Dreaming of democratized access to biotechnology, Will Canine started Opentrons as an NYU thesis project.

Tony Kulesa is a relentless champion for scientists and founders, but especially scientist founders. He helped ignite the enthusiasm of the growing founder-led biotech movement, and has good ideas about where it can go next.

Sebastian Cocioba is an amateur biologist and flower designer. His unconventional path to becoming a scientist has been groundbreaking and his hard-won lessons are helpful for other autodidacts as well as for traditionally-trained scientists. There's an important and unique vision for the future of science being forged in this spare-bedroom laboratory.

Adam Marblestone has spent his career working at cutting-edge science organizations, spanning academia and industry. Now he's building his own. His proposal to create Focused Research Organizations (FROs) has galvanized support and engagement from both funders and scientists. Additionally, he is pioneering the use of roadmaps as a longitudinal tool to help scientific disciplines overcome bottlenecks.

Peter Galison is one of the most important science philosophers working today. His books and films are singular in approach and give us the best understanding of how science actually advances: an interlocking web of instrumentation, experimentation, and theory.

Isha Datar coined and help popularize the term "cellular agriculture" to define an emerging future she wanted to live in. Over the past decade, her leadership has helped turn the field — the science, industry, and public image — from a distant dream to an imminent reality. We talk about the art of field-building, and why we need this type of cultural entrepreneurship more than ever.

Jeff Orlowski is a master storyteller. His films — Chasing Ice, Chasing Coral, The Social Dilemma — bring audiences to places and ideas they've never considered. For the Chasing films, he was embedded with scientists and researchers for years at a time. His experience traveling between these different worlds gives him a unique perspective on how to improve science storytelling.