Speakers and participants at the conference will include:
- Oron Catts from the Australian art and biological technologies research lab SymbioticA
- Dr Lloyd Anderson, Director of Science at the British Council
- Cape Farewell, led by David Buckland, who bring together scientists, educationalists and artists to raise awareness about climate change
- artist Andrew Stones whose major work Atlas was filmed at CERN, the world's largest physics laboratory
- Lucy Kimbell, who will give her performance lecture One Night With Rats in the Service of Art
- Sheffield-based Lizz Tuckerman, who is also a research scientist, will create newly commissioned artwork for the conference venue
- American bioartist Adam Zaretsky, a leading practitioner in VivoArts