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2025 Creativity Conference Speakers

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Mark Moffett

Mark W. Moffett

Mark Moffett, tropical explorer and biologist, is traveling the globe with the support of the John Templeton Foundation to investigate the life and death of societies across the animal world and in humans right up to the present day.

Melissa Wells

Melissa Wells

Melissa Wells is an expert at managing healthcare systems in the US and abroad. When on expeditions with fellow explorer Moffett, she also captures the work and inspiration of scientific researchers through photography and film.

Creativity Conference Speakers

Additional speakers and conference schedule will be announced soon.
These speakers are currently scheduled. Subject to change.

 

Vint Cerf

Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Vint Cerf has the Turning Award (the “Nobel Prize for computing”) for co-inventing the internet—indeed, he coined the word “internet”—and his current job title is  Chief Internet Evangelist at Google.

Steven Pinker

Recipient of the Golden Plate award from the American Academy of Achievement, cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker has changed how we think about humankind with such bestselling books as The Language Instinct and Enlightenment Now.

Apollo Robbins

Apollo Robbins

Returning Creativity Conference favorite Apollo Robbins, expert on pickpockets, confidence crimes, and deception, “widely considered the best in the world at what he does” (New Yorker), will be joined by the magician and mentalist Ava Do.

John Patrick Shanley

Playwright, screenwriter, director—and songwriter—John Patrick Shanley earned an Academy Award for Moonstruck and a Tony, Obie, and Pulitzer for Doubt: A Parable, which was described as “a drama of surefire brilliance” by the Guardian.

Polly Wiessner

Anthropologist Polly Wiessner has lived among Africa’s San Bushmen and New Guinea tribes in her quest to understand how people lived prior to nations, with her studies of storytelling, inequality, exchange giving, and many other subjects.

Patricia Wright

A second returning Creativity Conference favorite, the MacArthur-winner Patricia Wright, updates us on her continuing efforts of conserve the lemurs of Madagascar, and will report on several extraordinary new discoveries from that island nation.