Imagine Solutions Conference 2024 | Imagine Solutions | 4 March 2024 | Arthrex Inc, 1 Arthrex Way, Naples, FL 34108, USA

An experience that awes and inspires. Events that compel you to think and think again. Speakers and presentations that leave you wanting more because the ideas and endorphins racing through your brain are sending you a message: what you’ve just learned is important and exhilarating.

Ideas at the edges—breakthroughs, cutting-edge concepts—still fuzzy in most minds—will be brought into sharp focus by some of the most visionary thinkers in the world at this event.

This conference has been described as one that is “unlike any other” and the 14th annual conference promises to wake up all your senses. It will be a day of a-ha moments, thought provoking Big Ideas, and game-changing insights.

At this event you’ll think twice. You’ll be inspired. You’ll discover the future from the visionaries making a difference in our world, and you’ll have the opportunity to meet them during the breaks.

Starting with a discovery dating back 375 million years, to what will shape our lives ten years out, and more – this event will truly bring alive the theme: unlike.any.other!

From paleontology, to AI, to medicine, to the arts, to science, to world orders, to disruption, to ethics, to social innovators, to demographics – all are part of the fabric of preeminent learning at this event

At this event you will meet the leader of a musical trio that dominated the voices of the 1960s through the 1990s; the hottest AI artist in the world; Carnegie Endowment’s expert on changing world orders; the scientist creating breakthrough technologies in neurodiagnostics; the chair of the Boys and Men Project at Brookings Institute; the astrophysicist and Nobel Prize winner who led the development of the James Webb Space Telescope; a MacArthur Genius Award winner who leads a lab focused on frugal innovation; a technology polymath explaining AI; 12 frontline nurses handling covid patients who formed a choir that captured the hearts of America; a cultural anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author, and photographer; and more.

This conference truly is unlike any other.

2024 Speakers

Doris Anita Taylor, Ph.D., FACC, FAHA
World Expert in Tissue, Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Building Personalized Human Hearts

Jean Bennett, Ph.D.
F.M. Kirby Professor of Ophthalmology, Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania

Paul Stamets
American Mycologist and Entrepreneur, Fungi Perfecti LLC

David Liu
World-renowned Scientist on Genetic Diseases Director, Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare, Broad Institute

John Donoghue, Ph.D.
American Neuroscientist, BrainGate

Patrick O. Brown
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Impossible Foods, Inc

Sethuraman "Panch" Panchanathan, Ph.D.
Director, National Science Foundation

Sean B. Carroll, Ph.D.
Head, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios

Sherrie Westin
President, Sesame Workshop

Dr. Vijay Swarup
Vice President of Research and Technology, Science and Technology, ExxonMobil

Fabien Cousteauu
Aquanaut, Ocean Conservationist, Documentary Filmmaker and founder, Proteus

Clea Conner
CEO, Intelligence Squared U.S.

Mike Gunton
British Television Producer, BBC Natural History Executive Producer, The Green Planet

Matt Jordan
Expert in Nature-Based Solutions Biodiversity to Climate Change and Poverty Alleviation, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Janet Echelman
World renowned American Sculptor and Fiber Artist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Benjamin Zander
Conductor, Musical Director & Founder, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra

Kathleen Belew
Author, Bring the War Home The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

Jeremy Siskind
American Pianist, Composer, and Educator, Fullerton College

Robert Langer
David H. Koch Institute Professor, MIT, Co-Founder, Moderna

Tyler Mathisen
CNBC Power Lunch Co-Anchor & Vice President, Events Strategy

Nick Furhman
Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Georgia

David Cole
President and CEO, Science History Institute

Henry Elkus
Founder and CEO, HELENA.ORG

Gitanjali Rao
Board Member and Director, Children's Kindness Network

Richard Garriott
Founder, Managing Partner, Argent and Sable, Limited

Michael S. Rogers
Former United States Navy Admiral

Ken Savin, Ph.D.
Senior Program Director, In-Space Production, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space

Kevin Lynch, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Robotics and Biosystems, Northwestern University

Darío Gil, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President and Director of Research, IBM

Laura Lott
CEO, American Alliance of Museums

France A. Córdova, Ph.D.
President, Science Philanthropy Alliance

Ellen Stofan, Ph.D.
Under Secretary for Science and Research, Smithsonian Institution

Marcia McNutt, Ph.D.
CEO, National Academy of Sciences

Robert Langer, ScD
Cofounder, Moderna

Penny Heaton, MD
CEO, Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute

Sangeeta N. Bhatia, MD, PhD
Professor, Director Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

James J. Collins, PhD
Senior Scientist, Pfizer

John Richardson
Four Star Admiral, CNO, U.S. Navy Ret.

Bridget Terry Long
Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education

John Allen
President, Brookings Institution

David R. Malpass
President, The World Bank

Daniel Franklin
Executive and Diplomatic Editor, The Economist

Molly Bloom
Inspirational Keynote Speaker and Entrepreneur, BigSpeak Speakers Bureau

Dr. Eleanor Green
Dean, Texas A & M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Ret.

Cecilia Conrad
CEO, Lever for Change, MacArthur Foundation

David Cole
President and CEO, Science History Institute

Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner
Piano Virtuoso

Shelbie Rassler
Composer Arranger, Multi-Instrumentalist

Tyler Mathisen
CNBC Power Lunch Co-Anchor & Vice President, Events Strategy

Drew Sullivan
Publisher and Co-Founder, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Anthony DeCurtis
Distinguished Lecturer, Creative Writing, University of Pennsylvania

Cory Pesaturo
Three-Time World Champion Accordion Player

Dylan Thuras
Co-founder & Creative Director, Atlas Obscura

Larry Jameson
Dean, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Mike Gunton
Creative Director, Factual & Natural History Unit, BBC Worldwide & the BBC

John Palfrey
CEO, The MacArthur Foundation

Yung S. Lie
President & CEO, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

Norman Lear
Television and Film Writer Producer

Ed Hyman
Founder & Chairman, Evercore ISI, Head of Economic Research, New York Evercore ISI, Senior Management

Larry Brilliant
CEO, Skoll Global Threats Fund

Taalbi Brothers
Flamenco Mediterranean-inspired Guitarists, Taalbi Brothers

Michael Porter
Professor, Harvard Business School

Katherine Gehl
FounderFounder, Institute for Political Innovation

Richard Browning
Founder & Chief Test Pilot, Gravity Industries

Daniel Kraft
Chair for Medicine & Neuroscience, Singularity University Founder & Chair, Exponential Medicine

Regina Dugan
Executive Director Professor The Water School, Florida Gulf Coast University

Greg Tolley
Executive Director Professor The Water School, Florida Gulf Coast University

Gary White
CEO & Co-Founder, water.org & WaterEquity

David Aguilar
Naturalist Astronomer, Author, Space Artist, Musician

Gregg Treinish
Founder and Executive Director, Adventure Scientists

Elisabeth Stock
Founder, PowerMyLearning

Ken Adelman
Vice President, Movers & Shakespeares

Lawrence Lessig
Professor of Law & Leadership, Harvard Law School

John Bayless
Acclaimed Concert Pianist and Composer

Louis Masur
American Cultural Historian; Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History, Rutgers University

Sara DeWitt
Vice President, PBS KIDS Digital, PBS

Paul Rothman
Dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Carol Adelman
President, Movers & Shakespeares

Daniela Rus
Director, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory CSAIL, MIT

Will Shafroth
CEO, National Park Foundation

Paul Beck
Partner Chief Marketing Officer, Storybooth

Amar C. Bakshi
Founder & Creative Director, Shared_Studios

Arthur T. Benjamin
Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College

Sydney Morris
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Educators For Excellence

Elizabeth Hausler
Founder & CEO, Build Change

Bradley Myles
CEO, Polaris

Lawrence Burns
Futurist and Author, The Driverless Car

Jon LaPook
Chief Medical Correspondent, CBS News

Jennifer Kavanagh
Director, Strategy, Doctrine, and Resources Program, RAND Arroyo Center, Senior Political Scientist, Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School

Michelle Johnson
Superintendent of the Air Force Academy (Ret.), Senior Vice President and Head of Referee Operations, National Basketball Association

Thomas Modly
Undersecretary, United States Navy

Eric Wesley
United States Army Lt. Gen.

Buddy Greene
Award-winning Musician and Songwriter

Lloyd Minor
Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine

George Daley
Dean, Harvard Medical School

Laura L. Carstensen
Director, Stanford Center for Longevity

Jo Ann Jenkins
CEO, AARP

Keith Boesky
Principal, Boesky & Company

Laura Galante
Founder, Galante Strategies

Luke Dormehl
Author, Thinking Machines: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence and Where It's Taking Us Next

Daniel Franklin
Author, Megatech: Technology in 2050|Science & Technology

Jake Wood
Co-Founder & CEO, Team Rubicon

Olufunmilayo I. Olopade
Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics; Director, Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics & Global Health

Philip A. Pizzo
Director, Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute

Andrew Scott
Economist and Author, The 100-year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity

Olivera J. Finn
Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh Departments of Immunology and Surgery

Otis W. Brawley
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Oncology, School of Medicine and Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health

Matthew Whitaker
Jazz Piano Prodigy

Lee Rainie
History & Contemporary Society Director, Pew Research Center

Dr. David J. Skorton
Former Secretary, The Smithsonian Institution

Stephen Johnston
Co-founder, Aging2.0

Ken Anderson
Program Director, Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center and LeBow Institute for Myeloma Therapeutics, Kraft Family Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

George C. Prendergast
President & CEO, Lankenau Institute for Medical Research

Time for Three
Classically Trained Garage Band

Tyler Mathisen
CNBC Co-Anchor, "Power Lunch" and Vice President, Events Strategy

Carolyn Miles
CEO, Save The Children

Madeline Bell
CEO, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Sandra Fenwick
CEO, Boston Children's Hospital

Paula Apsell
Senior Executive Producer, NOVA & NOVA scienceNOW, Director, WGBH Science Unit, Boston (retired)

Walt Mossberg
Executive Editor, The Verge & Editor-at-Large, Recode

Dr. Scott Adzick
Surgeon-in-Chief, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Michael Green
CEO, Social Progress Imperative

Presley Barker
Bluegrass Guitar Prodigy

Nicholas Lowery & Rachel Randall
Duo Straight Up

Anthony Scaramucci
CNBC Contributor, founder and co-managing partner, SkyBridge Capital

Annie Griffiths
Photographer

Gerald Slavet
Co-Founder, From the Top

Vanessa Garrison
Co-Founder and COO, GirlTrek

Janet Wasko
Professor, Philip H. Knight Chair in Communication Research, Media Studies Area Director

Mike Gunton
Creative Director and Executive Producer, BBC's Natural History Unit

Margaret Carlson
Columnist, Daily Beast

Elise Jordan
Political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, contributor to TIME

Steve Clemons
Editor At Large, The Hill

Katherine Liu
Piano Prodigy

2024 Sponsors

NATIONAL SPONSORS:
• AARP
• CVS Health
• ExxonMobil
• FedEx
• GE
• GM
• HHMI
• Hp
• Humana
• IBM
• Knight Foundation
• Shell
• 3M
• YAMAHA

LOCAL SPONSORS:
• Abc News
• Comcast
• Community School of Naples
• Bella Magazine
• Florida Gulf Coast University
• Florida Weekly
• FPL
• Lee Health
• Life in Naples
• Moorings Park
• Naples Daily News
• LOCALiQ
• Naples Illustrated
• NCH
• Norman Love Confections
• Northern Trust
• Naples Marco Island Everglades
• The Ritz-Carlton
• WGCU
• Wilson & Johnson