EVENT SPEAKERS
Elizabeth Hackenson
CIO & SVP Schneider Electric
William A. Hazel, Jr. MD
CEO, Claude Moore Opportunities; fmr Secretary of Health, Commonwealth of Virginia
Jamie Holcombe
Vice President, Commerce, US AI; fmr CIO, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Megan A. Barnett
Vice Provost for Pan-University Initiatives, University of Virginia
Daniel Sui, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President and Chief Research and Innovation Officer, Virginia Tech
Andre Marshall, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Economic Impact, George Mason University
Dr. Sak Segkhoonthod
Senior Advisor, Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA); Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, fmr. President and CEO, Thailand, Digital Government Agency, THAILAND
Cheng-Ming (Ken) Wang
Director General, Ministry of Digital Affairs, Republic of China, TAIWAN
Linton Wells II, Ph.D.
Executive Advisor for the C5I Center, Mason College of Engineering and Computing; Fmr CIO, U.S. Department of Defense
Amarda Shehu, Ph.D.
Vice President & Chief AI Officer, Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering & Computing, Professor, Computer Science, School of Computing, George Mason University
Luiz DaSilva, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative
Milos Manic, Ph.D.
President, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society; Director, Virginia Commonwealth AI Convergence Labs; Director, Virginia Commonwealth Cyber Center
Larry Medsker, Ph.D.
Chair, ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee; Research Professor, University of Vermont
Luis Benavides
Partner, Federal, Hybrid Cloud & Data, IBM
Lisa Donnan
Founder and CEO, The Donnan Group; Advisory Board Chairman, College of Engineering and Computing, George Mason University
Serge Adouaka
Director, Central African Republic Technology and ICT Leadership Accelerator, CAR
Andrew Beklemishev
Vice President, CIS Region, IDC, KAZAKHSTAN
Elena Bellio, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing, Bocconi University, ITALY
Luca Buccoliero, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing, Bocconi University, ITALY
John Carlson
Senior Vice President of Cybersecurity Regulation and Resilience at the American Bankers Association (ABA)
Caroline Gans Combe
Associate Professor Artificial Intelligence, Data, Econometrics, Ethics; Director of Structured Research; Head of Omnes Group Research Ethics Board, Omnes Education - INSEEC, FRANCE
Sundar Balakrishna, Ph.D.
Special Secretary, Information Technology & Communication, Government of Andhra Pradesh, INDIA
Nirup Menon, Ph.D.
Professor, Academic Co-Director, Chief Data and Analytics Officer Executive Program, Donald G. Costello College of Business
Pierre El Haddad, Ph.D.
Professor of Management, INSEEC Grande Ecole, Paris, FRANCE
Mitchell Goldburgh
Sr. Director, Industry Solution, NTT DATA Services
Jean-Paul Gonzalez, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Georgetown Graduate School of Biomedical Education, fmr. Director, Pasteur Institute International Network and the French Institute of Research for Development
Naoko Iwasaki, Ph.D.
Professor Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; President, IAC Japan
Marc Jones
Senior Vice President, Public Sector, CAST Software
Richard Kauzlarich
Codirector, Center for Energy Science and Policy (CESP); Distinguished Visiting Professor, George Mason University
Professor Dongwook Kim, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Intelligent Society and Policy, Seoul National University, KOREA
Hag-Min Kim, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of International Business and Trade/ School of International Commerce, Finance and Investment, College of Politics and Economics; Director, Global Training Education Program, Kyung Hee University
YoungSik Kim
Senior Associate Expert, UNU-EGOV (United Nations University); Project Manager for KOICA/KDS Kyrgyzstan National Informatization Capacity Building Project
Robert H. Ledig
Managing Director of the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center
Christian E. Mammen, Ph.D.
Managing Partner, Womble Bond Dickinson
Joel Martin, Ph.D.
Chief Digital Research Officer and Chief Science Officer, National Research Council of Canada
Cheryl Druehl, Ph.D.
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research, Costello College of Business, George Mason University
Bachir Moussa-Bawa
Founder and President, Marché Banguissois
Joseph A. Msays
VP & Global Managing Partner, Enterprise Application Managed Services, IBM Consulting
Rohith Nama
Sr GenAI Software Engineer, Amazon; Startup mentor, & Podcaster
Brian J. Peretti
Beju Rao, Ph.D.
Founder and President, Amruta
Ravi Ravikoti
Chief Information Officer, Novvum Advisory and Consulting
Abhishek Ray, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Information Systems, Costello College of Business, George Mason University
Gary Rinkerman
Peter Schupp
CEO, SCMT Steinbeis Center of Management and Technology GmbH, GERMANY, Innovation Through Education - Entrepreneurship and Vocational Education
Alan R. Shark, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
James Sullivan
Strategic Advisor, Healthcare Industry Solutions & Services, NTT DATA
Sherry Sun
Senior Storage Specialist – Data & AI, IBM
Poomporn Thamsatitdej, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Digital and Future Workforce, College of Innovation, Thammasat University, THAILAND
George Thomas
President and CEO, ConnectedDMV
Brian Wendroff, CPA
Managing Partner, Wendroff and Associates, CPA
