The 2025 Program

Session 1 : Tracing Legacies: From ancestral stewardship to polar shipwrecks

9:10 AM | Ancestral Care of Earth: Indigenous-led Stewardship

Valerie Courtois - National leader in the movement of Indigenous-led conservation and stewardship

9:25 AM | Connecting the wrecks of Endurance, Quest, Erebus & Terror

David Mearns - Marine Scientist

Mensun Bound - Maritime Archaeologist

Jonathan Moore - Underwater Archaeologist

John Geiger - CEO of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society and Canadian Geographic Enterprises

10:00 AM | Coffee-Break

Session 2: Defying Limits: Discoveries across planets, species, and summits

11:00 AM | From Lab to Launch Pad: Exploring Venus' Clouds For Signs of Life

Sara Seager - Astrophysicist and Planetary Scientist

11:20 AM | Protecting Pangolins in the Giant of Africa

Charles Emogor - Conservationist and Tropical Ecologist

11:40 AM | No Legs, No Limits: Climbing the Seven Submits

Hari Budha Magar - Double below-the-knee amputee completing the 7 summits

12:00 AM | Lunch Break

Session 3: New Frontiers: Life, storytelling, and humanity revealed

2:00 PM | Beauty in the Deep: 100,000 New Ocean Species

Oliver Steeds - Founder and Chief Executive of Nekton and Director of Ocean Census

2:20 PM | Beyond Premieres: Storytelling Futures

Gunjan Menon - Conservation filmmaker

2:40 PM | Lensing the long-term Humanitarian Impact of Conflict

Giles Duley - Photographer and CEO of Legacy of War Foundation

3:00 PM | Tea Break

Session 4: Origins and Cosmos: understanding where we come from

4:00 PM | Human Origins in the Turkana Basin

Louise Leakey - Palaeoanthropologist

4:30 PM | Our Place in the Universe

Brian Cox - Physicist and Host of BBC Science Programs.