Overview
We are proud to announce the 2026 Hertz Summer Workshop, taking place Thursday, July 9 – Sunday, July 12, 2026, at the Q Center in St. Charles, IL, just outside Chicago.
The annual Summer Workshop is the signature event for the Hertz community and one-of-a-kind gathering of the top scientists, entrepreneurs and leaders in our nation’s science and technology enterprise. What better place to meet—and collaborate with—the physical scientists, biologists, engineers and mathematicians who will be creating our next breakthroughs?
For more information, please contact Anne Ward, Director of Community, at anne@hertzfoundation.org.
Registration
Registration has opened for this invite-only event. Please see your email for more details or reach out with any questions.
Save the dateSPEAKERS
Laura Berzak-Hopkins
Associate Laboratory Director for Strategy and Partnerships, Deputy Chief Research Officer, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Edward Boyden
Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mary Brunkow
Distinguished Investigator, Institute for Systems Biology, and Nobel Laureate
Katy Huff
Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Koroush Shirvan
Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brian Uzzi
Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
VolunteerS
David Hoyos
Weill Cornell Medicine, Quantitative Biology
John Hilbing
Project Leader, The MITRE Corporation
Preston Kemeny
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
Grace Ra Kim
Stanford University, Aeronautics, Astronautics, Engineering Science
Andrew Langford
Purdue University, Astrodynamics
Garry Maskaly
Fusion Chamber Design Lead, Pacific Fusion
Katie Mitchell-Koch
Associate Professor, University of Manitoba
Raymond Sidney
Co-Owner, The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Dove Mountain
Daniel Slichter
Physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Jacqueline Turner
Resident, Mayo Clinic
Madeleine Urbanek
University of California, San Francisco, Biomedical Sciences, Neuroscience
Jeremiah Zartman
Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame
sponsorship opportunities
The Hertz Foundation has sponsorship packages available at a variety of levels to help your team recruit, share your story and engage with some of the brightest minds in the nation.
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