Overview
We are proud to announce the 2027 Hertz Summer Workshop, taking place Thursday, July 15 – Sunday, July 18, 2027, at Skamania in Columbia River Gorge outside of Portland.
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?
Registration
Registration for this event will open in fall 2026. In the meantime, please save the date to your calendars.
SAVE THE DATESpeakers
John Mather
Senior Astrophysicist and Goddard Fellow, NASA
Help Shape the Next Summer Workshop
Know someone who would inspire the Hertz community? Nominate them to speak at an upcoming Summer Workshop. The committee reviews every submission and will reach out if we’d like to move forward.
Nominate SpeakerCommittee
Roderick Bayliss III
University of California, Berkeley, Power Electronics
Katelin Schutz
Assistant Professor, McGill University
Daniel Slichter
Staff Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI
Gregory Boebinger
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Physics
Maya Chandru
Pediatric Urologist, Seattle Children's and Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Rupert Li
Stanford University, Mathematics
Katie Mitchell-Koch
Associate Professor, University of Manitoba
Francesmary Modugno
Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Judy Savitskaya
Diligence Lead – Frontier Carbon Removal, Stripe
Mollie Schwartz
Assistant Group Leader, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Madeleine Urbanek
University of California, San Francisco, Biomedical Sciences, Neuroscience
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. Contact Katie Sullivan, Partnerships Program Manager, at ksullivan@hertzfoundation.org.
Contact
For questions or more information, please contact Emily Vitas at evitas@hertzfoundation.org.
Director of Events
Hertz Foundation
