400+ people have shaped Human+Tech Week.
Founders, researchers, investors, executives, civic leaders, practitioners, and cultural voices who participated across 2025 and 2026.
WHY FACULTY COME
An ecosystem aligned with their work.
Faculty come to Human+Tech Week because their work is aligned with the ecosystem the week brings together. Their leadership helps shape the week, while the broader community can integrate, activate, and build upon what they are advancing.
Thirty faculty members are pictured below, followed by a broader sample from the 2025 and 2026 summits.
Featured faculty
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Larry Brilliant
Evity Technologies
Wei-Wu He
Human Longevity Inc.
Van Jones
CNN; DreamMachine.org
Esther Dyson
Founding Chair, ICANN
Charlene Li
Quantum Networks Group
Steven Kotler
Flow Research Collective
Katherine Newman
UC System
Michele Jawando
Omidyar Network
Johnny C. Taylor Jr.
SHRM
Rosanna Durruthy
LinkedIn
Heidi Roddenberry
Roddenberry Foundation
Paula Goldman
Salesforce
Manabu Miyakasa
City of Tokyo
Adam Gazzaley
Neuroscape, UCSF
David Ko
Calm
Elissa Epel
UCSF
Daniel Kraft
NextMed Health
Peter Hirshberg
City Science Lab, SF
Julie Wenah
The OpEd Project
Megan Henshall
Google
Jane Gong
City of San Francisco
Ben Nelson
Minerva Project
Elaine Barsoom
Silicon Foundry
Dean Ornish
Preventive Medicine Research Institute
Cardinal Peter K. A. Turkson
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Ed Boyden
MIT
Poppy Crum
Giant Step Capital
David Eagleman
Stanford University
Stephanie Tilenius
Peak Health
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
Stanford HAI; MIT
Faculty by summit
Who participated, by summit.
A broader sample from the 2025 and 2026 summits. Faculty may appear under more than one summit when they participated in more than one program. This is not the complete list.