competition Experts

David Figlio

Gordon Fyfe Professor of Economics and EducationUniversity of Rochester

Figlio is an expert on educational, public, and social policy, including the link between health and education.

Peter Weyand

Professor & Chair of Kinesiology; Director of the Locomotor Performance LabTexas Christian University

Peter Weyand is an internationally renowned biomechanist and physiologist.

Amanda Bordelon, Ph.D.

Associate ProfessorUtah Valley University

Bordelon is an expert in engineering design, construction materials, and transportation infrastructure

Carolyn Penstein Rosé

ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

Carolyn Rosé's research advances Sociotechnical AI through human-AI collaboration and data-driven inductive biases and representations.

Patrick Morin

COOBrightHammer

The speaker even Dale Carnegie Inc. calls when the event MUST succeed! A dynamic expert that makes planners look good and audiences rave.

Dimitris Xygalatas, Ph.D.

Professor, AnthropologyUniversity of Connecticut

Dr. Xygalatas' research focuses on ritual, sports, bonding, and the things that make us human.

Ali Bigdeli

Professor of Industrial Service InnovationAston University

Prof Ali Bigdeli co-leads a centre of excellence on servitization, focusing service-led business model innovation.

Greg Greenawalt

Owner, Chief Marketing Officer, AuthorDestination Concepts LLC

Experienced speaker and presenter that helps people to become famliar with why Charlotte NC is a great place to work,live and play

T. Clifton Green

John W. McIntyre Professor of FinanceEmory University, Goizueta Business School

Alicia Boutilier

Curator of Canadian Historical Art / Adjunct Professor Agnes Etherington Art Centre / Queen's University

Alicia's research is focused on Canadian art history, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and histories of Canadian art collecting