Matteo Pasquali

Professor, Rice University

Frank Salomone

Associate Administrator, Office of Investment and Innovation, SBA

Mike Stebbins

Sr. Vice President, Medical & Threat Countermeasures Division, Advanced Technology International (ATI)

Jennifer Thabet

Program Director, Small Business Programs Office (SBPO), DARPA

Paul Weiss

UC Presidential Chair and Distinguished Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

Deji Akinwande

Cockrell Family Regents’ Chair Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

Jorge Almodovar

Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Babak Anasori

Associate Professor, Purdue University

Corby Anderson

Professor, Colorado School of Mines

Amir Asadi

Associate Professor, Texas A&M

Paul Ashby

Facility Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Jared Ashcroft

Professor, Pasadena City College

Madeline Augustine

BDS Technology Strategy Sr Manager, Boeing

Adam Austin

Co-owner and Cybersecurity Lead, Totem.tech

Wolfgang Bacsa

Professor, University of Toulouse, France

Saeed Bagheri

Technology Transfer Manager, University of Waterloo, Commercialization Office (Watco)

Cristina Balagna

Associate Professor, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Eva Rose Balog

Associate Professor, University of New England

Debyjoti Banerjee

Professor, Texas A&M

Tim Barckholtz

Senior Scientific Advisor, ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Co.

Alex Bertram

Mining Industry Expert, Edna Ventures, Australia

Trevor Best

CEO, Syzygy Plasmonics

Jaipreet Singh Bindra

Senior Advisor, University of Ottawa

Devin Bohanan

(Invited), APFIT

Katie Bornfleth

Marketing Communications Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI

Alicia Boyd

Project and Outreach Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI

Latane Brackett

Innovations Program Manager, National GEM Consortium

Pat Brant

Chief Polymer Science Advisor (retired), ExxonMobil

Branden Brough

Molecular Foundry Deputy Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Robin Burke

Program Manager, Special Operations Command

Aprille Busch, Esq

Executive Director, NSF Innovation Corps Southwest Hub, The University of Texas at Austin

Neil Cameron

Partner, Emerald Technology Ventures, Canada

Maria Fernanda Campa

Staff Scientist (Contractor), National Nanotechnology Coordination Office

Zhiqiang Cao

Professor, Wayne State University

Florence Carr

Cybersecurity Specialist, Department of Energy

Alf Carroll

(Invited), RTX Raytheon

Chih-Hao Chang

Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

Sehoon Chang

Research Specialist, Aramco Americas

Jonathan Chen

Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

Yongsheng Chen

Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Robert Chimenti

Assistant Professor/Photonics Director, Rowan University

Kieran Claffey

Senior Research Engineer, Southern Company

Liam Collins

Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Monica Cortez

Director of Business Operations, Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center

Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez

Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

Gabriel Cossio

CEO and Founder, Nanoscale Labs

Jun Cui

Professor, Iowa State University

Scott Daniel

Co-Founder, Materium Technologies

Anderson de Lobo

Professor, UFPI - Universidade Federal do Piauí, Brazil

Lyle DePauw

Director of Crop Innovation, Cargill

Joyce Deuley

Strategic Project & Communications Specialist, team b.

Yifu Ding

Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder

Steve Edkins

Director of Strategy and Operations, Citrine Informatics

Menachem Elimelech

Professor, Rice University

Chris Ellison

Professor, University of Minnesota

Joe Epstein

Strategic Partnership Lead, Lockheed Martin Space

Babak Eslami

Associate Professor, Widener University

Jason Ethier

Founding Partner, Energy Tech Nexus

Michael Falcon

Partner, In-Q-Tel

NaThanya Ferguson

Director, Innovation Outreach Division (Invited), Office of Public Engagement, USPTO

Lynn Foster

CEO, Z Field Technologies LLC

Reza Foudazi

Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma

Tim Fowler

IAC Field S&T Advisor to STRATCOM / SPACECOM / NORAD-NORTHCOM, DoD Information Analysis Centers (IACs)

Gillian Francis

Managing Partner & Founder, Rapid Ventures

Alison Fritz

Research Engineer, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Kelvin Fu

Assistant Professor, University of Delaware

Stephen Furst

CEO, Smart Material Solutions

Christine Galib

Director, Advancing Photonics Technologies, Princeton University

Timothy Gardner

Chief Informatics Officer, Cambium

Damon Gilmour

Co-founder, a2o Advanced Materials Inc., Canada

Andrew Gollach

Partner, HAX

Doug Goodman

(Invited), NASA

Jim Greenwood

Founder, Greenwood Consulting Group

Chris Griggs

Senior Research Physical Scientist, US Army Corps of Engineers

Imre Gyuk

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

Will Hales

Managing Director, Market Cross

Mathew D. Halls

Senior Vice President, Materials Science, Schrödinger Inc.

Jan-Willem Handgraaf

Senior Technical Product Manager, Siemens Digital Industries Software

Greg Haugstad

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

Elden Hawkes, Jr.

Partnership and Innovation Specialist, Small Business Administration

Jack Hogan

Vice President, Advanced Growth Technologies, SHI International Corp.

Jerry Hollister

Senior Principal Consultant, BBC Entrepreneurial Training and Consulting

Mahesh Hosur

Professor, Texas A&M Kingsville

Matthew Hull

Director, Nanoscale Characterization and Fabrication Laboratory, Virginia Tech

Tanya Hutter

Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

Brian Ingram

Group Leader of the Materials and Device Evaluation Group, Argonne National Laboratory

David Jack

Professor, Baylor University

Jonathan Jakischa

Open Innovation Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI

Ed Jameson

Managing Partner, Jameson & Company

Santa Jansone-Popova

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

Ben Jawdat

Founder & CEO, Revterra

Jan Jensen

CEO, Trailhead Biosystems

Russell Jessup

Professor, Texas A&M AgriLife Research

Jim Johnston

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

Hyun Jung Kim

Professor, Cleveland Clinic

Nick Kacsandi

Senior Business Development & Sales Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI

Hiromasa Kaneko

Senior Assistant Professor, Meiji University, Japan

Alamgir Karim

Professor, University of Houston

Lynn Katz

Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

Jason Killgore

Project Leader, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Chan-Jin Kim

Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

Joseph Koo

Scientist, The University of Texas at Austin

John P. Kopasz

Chemist/Group Leader, Argonne National Laboratory

Kinga Kovács

Physicist, HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research, Hungary

Boris Kozinsky

Professor, Harvard University

Kate Kvaternik

Program Manager(Invited), DOE

Gary Laier

Center Liaison(Invited), NASA

Chip Laingen

Executive Director, Defense Alliance

Matthew Laudon

VP TechConnect Division, Advanced Technology International (ATI)

Craig Lawrence

Partner, Energy Transition Ventures

Hyacinth Lechuga

Scientist, 3M

Kelvin Lee

Director, National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL)

Patrick Lee

Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Paul Leu

Professor and B.P. America Faculty Fellow, University of Pittsburgh

Qilin Li

Professor, Rice University

Qiming Li

CEO, Oliden

Xiaolin Li

Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Xiaoqin Elaine Li

Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

Jenny Ligon

Ecosystem Liaison, Advanced Technology International (ATI)

Yi-Chih Lin

Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

Genevieve Lind

Program Manager, Small Business Administration

Chong Liu

Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

Jinyong Liu

Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside

Yidian Liu

Founder, PolyGone

George Lu

Assistant Professor, Rice University

Nanshu Lu

Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

Jodie Lutkenhaus

Professor, Texas A&M

Lee Lynd

CTO, Director & Co-Founder; Professor, Terragia Biofuel; Dartmouth College

Susan MacKay

Senior Program Manager, University of Maine

Robert Magnusson

CTO, Resonant Sensors Inc

Anub Maheshwari

Corporate Vice President & Head of Engineering, Product Development, System Software, Program Mgt and Customer Engineering, AMD

Filippo Mangolini

Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

Fernanda Roberta Marciano

Professor, Federal University of Piauí

Nobuyuki Matsuzawa

Executive Engineer, Panasonic Industry Co, Japan

Andy McCandless

Chairman and CEO, Bascom Hunter

David McGee

Professor of Physics and Founder, DJM Photonics LLC, College of New Jersey

Will McNamara

Analyst, Sandia National Laboratories

Nakia Melecio

Senior Research Faculty, Georgia Institute of Technology

Emma Mooney

Outreach and Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI

Anderson Morelato

Head of Decarbonization and Technology Roadmapping, ArcelorMittal

Arindam Mukhopadhyay

Staff Scientist & Principal Investigator, Idaho National Laboratory

Laura Murphree

Senior Marketing and Program Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI

G Nagesh Rao

Acting Director and Deputy Director, Manufacturing Extension Partnership, NIST

Prakash D. Nallathamby

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

Tim Nedwed

Principal Advisor, ExxonMobil (retired)

Eileen Nelson

(Invited), NASA

Tammi Neville

Program Specialist, USDA

Alex Norman

Executive Director, Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University

Jim O'Sullivan

Founder, O'Sullivan Solutions

Kwang W. Oh

Professor, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Jon Osborn

Director Medical & Threat Countermeasures, Advanced Technology International (ATI)

Craig Owens

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

Thomas Page

CTO, Komo Biosciences

Andriy Palasyuk

Research Scientist, Critical Materials Innovation Hub, Ames National Laboratory

Kyoo-Chul (Kenneth) Park

Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

Blake Petty

Executive Director, McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship, TAMU

Jeremy Pitts

Managing Director, Activate Houston, Activate Global Inc

Martin Poitzsch

Leader Reservoir Engineering Technologies Team, Aramco Americas

Nihar Pradhan

Assistant Professor, Jackson State University

Zhe Qiang

Associate Professor, University of Southern Mississippi

Carlos Quiroz-Arita

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories

YuanQiao Rao

Fellow, Dow Chemical Company

Rawand Rasheed

CEO, Helix Earth Technologies

Michael Rauch

Associate Director, Materials Science, Schrödinger

April Richards

Program Manager(Invited), EPA

John Ritter

Executive Director, Office of Technology Licensing and New Ventures, Princeton University

Jennifer Rocha

Strategic Partnerships, TechConnect Division, ATI

Ross Roley

Cyber Innovation Lead, Battelle

Bart Romanowicz

Sr. Advisor, TechConnect Division, ATI

Jack Ryan

Senior Program Manager, DIU

Thomas Schutzius

Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Sergey Shevkoplyas

Professor, University of Houston

Christopher Sims

Research Chemist, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Gina Sims

Director, DoD SBIR/STTR

Joe Skraba

Project Manager, Medical Device Technology Commercial Development UT Austin

Braeton Smith

Principal Energy Economist, Argonne National Laboratory

Kenan Song

Professor, University of Georgia

Erik Spoerke

Senior Analytics Advisor for Energy Storage, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity

Allie Stachowiak

Venture Fellow, Goose Capital

Roy Stillwell

CEO, Nearwave

Thiago Stocco

Professor, Brazil University, Brazil

Megan Stokes

Senior Program Analyst, Support Contractor, Navy

Kevin Stoll

Chief Technology Officer, Critical Materials Recycling

Hung-Jue Sue

Professor, Texas A&M

Anirudha V. Sumant

Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

Scott Swartz

CTO, Nexceris

Jinhui Tao

Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Mark Tapsak

VP, Glucotrack

Thomas Tarka

METALLIC Director, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Jitendra Tate

Professor, Texas State University

Halil Tekinalp

R&D Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Tylar Temple

Deputy Director, Defense SBIR/STTR Program Office, Department of Defense

Nate Thompson

Co-Founder, HTX Sportstech

Keishla Tirado

Director of Federal Programs, DECA Analytics

Zeke Topolosky

Deputy, Army SBIR|STTR

Peter Vekilov

Professor, University of Houston

Sonia Vohnout

President & CEO, OppsSpot, LLC

Nikki Votaw

Associate Director, R&D, Isolere Bio, a Donaldson brand

Meng Wang

Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Michael Webb

Assistant Professor, Princeton University

Thomas J. Webster

Chief Scientific Advisor, Interstellar Therapeutics

Stephen Whitlock

CEO, Dynamic Light

Anthony Williams

Associate Director of the Office of Technology Licensing and New Ventures, Princeton University

John Williams

Executive Director, Small Business Innovation Research Council (SBIRC)

William (Cy) Wilson

Electronics Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center

Scott Wood

Associate Professor, University of New England

Daniel Woodie

Director of micro/Nano Fabrication Center, Princeton University

Keith Woodman

SBIR Senior Operations Manager, NASA

Candace Wright

Program Lead(Invited), MDA

Thaiesha Wright

Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

Dalia Yablon

Technical Program Chair, TechConnect World Innovation Conference

Michelle Young

Renewables Program Manager, Chevron Technology Center

Tom Zawodzinski, Jr.

Professor, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Helen Zha

Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Lin Zhao

Research Scientist, Dow Chemical Company

Jordan Blashek

Managing Partner, America's Frontier Fund, SBIC

Aasim Hasan

Moneta Ventures, SBIC

Brent Kelton

Moneta Ventures, SBIC

John McCanney

Director, OSD Transitions SBIR/STTR (OTST) Program

Andrew McMahon

Ridgeline Ventures Fund II-S L.P., SBIC

Inessa Stepanenko

Deputy District Director, Small Business Administration (SBA)

Neil Wendt

Senior Analyst, Acme General