This page lists the keynote and capstone speakers at VIS in previous years.
| Year | Keynote | Capstone |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Hans-Christian Hege | Theo Deutinger |
| 2024 | Bill Pike | Catherine D’Ignazio |
| 2023 | Drew Berry and Anders Ynnerman | Matt Duckham |
| 2022 | Marti Hearst | Kerry Magruder |
| 2021 | Danah Boyd | Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg |
| 2020 | Mario Capecchi | Sheelagh Carpendale |
| 2019 | Katy Börner | Johanna Drucker |
| 2018 | Dieter Schmalstieg | Joachim M. Buhmann |
| 2017 | Jacqueline H. Chen | Giorgia Lupi |
| 2016 | Ricardo Hausmann | Jean-luc Doumont |
| 2015 | Donna J. Cox. | Molly Wright Steenson |
| 2014 | Alberto Cairo | Barbara Tversky |
| 2013 | Erez Lieberman Aiden | Jarke J. van Wijk |
| 2012 | Mary Czerwinski | Felice C. Frankel |
| 2011 | Paul Thagard | Amanda Cox |
| 2010 | Mary Hegarty | Alex Szalay |
| 2009 | Andrew Glassner(VAST); Colin Ware(InfoVis) ; | Brian MacDevitt |
| 2008 | Jake Kolojejchick(Infovis); Margaret S. Livingstone (VisWeek); Christian Chabot (VAST) | David H. Laidlaw |
| 2007 | Rick Stevens | Chris Johnson |
| 2006 | Daniel Simons | Jane Richardson |
| 2005 | Jim Thomas | Nigel Holmes |
| 2004 | Wilson S. Geisler | Pat Hanrahan |
| 2003 | Gordon Bell | Jim Blinn |
| 2002 | Stephen Wolfram | Ray Kurzweil |
| 2001 | Andrew Glassner | Jack Danton, John Dale, Trish Hamburger, Ward Page |
| 2000 | Michael Cohen | Olivier Faugeras |
| 1999 | Paul Smith and John van Rosendale | Rick Stevens |