Keynote speaker Merritt Moore is an inspirational, female quantum physicist and world class professional ballet dancer, who has combined her physics and ballet expertise to create dances with industrial robots – featured in TIME, Financial Times, BBC and Vogue. 

She was awarded Forbes 30 under 30 and was one of the 12 selected candidates to undergo rigorous astronaut selection on the BBC Two show “Astronauts: Do you have what it takes?” during the pandemic.