Derek Livingston

Director of New Play Development & Artistic Associate · Utah Shakespeare Festival

Accomplished theatre professional with nearly three decades experience producing, directing, and providing artistic oversight in theatre.

Production and Set Design Film Production Stage Management Fund Development and Fundraising Artistic Management

Ann Mirabito, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Marketing · Baylor University

Internationally recognized scholar on the use of marketing science to improve consumer well-being with focus on threats to well-being

Workplace Wellness Consumer Health Stigma in the Marketplace

Ken Keen

Associate Professor in the Practice of Organization & Management; Associate Dean for Leadership; Lieutenant General, USA (Retired) · Emory University, Goizueta Business School

Leadership Special Forces Leader Development Crisis Relief

Sherif Abdelwahed, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · VCU College of Engineering

Dr. Abdelwahed is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Autonomic Computing Model based Design and Analysis of Cyber-phyiscal Systems Formal Verification System Diagnosis and Fault Analysis Model-integrated Computing

Randall Curren

Professor of Philosophy · University of Rochester

Randall Curren is an ethicist who works across the boundaries of moral, political, legal, environmental, and educational philosophy.

Ethics of Sustainability Moral Psychology Ancient Greek Philosophy patriotic education

Steve Benton, Ph.D.

Senior Research Officer · IDEA

Steve leads a research team that designs and conducts reliability and validity studies for IDEA products.

Educational Psychology Higher Education Product Testing Educational Research Cognition

Ben Chang

Director, Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences (GSAS) & Professor, Arts · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Explores the intersections of virtual environments and experimental gaming with contemporary media art

Digital Games Immersive Visualization Systems Experimental Gaming Electronic Art Virtual Environments

Sean Ammirati

Distinguished Service Professor · Carnegie Mellon University

Sean Ammirati develops tools to help companies adapt and integrate entrepreneurial best practices into their own innovation processes.

Early Stage Startups Mobile Devices Venture Capital Corporate Entrepreneurship Generative AI

Tara Alvarez

Professor and Director, Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Program · New Jersey Institute of Technology

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

Vision Therapy Virtual Reality Vision Neuroscience Biomedical Engineering

Genane Loheswaran, Msc, PhD

Research Manager · VieLight

Dr. Loheswaran has 10 years of experience in research including, protocol design, trial management, and statistics/data analysis

Experimental Design Data Analysis Neuroscience Research Immunohistochemistry

Richard Desinord

Assistant Professor of Music Theory · Michigan State University

Richard Desinord's research interests include harmony and genre in contemporary black church music and neo-soul.

Theory Pedagogy Contemporary Black Church Music Music Theory Neo-Soul Jazz

Robert Mikos

Professor of Law · Vanderbilt University

Expert in federalism and drug law, including marijuana legalization.

Hemp Law Sanctuary Cities Opioid Abuse Marijuana legalization Marijuana Law and Policy

Jonathan Hiskey

Associate Chair of Political Science · Vanderbilt University

Expert on Latin American politics and Latin American migration.

Honduras Guatemala Migration Crime in Latin America Immigration

Daniel Smith-Christopher

Professor of Theological Studies · Loyola Marymount University

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Old Testament Studies Old Testament Theology Religion and Peace Nonviolence Cross-Cultural Interpretation of the Bible and Indigenous Christianity Postcolonial Interpretation of Bible

Brian Kloeppel

Professor · Western Carolina University

Brian Kloeppel's scholarly interests include watershed ecology, carbon and water cycling, forest growth and dynamics.

Forest Growth and Dynamics Watershed Ecology Graduate Program Development Strategic Planning Biological Field Station Site Reviews and Planning

Eric Baumgartner, Ph.D.

Executive Vice President of Academics · Milwaukee School of Engineering

Prior to joining academia, Dr. Eric Baumgartner spent 10 years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is an expert in higher ed leadership.

Space Exploration Higher Education Robotics and Automation Manufacturing

Meera Sitharam

Professor · University of Florida

Meera Sitharam's expertise is in computational geometry with research in algorithms, bioinformatics and machine learning.

Artificial Intelligence Combinatorial and Geometric Rigidity Discrete Geometry Softmatter and Microstructure Mathematical and Computational Modeling

John A Delves

CEO.Owner · Southeastern Training and Development

Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers.

Getting and Keeping Customers Leadership for Todays Workforce. Change the Only Constant Effective Leadership for Today Inspirational and Uplifting

Eric Feron

Professor, Aerospace Engineering · Georgia Tech - COE

Eric Feron uses fundamental concepts of control systems, optimization and computer science to address problems in aerospace engineering.

Flight Mechanics & Controls Air Traffic Control Systems Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Aerospace Software Systems

Jon Smith

Professor of Communication · Southern Utah University

Specializing in public land issues, television news, and documentary film production

Communication Professional Communication in Mass Media Digital Photojournalism Documentary Film Making Television News