Plenary I: Presidential Symposium

• Ernest McCulloch Lecture:  Fiona Watt, King's College London, UK
• Steven Finkbeiner, Gladstone Institutes, USA
• Eric Olson, University of Texas Southwestern, USA
• Aviv Regev, Broad Institute, USA

Plenary II: Machine Learning and Computation

• Trey Ideker, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, USA
• Hiroaki Kitano, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Plenary III: Embryological & Developmental Regulation

• Benoit Bruneau, Gladstone Institutes, USA
• Elaine Fuchs, HHMI, Rockefeller University, USA
• Ken Zaret, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
• Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge, UK

Plenary IV: Aging

• Margaret Goodell, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
  
• Guanghui Liu, Institute of Biophysics, CAS, China
• Emi Nishimura, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
• Beth Stevens, Boston Children's Hospital, USA

Plenary V: Organogenesis

• Miki Ebisuya, EMBL Barcelona, Spain
• Madeline Lancaster, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
• Henrik Semb, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Plenary VI: Reprogramming and Regeneration

• Anne McLaren Lecture: Alta Charo, University of Wisconsin USA
• Botond Roska, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland
• Shinya Yamanaka, Center for iPS Cell Research & Application, Japan

Plenary VII: Gene Editing and Clinical Innovation

• John McNeish Lecture: Brian Wainger, Harvard University, USA
• Katherine High, Spark Therapeutics, USA
• Michel Sadelain, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA
• Keynote Address: Sekar Kathiresan, Verve Therapeutics, USA

• Alessandro Aiuti, San Raffaele Hospital, Italy
• Robert Blelloch, University of California, San Francisco, USA
• Magdalena Goetz, HelmholtzZentrum Muenchen, Germany
• Shangqin Guo, Yale University, USA
• Richard Harvey, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia
• Tim Hoey, Tenaya Therapeutics, USA
• Lijian Hui, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, China
• Justin Ichida, University of Southern California, USA
• Masaki Ieda, University of Tsukuba, Japan
• Haruhisa Inoue, CiRA, Kyoto University, Japan
• Sten-Eirik Jacobsen, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
• Josephine Johnston , Hastings Center, USA
• Carla Kim, Boston Children's Hospital, USA
• Steve McCarroll, Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
• Megan Munsie, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Kathy Niakan, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
• Malin Parmar, Lund University, Sweden

• Martin Pera, The Jackson Labs, USA
• Matthew Porteus, Stanford Medical School, USA
• Stephanie Protze, McEwen Stem Cell Institute, University Health Network, Canada
• Li Qian, University of N Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
• Milica Radisic, University of Toronto, Canada
• Shahin Rafii, Cornell Medical College, USA
• Kristy Red-Horse, Stanford University, USA
• Thomas Reh, University of Washington, USA
• Alejandro Schinder, Leloir Institute, Argentina
• Judith Shizuru, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
• Hans Snoeck, Columbia University Medical Center, USA
• Fuchou Tang, Peking University, China
• Giuseppe Testa, University of Milan, Italy
• Li-Huei Tsai, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, USA
• Claudia Waskow, Leibniz Institute on Aging- FLI, Germany
• Joanna Wysocka, Stanford University, USA
• Richard Young, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, USA