The search for planets outside our solar system has long been the exclusive domain of professional scientists with access to large observatories or expensive space telescopes. Jenny Tong and Wilfred Gee explain how PANOPTES combines off-the-shelf components with open source software to bring exoplanet discovery to the public. Come learn about PANOPTES's challenges, solutions, and discoveries.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is synonymous with transformational change, developing the seeming impossible into the practical. Matthew van Adelsberg demonstrates how collaborative teams of SMEs, data scientists, and engineers have been organized to achieve DARPA hard results for nearly a decade and offers insights into how companies can do the same.