Speakers:
All Years
2007
Martha Mason
Artistic Director and Choreographer
Cofounder and artistic director of Snappy Dance Theater, a collaborative national and international touring dance company based in Boston. Mason’s innovative choreographic, performance, and teaching career has spanned more than twenty years.
2007
Ioannis Miaoulis
Science and Technology Educator
President and director of the Museum of Science who is an innovative educator with a passion for both science and engineering.
2007
Nancy Kanwisher
Cognitive Neuroscientist
A professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT and an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research who studies the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying human visual perception and cognition.
2007
Bisola Ojikutu
Infectious Disease Physician and Healthcare Advocate
Director of the Office of International Programs within the Division of AIDS at Harvard Medical School and infectious disease physician at Massachusetts General Hospital who has dedicated her career to rectifying disparities in healthcare access for HIV-infected patients both domestically and abroad.
2007
Panos Panay
Internet Entrepreneur
CEO and founder of Sonicbids, a website that enables bands and music promoters to easily connect with one another. Sonicbids' current membership consists of 110,000 bands and 8,000 promoters from more than 100 countries.
2007
Nader Tehrani
Architect and Urban Designer
Internationally recognized co-principal of design firm Office dA and professor of architecture at MIT whose work ranges from one-of-a-kind furniture to urban spaces.
2007
John Warner
President and chief technology officer for the Warner-Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry and a pioneer in the use of innovative materials to reduce waste, pollution, and energy consumption.
2005
Stefane Barbeau and Duane Smith
Industrial Designers
Product designers who founded Vessel, an innovative design and distribution company that combines quality, unique design, and simple solutions to reinvent everyday products.
2005
Alan Berger
Landscape Architect
Associate professor of landscape architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and founding director of its Project for Reclamation Excellence (P-REX); author of the award-winning Reclaiming the American West.
2005
Alexis Borisy
Biopharmaceutical Engineer
A chemist who has helped to grow a variety of pharmaceutical and biotech companies, he is the founder and CEO of CombinatoRx, focused on developing new medicines built from synergistic combinations of approved drugs.