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