IT Experts

Melissa Avdeeff

Assistant ProfessorCoventry University

Popular culture, specialising in pop music; music technology and society; social media and fandom.

Artifical Intelligence and musicPopular MusicPopular CultureMusic Technology and SocietyFandom

Hala Beisha

Working with organizatons at the intersection of sound strategy, foresight and inspired leardershipResilience Factor Inc.

Strategy Futures Leadership

leading in uncertain timeswork trendsstategic communicationsfutures thinking, branding, leadership thinking, design thinkingStrategic & Business Planning

Andréa D. Livi Smith

Professor of Historic PreservationUniversity of Mary Washington

Dr. Smith is an urban planner, preservationist and architectural historian whose research focuses on urban design and preservation.

GamificationGraves and Burial SitesWalkabilityPreservationUrban Design

Maya Israel

Associate ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Maya Israel researches how to support academically diverse learners’ meaningful engagement in computer science education.

Technology IntegrationComputer Science EducationSpecial EducationUniversal Design for Learning

Ray Simonson

CEOCoreworx Inc.

CEO experienced in raising capital, building high performing teams and selling enterprise software internationally

Mission Critical Enterprise Software.Software DevelopmentCost Control Solutions

Amilcar Shabazz

Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American StudiesUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

Amilcar Shabazz has been a prominent voice in the movement to make reparations to descendants of former enslaved Americans.

Reparations for SlaveryJuneteenthAfrican American Educational History and Public PolicyAfro-Americans in the Caribbean, Central and South AmericaAfrican American Biography