
Event Speakers

Sue Siegel
CEO, GE Ventures & healthymagination

Mike Feinberg
Co-founder, KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) Foundation; Executive Vice Chair, KIPP Houston

Bill Aulet
Managing Director, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, MIT

Bonnie Dunbar
Director, UH STEM Center and Science Engineering Fair Houston (SEFH)

Richard Baraniuk
Founder and Director, OpenStax College, Rice University

Gaurav Khandelwal
Founder and CEO, ChaiOne; Co-Founder, START Houston

George McLendon
Howard R. Hughes Provost, Rice University

Kirk Coburn
Founder and Managing Director, SURGE Ventures

Laura Spanjian
Director, Office of Sustainability, City of Houston

Joe Cunningham
Founder and Managing Director, Santé Ventures

Charles Tate
Chairman and Founder, CR Group

Brett Giroir
CEO, Texas A&M Health Science Center

Shion Deysarkar
CEO and Founder, Datafiniti

Blair Garrou
Co-founder and Managing Director, Mercury Fund

Jacqueline Northcut
President and CEO, BioHouston; CEO, Texas BioAlliance

Catherine Mosbacher
President and CEO, Center for Houston's Future

Alexander Schueller
President, Medical Adhesive Revolution

Allison Lami Sawyer
CEO and Co-founder, Rebellion Photonics

Rives Taylor
Principal, Gensler

Atul Varadhachary
Managing Partner, Fannin Innovation Studio

John Holcomb
Director, Center for Translational Injury Research, UT Health

Stephen Klineberg
Founding Director, Kinder Institute for Urban Research

Ferran Prat
Vice President, Strategic Industry Ventures , MD Anderson Cancer Center

Jorge Barrero
Senior Associate, Gensler

Nick Slavin
Managing Partner, EES Ventures

Henk Mooiweer
GameChanger, Shell Projects and Technology

William Fulton
Director at Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University

Simrit Parmar
Founder, Platform Houston; Assistant Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Niel Golightly
Vice President, External Affairs, Shell Oil Company

Katie Mehnert
CEO, Pink Petro

Rebecca Richards-Kortum
Professor of Bioengineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Misha Govshteyn
Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder, Alert Logic

more to come...