• Welcome Remarks, Maya Ajmera, President & CEO, Society for Science; Publisher, Science News
• Remarks from George Yancopoulos, Scientific Founder, President & Chief Scientific Officer, Regeneron
• Keynote Address, Michio Kaku, Futurist, Physicist, Author
• “Around the World” Dance Video featuring Regeneron ISEF 2021 finalists

Moderated by Joe Palca, Science Correspondent, National Public Radio
Featuring:

• Frances Arnold
  Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering
  California Institute of Technology
  Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018
• H. Robert Horvitz
  David Koch Professor, Department of Biology
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002

Moderated by Maya Ajmera, President & CEO, Society for Science; Publisher, Science News
Featuring:

• Omar Abudayyeh
  Fellow, McGovern Institute
  ISEF 2008
• Eden Full Goh
  Founder & CEO, Mobot
  ISEF 2007–2008
• Michael Li
  Founder, The Data Incubator and President for data at Pragmatic Institute
  STS 2003; ISEF 2003
• David Schlesinger
  CEO & Co-founder, Mendelics
  ISEF 1997

Moderated by Nancy Shute, Editor in Chief, Science News
Featuring:

• Dapo Ajayi
  Vice President, Technical Operations and Supply Chain Strategy
  Johnson & Johnson
• Heidi Williams
  Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics
  Stanford University
  MacArthur Fellow 2015
  ISEF 1999
• Dawn Wright
  Chief Scientist
  ESRI
• Huda Zoghbi
  Professor
  Baylor College of Medicine
  Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences 2017

Moderated by Cheryl Dorsey, President, Echoing Green
Featuring:

• Pelagia Majoni
  Grace Hopper Award Winner
  Haverford College
  ISEF 2017
• Sahithi Pingali
  Founder & CEO, WaterInsights
  Stanford University
  ISEF 2017
• Nathan Wang
  Policy Entrepreneur
  Johns Hopkins University
  ISEF 2019
• Ryan Westcott
  Founder & President
  Aeronautics Northwest
  ISEF 2017–2020

Hear from three former ISEF finalists (now National Geographic Young Explorers!) working on projects that take science to the next level.

Learn how intellectual property tools (patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets) can help protect your science and engineering projects and help you continue on the path to innovation.

Join this session to learn about Rise — a global talent program that finds extraordinary young people who need opportunity and supports them for life as they use their talents to serve others. An initiative of Schmidt Futures and the Rhodes Trust, Rise is building a global community of future leaders, connecting everyone who applies with a network of peers, learning resources, and additional opportunities from Rise partners around the world.

Learn about the nation’s oldest and most prestigious STEM competition (and a chance to win $250,000). The 2022 application will open June 1, 2021 for rising U.S. high school seniors.

Join us for a live conversation with pioneers in Artificial Intelligence from OpenAI, Google, and comma.ai as they walk you through a day-in-the-life and what big ideas are on the horizon. The conversation will be led by ISEF alumnus and National Leadership Council member David Holz, CTO and Co-founder of Leap Motion (now UltraLeap).