The following people gave talks on the Abel Symposium, 2014:
| Arnoldo Frigessi | Oslo |
| Bin Yu | Berkeley |
| Chris Hans | Ohio State |
| Ed George | Wharton |
| Jelle Goeman | Leiden |
| Judith Rousseau | Paris |
| Leonardo Bottolo | Imperial |
| Martin Wainwright | Berkeley |
| Mathias Drton | Seattle |
| Marina Vannucci | Rice |
| Mike West | Duke |
| Nicolai Meinshausen | ETH |
| Peter Bickel | Berkeley |
| Peter Buhlmann | ETH |
| Peter Mueller | U Texas |
| Richard Samworth | Cambridge |
| Sach Mukherjee | Amsterdam |
| Sara van de Geer | ETH |
| Susan Murphy | Michigan |
| Sylvia Richardson | Imperial |
| Terry Speed | Berkeley, Melbourne |
| Tony Cai | Wharton |
| Trevor Hastie | Stanford |
| Xiao-Li Meng | Harvard |
| Yoav Benjamini | Tel Aviv |