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1. Keynote Speakers 2010-19

2. Paolo Sassone-corsi Director, Center For Epigenetics And Metabolism, University Of California, USA. Opening Keynote: Time of Your Life: You Are What You Eat (and When!) Michael Young Nobel Laureate In Physiology Or Medicine, Rockefeller University, USA. Live Keynote And Q&A John Ellis Professor, Theoretical Physics, King’s College London European Organization For Nuclear Research (CERN) Geneva, Switzerland. What Are We? Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going? Juan Carlos Izpisua-Belmonte Director, Development And Stem Cells Biology Laboratories, Salk Institute, USA. Turning Back the Aging Clock

3. Giulio Tononi Director, Wisconsin Institute For Sleep and Consciousness, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. What Is Consciousness? Time, Consciousness And Reality Rachel Sussman Contemporary Artist, USA. All The Time In World. Dava Sobel Best-selling Author, USA. Longitude: A Matter of Time. Salim Al-Hassani Emeritus Professor, University Of Manchester President Of The Foundation Of Science, Technology And Civilization, UK. Time and the Golden Age of Islam

4. Jonathan Neale Chief Operating Officer, Mclaren, UK. The Race against Time LandoNorris Formula 1 Driver, Mclaren, UK. The Race against Time Uwaidh K. Al-Harethi Executive Vice President For Technology And Innovation, SABIC. From Knowledge To Value: The Role Of Technology And Innovation In Maintaining A Competitive Edge

5. Carlo Ratti Director, MIT Senseable City Lab and founding partner at Carlo RattiAssociati. Senseable Cities Tarek A. Fadaak Professor, King Abdul Aziz University. Science and Beauty Catherine McFadden Gustav Paulay Ahmed Ghoniem Director, MIT Center for Energy and Propulsion Research and Reacting Gas Dynamics Lab. Energy for the (MegaCity of the) Future Greg Skomal Luiz Rocha Marine biologist and author The Secret Life of Jaws Curator of Ichthyology at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Into the Twilight Zone Curator of Marine Malacology Mare Incognitum - How Little We Know About Coastal Biodiversity and How to Change That Vivian and D. Kenneth Baker Professor in the Life Sciences Hidden in Plain Sight? The Cryptic Biodiversity of Coral Reefs

6. Ahmed Ghoniem Director, MIT Center for Energy and Propulsion Research and Reacting Gas Dynamics Lab. Energy for the (MegaCity of the) Future Tarek A. Fadaak Professor, King Abdul Aziz University. Science and Beauty Carlo Ratti Director, MIT Senseable City Lab and founding partner at Carlo RattiAssociati. Senseable Cities

7. Keith Martin Chief Development Officer, NEOM. Closing Keynote Lecture Kamal Youcef-Toumi CO-Director, MIT& KACST Center for Complex Engineering System. Envisioning A Great City: Public Realm & Economic Impact Khaled Alrashed President & CEO, Saudi Electricity Company Project for Projects Development. The Future of Smart Cities

8. Nate Hagens Professor, University of Minnesota. Energy, Money and Technology - From the Lens of the Superorganism Munther A. Dahleh Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT. Networks of Systems and Society Fahad Al-Sherehy VP- Technology & Innovation, SABIC. A keynote lecture by Fahad A. Alsherehy OussamaKhatib Director, Robotics Laboratory, Stanford University. The Age of Human-Robot Collaboration: Deep Sea Exploration Elizabeth Churchill Director, User Experience, Google. The Past, Present and Future of Human Computer Interaction

9. Nasser Al-Nafisee VP, Corporate Affairs, Saudi Aramco. A Career with Purpose: Push Your Boundaries and Let Them Be Pushed • James Lyne • Global Head, Security Research, Sophos. • The Latest Trends in Cyber Security Carolyn Porco Imaging science team leader, Cassini Mission, NASA. The Journey and the Legacy Alexandru Ionut Budisteanu Entrepreneur andForbes 30 under 30. Engineering an Affordable Self-Driving Car: My Personal Journey Margaret Livingstone Professor of neurobiology, Harvard Medical School. What Art Can Tell Us About the Brain

10. Andrew Bastawrous CO-Founder at PEEK, a Social Enterprise bringing eye care services to some of the world’s most challenging places. Changing the Way the World Sees Dominique Sciamma Dean, Director at Strate School of Design. Design is the Only Option Julian Bleecker Artist, technologist, co-founder of The Near Future Laboratory Studio. Design Fiction Samuel West Museum curator, The Museum of Failure. Learning from Innovation Failure - Lessons from the Museum of Failure Ann Makosinski Student and inventor. The Science and Art of Invention

11. Christopher Fabian Co-leader of UNICEF’s Unit-Innovation. How to Help Balance an Asymmetric World Steph Davis Top climber, base jumper and wingsuit flyer. Choosing to Fly: Examining Fear, Risk and Resilience Martin Fischer Head of design of French Challenger, 35th Americas Cup GroupamaTeam, France. Preparing For The America's Cup: A Technological And A Human Challenge Estelle Metayer Entrepreneur, trend-spotter. Your Future In Science And Technology: Breathtaking Opportunities And Significant Choices Ed Stone Voyager project scientist, NASA. The Voyager Journey to Interstellar Space

12. Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources 1995 - 2016, Chairman of the KAUST Board of Trustees. Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil Theo Jansen Artist. Pushing the Limits of Kinetic Arts: Strandbeests Dirk Ahlborn CEO of Jumpstarter Inc. Hyperloop: The Future of Transportation Cindy Lee Van DoverDistinguished Professor at Duke University. From Exploration to Exploitation? Opportunities and Imperatives in the Deep Sea

13. Mike Bruton • Museum design and development. • Quest for Perfection: the Contributions of Muslim Scientists to the Golden Age of Islam. • Laurent Lantieri • Dr., performed the first full-face transplantation. • Restoring Bodies to Restore Humanity • Alastair Humphreys, Adventurer and author who walked across the Empty Quarter on Wilfred Thesiger’s route. • The Call of the Wild Alan Lightman Physicist and writer. The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science Eric R. Fossum Inventor of the CMOS image sensor “camera-on-a-chip” used in billions of cameras. Making Every Photon Count in Digital Cameras

14. Lewis Dartnell Professor in Science Communication at the University of Westminster. Why We Eat What We Eat John Bedbrook Executive Chairman of DiCE Molecules LLC. Genetic Technology’s Role In Global Food Security Fred Davies Professor of Horticultural Sciences, at Texas A&M University. Agriculture, Food Security & Sustainable Intensification: Can We Feed the World?

15. Peter Hoffman Vice President of Intellectual Property Management for The Boeing Company. Driving Innovation through Global Technology Collaboration Thomas Skalak Executive Director, Science and Technology, The Paul G. Allen FamilyFoundation. Innovation Ecosystems for a Creative Economy

16. Abdullatif A Al Othman, Governor and Chairman of the Board of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority. Leadership and Innovation in Environmental Sustainability: The Future of Saudi Arabia Carlos Duarte Marine Scientist. Former Director of the Red Sea Research Center (RSRC) at KAUST. Seafaring in the 21st Century: Exploration, Innovation and Discovery Helge Halderson Director General Statoil Mexico in Mexico City - How Can Global Oil & Gas Industry Survive the Next 85 Years? Chris Smith Consultant virologist and fellow commoner of Queens' College at the University of Cambridge. Stripping Down Science

17. Vijay Shah, Explorer, filmmaker, and aeronautical engineer. Climate Change through the eyes of a Polar Explorer SuchitraSebastian University lecturer and Royal Society University research fellow in physics at the University of Cambridge. The Next Generation of Superconductors James Watson Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine in 1962, co-leader of the Human Genome Project. 60 Years of DNA Kip Thorne Nobel laureate in physics, Caltech. A Physicist in Hollywood: The Science of Interstellar

18. Mark Meekan Principal research scientist, Australian Institute of Marine Science. Following Mega Fauna Rory Wilson Professor of aquatic biology/sustainable aquaculture. The Magic of Animal Movement

19. 2015 Alim-Louis Benabib Université Joseph Fourier, chairman of bio-medical research center Clinatec, member of the French Académie des Sciences. From Deep Brain Stimulation to Brain Computer Interfaces: Translational Research at Clinatec Institute

20. LaïlaNehmé French archaeologist and epigraphist, co-director of the Saudi-French Archaeological Project. The Nabataeans: The Mada'in Saleh excavations Lubna S. Olayan CEO and Deputy Chairman of Olayan Financing Company (OFC). Leading by Example: the Role of Centers of Excellence Michael MartinPhotographer and writer. Deserts of the Earth Svante Pääbo Director at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. A Neanderthal Perspective on Human Origins

21. Mike Holland Chief of staff at New York University’s Center for Urban Science + Progress. The Promise of Urban Science Anthony Readhead Robinson Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus; Director, Owens Valley Radio Observatory Back to the Beginning in Cosmology and Radion Astronomy Anette Hosoi Professor of mechanical engineering, MIT. From Razor Clams to Robots: the Mathematics Behind Biologically Inspired Design Guillaume Nery Several time free dive champion and recordman. A Journey to the Edge of Human Limits

22. 2014 Peter J. Lu Research fellow, department of physics and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. Modern Math in Medieval Islamic Architecture Kimberly Smith Professor of biology, University of Arkansas. Ornithology and the Birds of the Middle East Jean-Marc Bonmatin Researcher, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Honey and Bees, the Decline of Pollinators Reveals a Major Environmental Threat Worldwide Chris Jordan Photographer. Midway, Message from the Gyre

23. WEP 2014 Cedric Villani Professor, InstitutPoincare. President of the Scientific Board of the panafrican institute AIMS­Senegal. Of Planets, Stars and Fluids Dan Ariely Professor of psychology & behavioral economics at Duke University. The Problems of Self Control and What We Can Do About It Jorge Cham Co-founder of PHD TV and creator of PhD Comics TV. The Power of Procrastination Thanh TâmLe Director, Climate-KIC-France. Europe In Innovation: Ambitions, achievements, Hardships HartmutMichel Chemistry Nobel laureate in 1988. Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt am Main. The Nonsense of Biofuels

24. WEP 2014 Ingo Potrykus Emeritus Professor of plant sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. The Potential of GMO's for Public Good & the Tough Lessons From the Humanitarian Golden Rice Project Karl Leo Professor and Director of olar & Photovoltaic Engineering Research Center (SPERC) at KAUST. The Solar Revolution Marion Guillou President of Agreenium, the French institute in agrosciences. Challenges for Environment: Feeding 9 Billion People in 2050 Khalid Al-Falih Saudi Arabian Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources. Chairman of the Board at Saudi Aramco, KAUST Board of Trustees

25. WEP 2014 Simon Pampena Australian Numeracy Ambassador, Australian television, Discovery International and YouTube channels BBC Headsqueeze and Numberphile. Mathemania! A Stand Up Comedy Show StaffanLandin Gapminder, Sweden. Is The World Improving? Visualizing Public Data to Understand the World Terri Raney Editor and Team Leader, The State of Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN. Feeding 9 Billion People Sustainably: Why Science and Technology Are Not Enough Michael Purugganan Dean for Science, faculty of arts and science, NY University. The Evolution of Domesticated Plant Species

26. WEP 2013 Francois AnsermetAcademic Director of the University department of psychiatry, University of Geneva. Music and the Brain in Unconscious Waves Janet Echelman American artist, Net Sculptures. Taking Imagination Seriously Ismail Serageldin Director, library of Alexandria. Building a Global Knowledge Society Michael Graetzel Professor ÉcolePolytechniqueFédérale de Lausanne, laboratory of photonics and interfaces. Light and Energy, the Advent of Mesoscopic Solar Cells

27. WEP 2013 Charles Elachi Director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Excitement and Challenge of Space and Earth Exploration Philip Rosedale Co-founder of Coffee & Power. Virtual Worlds, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Work Philippe Cousteau Explorer, social entrepreneur and environmental advocate.Our Oceans, Ourselves Bernard Bigot Chairman of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission. Complementarity of Nuclear and Renewable Energies

28. WEP 2013 Che Ting Chan Chair Professor of Physics HKUST. A Scientific Passage to Harry Potter's Invisibility Cloak and Platform/Tractor Beams: From Star Trek to Reality Claude Nicollier European Space Agency (ESA), astronaut. Lessons From Space Exploration Spencer Wells Head of the enographicProject, National Geography. The Human Journey: A Genetic Odyssey

29. WEP 2012 AbdulazizAlturki Chairman of RawabiHolding. Business for Sustainable Development, a Case Study Adnan Soufi CEO, SEDCO Holding. The Life Cycle of an Entrepreneur (From Startup to Sustaining the Family Business – SEDCO’s Experience) Bertrand Piccard Psychiatrist, aeronaut, Solar Impulse Founder. Solar Impulse: a New Vision of Sustainable Development Bill Baxter Software Engineer, Google. WebGL and Google Maps

30. WEP 2012 John Dennis Liu Ecological film maker and writer, Founder of "China Environment and Sustainable Development Reference and Research Center" (CESDRRC) Hope In a Changing Climate Robert Swan Explorer of both Poles, president of 2041. Antarctica Eric Jones CEO Enthought The Rise of Enthought: Commercial Success In Open Scientific Software Development

31. WEP 2011 Khalid SulimanAlrajhi Managing Director, SulaimanAdulaziz Al-Rajhi& Sons CI – Al-Watania Poultry. Saudi Culture & its Implications on Business Jay Shafer Owner of Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, Founder. Size Matters Kenneth Minneman Dean of chemical & life sciences, KAUST. The Real Thing: the Rise of Coca Cola From an Atlanta Pharmacy to the Most Recognized Corporate Symbol In the World Maria Zuber Professor of geophysics, MIT/Director of Department of Earth Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences. Present-Day Mars: From Moonscape to Desert to Tundra

32. WEP 2011 Saleh Al-Turki President and Chairman of Nesma Holding Company. Poverty in the Nation of Social Sponsorship? Mark Sagar Director, The Laboratory for Animate Technologies, Auckland/ Academy Award Winner. Bringing “Avatar” Faces to Life AlynRockwood Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, KAUST. Reprise of 2010 Favorite Faculty Offerings Abdulrahman Al-Zamil Chairman of the Board of the Saudi Export Development Center and the National Power Company. Preconceived Ideas Regarding Saudi Workforce Rob Cook Co-Architect and Primary Author of Pixar's RenderManSoftware. Behind the Scenes at Pixar

33. WEP 2011 Bruno Bonnell Multi-Entrepreneur and Founder, ROBOPOLIS. Viva La Robolution Dan Csontos Editor, Nature Publishing Group/Managing Editor, the Nature. The Craft of Scientific Writing and Publishing – How to Get Published in Nature and Other Top-Ranked International Journals Bengt Nordén Former Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. Where Is Chemistry Heading? Hans Rosling Professor of International Health, KarolinskaInstitute/ Chairman of GapminderFoundation. A Fact Based World View

34. WEP 2010 Michael Berumen Assistant professor, marine science, KAUST. Finding Science in ‘Finding Nemo Peng Weng Assistant professor of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, KAUST. The Terra Cotta Army Richard Sowar CEO of FreeDesign, Inc / Joe Esch, Co-founder @Last Software. Technology Startups: Experiences, Stories and Advice SigurjonJonsson Associate professor Geophysics, KAUST. Do Volcanoes Threaten KAUST?

35. WEP 2010 Wolfgang Gentzch Senior Consultant HPC, Grid and Cloud Companies. A Competitive Global E-Infrastructure for Scientists in Saudi Arabia AlynRockwood Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, KAUST. Reprise of 2010 Favorite Faculty Offerings Terence McElwee Director of Technology Transfer & Innovation (TTI). Ever Dreamt of Starting Your Own Business? Hani Itani Architect, KAUST. KAUST Architecture: Sustainability in a Changing Climate

36. WEP 2010 BeateKerlis Seed Fund Program, KAUST. Ever Dreamt of Starting Your Own Business? LoayAlfi KICP, KAUST. Information Session: KICP Career Day JasmeenMerzaban Assistant professor, biochemistry, KAUST. The Sweet Side of Stem Cells John Hopcroft IBA professor of Engineering & Applied Mathematics, Cornell University. Computer Science in the Information Age

37. WEP 2010 George StenchikovProfessor, Environmental Science & Professor of Applied Mathematics, KAUST. Environmental Consequences of a Nuclear War: The Nuclear Winter Theory From the 1980s and Nuclear Proliferation In the 21st Century • Ken Minneman • Dean of Chemical & Life Sciences, KAUST. • The Real Thing: The Rise of Coca Cola From an Atlanta Pharmacy to the Most Recognized Corporate Symbol In the World Richard Swann KAUST Schools Music and the Elements Antonio S. Valenzuela Campus Support Director, KAUST. Leadership in Environmental Design (LEED) - KAUST Sets the Platinum Standard for World-Class Research Institutions