Jim Roddy
Keynote Speaker & Author · Jim Roddy CBA (Coach & Business Advisor)
Author of "Hire Like You Just Beat Cancer" and "The Walk-On Method to Career & Business Success"
Team Building Business Culture Hiring Best Practices Job Interviews
Li Dai, Ph.D.
Professor of Management, College of Business Administration · Loyola Marymount University
Political Violence Emerging Markets Multinational Corporations Institutional Theory Firm Strategy in Hostile Contexts
Imre Bartos
Assistant Professor · University of Florida
Imre Bartos’ research interests include extreme cosmic explosions related to the formation and evolution of black holes.
Multimessenger Astronomy Astrophysics LIGO Black Holes Gravitational Waves
TA Loeffler
Professor · Memorial University of Newfoundland
TA inspires audiences to embrace the challenge of change and promotes self-leadership through interactive multi-media presentations
Leadership Team Building Resiliency & Change
Yvette Lapayese
Professor · Loyola Marymount University
Department of Teaching and Learning
Human Rights Education Critical and Feminist Methodologies Qualitative Research Youth Participatory Action Research Feminist Theories and Epistemologies
John BaRoss
President - Marketing Business Development, Americas · Iksula Online Solutions
Strategic Development eCommerce: Reaching Larger Addressible Markets
Ewallets Ecommerce Bpo/Kpo
Erin Hunt
Program Manager · Mines Action Canada
Humanitarian disarmament expert focusing on indiscriminate weapons, victim assistance, casualties and international disarmament treaties.
Disarmament Landmines Cluster Munitions Nuclear Weapons Civil Society Campaigning
Antonia Petro
Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures - Spanish · Loyola Marymount University
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Early Modern Spanish Peninsular Literature Spanish cinema Medieval Spanish Literature
Debi Stangeland
Owner · SKYSTEN Media Group
A dynamic speaker with a positive outlook and real life experience. Available for women's events as well as blogging events.
Blogging Social Media Writing
Jaime Leal
Director · Emotional Paycheck
Give your team a raise without affecting the budget®
Leadership Happiness Communication Entrepreneurs
Aparna Gupta
Professor, Lally School of Management; Director, Center for Financial Studies · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Leading quantitative finance and risk management expert advancing cutting-edge solutions to address risk challenges of the 21st century.
Networked Systems Analytical Methods Financial Engineering Risk Management Quantitative Finance
Sheneka Williams
Chairperson and Professor, Department of Educational Administration · Michigan State University
Sheneka Williams's research focuses on rural education and school desegregation.
Educational Administration Rural Education School Desegregation
Robert Schwartz
Visiting Professor of Law · UC Hastings College of the Law
Contacts: schwartr@uchastings.edu / 415-581-8947 / Office 603G-200
Health Law Bioethics Health Care Decision-Making Legislative Process and Procedure Tort Law
Paul Ellickson
Professor of Economics and Marketing at the Simon Business School · University of Rochester
Paul Ellickson researches quantitative marketing and industrial organization and has expertise in supermarkets, supercenters, and strategy
Supermarket Strategy Pricing Supermarkets Big Box Retailers Walmart and Big Box Retailers
M. Ehsan Hoque
Asaro Biggar Family Fellow in Data Science, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, and faculty member in the Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence · University of Rochester
M. Ehsan Hoque is designing and implementing new algorithms to sense subtle human nonverbal behavior
Data Science Human Nonverbal Behavior Interactive Machine Learning Human-Computer Interaction Computer Vision
Dr Joseph Downing
Senior Lecturer, Politics, History and International Relations · Aston University
Professor Downing teaches courses on researching politics, security and technology in politics.
Qualitative Methods Sociology Global Security Politics Policy Analysis
Vincent Olivieri
Professor of Sound Design · UC Irvine
Vincent Olivieri has designed sound and composed music for theatrical productions around the world.
Composition Sound Design Theatre
Cary Roseth
Chairperson and Professor, Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education · Michigan State University
Cary Roseth is interested in social development, peer relations, and social contextual influences on classroom achievement.
Early Childhood Education Classroom Achievement Counseling Educational Psychology Peer Relations
Zhen Bai
Assistant Professor of Computer Science · University of Rochester
Bai is an expert in human-computer interaction, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence (AI)
Artifical Intelligence Human-Computer Interaction AR / VR Computer-Supported Collaborative Work AI
Allison Eden
Associate Professor · Michigan State University
Allison Eden's work centers on understanding media enjoyment, and more broadly the effects of entertainment on user behavior and well-being.
Motivation Enjoyment Media Psychology Morality