Speakers

Ryan McGranaghan is a Data Scientist and Research Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he works with the Machine Learning and Instrument Autonomy group to apply data science techniques robustly and responsibly for breakthrough discovery in the Earth and Space Sciences, to cultivate cross-institution collaborations, and to explore more cohesive and plural scientific communities. 

In all of his work, Ryan takes a multi-disciplinary approach, bringing together traditional scientific inquiry with innovation from the fields of data science and sociology.  

Ryan's belief in transdisciplinarity and openness extends beyond science and into society, moonlighting as the creator, producer, and host of The Origins Podcast, and the founder and facilitator of The Flourishing Salons, gatherings that embrace liminality and plurality of thought and give rise to new connections, communities, and capabilities for flourishing systems.  

Ryan’s transdisciplinary passions have led to involvement across many remarkable groups, executive councils, working groups, and steering committees, filtered mostly by those that adopt an ethos of radical openness, transdisciplinarity, and creation. 

In another life he gave a TED talk on space weather. If he were to give one today it would be about the intersections of complex adaptive systems, flourishing, and knowledge commons.