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The world's best scientists

The most outstanding scientists of our time from the  world’s best universities gather to speak for you at no cost! You will have access to unique knowledge from the most respected and influential experts from around the world.

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Registration and participation is absolutely free. For the first time, Nobel laureates and scientists will gather to interact with students from 8 countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus.

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Make valuable connections and meet like-minded people and mentors in all areas of science, technology and business. Find peers at Nobel Fest and create joint projects!

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CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

JOHANNES LINN

  • Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development program, Brookings Institution
  • Former Vice President of the World Bank  for Europe and Central Asia

DAVID GROSS

  • 2004 Nobel Prize winner in Physics
  • Professor, Department of Physics, Univesity of California Santa Barbara

JEAN-MARIE LEHN

  • 1987 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
  • Professor, University of Strasbourg Intitute for Advanced Studies

KEVIN WARWICK

  • World-renowned cybor-engineer, also known as "Captain Cyborg"
  • Emeritus Professor at Coventry and Reading Universities

TAWAKKOL KARMAN

  • Yemeni women's rights activist,
  • 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner

RAE KWON CHUNG

  • 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Winner as a member of IPCC
  • The Global Energy Prize International Award Committee Chairman
  • Advisor to the Chair of High-Level Expert and Leaders Panel (HELP) on Water and Disasters under the UN Secretary-General

DON CLEVELAND

  • Chair, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University California, San Diego,
  • 2018 Life Sciences Breakthrough Prize winner

CAUCHER BIRKAR

  • Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge,
  • 2018 Fields medal recipient

MARC UZAN

  • Genereal Director, Reinventing Bretton-Woods Committee

JUAN MALDACENA

  • World-renowned cybor-engineer, also known as "Captain Cyborg"
  • Emeritus Professor at Coventry and Reading Universities

MICHAEL SHEETZ

  • 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner

SILVIO MICALI

  • Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Founder of Algorand
  • 2012 Turing award winner

LYMAN PAGE JR

  • Distinguished University Professor in Physics, Princeton University,
  • 2018 Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize winner

SERGEY GURIEV

  • Professor of Economics, Paris Institute of Political Studies,
  • Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (2015-2019)
  • Rector, Russian School of Economics (2004-2013)

VIVEK WADHVA

  • Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program,
  • One of Top 100 Global Thinkers according to Foreign Policy.

XAVIER SALA-I-MARTIN

  • Professor of economics at Columbia University
  • author of the Global Competitiveness Index by the World Economic Forum

GEORGE CHURCH

  • American geneticist, One of Time’s 100 Most Influential People,
  • Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

TSUI LAP CHEE

  • Prominent geneticist, President, Hong Kong Academy of Sciences

MICHAEL ELOWITZ

  • Professor of Biology, Bioengineering, and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology

MICHAEL JORDAN

  • The Science magazine named him "the most influential computer scientists" in 2016, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
  • Sciences, Department of Statistics, University of California Berkeley

SAYASAT NURBEK

  • CEO, BTS EducatiAon, Project Lead “Atlas of New Professions in Kazakhstan”

SUBIR SACHDEV

  • 2015 Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical
  • Physics recipient, Professor of Physics, Harvard University

SANZHAR TAIZHAN

  • CEO and Chief Engineer, SpaceX Warwick Hyperloop,
  • Litium bataries engineer, Jaguar Land Rover

AIDA KHAIDAR

  • Contributor at Atameken Business Channel

SHIGEO KATSU

  • President, Nazarbayev University

SERIK IRSALIYEV

  • President of the Astana International University

MICHAEL GOOD

  • Professor of Physics, Physics Department, Nazarbayev Universit

ALL SPEAKERS

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