Whitfield Diffie
Whitfield Diffie
2015 Turing Award Laureate
A pioneer of public-key cryptography, laying the foundations of modern cybersecurity, digital trust and encrypted communication.
Speakers
Bringing together international speakers across disciplines to share key insights on science, technology, and public issues.
Michael Levitt
Michael Levitt
2013 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
His work uses computational methods to model living systems, offering new perspectives on complex phenomena and shaping modern science and technology.
Louis J. Ignarro
Louis J. Ignarro
Nobel Laureate in Medicine
He received the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering nitric oxide (NO) as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system.
Konstantin Novoselov
Konstantin Novoselov
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.
David W.C. MacMillan
David W.C. MacMillan
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
In 2021 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.
Jack Dongarra
Jack Dongarra
ACM Turing Award Laureate
Dongarra received the Turing Award for pioneering concepts and methods that led to world-changing computation.