Taking place in Kansas City, the 4th annual, two-day Compute Midwest will bring together 16+ speakers and thousands of attendees including top business leaders, startups, software engineers and investors from all over the world, to explore the trends transforming the future.

A major focus this year will be autonomous car technology.

Last year’s speakers included:

• Alexis Ohanian (Co-founder, Reddit)
  VIDEO, “Without Their Permission”
• Jordan Evans (Engineering Manager, NASA Mars Rover Project)
  VIDEO: “The Future Of Mars Exploration“
• Andrew Hessel (Genomic Futurist, Autodesk)
  VIDEO: “Programming Living Things“
• Vern Brownell – CEO, D-Wave , Former CTO of Goldman Sachs
  VIDEO: “The Future Of Quantum Computing“
• Chris Kemp (Founder, Nebula & Fmr CTO, NASA)
• Dan Levin (COO, Box)
• Rodney Brooks – Founder of iRobot
• Rob High – CTO of IBM Watson
• Jason Hoffman (Founder, Joyent)
• Dan Kaufman – Director of Innovation Office @ DARPA
• Brian David Johnson, Futurist @ Intel
• Ariel Garten, CEO of interaXon
• Jane Poynter, CEO World View Enterprises
• John Underkoffler (Founder, Oblong)
• Scott Chacon (CIO, Github)