Our 2010 PopTech Lineup

Our current line-up is being regularly updated to reveal who will be presenting or performing, so please check back for updates!

Jad Abumrad - Host & Producer of Radiolab Vijay Anand - Indian anticorruption crusader, and creator of the '0 Rupee' Note April Smith and the Big Picture Show - Brooklyn based swing & country band Assaf Biderman - Associate Director of the SENSEable City Laboratory, MIT Mike Blum - Evolutionary biologist studying the evironmental impact of Louisiana’s protective barrier islands
Ned Breslin - CEO of Water for People, leader in water and sanitation programs worldwide Chris Chabris - Psychologist and neuroscientist who studies how our intuitive beliefs about the human mind can easily lead us astray Susan Casey - Award winning journalist & author of 'The Wave' about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out Daryl Collins - Director of Bankable Frontiers and an expert on how people live on $2/day Stephanie Coontz - Renowned expert on the past and future of marriage, and the author of 'Marriage, A History'
Riley Crane - Researcher who studies the hidden patterns governing individual and collective activity. Tom Darden - Builder of ultra-green homes in New Orleans David de Rothschild - Captain of the Plastiki Eco-Expedition Kevin Dunbar - Psychologist who studies the impact of failure on our brains Elizabeth Dunn - Psychologist who studies the surprising truth about what makes us happy
Nathan Eagle - Mobile pioneer and leader in 'AI for Development' David Eagleman, MD - Neuroscientist and author of 'Sum: 40 Tales of the Afterlife' Patrick Flanagan - Electronic artist & creator of Jazari - a Wii-mote robotic drum performance Dr. Ben Goldacre - Debunker of 'bad science' quackery and the way science is abused in public discourse Simon Hauger - Science teacher in West Philadelphia whose students competed for the Automotive X Prize
Donald Ingber, MD - Director of the Wyss Institute for Bioinspired Engineering at Harvard, and an expert on what we can learn from nature Deborah Kenny - Founder of Harlem Village Academies, one of the world’s most innovative charter high schools Salman Khan - Founder of the Khan Academy: Education for Everyone, and educator of hundreds of thousands of children worldwide John Legend - Grammy-award-winning musician and education activist Marcia McNutt - Director, US Geological Survey, led the US scientific response to the BP Oil Spill
Patrick Meier - Co-director of the 4636 project in Haiti Siddhartha Mukherjee - Cancer physician and researcher, author of 'The Emperor of All Maladies' Josh Nesbit - Co-director of the 4636 project in Haiti Eli Pariser - Founder of MoveOn and internet personalization researcher Orlaugh O'Brien - Design educator and author of Emotionally Vague - a research project about the body & emotion
OK Go - Renowned indie band & video artists changing the way people think about music and the Internet. Adrian Owen - One of the world’s preeminent neuroscientists and an expert on consciousness, who pioneered a way to communicate with ‘vegetative’ patients. Laura Poitras - Oscar-nominated filmmaker of 'The Oath,' which follows the life stories of two members of Al Quaeda Alan Rabinowitz - The 'Indiana Jones' of conservation and a leader in the protection of big cats Colin Rich - High-altitude balloon maker
Kathryn Schulz - Author of the bestselling book, 'Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error' about the nature of failure Larry Smith - Creator of the 'Six Word Memoir' Kevin Starr - Director of the Mulago Foundation, and an expert on what works (and doesn’t) in successful social innovation    



With:

Rachel Joanna Wingfield, designer of environmentally responsive textiles and sustainable urban habitats
Mathias Gmachl, multidisciplinary artist and founding member of farmersmanual
Lisa Gansky, entrepreneur and author of The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing
Habib Dagher, Director of the Advanced Structures & Composites Center at the University of Maine, and an expert on the future of wind power
Annemarie Ahearn and Ladleah Dunn, the creative gourmets behind Salt Water Farm in Lincolnville, Maine
Philippe Newlin, former Associate Editor / Tasting Director at Wine & Spirits Magazine
Nigel Waller, Founder & CEO of Movirtu – mobile for the next billion
Erika Wagner, head of the XPrize Laboratory at MIT
Brandon Kessler, Founder of ChallengePost, a ‘marketplace of challenges’

More to come, please check back for updates…