DARPA head joins the list of speakers at Engadget Expand!

Fall's nearly here and so is the next Engadget Expand event. On November 7th and 8th, we'll once again take over New York City's Javits Center North to let you experience the future of technology and hear from the leading minds in the industry.

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Arati Prabhakar, Director at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Arati Prabhakar has spent her career investing in world-class engineers and scientists to create new technologies and businesses. She has served in recent years on the National Academies' Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy; the College of Engineering Advisory Board at the University of California, Berkeley; and the red team of DARPA's Defense Sciences Research Council.

More about Arati on our Speakers page for Engadget Expand.

We've also added a few more big names to our growing slate of Expand speakers:

• Arati Prabhakar: Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

• Ebbe Altberg: CEO, Linden Lab

• Cynthia Breazeal: Founder and CEO, Jibo Inc.; Associate Professor and Director of Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Lab

• Colin Guinn: SVP of Sales and Marketing, 3D Robotics

• Mark Setrakian, Robotics and Animatronics

We'll announce more speakers and exhibitors to expect at Expand soon, but in the meantime you can get your free tickets right here. And if you won't be anywhere near NYC that weekend, don't despair -- we'll have a livestream from the stage and show floor to keep you up-to-date.

Update: We regret to announce that Cynthia Breazeal will not be speaking at Engadget Expand.