Stephen Braude, Ph.D. is a retired Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration.
He studied Philosophy and English at Oberlin College and the University of London, and in 1971 he received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In addition to more than sixty philosophical and scientific papers, he has also written six books.

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• Ways to access optimal states of being
• Role that multiple personality disorder plays in understanding the after life
• Why hypnosis is so powerful in accessing latent parts of ourselves
• The dark side that our thoughts may play in creating our everyday reality

• The need to question all assumptions we make about reality
  
• How humans differ from machines
• Holographic theory of black holes and what it possibly means for humanity
  
• Current theories around consciousness

• How our visual perception creates every aspect of our everyday reality.
  

Donald Hoffman is a cognitive scientist, professor and author of more than 90 scientific papers and three books, including Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See.

He received his Bachelor’s degree from UCLA in Quantitative Psychology and his Ph.D. from MIT in Computational Psychology. He is now a professor at UC Irvine and consults for major corporations.

TED Talk: Do We See Reality As It Really Is?
Website: Donald Hoffman

• How your current reality is actually a mirror of your inner beliefs
• 3 Easy and powerful steps to change those beliefs
• The scientifically proven effects that love and kindness have on our bodies
• David's own journey to self love and vulnerability and the role his dog, Oscar, played in that
• What quantum physics can teach us about ourselves

Dr. David Hamilton is the author of 8 books including 'How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body', 'Why Kindness is Good for You', and 'I HEART Me'. After receiving his PhD in Chemistry, he worked  in the pharmaceutical industry developing drugs for cardiovascular disease and cancer. It was there that he discovered the placebo effect which got him very curious about the mind-body connection. He now speaks around the world on topics like how the mind affects the body, the placebo effect, how love and compassion affect the heart, and even how visualization physically impacts the brain.

Twitter: @drdavidhamilton
Website: Dr. David Hamilton

• His personal transformative experience that led him into this work
• The experiment that proves that the heart knows things that are going to happen prior to us being aware of it
• Drew's practical tips on how he builds mindfulness into his daily practice
• Personal experience with lucid dreaming - what it is, how you do it and what it's been like for him

DREW HERIOT'S BIO:

Australian-born director, Drew Heriot, is best known for his inspirational films including The Secret which, in 2006 and 2007, became the highest-selling DVD in the USA.

Over the course of his career spanning 20 years, Heriot has directed award-winning films, commercials and top-rating prime-time television shows. His latest feature film, The Power of the Heart, features Maya Angelou, Paulo Coelho and Eckhart Tolle.

Twitter: @drewheriot
Website: Drew Heriot

• What it's like to follow a vision instead of a path
• How research at Princeton University shows how our consciousness knew about the events of 9/11 hours before it happened
• What consciousness is and the current evolutionary theories around why we think it exists
• Cutting edge technology that's happening right now around consciousness and the wild applications of it

Adam M. Curry is a hardware hacker and technology entrepreneur in San Francisco. He thinks the idea that consciousness and reality may be interconnected is really cool. He was fascinated enough by the idea to organize the Collective Consciousness app project. Technology advances by trying something new, and he's very excited to explore the horizons of "consciousness technology."

He was the recipient of the MIT Ceres Connection Prize at 17, for an invention that converted electro-gravitational phenomena into signals that can help forecast seismic events, such as earthquakes. Adam has been featured in the Discovery Channel's Through The Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, and is on the board of the Society for Scientific Exploration. He studied physics and creative writing at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Twitter: @AdamsLab
Website: Entangled