2024 SBIR Key Speakers

Cassandra Adams

Co-Founder | CEO, Vital View Technologies

Henry Ahn

Program Director, National Science Foundation

Babak Anasori

Professor, Purdue University

Chris Anderson

Vice President, XLight, Inc.

Emil Annevelink

Co-Founder, Physics Inverted Materials

Andrew Anstey

Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa

Ms. Lily Arcusa

Director of Engineering and Technical Management Chief Engineer, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center

Craig Arnold

Vice Dean for Innovation, Princeton University

Steven Arturo

Principal Research Scientist, Dow

Wayne Artuso

Branch Chief OAMO, AFLCMC

Kari Ashmont

Translational Team Lead, NIH

Peter Atherton

Program Director, National Science Foundation

Andrew Augenstein

Software Engineering Leader, Boeing Vertical Lift

Jennifer Aurandt-Pilgrim

Vice President of R&D and Innovation, Marquis Energy, LLC

Kirk Avery

Senior Fellow, Lockheed Martin

Wolfgang Bacsa

Professor, University of Toulouse, France

Amolak Badesha

CEO, Orbital Composites

Saeed Bagheri

Technology Transfer Manager, University of Waterloo, Canada

Hooman Banaei

CEO, Everix

Amay Bandodkar

Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University

Tim Barckholtz

Senior Scientific Advisor, ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Co.

John Barnes

CEO and Founder, The Barnes Global Advisors

MG Robert Barrie

Deputy for Acquisitions and Systems Management (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology), US Army

Robert Baseman

Senior Staff Member, IBM

Mehmet Baykara

Associate Professor, University of California, Merced

Connie Benesh

SBIR Outreach Manager, DHS

William Bentley

Professor, University of Maryland

Abraham Beyene

Group Leader, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Eddie Billingslead

Small Business Strategy Coordinator, NIGMS

Jaipreet Bindra

TTO, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

Eric Blatt

IP Attorney, Scale Firm

Josh Blatz

Senior Research and Development Engineer, SHINE Technologies

Devin Bohanan

APFIT Program Manager, DoD

Cosima Boswell-Koller

Program Director, National Science Foundation

Houssam Bouloussa

Assistant Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City

Stephen Boyes

Professor, George Washington University

Steven R. Braddom

Deputy Chief Airworthiness Engineer, Systems Readiness Directorate, U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC)

Caroline Brannock

Sr. Sales Manager Battery Technology, BASF

Larry Branthoover

PEO(T) APEO Science and Technology, NAVAIR, Navy

Eric Breckenfeld

Director of Technology Policy, NVIDIA

Stephen Brooks

Chief Engineer, Open Architecture Management Office (OAMO) Air Force Lifecycle Management Center (AFLCMC)

Alex Brown

Programmatic Project Manager, Tunnell Government Services, Inc. - a contractor supporting Biomedical Advanced Research & Development Authority (BARDA)

Dr. Stephanie Brown Reitmeier

Director, Software, Simulation, Systems Engineering & Integration Directorate U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, Systems Engineering & Integration (S3I) Directorate

Elizabeth Burrows

Technology Manager, Bioenergies Technologies office, DOE

Kevin Bush

Chief Architect, PM Fixed Wing, US Army

Jef Caers

Professor, Stanford University

Neil Cameron

Partner, Emerald Technology Ventures, Canada

Maria Fernanda Campa

Staff Scientist (Contractor), National Nanotechnology Coordination Office

Amelia Campbell

Project Leader, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Michael Caporellie

Chief, Assured PNT Tech and Systems Branch, C5ISR, US Army DEVCOM

Damian Carrieri

Bioresource & Environmental Security, Sandia National Laboratories

Alf Carroll

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), Raytheon Technologies

Daniel Carroll

Program DIrector, AFWERX

Dan Cassenti

Research Psychologist, Army

Michel Chabroux

Vice President, Product Management, Wind River

Sehoon Chang

Research Specialist, Aramco Americas

Eileen Chant

Outreach Program Manager, DOE

Xi Chen

Associate Professor, The City College of New York

Conrad Clyburn

Founder and CEO, MedForeSight

Jeannine M. Coburn

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Melinda Coffman

SBIR/STTR Program Coordinator, USDA

Jack Cohen

Director of Supplier Integration, Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Liam Collins

Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jose Colucci

General Business Specialist, NIST

Krista Covey

North Carolina - FAST, FAST

Ioana Cozmuta

CEO, G-Space, Inc.

Cait Cramer

Curriculum Lead, Micro Nano Technology Education Center

Scott Crawford

Technical Fellow, Collins Aerospace

Katy Crist

Sr Mgr, Strategic Alliances and Partnerships, Tokyo Electron Limited

Lars Cromley

Technology Fellow, Deloitte Consulting

Megan Dake

SES, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Procurement), Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics & Technology) (ASAALT)

Maher Damak

CEO, Infinite Cooling

John David

CTO, BryceTech

Dr. Steven A. Davidson

Chief Scientist for Systems Architecture, Electronics Systems Innovation Center, MITRE Corporation

Jeff Davies

Architecture and Software Lead, PEO Aviation - PM UAS, US Army

Amrit De

CEO, Apsidal

Emory De Castro

CTO, Advent Technologies

James De Yoreo

Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Susan DeGuzman

Director, Airworthiness and CYBERSAFE Office Naval Air Systems Command

Jonathan R. Demildt

Associate Director, Systems Engineering, Collins Aerospace, Avionics

Andria Denmon

Associate Professor, Life Sciences, Santa Monica College

Scott Dennis

Branch Chief for the Aviation Integration Branch for the U.S. Army’s Development Command Aviation & Missile Center (DEVCOM AvMC) Software, Simulation, Systems Engineering & Integration (S3I) Directorate and the Chief Technical Architect (CTA), PEO Aviation, US Army

Jaydeep Deshpande

Principal Open Innovation Engineer, Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Xiangyang Dong

Associate Professor, Arizona State University

Avital Dror Ehre

R&D Manager, IDE Technologies, Israel

Thomas A. DuBois, PhD

Chief Technology Officer Senior Advisor for MOSA, Mission Systems, Systems Engineering, and Software, JHNA

Paul Dudley

Vice President, Business Development & Communications, ATI

Melissa Beth Duhaime

Associate Professor, University of Michigan

Partha Dutta

Chief Technologist, United Semiconductors

Susan Ebner

Co-Chair, National Defense Industrial Association's Cyber Division's Cyber Legal Regulatory Policy Committee

Zach El Zahab

Director of Gasification Programs, GTI Energy

Jin Ellington

Manager, Wolfspeed

Joseph Epstein

Space Strategic Partnerships Lead for Engineering and Technology ( E&T), Lockheed Martin

Alex Eskandarian

Researcher, Harvard Medical School

John Esposito

Vice President Strategic Pursuits, Collins Aerospace

Justin Fanelli

Dept of Navy CTO, US Navy

Georg Fantner

Associate Professor, EPFL, Switzerland

Stephanie Fertig

Director, NIH Small Business Program

Tim Finley

Global Technology Principal, Dow Chemical Company

Lynn Foster

Founder & CEO, Z-Field Technologies LLC

Allen Franke

Program Manager, AFWERX

Jessica Frick

Research Engineer, Stanford University

Matthew Friedell

Co-Founder and VP of Operations, Robotic Construction Technologies Inc.

Lisa E. Friedersdorf

Co-Chair Subcommittee on the Materials Genome Initiative, National Science and Technology Council Assistant Director for Critical Minerals and Materials, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Alison Fritz

Research Engineer, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Yoshiko Fujita

Distinguished Staff Scientist, Idaho National Lab

Kieran Furlong

CEO & Founder, Realta Fusion

Ariel Furst

Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Angelo Gaitas

Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai

Right Hon. Yvonne Gamble

CEO, SanPete Financial Group

Doug Gardner

Professor, University of Maine

Slade Gardner

President, Big Metal Additive

Christopher Garrett

Technical Advisor, Systems Engineering, USAF

Nadine Geier

OUSD (R&E) SE&A, SE Director or OUSD (A&S) Leader, OUSD

Amy Gelmi

Senior Lecturer, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

Sougata Ghosh

Visiting Professor, RK University

Colleen Gibney

SBIR/STTR Deputy Project Manager, DHA

Guilherme Goretkin

Principal Engineer, Ansys

Diana Grandas

Fusion Energy Research Analyst IV, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Jacqueline Gray

SBIR Program Manager, NIST

Richard Gray

Director, OSD Intellectual Property Cadre

Brian Greer

Partner, Empire Consulting Group

Destry Grogan

Chief Growth Officer, Joint Research and Development

Peter Grutter

Professor, McGill University

Lisa Guay

AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, U.S. Department of Energy

Honorable Nickolas Guertin (Invited)

Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition), US Department of Defense

Orane Josiane Guillaume-Gentil

Scientist, EPFL

Glen Gulyas

President, Available Networks

Carlos Gutierrez

Innovation Outreach Specialist - National Programs, USPTO

Imre Gyuk

Director, Energy Storage Research, U.S. Department of Energy

Capt. Jarrod Hair

Program Manager, Air Combat Electronics Program Office, NAVAIR, U.S. Navy

Ali Hallal

Application Manager and Senior Data Scientist, Pollen Metrology, France

Alan Hammond

Architecture Development Lead, PEO Aviation, US Army

Walter Hancock

Co-Founder & CTO, Walacor Corporation

Jan-Willem Handgraaf

Senior Technical Product Manager, Siemens Digital Industries Software

Bert Harrop

Packaging Lab Manager, Princeton

Laura Hart

Lockheed Martin Fellow, co-chair OMG MBAcq UG, vice chair NDIA SE division, NDIA

Damon Hartley

Senior Staff Scientist, Idaho National Laboratory

Bruce Hatton

VP Open Architecture, RTX Technology & Global Engineering

Greg Haugstad

Technical Staff Member & Director, Characterization Facility (CharFac), University of Minnesota

Elden Hawkes, Jr.

Program Analyst, SBA

Col Steve Henry (Ret)

Consultant, Director of Engineering, Northrop Grumman (Ret), Professor Acquisition Management, Defense Acquisition University (Ret), USAF

Ilka Hermes

Group Leader, Liebniz Institute, Germany

Rose Hernandez

Science Program Director for In-Space Production Applications, International Space Station National Laboratory

Daniel Hettema

Director, OUSD R&E DEMS

Curtis Hill

Senior Materials Engineer, NASA

Andrew Holland

CEO, Fusion Industry Association

Olivia Holzhaus

Founder and CEO, Rhodium Scientific

Dr. David Honey

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, U.S. Department of Defense

Jeffrey Hostetler

VP Engineering, Mission Solutions & Technologies, Sierra Nevada Corp.

Lt. Col Robinson Hughes

ML PNT Program Office, AFLCMC

James (Kyle) Hurst

Lead PM, Digital Transformation Office (DTO), Air Force Material Command (AFMC)

Kyu-Youn Hwang

CEO, CTBio, Korea

Heather Jackson

Advisor, U.S. Department of Energy

Richard Jaenicke

Director, Green Hill Software

Jonathan Jakischa

Senior Program Manager for Challenges & Crowdsourcing, TechConnect Division, ATI

Santa Jansone-Popova

R&D Scientist, Critical Materials Innovation Hub, Oak Ridge National Lab

Stephen Jesse

Section Head, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jim Johnston

Professor, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Rich Julien

Partner, BOKA Group Holdings

Nancy Kamei

Program Director, SBA

Mandakini Kanungo

Senior Research Scientist, Corning, Inc.

Fathi Karouia

In-Space Commercialization Lead and Business Development, BioServe Space Technologies.

Anupama Kaul

Professor, University of North Texas

Jason Kessler

SBIR/STTR Program Executive, NASA

Jason Killgore

Project Leader, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Mike Young-Han Kim

CEO, Gauss Labs

Dr. James C. Kirsch

Director, DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center

Cristian Koepfli

Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame

John P. Kopasz

Chemist/Group Leader, Argonne National Laboratory

Brandon Kortokrax

Senior Investment Associate, E2MC Ventures

Matt Kramer

Distinguished Scientist, Ames National Laboratory

Rosemary Kramer

Practice Area Lead, Digital Engineering, LMI

Oliver Krause

application scientist, NanoWorld AG, Switzerland

Piotr Kulczakowicz

Director, Quantum Startup Foundry

Matt Kweon

Senior Product Development Engineer, ExxonMobil

Brian LaCroix

CPA, Jameson & Company

Yuming Lai

Research Scientist, The Dow Chemical Company

Matthew Lane

Engineering Contract Manager, Equans, France

Dusty Lang

Director, DHS SBIR Program, DHS

Jeffrey Langhout

Former AvMC Director, US Army

Nick Lappos

Senior Technical Fellow, Advanced Technology, Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company

Matthew Laudon

VP TechConnect, TechConnect Division, Advanced Technology International (ATI)

Jeremy Leader

Deputy Director, Commercial Space Office, U.S. Space Force

Gyung-Su Lee

Co-founder and Chairman, EnableFusion Inc., Korea

Leonard Lee

Head of Growth & Customer Success, Accelerated Discovery, IBM Research (Zürich), Switzerland

Dr. Robert Leishman

Area PNT Lead, IS4S

RADM John Lemmon

Program Executive Officer, Tactical Aircraft Programs, US Navy

Dr. Jeff Lesho

Chief Technology Officer and VP Business Development, Defense Architecture Systems Incorporated

Dr. William Lewis

President/CEO, Tennessee Technical Test Team

Qilin Li

Professor, Rice University

Gang-yu Liu

Professor, University of California, Davis

Guoliang (Greg) Liu

Associate Professor, Virginia Tech

Stefan Lohfeld

Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City

John Lovell

VP Technology and Strategy, Micron Silicon Inc

Wesley C. Low

Architecture Subject Matter Expert, PEO Aviation - PM FARA, US Army

Dennis Lucarelli

Founder & CEO, Error Corp.

April Luczywek

Systems Engineering Sr Mgr for Engineering Integration and Modernization, Lockheed Martin Space

Adina Luican Mayer

Associate Professor, University of Ottawa

Arnie Lumsdaine

INFUSE Program Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Hanni Lux

STEP Cost Model Lead, UK Atomic Energy Authority, United Kingdom

Yusuke Matsuda

Staff Engineer, Quantum-Si

Michael Mazzocco

CEO, Alytic, Inc./US Navy

Tara McCaughey

Strategic University Partnership Manager, GlobalFoundries

Hutch McClendon

Program Manager & Business Consultant, FAST

Dana McCoskey

Environmental Technologies Manager, DOE

J. William McNamara

Principal Investigator, Long Duration Energy Storage National Consortium, Sandia National Laboratories

Joey Mead

Professor; Director of the Nanomanufacturing Center, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Daniël Melters

Staff Scientist, National Cancer Institute

Solomon Mensah

Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Chris Menzel

Founder, Chris Menzel Engineering Design

Ed Metz

SBIR Program Manager, US Department of Education

Heath Mills

CSO, Rhodium Scientific

Katherine Mirica

Associate Professor, Dartmouth College

Abha Misra

Professor, Indian Institute of Science, India

Emma Mooney

Outreach and Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI

Jason Morris

PMA209 CMCD IPT Systems Engineering Support, US Navy

Ed Moshinsky

SE Division Architecture Committee, NDIA

Rachel D. Moudy

Architecture and Integration SME, US Army PEO Aviation

Lillian Mu

Portfolio and Investment Management Consultant Supporting BARDA Ventures at DRIVe, Tunnell Consulting, Inc.

Sean Mulholland

Co-founder, CTO, and President, TES-SAVi

Molly Mulligan

Business Development, Redwire

Hannah Murnen

CTO, Graphyte

Vivek Murthi

Director, Nikola Corporation

Vijay Murugesan

Materials Sciences Group Lead, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Prakash D. Nallathamby

Associate Director of Research at the Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health, University of Notre Dame

Sang Nam

Professor, George Mason University

Celeste Nelson

Professor, Princeton University

Jeff Nelson

Director of Center of Integrated Technologies, Sandia National Laboratories

Tammi Neville

Program Specialist, USDA

Christina Newcomb

SPM Lab Manager, Stanford University

Sara Newton-Klitz

Director, Strategic Workforce Program, Micron

Aaron Noble

Professor, Virginia Tech

Alex Norman

Executive Director, Princeton Institute of Materials

Kwang W. Oh

Professor, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Michael "Mike" Orlovsky

Senior Scientist, L3Harris Technologies

Craig Owens

Systems Engineer, Principal; Corporate SBIR Program Manager, Lockheed Martin

Marcell Padilla

Senior Engineer, CRL Technologies / Army DEVCOM/AvMC/TDD

Erick Page-Littleford

Director, SBIR/STTR Program Office, U.S. Small Business Administration

Andriy Palasyuk

Research Scientist, Critical Materials Innovation Hub, Ames National Laboratory

Jagadeesh Pamulapati (Invited)

Director, Laboratories, OUSD R&E

Divya Panchanathan

Business Development Manager, In-Space Manufacturing, Axiom Space

Vinny Pande

Space Ventures Branch Chief, SpaceWERX

David S. Parker

Group Leader, Materials Theory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Simona Patange

Biologist, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Derek Patton

Director, University of Southern Mississippi

Mihir Pendharkar

Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

Tom Pennell

Research Support Specialist, Cornell Nanofabrication Facility

Jack Perrin

Vice President - Technical Strategy, Precise Systems

BG David C. Phillips

Program Executive Officer, Aviation, PEO Aviation, US Army

Benjamin Pimentel

Marine Corps Lead, Warfighter Engagement

Martin Poitzsch

Leader Reservoir Engineering Technologies Team, Aramco Americas

Elena Polyakova

Founder, G6 Materials Corp.

Eric Poppe

Managing Director, Cherry Bekaert

Lindsay Portnoy

Program Director, NSF

Dianne Poster

Senior Advisor, Director’s Office, Material Measurement Laboratory, NIST, Office of Space Commerce, NOAA,, U.S. Department of Commerce

Bradley C. Punch

Deputy Technical Director, Program Executive Office Digital & Enterprise Services, US Navy

Zhe Qiang

Assistant Professor, University of Southern Mississippi

Carlos Quiroz-Arita

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories

Carol Rabke

Technology to Market (T2M) Advisor, DOE

Yevgeny Raitses

Principal Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab

Meena Rajagopal

Program Officer, NIH

YuanQiao Rao

Fellow, Dow Chemical Company

Dr. John Raquet

Senior VP, IS4S

Kenneth Reardon

Professor, Colorado State

Jose Recio

Assistant General Counsel, Collins Aerospace

Terrell Reid

Manager of Supplier Diversity Programs, Northrop Grumman

April Richards

SBIR Program Manager, Environmental Protection Agency

Francis Richey

Senior Vice President of Research and Development, EOS, US

Rick Rife

Senior Executive Advisor, Booz Allen Hamilton

Hyun Wook Ro

Polymer Scientist, PPG Industries

Stefan Roberts

CEO, Insoma Bio

Jennifer Rocha

Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, ATI, TechConnect Division

Raphael Roettgen

Managing Partner, E2MC Ventures, Switzerland

Ross Roley

Energy and Cyber Innovation Lead, Battelle in Support of U.S. Indo Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM)

Julia Romanchik

Digital Engineering Lead, PEO Aviation, US Army

Bart Romanowicz

Vice President, ATI, TechConnect Division

Abigail Roots

Program Manager, Chemical and Biological Defense Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Programs

Scott Rosengren

Chief Engineer, CH-47, PEO AVN, US Army

Helen Rowe

Account Executive, Alloy Enterprises

Helen Rowe

Account Executive, Alloy Enterprises

Abhishek Roy

Senior Staff Scientist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Janine Rush-Byers

Director, Strategic University Partnerships, Micron Technology

Marty Ryan

Vice President, ATI

Rok Sabjan

Deputy COO, Cosylab

Ozgur Sahin

Professor, Columbia University

Michael Salgaller

Technology Analysis and Marketing Unit (TAMU), National Institutes of Health, Technology Transfer Office

Michael Sanders

Senior Advisor, Avicenne Energy

Chris Sasiela

Director, Innovator Support Services, NIH

Ken Savin

Chief Scientist, Redwire Space

Daniel Schmidt

In-Line Metrology Manager, IBM Research

Andreas Schopphoff

Head of Market Segment R&D, Pfeiffer Vacuum, Germany

Ben Schrag

Program Director and Policy Liason, NSF

Michael Schweitzer

Sr Strategic Advisor, US Navy

Jacob Scoccimerra

Space Program Lead, Interstellar Lab

Brent Segal

Director of Collaboration, Lockheed Martin

Kiyoshi Seko

Director and COO, Kyoto Fusioneering Ltd, Japan

Myeonglok Seol

Senior Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center

Jenny Servo

President, Dawnbreaker

Darren Shaffer

DOT SBIR Contracting Officer, DOT

Jonathan Shaver

WOSA Program Manager, US Air Force

Devanand Shenoy

Principal Director, Microelectronics

Andy Sherman

Chairman, PMT Group

Michelle Shinn

Program Manager, Office of Nuclear Physics

Brian Shipley

Program Manager, Navy

Maksim Shivokhin

Staff Engineer, ExxonMobil

Andrew Shone

Fusion Development Lead, Tokamak Energy Inc.

Ruth Shuman

I-Corps Program Director, NSF

Brittany Sickler

Director of Ecosystem Development / Office of Investment and Innovation, U.S. Small Business Administration

Randy Simpson

Chief Operating Officer, TechOpp, Inc.

Christopher Sims

Research Chemist, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Gina Sims

Director of Defense SBIR/STTR Program, DOD

Srikanth Singamaneni

Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

Emilie Siochi

Senior research materials engineer, NASA Langley Research Center

Matt Sipe

VP of Strategy and Open Systems, Parry Labs

Christopher Slyfield

Director, Precise Systems

Bob Smith

Consultant, SBIR Expert

Tyler Smith

Principal Scientist, Galois, Inc

Zack Smith

Business Development Manager, Advanced Technology International (ATI)

Alvaro Soares

Director of Product Management, Aviation, TTTech North America

Kenan Song

Professor, University of Georgia

S. Sita Sonty

CEO, Space Tango

Quinn Spadola

Deputy Director,, National Nanotechnology Coordination Office

Richard Spencer

Director, C5ISR & Capability Development, ANSER

Mark Spencer (2023 MOSA Innovation Challenge Winner)

Founder, Avilution

Erik Spoerke

Energy Storage Materials Lead, Sandia National Laboratories

Vince Sprenkle

Director, Grid Storage Launchpad, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Chris Stafford

Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Paul Staszak

BDS Technology Strategy SBIR/STTR Focal, Boeing

Camille Stebbins

Deputy Director, Business Development & Communications, ATI

Anirudha V. Sumant

Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

Charles Swanson

Director of Fusion Systems, Thea Energy

Karen Swider-Lyons

Principal Research Scientist, Plug Power

Madhava Syamlal

Founder & CEO, QubitSolve Inc.

Dilawar Syed

Deputy Administrator, SBA

Esther Takeuchi

Distinguished Professor, Stony Brook University

Dr. Clark Taylor

AFIT ANT Center Director, US Air Force

Halil Tekinalp

R&D Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jennnifer Thabet

Program Manager, DARPA

Scott Tompkins

Chief Engineer Architecture and Systems Development Division, Georgia Tech Research Institute

Loucas Tsakalakos

Director Of Engineering, Coherent Corp.

Ron Uba (Invited)

Senior Business Development Specialist, MBDA

Michael Ubowski

Chief Architect, Northrop Grumman

Bibake Uppal

Senior Business Development Manager, Kyoto Fusioneering America Ltd.

Galen Valentine

Associate Tech Fellow, Bell Textron

John Van Houten

Chief Engineer for Army Aviation, APEO Engineering & Architecture

Shruti Venkatram

Materials Data Scientist, 3M

Mauricio Villegas

Business Development Manager, Koch Modular Process Systems

Thomas Von Eschenbach

VP Crewed Aviation Systems, Parry Labs

Nicole Wagner

CEO, Lambda Vision

Dave Walsh

Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Parry Labs

Matthew Webber

Associate Professor, Notre Dame University

Thomas J. Webster

Chief Scientific Advisor, Interstellar Therapeutics

Brandon Wehler

Dept of Navy, PEO Manpower, Logistics, Business, US Navy

Matt Weig

Platform Leader, Nuvera Fuel Cells, LLC

Dawn Wellman

Strategic Programs Manager, Rio Tinto Copper Research

Lynn Wendt

Director, Biomass Feedstock Natl User Facility, Idaho National Laboratory

Scott A. Wigginton

Experimental Developer, US Army DEVCOM AvMC

Matthew Williams

Director, OTST Program, OUSD (R&E) Technology Portfolio Manager, DoD

Anne Wilson

Professor, Butler University

William (Cy) Wilson

Electronics Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center

Ken Winston

Senior Applications Engineer, Calgon Carbon Corporation

Richard Wise

Senior Research Engineer, Georgia Tech Research Institute

Doug Wolfe

Architecture, Software, & Cyber Branch Chief, PEO Aviation – PM FLRAA, US Army

Keith Woodman

SBIR Senior Operations Manager, NASA

Candace Wright

SBIR/STTR Program Lead, MDA

Yiliang Wu

Director of Technology and Innovation, Colltech North America

Dalia Yablon

Technical Program Chair, TechConnect World Innovation Conference

Michelle Young

Renewables Program Manager, Chevron Technology Center

Steven Zanganeh

Assistant Professor, New York Institute of Technology

Helen Zha

Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Chen Zhang

Assistant Professor, University of Maryland

Lin Zhao

Research Scientist, Dow Chemical Company

Paul Zielinski

Executive Director, FLC

Kathy Zolman

MTEC Chief of Consortium Operations, ATI

Tom Aitken

CMFF Principal Engineer – PM Mission Command, U.S. Army PEO C3T

Rae Anderson

Multi-discipline systems engineer, MITRE

Gregory Babich

Corporate Strategy, Digital Receiver Technology, Inc.

Sally Bixby

Avionics Architecture Team Future Plans/Business, Precise Systems, in support of NAVAIR

Tangela Bonnay (Invited)

Division Chief, GVSC/GVR

Alex Boydston

Senior Avionics & Software Engineer, DEVCOM AvMC S3I

Patrick L. Buckley

Senior Technologist, Integration Innovation, Inc. (i3)

Kyle Bunch

Deputy Director of Quantum Science, OUSD R&E

HON Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt

Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Defense

Calvin Cheung

Ground Vehicle Robotics, Army -Ground Vehicle Systems Center

Tyler Christoffel

Technology Manager, DOE Wind Energy Technologies Office, DOE

Kacee Deener

Deputy Director, Office of Science Advisor, Policy and Engagement, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Jason Dirner

Architecture Team Lead, U.S. Army DEVCOM C5ISR Center

Jon Drof

Avionics Architecture Team IPT Lead, U.S. Navy, NAVAIR PMA 209 AAT

Orin Edwards

Tech Chief, MO9A, AFLCMC

Peter Emanuel

Deputy Principle Director Biotechnology, US Army

Nabor Felix Cortez

Product Owner (PO), Xanatos Gambit (XG), 76th SWEG

Eva Garland

CEO, Eva Garland Consulting

Michelle Gilbert

Chief Engineer, FLRAA

Arthur Grijalva (Invited)

Director, SpaceWERX

Maureen Gwinn

EPA Chief Scientist & Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Daniel Hegner

Intellectual Property (IP) Specialist, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army

Tina Hochstetler

Site VP, Signal Solutions LOB, Leonardo DRS Airborne & Intelligence Systems

Ted Janiec

Deputy Director, Acquisition, Space Force PEO Space Domain Awareness- Combat Power

Nick Kascandi

VP, Innovation + Business Development, TechConnect Division, ATI

Anand Kelkar

Vice President, Jovian Software Consulting, LLC

Brendan Kelley

Director Vertical Lift and Ground, Northrop Grumman

Jin Kim

Deputy Director, Joint Hypersonics Transition Office (JHTO), OASD(S&T)

Petros Kotidis

Fellow and Senior Commercialization Advisor, NobleReach Foundation

Kelly Kyes

Senior Policy Analyst, Boeing

Ilya Lipkin

Sr Engineer, U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command

Welsey Low

Architecture Subject Matter Expert, FARA/PEO Aviation, US Army

Paul Maguire

CEO, Knowmadics

Dan McConnell

Chief Technologist, Booz Allen Hamilton

John McHale

Executive Vice President & Group Editorial Director, Open Systems Media

Michael McRae

Technical Chief, PdM C2E

Michael Scott Moore

Founder, Moore Integrity Engineering

CW5 Scott Nally

FVL CFT MOSA Lead, US Army

Matt Naveau

CTO, Tangram Flex

Derek Parks

Commercialization and Business Analyst, NOAA

Rob Proctor

Senior Field Application Engineer, Real Time Innovations

James Royce

Senior Capabilities Advisor, Office of the Principal Cyber Advisor, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

Michael Shearin

Assistant Branch Head, Model Based Systems Engineering; Research Engineer II, Georgia Tech Research Institute

Mark Smearcheck (tentative)

AFRL/RYWN Branch Tech Advisor , US Air Force

Conrad Smith

President, EW (Blue Halo)

Joe Stevanak (tentative)

Army PM PNT Office, US Army

John Stough

VLC Board MOSA Sub Group and recent PEO AVN MOSA TO, Exocubic

Jennifer A. Swanson

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Data, Engineering, and Software, US Army

Tyler Temple

Program Manager, Army

Travis Vetter

CTO, Skydweller

Dr. Mark Vriesenga

Chief Engineer, Info Analytics; Chief Scientist, FAST Labs, BAE Systems Electronic Systems

Major Walker

PM MALET, USSOCOM

Heath Whitney

Director, Surveillance Systems Division, Applied Signal Technology, Collins Aerospace an RTX Business

Robert Zitz

Senior Advisor, Walacor Corporation