Science & Technology

World-renowned for their innovative approach to contemporary issues in fields like psychology, sustainability, and alternative energy, our Science & Technology speakers deliver lectures to various special-interest groups, including hospitals and museums. They are inspiring lecturers on the ground breaking discoveries and scientific theories that have changed the world we live in.

Rabih Alameddine

Acclaimed Novelist and Author of The Hakawati

Greg Bear

Co-Founder of San Diego Comic-Con and National Security Advisor

Louann Brizendine, M.D.

Practicing Clinician, New York Times Bestselling Author, Public Speaker, and Media Commentator

Ken Burns

Emmy Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker

Gwyneth Cravens

Science Writer and Environmentalist

Wade Davis

Ethnographer, Anthropologist, Field Scientist, Biologist, Author, Filmmaker and "The Voodoo Guy"

Janine Driver

New York Times Bestselling Author and Body Language Expert

Charles Duhigg

Award winning journalist and media commentator

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Philosopher and Author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God

David Gottfried

World-renowned speaker, author, founder of the green building movement, visionary & Greentech entrepreneur.

Michael Greenberg

Bestselling Author and FYE Favorite

Bjørn Lomborg

Professor, Statistician and Author of Cool It

Brad Matsen

Author of Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King and New York Times Bestseller Titanic's Last Secrets

Christopher McDougall

Author, journalist and innovator of the Barefoot-Running Movement

Meg Meeker, M.D.

Pediatrician and nationally recognized parenting expert

Josh Neufeld

Award-winning comics journalist and author of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge

Irwin Redlener

Physician and Advocate for Public Health and Disease

Carl Safina

World-renowned oceanographer, Hailed as One of the Top 100 Conservationists of the Twentieth Century

Lisa Sanders, M.D.

Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale University School of Medicine and Clinician Educator in Yale's Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program

Neil Shubin

Evolutionary Biologist and Discoverer of the "Missing Link"

David Allen Sibley

The World's Leading Authority on Birds and Birding

Deborah Tannen

New York Times bestselling author and communications expert

Gary Taubes

Journalist, Nutrition Expert and Author of Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat

Tom Vanderbilt

Journalist and New York Times Bestselling Author of Traffic

Shankar Vedantam

Prize-Winning Writer on the Link Between Science and Human Behavior

Dr. James D. Watson

Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Who Discovered, Along with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, the Structure of DNA

Richard Wiseman

Psychologist, Bestselling Author and "Rapid Change" Expert

Lawrence Wright

Author of the Pulitzer Prize-Winning The Looming Tower, Screenwriter and New Yorker Journalist

Carl Zimmer

New York Times Columnist and Science Author