CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
- Keynote: Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley
- Scott Bailey, Johns Hopkins University
- Tom Barnes, Intellia
- Rodolphe Barrangou, North Carolina State University
- Chase Beisel, North Carolina State University
- David Bikard, Pasteur Institute
- Stan Brouns, Wageningen University
- Emmanuelle Charpentier, MPI Berlin
- Alan Davidson, University of Toronto
- Peter Fineran, University of Otago
- Martin Jinek, University of Zurich
- Ailong Ke, Cornell University
- Eugene Koonin, NIH/NCBI
- Sylvain Moineau, Laval University
- Vic Myer, Editas
- John van der Oost, Wageningen University
- Lennart Randau, MPI Marburg
- Konstantin Severinov, Rutgers University
- Virginjus Siksnys, Vilnius University
- Erik Sontheimer, University of Massachusetts Medical School
- Rotem Sorek, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Blake Wiedenheft, Montana State University
- Feng Zhang, MIT