Past Speakers

Some of the 2010 conference speakers include:

    J. Christopher Anderson – UC Berkeley Professor and Synthetic Biology expert
    Misha Angrist – Genomics Activist, Author, Personal Genome Project Participant #4
    Beth Anne Baber – Childhood Cancer patient activist and researcher
    Alan Bennett – Patent Pool, Collaborative Innovation expert PIPRA
    Craig Benson – Rare genetic diseases diagnosis activist
    Keith Bergelt – Open Invention Network, Patent Policy expert
    Zach Berke – Co-Founder Eurka Fund, microfinance for science
    Jason Bobe – DIY bio co-founder, Personal Genome Project community manager
    Jean Claude Bradley – Open Notebook Science, Chemist and Open Access champion
    Barry Bunin – Collaborative Drug Discovery CEO
    Rob Carlson – Synthetic Biology strategist and Garage Biology Innovation Advocate
    José Luis Cordeiro – Futurist, Millenium Project forecaster
    Mac Cowell – Co Founder DIY bio
    Sacha De’Angeli – Hardware Hacker
    Rochelle Dreyfuss – NYU Law Professor and Genomics policy expert, former SAGCHS
    David Ewing Duncan – Experimental Man, Journalist, Personal Genomics activist
    Drew Endy – Synthetic Biologist
    Mark Friedgan – Co-Founder Fund Science, micro-finance grant platform
    Carole Goble – Open Data Champion, Computer Scientist
    Thomas Goetz – Editor at Wired, personal genomics and health 2.0 advocate
    Rebecca Goulding – Public Health and Access to Medicines advocate
    Lisa Green – Creative Commons, Science and Open Innovation Policy
    Ethan Guillen – Executive Director, Universities Allied for Access to Essential Medicines
    Doug Hershberger – Bay Area Bioinformatics Forum
    Andrew Hessel – Synthetic Biology Evangelist
    Jorge Hirsch – Creator H-index, Physicist, critic of Impact Factor
    Aiden Hollis – Health Economist, Incentives for Global Health
    Jason Hoyt – Co-founder Mendely, research platform
    Tim Hubbard – Human Genome Project pioneer, Open Science advocate
    Jonathan Izant – Sage Bionetworks
    Scott Johnson – Patient Advocate and Founder of Myelin Repair Foundation
    David R. Koepsell Author, Who Owns You? critic of the Global Patent System
    Todd Kuiken – Woodrow Wilson Center, DIY biology
    Morgan Langille – Biotorrents founder, UC Davis post-doc
    Jason Levitt – Kaltura, open video sharing
    James Love – Economist, Champion of Open Access and Innovation models
    Raymond McCauley – Bioinformaticist, DIY genomics
    Carol Mimura – UC Berkeley
    Peter Murray-Rust – Open Access/Open Data Champion
    Cameron Neylon – Open Access/Open Data Champion
    Michael Aaron Nielsen – Open Science Advocate, Quantum Physicist
    Luigi Palombi – Author, Scholar, ANU, critic of Patent System
    Meredith Patterson – Biohacker, Cypher Punk
    Josh Perfetto DIY Biologist
    Christine Peterson – Foresight Institute, Nanotech, Open Source advocate
    James Peyer – Otyp, DIY biology and education
    Hugh Reinhoff – My Daughter’s DNA, CEO of FerroKin Biosciences
    Len Sassaman – Computer Security expert, advocate
    Nick Shockey – SPARC, Open Access, student mobilization
    Jason B. Smith – Co Founder Eureka Fund
    Casey Stark – Co Founder Co-Lab
    DJ Strouse – Co Founder Co-Lab
    Victoria Stodden – Advocates Reproducible Research Standard
    Michael Vassar – President Singularity Institute
    David Vitrant – Co-Founder Fund Science, micro-finance grant platform
    Ed You – FBI special agent Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate
    Alexander Wait (Sasha) Zaranek – Personal Genome Project