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Speakers

Victor Hwang

Founder & CEO, Right to Start

Siobhan Dullea

CEO, MassChallenge

Monique Kuykendoll Quarterman

Executive Director, Kentucky Commercialization Ventures

Megan Aanstoos, PhD

Licensing & New Ventures Manager, Kentucky Commercialization Ventures

Allie Burns

CEO, Village Capital

Charles Ross

Interim President and CEO, InBIA

Pat Riley

CEO, GAN

Tony Shipley

Immediate Past Chair, Executive Committee, Angel Capital Association

Jason Rittenberg

Policy & Development Director, SSTI

JF Gauthier

Founder & CEO, Startup Genome

Brittany Sickler

Senior Innovation Policy Advisor, U.S. Small Business Administration

Jennifer Shieh

Chief Scientist and Program Manager, U.S. Small Business Administration

John Williams

Director of Innovation and Technology, U.S. Small Business Administration

Cecilia Wessinger

Founder, Mass Collaboration

Lil Roberts

CEO & Founder, Xendoo Inc.

Thomas Wavering

Exec. Director Tom Love Innovation Hub, University of OK

Jerry Hollister

Sr. Principal Consultant, BBC Entrepreneurial Training and Consulting

Jenny C. Servo

President, Dawnbreaker, Inc.

Konstantin Izvolsky

Director, Consulting & Training, Foresight Science & Technology, Inc.

Paul Zielinski

Executive Director, FLC

Joey Arora

VP of Growth, The Outpost

Jim Woodell, PhD

Owner and Principal, Jim Woodell & Company

Lisa Friedersdorf

Director, National Nanotechnology Coordination Office

Nancy Kamei

Program Director - SBIR/STTR, NCI/NIH

Stacey Standridge

Deputy Director,, National Nanotechnology Coordination Office

Jeffrey Sachse

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

Rachel Jagoda Brunette

Program Officer, The Lemelson Foundation

Carlos Gutierrez

Chief Strategy Officer, Larta Institute

Kathryn Finney

Founder and CEO/General Partner, Genius Guild/The Greenhouse Fund

Steve Case

Chairman and CEO, Revolution

Rukmani Vijayaraghavan

Innovation and Market Transformation Advisor, U.S. Department of Energy, Water Power Technologies

Bailey DeVries

Associate Administrator, Office of Investment and Innovation, U.S. Small Business Administration

Mike Kiley

NNCO

Jason Kessler

Program Executive, SBIR/STTR Program, NASA

Matt McMahon

Director - NIH SEED, National Institutes of Health

Alison Evans

Presidential Management Fellow, U.S. Small Business Administration

Margo Fliss

Manager of Strategic Engagement, University of Alaska Center for Economic Development

Jenn Gustetic

Director of Early Stage Innovations and Partnerships, NASA

Eric Smith

Director of the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, EDA

Natalie Madeira Cofield

Assistant Administrator, Office of Women's Business Ownership, U.S. Small Business Administration

Stephanie Fertig

HHS Small Business Program Lead, National Institutes of Health

Preston L. James II

CEO and Co-Founder, DivInc.

Elden Hawkes, Jr.

Partnership and Innovation Specialist, U.S. Small Business Administration

Erick Page-Littleford

Senior Technology Policy Advisor, U.S. Small Business Administration

Dusty Lang

Director, DHS SBIR Program, LRPAA Program Manager, DHS

Isabella Casillas Guzman

27th Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration

Roy Keller

Associate Director, Louisiana Business and Technology Center

Kellie Kubena

Deputy Chief Innovation Officer, USDA, RD, Innovation Center

Dana Catron

Deputy Director/SBIR Program Director, Arrowhead Center at NMSU

Mark Madrid

Associate Administrator, Office of Entrepreneurial Development, U.S. Small Business Administration

Thyaga Nandagopal

Senior Advisor, Office of the Director, National Science Foundation

Pat Dillon

Founder and Director, Minnesota SBIR/STTR Accelerator, Minnesota Technology Association

Sandeep Patel

BARDA DRIVe Director

Matt Dunne

Founder and Executive Director, Center on Rural Innovation

Jason Rathje

Director, Co-Founder - AFVentures, AFWERX

Jenny Poon

Founder and CEO, HUUB

Liz Burrows

Technology Manager, U.S. Department of Energy

Shalei Holway

Senior Advisor, U.S. Small Business Administration

Deborah Scott

Program Director, Boots to Business Revenue Readiness Program, Mississippi State University

Mark L. Scott

Director, Veteran Business Outreach Center, Mississippi State University

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