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Speakers: Leo Igwe, Norm Allen, Nakul Shenoy, Richard Saunders, Massimo Polidoro, Sanal Edamaruku and D.J. Grothe

TAM was held in July 11–14, 2013 in Southpoint Casino, Enterprise, Las Vegas Valley in Clark County, Nevada, United States.

Leo Igwe is a Nigerian human rights advocate and humanist. Igwe is a former Western and Southern African representative of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, and has specialized in campaigning against and documenting the impacts of child witchcraft accusations. He holds a Ph.D from the Bayreuth International School of African Studies at the University of Bayreuth in Germany, having earned a graduate degree in philosophy from the University of Calabar in Nigeria. Igwe's human rights fieldwork has led to his arrest on several occasions in Nigeria. He has held leadership roles in the Nigerian Humanist Movement, Atheist Alliance International, and the Center For Inquiry—Nigeria.

Norman Allen's mother encouraged him to keep an open but skeptical mind about religion. His father was a member of the Organization of Afro-American Unity headed by Malcolm X. Allen attended the University of Pittsburgh before serving in the Air Force for four years, then enrolling at the State University of New York at Buffalo, majoring in English. He became a "full-fledged atheist" at age 31. While working for the Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism in Buffalo, he started African Americans for Humanism (AAH) to explore the ideas and work of Black deists, humanists, agnostics, freethinkers, rationalists and atheists. He was AAH's executive director from 1991 to 2010 and edited its quarterly the AAH Examiner. He also edited "African American Humanism: An Anthology" (1991) and "The Black Humanist Experience: An Alternative to Religion" (2003). He kept writing a regular column titled “Reasonings” for the institute and edited other writers' work while traveling extensively to Africa, visiting over 30 nations to promote secularism.

Nakul Shenoy is an Indian mentalist, mind reader, and psychic entertainer based in Bangalore, India. He presented his first public show at age 16 in Udupi and by 2003, he was entertaining corporates in Bangalore with his mentalism show. He is a skeptic and has used his knowledge of magic to rally against pseudoscientific scams like tri-vortex bangle and mid-brain/third-eye activation. Nakul is the author of 'Smart Course In Magic' published by HarperCollins in 2015 and also holds two US patents in design. He studied the potential of magic as a medium of communication to earn his Master of Science (Communications) degree from Manipal University in 2000. He has appeared on television via NDTV, CNBC, Asianet and has been written about in over 40 media articles including India Today, Times of India, The Hindu, Mint, Business Outlook, and Yahoo.

Richard Saunders is an Australian skeptic, podcaster, and professional origamist. He received recognition by the Australian Skeptics with a Life Membership in 2001, and has twice served as their president. He founded Sydney Skeptics in the Pub. He has presented on skepticism, represented the Australian Skeptics on television and radio shows, and is the co-host of The Skeptic Zone podcast.

Massimo Polidoro is an Italian psychologist, writer, journalist, television personality, co-founder and executive director of the Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims of the Pseudoscience (CICAP).

Sanal Edamaruku is an Indian author and rationalist. He is the founder-president and editor of Rationalist International, the president of the Indian Rationalist Association and the author of 25 books and other articles. In 2012, after examining an alleged miracle at a local church in Mumbai and insulting the Catholic faithful, he was charged under India's hate speech laws, prompting him to move to Finland.

D. J. Grothe is an American writer and public speaker who talks about issues at the nexus of science, critical thinking, secularism, religion and the paranormal. As an active skeptic, he has served in leadership roles for both the Center for Inquiry (CFI) and the James Randi Educational Foundation. While he was at CFI, he hosted their Point of Inquiry podcast. After leaving Point of Inquiry he hosted the radio show and podcast For Good Reason. He is particularly interested in the psychology of belief and the steps involved in deception and self-deception. He also co-edited On the Beauty of Science, about the worldview and life's work of Nobel Laureate Herbert Hauptman. Grothe serves as a board member of The Institute for Science and Human Values.

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