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Speakers, Moderators & Panelists

 

Plenary Session Invited Speakers

  • Ash Carter: 25th Secretary of Defense
    Presentation: Welcome from the Secretary of Defense (video)
  • Gunnar Carlsson: Stanford University
    Presentation: The Shape of Data (video)
  • R. Alta Charo: University of Wisconsin
    Presentation: I Am Become Life… (video)
  • Craig Clark: Clyde Space, Ltd.
    Presentation: A Smaller, Faster Future in Space (video)
  • Karl Deisseroth: Stanford University
    Presentation: Lighting the Brain (video)
  • Tom Dietterich: Oregon State University
    Presentation: Smart Software in a World with Risk (video)
  • Jeff Gore: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Panel: Are We Alone and Have We Been? (video)
  • Mark Norell: American Museum of Natural History
    Panel: Are We Alone and Have We Been? (video)
  • Ramesh Raskar: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Presentation: Extreme Computational Imaging (video)
  • Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli: University of California, Berkeley
    Presentation: Design Tools for the Trillion-Device Future (video)
  • Zach Serber: Zymergen
    Presentation: Designing a Million Genomes (video)
  • Lucianne Walkowicz: Adler Planetarium
    Panel: Are We Alone and Have We Been? (video)
  • Jun Ye: University of Colorado at Boulder, National Institute of Standards and Technology, JILA
    Presentation: Let There Be Light (and Thus, Time) (video)

Plenary Session DARPA Speakers

  • Bill Chappell: Director of DARPA’s Microsystems Technology Office
    Presentation: Connect Everything: Spectrum Unbounded (video)
  • Paul Cohen: DARPA Program Manager, Information Innovation Office
    Presentation: Communicative Computers (video)
  • John Launchbury: DARPA Program Manager, Information Innovation Office
    Presentation: Reclaiming Your Digital Self (video)
  • Geoff Ling: Director of DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office
    Panel: Are We Alone and Have We Been? (video)
  • Pam Melroy: Deputy Director of DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office
    Presentation: Port of Call at 36,000 km (video)
  • Arati Prabhakar: Director of DARPA
    Presentation: Changing What’s Possible (video)
  • Justin Sanchez: DARPA Program Manager, Biological Technologies Office
    Presentation: Neurotechnology (video)
  • Nils Sandell: Director of DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office
    Presentation: Wrangling Complexity (video)
  • Vincent Tang: DARPA Program Manager, Defense Sciences Office
    Presentation: Not Even Once (video)
  • Stefanie Tompkins: Director of DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office
    Presentation: Interdependencies (video)
  • Dan Wattendorf: DARPA Program Manager, Biological Technologies Office
    Presentation: Outpacing Infectious Disease (video)

Breakout Session Moderators and Panelists

BTO Panel: Future Biotech, Future Law (Session 1 video, Session 2 video)

  • R. Alta Charo
  • Geoff Ling
  • Justin Sanchez
  • Doug Weber: DARPA Program Manager, Biological Technologies Office

DSO Panel: Science, Disrupted (Session 1 video, Session 2 video)

  • Ivan Amato: Spire Communications

I2O Panel: AI Ascendant (Session 1 video, Session 2 video)

  • Trevor Darrell: University of California, Berkeley
  • Tom Dietterich
  • Yolanda Gil: University of Southern California
  • Hadas Kress-Gazit: Cornell University
  • Steve Lohr: New York Times

MTO Panel: Technology By the People, for the People (Session 1 video, Session 2 video)

  • Elad Alon: University of California, Berkeley
  • Prabal Dutta: University of Michigan
  • Matt Ettus: Ettus Research
  • Tom Kalil: White House, Office of Science and Technology Policy
  • Andreas Olofsson: Adapteva
  • Nigel Paver: ARM Research
  • Tom Rondeau: GNU Radio

STO Panel: Wrangling Complexity (Session 1 video, Session 2 video)

  • John G. Clark: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Advanced Development Programs
  • Kathleen Fisher: Tufts University
  • Evan Fortunato: Apogee Research
  • Nan Mattai: Rockwell Collins
  • Richard Murray: California Institute of Technology

TTO Panel: Launching New Trajectories in Space (Session 1 video, Session 2 video)

  • Craig Clark
  • Stan Dubyn: Millennium Space Systems
  • Mike Gold: Bigelow Aerospace
  • Debra Facktor Lepore: Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
  • Talbot Jaeger: NovaWurks Inc.
  • Amit Mehra: Ventions, LLC

Why It Matters

  • Glenn Ayers: Division Chief in DARPA’s Adaptive Execution Office
    Presentation: Artillery Combat Operations in a Trackless Desert (video)
  • Maj. Kenny Dwyer: U.S. Army, John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School
    Presentation: Saving Lives, Restoring the Ability to Serve (video)
  • Capt. Rich Field: U.S. Navy Operational Liaison to DARPA
    Presentation: Thwarting Pirates off the Coast of Somalia (video)
  • Col. Lee Rudacille: U.S. Army Operational Liaison to DARPA
    Presentation: Into Afghanistan, October 2001 (video)
  • John Temple: New York County District Attorney’s Office
    Presentation: Turning the Tables on Human Traffickers (video)
  • Dale Waters: Director of DARPA’s Adaptive Execution Office
    Presentation: Precision Guided Weapons: A Gulf War Revolution (video)

DARPA Risers (video)

  • Alex Bataller: University of California, Los Angeles
  • Anupama Lakshmanan: California Institute of Technology
  • Max Shulaker: Stanford University

9/11 Remembrance (video)

  • Victoria Coleman: Samsung Electronics
  • Rich Field: U.S. Navy Operational Liaison to DARPA
  • Mick Maher: DARPA Program Manager, Defense Sciences Office
  • Mark Micire: DARPA Program Manager, Defense Sciences Office
  • Meredith Saunders: Booz Allen Hamilton

 

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