IT BEGINS WITH AN IDEA.
2023 speakers⟡
Zaria Parvez
“Duolingo’s Method To The Madness”
Kimi Wenzel
“Hey Siri, Are You Racist?: The Ethics Of Conversational AI”
CALLI PUKO
“Music Therapy And Behavioral Health”
Jenny Eagan
“The Art Of Costume Design: Building Character Through Self Expression”
Simone Polanen
“Everything I Didn't Learn In History Class”
2022 speakers⟡
REBECCA WAHLS
“Yes, And: The Power of Improv in Everyday Life”
SAMORA LA PERDIDA
“Do Latines Need to Speak Spanish? Finding My Lost Mother Tongue”
KELLY LIMERICK
“Regaining a Sense of Purpose with Slow Art”
DR. REBECCA MUNNELL MCHUGH, PHD
“Visibility Management: Deciding When to Tell, and When to Hide, Our Hidden Features”
SIMRAN KAUR
“How Women Can Invest in the Stock Market”
2021 speakers⟡
SANNA LEGAN
“Eating Disorders and the Illusion of Control”
MIRACLE JONES
“Let Black People Be: Stop Policing the Ways Black People Find Joy”
VICTOR MUTHAMA
“The Beef Between African Americans and American Africans”
SHRIYA BOPPANA
“Media Perpetuation of Gender Imbalance”
VICKY BENNISON
“Fettuccine and Feminism”
2020 speakers⟡
jason sperling
“Is Selfish the New Selfless?”
KYLE HADEN
“Pandemics and Playgoers”
REBECCA CHERIAN
“Sexism in the Symphony”
SRIDHAR TAYUR
“Magical Unconventional Computing beyond Quantum”
2019 speakers⟡
Jane Metcalfe
“A New Compass for Humanity”
Rana sen
“How Smart Cities Are Technology for the People, by the People”
Dr. Jelena M. Janjic “Dr.J”
“When in Pain, Innovate!”
Deepa Butoliya
“Design Through the Lens of Jugaad”
Micah Rabin
“Pushing for Consent Education”
Rob Smith
“Breaking the Gender Binary”
Parker Felterman
“The Unwritten Sentence: Human Nature and the Social Implications of Imprisonment”
2018 speakers⟡
Po-Shen Loh
Math Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Founder of expii.com
Freddy Anzures
Creative Director / Designer, Wax Poetics Magazine
Jianli Yang
Scholar, Internationally Recognized Human Rights Activist
Shalaya Minor
Carnegie Mellon Student, Class of 2021
Wesley Pegden
Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Carnegie Mellon
Asher Silverglade
Carnegie Mellon Student, Class of 2020
Kristin Hughes
Associate Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University
2017 speakers⟡
Subra Suresh
Former President of Carnegie Mellon University
Amy Blankson
Founder of Goodthink, Expert on Fusing Positive Psychology and Technology
Charlie White
Head of the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Senatore
Starter of 'The Water Bottle Flip' Phenomenon
Jeff Schneider
Engineering Lead for Machine Learning at Uber ATC
Rebecca Nugent
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Statistics
Molly Wright Steenson
Author of Architectural Intelligence, Associate Professor in the School of Design
Eric Cyphers
Carnegie Mellon Student, Class of 2020
Steven Chase
Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Carnegie Mellon
2016 speakers⟡
Louis-Philippe Morency
Head of the Multimodal Communication and Machine Learning Laboratory
Deborah Gilboa
Former President of Carnegie Mellon University
Rajiv Gandhi
Associate Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers
Rubini Naidu
Carnegie Mellon Student, Class of 2016
Christopher Olivola
Assistant Professor in the Tepper School of Business
Cameron Tonkinwise
Director of Design Studies at Carnegie Mellon's School of Design
Scott Sandage
Author of Born Losers, Professor in the History Department
David Selverian
Carnegie Mellon Student, Class of 2017
Carolyn O'Donnell
Writer, Speaker, English and Social Science Educator