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Dan Berkenstock | TED Speaker

Dan Berkenstock and his team at Skybox Imaging are rethinking how to take photographs from space.
Satellite designer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/dan_berkenstock

Sarah Parcak | TED Speaker

Like a modern-day Indiana Jones, Sarah Parcak uses satellite images to locate lost ancient sites. The winner of the 2016 TED Prize, her wish is to protect the world’s shared cultural heritage.
Satellite archaeologist + TED Prize winner
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sarah_parcak

Alexander MacDonald | TED Speaker

TED Senior Fellow Alexander MacDonald develops strategies to advance space exploration and encourage private-sector space activities.
Economist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/alex_macdonald

Bruno Bowden | TED Speaker

An engineer with Google (he helped build Google Earth), Bruno Bowden is also an enthusiastic folder of paper.
Engineer and origamist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/bruno_bowden

Alison Killing | TED Speaker

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alison Killing uses satellite imagery and data visualization to investigate urgent social issues.
Journalist, architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/alison_killing

Kate Marvel | TED Speaker

Climate scientist Kate Marvel looks at the big picture of environmental change.
Climate scientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kate_marvel

Robert Fischell | TED Speaker

Robert Fischell invented the rechargeable pacemaker, the implantable insulin pump, and devices that warn of epileptic seizures and heart attacks. Yet it's not just his inventive genius that makes him fascinating, but his determination to make the world a better place.
Biomedical inventor
https://www.ted.com/speakers/robert_fischell

Julia Bacha | TED Speaker

Julia Bacha is the creative director at Just Vision, an organization that uses film and multimedia storytelling to foster constructive conversations on some of the most divisive issues of our times.
Filmmaker
https://www.ted.com/speakers/julia_bacha

Danielle Wood | TED Speaker

Danielle Wood designs satellites and space technology applications that contribute to sustainable development.
Space engineer and development scholar
https://www.ted.com/speakers/danielle_wood

Martine Rothblatt | TED Speaker

Whether she’s inventing satellite radio, developing life-saving drugs or digitizing the human mind, Martine Rothblatt has a knack for turning visionary ideas into commonplace technology.
Transhumanist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/martine_rothblatt

Benjamin Grant | TED Speaker

Through his mesmerizing satellite photographs, Benjamin Grant offers us a new way of seeing of our planet and ourselves.
Artist, author
https://www.ted.com/speakers/benjamin_grant

Gavin McCormick | TED Speaker

Gavin McCormick is a cofounder of the Climate TRACE coalition, which combines satellites and artificial intelligence to detect human-caused greenhouse gases from all major sources.
High-tech environmental activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/gavin_mccormick

Greg Asner | TED Speaker

Greg Asner’s mapping technology produces detailed, complex pictures of how humans’ activities affect our ecosystems.
Airborne ecologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/greg_asner

Andrea Ghez | TED Speaker

Andrea Ghez is a stargazing detective, tracking the visible and invisible forces lurking in the vastness of interstellar space.
Astronomer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/andrea_ghez

Kamau Gachigi | TED Speaker

At Gearbox, Kamau Gachigi empowers Kenya's next generation of creators to prototype and fabricate their visions.
Technologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kamau_gachigi

Gayle King | TED Speaker

Gayle King is a co-host of "CBS This Morning” and Editor-at-Large of the award-winning O, the Oprah Magazine.
Journalist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/gayle_king

Jay Walker | TED Speaker

Jay Walker is fascinated by intellectual property in all its forms. His firm, Walker Digital, created Priceline and many other businesses that reframe old problems with new IT. In his private life, he's a bibliophile and collector on an epic scale.
Entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jay_walker

Wanis Kabbaj | TED Speaker

UPS's Wanis Kabbaj seeks new ways of understanding the growing complexity of our congested cities and globalized world.
Global citizen, transportation geek
https://www.ted.com/speakers/wanis_kabbaj

David Rockwell | TED Speaker

Architect David Rockwell draws on his love of drama and spectacle to create fantastic, high-impact restaurants, cultural facilities, airline terminals, theater sets -- and playgrounds.
Architect, experience designer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/david_rockwell

John C. Mather | TED Speaker

Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist John C. Mather leads the science team behind NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever launched into space.
Telescope visionary
https://www.ted.com/speakers/john_c_mather

Lynn Rothschild | TED Speaker

Lynn Rothschild is passionate about the origin and evolution of life on earth or elsewhere -- while at the same time pioneering the use of synthetic biology to enable space exploration.
Astrobiologist, synthetic biologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/lynn_rothschild

Natalie Panek | TED Speaker

Natalie Panek's work is focused on the idea that accountability for our environments never goes away.
Rocket scientist, explorer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/natalie_panek

Moriba Jah | TED Speaker

TED Fellow Moriba Jah studies and predicts the motion of objects in space in an effort to make space safe, secure and sustainable.
Space environmentalist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/moriba_jah

Stephen Lawler | TED Speaker

Stephen Lawler and the Virtual Earth team have created an addictively interactive 3D world that is poised to reinvent our view of advertising, gaming, weather/traffic reporting, instant messaging and more.
General manager of Microsoft's Virtual Earth
https://www.ted.com/speakers/stephen_lawler

Peter Beck | TED Speaker

As founder and CEO of Rocket Lab, Peter Beck oversees the manufacturing and launch of rockets designed to put small satellites into orbit.
Rocket entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/peter_beck

George Smoot | TED Speaker

Astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize winner George Smoot studies the cosmic microwave background radiation -- the afterglow of the Big Bang. His pioneering research into deep space and time is uncovering the structure of the universe itself.
Astrophysicist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/george_smoot

Phil Plait | TED Speaker

Phil Plait has spent his life evangelizing science, getting the word out about the real world and how we know what we know about it.
Astronomer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/phil_plait

Philip Lubin | TED Speaker

Philip Lubin studies the physics of the universe.
Physicist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/philip_lubin

Sarah Parcak | TED Fellow

Space Archeologist
https://www.ted.com/profiles/1064883/about

Teru Kuwayama | TED Fellow

Crisis photographer
https://www.ted.com/profiles/437055/about
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