Raymond McCauley is a scientist, engineer, inventor, investor, and entrepreneur working at the forefront of biotechnology. Raymond explores how applying technology to life -- with biology, genetics, medicine, longevity, agriculture, manufacturing, materials, energy, and even space  -- is affecting us all. He uses storytelling and down-to-earth examples to show how quickly these changes are happening, right now, and where it may head tomorrow. His work and profile have been featured in Wired, Forbes, Time, CNBC, Science, and Nature.

Raymond is: Principal of Exponential Biosciences; a theme developer at ARK Invest; Founding Faculty and Chair of Digital Biology at Singularity University; Co-founder and Chief Architect for BioCurious; part of the team that developed next generation DNA sequencing at Illumina ($ILMN), with past positions at Ingenuity Systems, Genomera, NASA, and other organizations. Raymond creates, advises, invests in, and develops biotech-related startups.

"I think kids should hack biology the way they do Legos, and there should be more biotech startups than Starbucks. I want to do for science communications what Disney did for cartoons."