co-founder of Urban Us, an asset manager specializing in early-stage startups upgrading cities for climate change. He's founded five companies, speaks 4 languages, codes, and has taught and lectured at the University of Chicago, UC Berkeley, and HBS.

Chief Innovation Officer at Dow Jones, responsible for identifying areas of new opportunity, with a focus on startups and relations with Silicon Valley companies. Edward joined Dow Jones in June 2013 as head of digital product development, overseeing projects including the redesign of The Wall Street Journal’s website and apps.

A computational biologist and holds an Assistant Professor position in the Technology, Culture and Society department at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering in New York City. At the center of her work is a focus on how living beings interact with their environment, leading to scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, projects with landscape architects, and working as an artist in environments from SVA to the MIT Media Lab.

CEO, Chair, and co-founder of Seeqc, a quantum computing company, and previously founded ePlanet, a pioneering computer vision company. John is the Chair of the Investment Committee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation and was previously a board member of the Cathay Investment Fund. Additionally, John was a founding partner of L Capital Partners, a partner in the Shalom Equity Fund and on the Board of goTenna, and past Chair of BioLite.

A longtime champion of food and agriculture enterprises and economic development, and the Executive Director of the New York State Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture at Cornell AgriTech. The Center of Excellence (CoE) is a business hub that has helped entrepreneurs, startups, and mature food, beverage and ag-tech companies grow jobs and gain millions of dollars in economic impacts since it began in 2018.

Managing Partner of Point72 Ventures, where he leads early-stage investments in companies applying machine learning to novel problems. Sri joined Point72 from In-Q-Tel, the strategic investment arm of the CIA and the broader U.S. Intelligence Community. There, he led Lab41, an AI-focused Lab that built and delivered solutions to some of the Intelligence Community’s toughest problems.

Founder and co-director of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, and Associate Professor of Design Research in the Department of Architecture. He has designed and built large-scale installations and exhibited in galleries around the world, including the Centre Pompidou, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, and various others.

Prof. Mathis is the Bertarelli Foundation Chair of Integrative Neuroscience at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) and is an ELLIS Society Scholar. Prior to joining EPFL, she was a Harvard Rowland Fellow and received her PhD at Harvard. Her lab works on mechanisms underlying adaptive behavior in intelligent systems, combining machine learning, computer vision, and integrated experimental work in rodents. She also is the developer of DeepLabCut, a leading open-source software for animal pose estimation.

Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. John has won a number of awards for his work, including the NSF CAREER award, the IEEE EDS Paul Rappaport award, the Vodaphone Americas Foundation Wireless Innovation Award, the MIT Clean Energy Prize, and is a fellow of the SID. He is a co-founder of Lelantos, Lumiode, Chromation, and Radiator Labs.