Carl T. Bergstrom is a Professor of Biology at the University of Washington and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, best known for co-creating the wildly popular 'Calling Bullshit' course and book with Jevin West. A theoretical evolutionary biologist by training, Bergstrom pivoted from studying how information flows through genomes to exposing how misinformation flows through society - developing the Eigenfactor journal-ranking system, writing textbooks on evolution, and most recently launching a free 18-lesson AI literacy course already adopted at 130 universities. Part scientist, part data detective, part corvid photographer, he is one of the most prominent voices arguing that skepticism is a civic virtue in a data-saturated world.
Jon Gjengset is a principal engineer at Helsing, Rust systems programming educator, and author of 'Rust for Rustaceans' (No Starch Press). He holds a PhD from MIT CSAIL where he built Noria, a streaming dataflow database system offering up to 20x performance improvements. A prolific live-coder and YouTube educator since 2018, Jon co-founded ReadySet (a $29M-funded database startup), contributed to the Rust ecosystem, and teaches at MIT's Missing Semester. Based in Oslo, Norway, he is one of the most respected voices in the Rust community.