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Jim Roddy

Keynote Speaker & AuthorJim Roddy CBA (Coach & Business Advisor)

Author of "Hire Like You Just Beat Cancer" and "The Walk-On Method to Career & Business Success"

Robert S. Young

ProfessorWestern Carolina University

Robert S. Young is a licensed professional geologist in three states (FL, NC, SC).

Tara Alvarez

Professor and Director, Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering ProgramNew Jersey Institute of Technology

Professor Alvarez conducts neuroscience research for helping patients recover their vision and for diagnosing other visual diseases.

Edda L. Fields-Black

Associate ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

Dr. Fields-Black is a specialist in the trans-national of West African farmers and enslaved laborers on rice plantations.

Jarrod O. Miller

Associate Professor and Extension Specialist in AgronomyUniversity of Delaware

Prof. Miller is interested in how precision ag technologies can make farms more economically and environmentally efficient.

Ronald Rash

ProfessorWestern Carolina University

Ron Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestseller Serena and Above the Waterfall.

Alex Settles

Associate ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Alex Settles studies international sanctions on Russia and Russian firms, emerging market multinationals from Russia, China, and Brazil.

Elizabeth Schrader Polczer

Assistant Professor of New TestamentVillanova University

Dr. Schrader Polczer is a scholar of New Testament and Early Christianity who focuses on the Gospels, Mary Magdalene, and textual criticism.

Vyas Sekar

Professor, Electrical and Computer EngineeringCarnegie Mellon University

Vyas Sekar seeks to develop more rigorous foundations for securing tomorrow’s electric energy grid

Peter Roberts

Professor of Organization & Management; Executive Academic Director, Business & Society InstituteEmory University, Goizueta Business School