Jonathan Adams

Researcher, Nanosurf

Janne-Constantin Albrecht

Research Assistant, Fraunhofer ICT, Germany

Babak Anasori

Associate Professor, Purdue University

Netz Arroyo-Curras

Associate Professor, UNC Chapel Hill

Jared Ashcroft

Professor, Pasadena City College

Veronica Augustyn

Professor, North Carolina State University

Travis Bailey

Professor, Colorado State

Robert Baldwin

Principal Scientist, National Laboratory of the Rockies

Elif Balkas

CTO, Wolfspeed

Nina Balke

Associate Professor, North Carolina State University

Amay Bandodkar

Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University

Matthew Becker

Professor, Duke University

Subhashish Bhattacharya

Distinguished Professor, North Carolina State University

Jaipreet Bindra

Senior Advisor, University of Ottawa

Crysten Blaby-Haas

Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Jonathan Boreyko

Associate Professor, Virginia Tech

Katie Bornfleth

Marketing Communications Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI

Pat Brant

Chief Polymer Science Advisor (retired), ExxonMobil

Robin Brigmon

Adjunct Professor, Clemson University

Stephen Buchanan

Founder, Bandelier Technologies

Bob Burton

Director of Defense Technologies, North Carolina Military Business Center

Greg Byrd

Professor, North Carolina State University

Dave Calabro

Scientist, ExxonMobil (retired)

James Caley

Director of Operational Energy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Energy, US Navy

Maria Fernanda Campa

Staff Scientist, TJFACT

Kim Chaffin

Vice President, Medtronic

Julie Champion

Professor, Georgia Tech

Chih-Hao Chang

Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

Sehoon Chang

Advanced Materials Team Leader, Aramco Americas

Marti Checa Nualart

R&D Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Yongsheng Chen

Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Ravi Chilukuri

Innovation Ecosystem Director, North Carolina State University

Hanna Cho

Associate Professor, Ohio State University

Orlando Coronell

Professor, UNC Chapel Hill

Clay Cuddington

Product Development Engineer, ExxonMobil

Honggang Cui

Professor, Johns Hopkins

Mahrokh Dadsetan

Principal Research Fellow, Evonik

Preeta Datta

Director of Open Innovation for North America, Evonik Corporation

Paige DeBaylo

Director, National Safety Council MSD Solutions Lab

Jeseth Delgado Vela

Assistant Professor, Duke University

Maude Desroches

Dow, Associate Research Scientist

Ali Dhinojwala

Professor, University of Akron

Robert Dilmore

Research Engineer, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Emily Dinu

Founding Partner, Numinous Capital

Anna Duraj-Thatte

Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech

Nate Earnest-Noble

Technical Manager, IBM

Babak Eslami

Associate Professor, Widener University

Hannah Everett

Senior Program Manager, National Safety Council

Angela Maria Fasnacht

COO, PureLi

Lynn Foster

Founder and CEO, Z-Field Technologies

Aaron Franklin

Professor, Duke University

Alison Fritz

Research Engineer, National Energy Technology Laboratory

Stephen Furst

Founder, EO, Smart Material Solutions

Chirag Gajjar

Principal Textile R&D Engineer, Medtronic

Christine Galib

Director, Advancing Photonics Technologies, Princeton University

Joshua Gallaway

Associate Professor, Northeastern University

Ricardo Garcia

Keynote Speaker, Professor, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid CSIC, Spain

Genevieve Garland

Senior Associate Vice Chancellor of Research Development, North Carolina State University

Anthe George

Senior Manager, Sandia National Laboratories

Shahir Gerges

Director of Business Strategy, Orbital Reef, Blue Origin

Roozbeh Ghaffari

CEO/Co-Founder, Epicore Biosystems

Shelby Giza

Director, Business Development - Applications, Space Tango

Aalo Gupta

Fellow, Phillips 66

Bahareh Haji-saeed

Technology Scouting Director, BAE Systems, FAST Labs

Jan-Willem Handgraaf

Senior Technical Product Manager, Siemens Digital Industries Software

John Hardin

Executive Director for the North Carolina Board of Science Technology & Innovation, North Carolina Department of Commerce

Connor Hart

Head of Product, EuQlid

Christy Haynes

Professor, University of Minnesota

Marcus Hays

Founder, CEO, Orbis Electric

Ting He

Senior Principal Textile Engineer, Edwards Lifesciences

Felix Heide

Assistant Professor, Princeton University

Sarah Herschede

Portfolio Manager, Varda Space Industries

David Hill

Senior Research Scientist, SRI International

David Horn

Director of Strategic Partnerships, Greenville ENC Alliance

Eli Hornstein

Founder, CEO, elysia bio

Eric Hsieh

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Storage, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity

Qingguo (Jack) Huang

Professor, University of Georgia

Matthew Hull

Director, Nanoscale Characterization and Fabrication Laboratory, Virginia Tech

Haroon Inam

CEO & Co-Founder, DGMatrix

Jonathan Jakischa

Open Innovation Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI

Santa Jansone-Popova

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

Jim Johnston

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

Andrew Jones

Assistant Professor, Duke University

Jacob Jones

Professor, North Carolina State University

Rich Julien

Partner, BOKA Ventures

Jesse Jur

Deputy Director, North Carolina Department of Commerce

Nick Kacsandi

Senior Business Development & Sales Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI

Sabre Kais

Goodnight Distinguished Chair in Quantum Computing, North Carolina State University

Pritish Kamat

Global Engineering & Process Research Manager, Carbon Clean

Fred Kish

Distinguished Professor, North Carolina State University

Brian Korgel

Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Arun Kota

Associate Professor, North Carolina State University

Girish Kumar

CTO, Gadgeon Systems

Matthew Laudon

Vice President, TechConnect Division, Advanced Technology International (ATI)

Daeyeon Lee

Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Hansol Lee

Senior Research Engineer, 3M

Cora Leibig

Founder and CEO, Chromatic 3D Materials

Xiaolin Li

Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Craig Lindemann

Textile Innovator, Fabric Thereafter

Yongtao Liu

R&D Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Zekun(Zack) Liu

Director of R&D, Claros Technologies Inc.

Daniel Lopez

Professor, Penn State University

Susan MacKay

Senior Program Manager, University of Maine

Rammohan (Ram) Maikala

Technical Program Consultant, MSD Solutions Lab, National Safety Council

Tim Martin

Interim Assistant Vice Chancellor of New Ventures and Investments, North Carolina State University

James McCabe

Engineer, NASA

David McGee

Professor, The College of New Jersey

Brittany McGinley

Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Mireya McKee

Interim Director, UNC Innovate Carolina

Will McNamara

Analyst, Sandia National Laboratories

Veena Misra

Department Head, Distinguished University Professor, North Carolina State University

Dave Molloy

Director of North American Operations, Promix-Solutions

Emma Mooney

Outreach and Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI

Jeffrey Moseley

Researcher, University of California, Berkeley

Greg Mulholland

Founder, Citrine Informatics

Laura Murphree

Senior Marketing and Program Manager, TechConnect Division, Advanced Technology International (ATI)

Prathima Nalam

Associate Professor, University of Buffalo

Prakash Nallathamby

Associate Director, Notre Dame University

Chang-Yong Nam

Group Leader, Brookhaven National Laboratory

SungWoo Nam

Professor, University of California, Irvine

Mohammad Naraghi

Professor, Texas A&M

Roger Narayan

Professor, North Carolina State University

Xiaoyue Ni

Assistant Professor, Duke University

Janhavi Nistane

Scientist, Matmerize, Inc

Alex Norman

Executive Director, Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University

Jan Odegard

Founder, 62X Ventures

Kwang W. Oh

Professor, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Ben Ohler

Senior Product Line Manager, Oxford Instruments Asylum Research, Inc.

William Oliver

Professor, MIT

Craig Owens

Small Business Innovation Research Program Manager, Lockheed Martin

Sehmus Ozden

Scientist, Aramco Americas

Andriy Palasyuk

Research Scientist, Critical Materials Innovation Hub, Ames National Laboratory

Zehra Parlak

CEO, Qatch Technologies

Jason Patrick

Associate Professor, North Carolina State University

Cassandra Phillips

Product Manager, Bruker

Christina Piard

Talent Manager, Wolfspeed

William Polacheck

Associate Professor, UNC Chapel Hill and NC State University

Radislav Potyrailo

Senior Principal Scientist, GE Vernova

Zhe Qiang

Associate Professor, University of Southern Mississippi

Carlos Quiroz-Arita

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories

Srinivasa Raghavan

Professor, University of Maryland

Mim Rahimi

Assistant Professor, University of Houston

Nicole Rawling

CEO, Material Innovation Initiative

Kelly Raymond

Principal Scientist, Merck

Nigel Reuel

Associate Professor, Iowa State University

Samantha Roberts

Nanofabrication Facility Director, City University of New York

Stefan Roberts

CEO, inSoma Bio, Inc.

Jennifer Rocha

Strategic Partnerships, TechConnect Division, ATI

Raphael Roettgen

Founding Partner, E2MC Ventures

Bart Romanowicz

Sr. Advisor, TechConnect Division, ATI

Rodney Ruoff

Distinguished Professor, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

Chandan Sahu

Research Scientist, ABB

Michael Schmidt

Professor, Medical University of South Carolina

Russell Schmitz

R&D Engineer, 374Water

Larissa Shepherd

Assistant Professor, Cornell University

Richard Sheridan

Research Scientist, Duke University

Maksim Shivokhin

Polymer Innovation & Lightweighting strategist, ExxonMobil

Christopher Sims

Research Chemist, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Mari Anne Snow

CEO & Co-Founder, Eascra Biotech

Ryan Sochol

Associate Professor, University of Maryland

Ben Solomon

Founder & CEO, FedTech

Sameer Sonkusale

Professor, Tufts University

Steve Sopher

Executive Vice President, JSP

Heather Splawn

President and Founder, Kyma Technologies

Erik Spoerke

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

Vince Sprenkle

Senior Strategic Advisor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Camille Stebbins

Deputy Director and Program Manager, Advanced Technology International (ATI)

Mike Stebbins

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

Kevin Stoll

Chief Technology Officer, Critical Materials Recycling

Amy Stoltzfus

Independent Consultant, Self-employed

Sasha Stolyarov

CEO, AFFOA

Kristian Stout

Director, International Center for Law & Economics

Phillip Strader

RTNN Manager, North Carolina State University

Kristopher Strickland

Process Engineer, L3 Process Development

Anirudha V. Sumant

Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

Sam Swan

Researcher, Sandia National Laboratories

Esther Takeuchi

Professor, Stony Brook University

Matt Tamasi

CTO, Plexymer, Inc.

Halil Tekinalp

R&D Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Chuck Turick

Consultant, ElectrioBioDyne

Tzuen-Rong (Jeremy) Tzeng

Professor, Clemson University

Raymond Unocic

Associate Professor, North Carolina State University

Abraham Vázquez-Guardado

Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University

Sonia Vohnout

President & CEO, OppsSpot, LLC

Nicole Wagner, Ph.D

President and CEO, LambdaVision

Lu Wang

Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee

Meng Wang

Associate Professor, University of Houston

Yichun Wang

Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame

Taku Watanabe

Principal researcher, Matlantis

Michael Webb

Assistant Professor, Princeton University

Sarah Wenning

Executive Director, Event Operations, TechConnect Division, ATI

Gary Wilkes

Senior Technology Advisor, Amylum Systems

Tim Willis

Managing Director, Med1 Ventures

Bill Wisotsky

Principal Quantum Systems Architect, SAS

Christopher Wohl

Assistant Branch Head, NASA Langley Research Center

Michael Worley

Economic Development Director, Alexander County Economic Development Corporation

Thaiesha Wright

Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

Xiaoji Xu

Professor, Stony Brook University (SUNY)

Dalia Yablon

Technical Program Chair, TechConnect World Innovation Conference

Yalcin Yamaner

CEO/Co-founder, Clearsens Inc.

Lingchong You

Distinguished Professor, Duke University

Michelle Young

Renewables Program Manager, Chevron

Jeff Youngblood

Professor, Purdue University

Helen Zha

Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Sen Zhang

Postdoctoral Entrepreneurship Fellow, University of Washington

Earl Armstrong

Naval Operational Energy Office, Tech Advisor, US Navy

Krista Covey

President, First Flight Venture Center

Scott Davis

Hub Director – UNCW, NCInnovation

Michelle Fiscus

Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer, NCInnovation

Pamela Fisher

Vice President, Business Recruitment, Greenville ENC Alliance

Matthew Hetrick

Principal Scientist, ABB

Mireya McKee

Interim Director New Ventures and Partnerships, University of North Carolina

Andrea Monteza

Makerspace Director, North Carolina State University

Sherine Obare

Vice Chancellor for Research and Engagement, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

David Ousterout

General Partner, Cape Fear BioCapital

Ed Pagani

Assistant Vice President for External Partnerships, Duke University

Abby Phillips

Assistant Director Wolfpack Investor Network (WIN), North Carolina State University

David Putnam

Director of Economic Development, Town of Chapel Hill

Emil Runge

Director, Launch Chapel Hill

Patrick Wellenius

Research Scholar, North Carolina State University

Joanne Wong

General Partner, REDDS Capital