MEET THE SCIENTISTS WHO INFORM MY FUTURISM

The futurism I do is informed by scientists. Everything good I do is enabled by their generosity, letting me into their lives and their labs and sharing their deep expertise on what’s coming, what’s possible and what’s probable. I LOVE and care about these people and I LOVE spending time with them and taking their messages to the world via my keynotes and the FutureBites podcast. Why? Because they are striving to make the world a better place. They are creating our future opportunities. And grounding my futurism in evidence, data, and insights from the best minds on the planet is the ONLY way I know of to do futurism with integrity. That’s why I work so hard to connect with them and travel all over the world to meet them.

Scroll down and meet just a small sample of the wonderful world-leading scientists who I’ve been privileged to meet and interview!

(Clickable images take you to bios, insights and recorded interviews)

Prof Paul Newman, Oxford University

Prof George Church, Harvard and MIT

Dr Elisa Donati, University of Zürich and ETH Zürich

Prof Rich Sutton, 2025 Turing Laureate, University of Alberta

Dr Anthony Atala, Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine

Dr Ben Oakes, Scribe Therapeutics

Prof David Cebon, Cambridge University

Prof Hod Lipson, Columbia University

Prof Kiran Musunuru, UPenn

Prof Ramille Shah, Northwestern University

Prof Rodolphe Barrangou, NC State University

Prof George Crabtree, Argonne National Laboratory

Prof Jan Vijg, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Prof Kerry Emanuel, MIT

Dr James Poteracki, Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine

Dr James Mancuso, MD Anderson

Joan Mannick, Chief Medical Officer, Restorbio

Prof Alexandre Marcireau, Western Sydney University

Prof Andrew Ng, Stanford University

Prof Bruce Levine, UPenn

Prof Daniela Rus, MIT

Prof William Oliver, MIT

Prof William Red Whittaker, Carnegie Mellon University

Prof Yann LeCun, NYU and Meta

Prof Zdenka Kuncic, University of Sydney

Dr Bo Feng, Argonne National Laboratory

Dr Jonathan Gootenberg, MIT

Dr Omar Abudayyeh, MIT

Dr Xuedong Huang, Microsoft Research

Emily Whitehead, 1st pediatric CAR T-Cell therapy recipient and cancer survivor

Prof David Fajgenbaum UPenn

Dr James Yoo, Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine

Prof Dina Katabi, MIT

Prof Michael Bremner, University of Technology Sydney

Prof Patrick Winston, MIT

Taki Constantinos UMass Memorial Hospital

Will McLean Frequency Therapeutics

Alex Creely, Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Bruce Schneier, Harvard Kennedy School

Dr Anousheh Ansari, XPRIZE

Dr Aykut Demirkol, Harkness Eye Institute, Columbia University Medical Center

Dr Mary Rodgers, Abbot Global Surveillance Program

Dr Spike Narayan, IBM Research

Dr Stan Caldwell, Carnegie Mellon University

Duco Jansen, International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor

Ivan Buckley, University of Manchester Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre

Joshua Portlock, Electro.Aero

Laban Coblentz, International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor

Mario Merola, International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor

Michael Barnard, TFIE Strategy

Prof Atif Ahmad, University of Melbourne

Prof Ben Stanger, UPenn

Prof Cameron Hepburn, Oxford University

Prof Mark Jacobsen, Stanford University

Prof Carl June, UPenn

Prof Dali Kafaar, Macquarie University

Prof Daniel Pauly, University of British Columbia

Prof Andrew Dzurak, University of New South Wales

Prof David Keith, University of Chicago

Prof Don Siegel, UPenn

Prof Guido de Croon, Delf University of Technology

Prof James Baker, University of Manchester Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre

Prof John Helliwell, Uni of British Columbia

Prof Ken Dovey, University of Technology Sydney

Prof Martin Green, University of New South Wales

Prof Michael Gerrard, Columbia University

Prof Paul Chu, Texas Center For Superconductivity

Trent Thomson, CEO Swiss Re

Prof Wendell Wallach, Yale, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

Prof William Cheung, University of British Columbia

Steven Gonzalez, NASA

Tim Buckley, Director, Climate Energy Finance

Tom Whitehead, Emily Whitehead Foundation

Zach Hartwig, MIT

Prof Jennifer Kuzma, NC State University

Now you’ve met some of these inspiring people, you know a lot more about what drives me! These are the people creating the opportunities to make a better future! Every hour I spend with them gives me enough energy to keep going for a month!

I try want to bring their passion to the world. It’s my purpose to build on what they share, to brainstorm the opportunities, to think expansively about the coming social and industrial implications, and to translate all of this into stories that engage diverse audiences and — hopefully — help them make better decisions for their future.

Again, futurism is a subjective and imperfect process, but when considering the future, what better place to start than with the evidence, data, and insights from the best minds on the planet?

p.s. Don’t forget to explore FutureBites to learn more about these future-makers and listen directly to what they have to say!