2013 Speakers

• Tai Ming Cheung, Director of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) located at the University of California, San Diego

2012 Speakers

• AnnaLee Saxenian, Dean and Professor in the School of Information and Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley
• Robert M. Kaplan, Director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research, National Institutes of Health

2011 Speakers

• Michael Chui, Senior Fellow, McKinsey Global Institute
• Louann Brizendine, Lynne and Marc Benioff Endowed Chair in Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco

2010 Speakers

• Corey Goodman, Former President, Pfizer's Biotherapeutics and Bioinnovation Center

2009 Speakers

• Elon Musk, CEO and CTO, SpaceX
• M. Kathleen Behrens, President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)

2008 Speakers

• John Garamendi, Lieutenant Governor of California
• Jeffrey R. Koseff, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University
• Sam Farr, Congressman

2007 Speakers

• Leon E. Panetta, Co-Director, Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy
• Charles F. Kennel, Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
• Lee Schipper, Director of Research, EMBARQ, the World Resources Institute (WRI) Center for Sustainable Transport

2006 Speakers

• Robert Fri, Director, American Electric Power Company; Vice-chair and Director, Electric Power Research Institute; Trustee and Vice-chair, Science Service, Inc.; Member, National Petroleum Council
• Harold Ray, Consultant and Retired Executive Vice President, Southern California Edison
• Raymond B. Seed, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley

2005 Speakers

• Molly Coye, Founder and CEO, Health Technology Center (HealthTech)
• Fred H. Gage, Adler Professor in the Laboratory of Genetics, Salk Institute
• Edward I. Moses, Project Manager, National Ignition Facility (NIF) Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

2004 Speakers

• Ralph J. Cicerone, Chancellor, UC Irvine; President Elect, National Academies
• Charles Elachi,Professor of Electrical Engineering and Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology
• R. Sean Randolph, President, Bay Area Economic Forum

2003 Speakers

• Neil J. Smelser, University Professor of Sociology Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
• R. Steven Tharratt, Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology and Chief, Section of Clinical Pharmacology and Medical Toxicology, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UC Davis
• William A. Wulf, President, National Academy of Engineering; Vice Chair, National Research Council

2002 Speakers

• Evelyn Hu, Co-Director, California Nano-Systems Institute, University of California Santa Barbara
• Larry Smarr, Founding Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
• Stephen J. Ryan, M.D., Dean, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

2001 Speakers

• Henry Riggs, President, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences
• Charles F. Kennel, Chair, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Global Climate Change Research
• Bruce Cain, Director, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley

2000 Speakers

• Pamela Samuelson, Professor of Law, University of California Berkeley
• Michael T. Clegg, Dean of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of California Riverside
• Hal Varian, Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems, University of California Berkeley