Speakers

Dace de la Foret is the Director of Enterprise Social Media for Nationwide. He’s responsible for all social content with the goal of growing the Fortune 100 company’s digital brand and maintaining positive fan engagement across all social platforms.

Will Cady has made a career of looking for unexpected brilliance in overlooked subcultures. A path from zen monasteries into digital media brought him to his current role as Head Of Brand Strategy at Reddit

Alberto Hernandez is the Chief Marketing Officer for Dyla Brands, makers of FORTO and STUR. Alberto has spent the last 17 years building iconic brands in different geographies across Europe, Latin America and the US.

Krishnan Rajeshwar is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is also the founding director of the Center for Renewable Energy Science & Technology (CREST) on campus.

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1985 Panos M. Pardalos serves as distinguished professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Florida. Additionally, he is the Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Professor of industrial and systems engineering

Professor Andrew R. Barron is the Sêr Cymru Chair of Low Carbon Energy and Environment, where his research involves the application of nanotechnology to fundamental problems in energy research.

Aaron is the founder of Qokka, an AI startup that helps companies zero in on customers and communities using communication data at large scale. Previously, Aaron was a founding engineering lead at Scaled Inference

Craig Knoblock is the Keston Executive Director of the Information Sciences Institute, Research Professor of both Computer Science and Spatial Sciences, and Vice Dean of Engineering at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Aydogan Ozcan is the Chancellor’s Professor and the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation at UCLA and an HHMI Professor with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,

"I believe in how design thinking can and will shape the future, and in the power of CannonDesign to drive us there. These assertions propel me and are my foundation as CEO"