Ten Years Hence

Somesh Jha
Lubar Professor in Computer Science
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Somesh Jha received his B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi in Electrical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Prof. Edmund Clarke (a Turing award winner).

Currently, Somesh Jha is the Lubar Professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin (Madison). His work focuses on analysis of security protocols, survivability analysis, intrusion detection, formal methods for security, and analyzing malicious code.

Recently, he has focused his interest on privacy and Adversarial Machine Learning. Somesh Jha has published several articles in highly-refereed conferences and prominent journals. He has won numerous best-paper and distinguished-paper awards. Prof. Jha received the Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) award for his work on Counter Example-Guided Abstraction Refinement. He has also has received the IIT-Delhi Distinguished Alumni award. Prof. Jha is the fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Ahmed Abbasi
Giovanini Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations  University of Notre Dame

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Ahmed Abbasi is the Joe and Jane Giovanini Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations. He serves as Director of the Analytics Ph.D. program and Co-Director of the Human-centered Analytics Lab. Ahmed completed his Ph.D. work in Information Systems at the University of Arizona’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab.

He attained an M.B.A. and B.S. in Information Technology from Virginia Tech. His research interests relate to text and predictive analytics. Ahmed has published nearly one hundred articles in journals and conferences, including several in top-tier outlets such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research (ISR), Journal of MIS, ACM TOIS, IEEE TKDE, and IEEE Intelligent Systems.

His work has been funded by over a dozen grants from the National Science Foundation and industry partners such as Microsoft, eBay, Deloitte, and Oracle. Ahmed serves as Senior Editor for ISR and Associate Editor for ACM TMIS and IEEE Intelligent Systems.

He is a recipient of the IEEE Technical Achievement Award, INFORMS Design Science Award, and IBM Faculty Award. Ahmed’s work has been featured in various media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, the Associated Press, WIRED, CBS, and Fox.

Henrick Christensen
Qualcomm Chancellor’s Professor of Robot Systems and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering | University of California, San Diego

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Henrik I Christensen is the Qualcomm Chancellor’s Chair of Robot Systems and a distinguished professor of computer science at UC San Diego. He is also the director of the Contextual Robotics Institute @ UCSD. He does research on robotics, computer vision and AI with an emphasis on a systems approach.

Dr. Christensen has published 400+ contribution. Prior to UCSD he has held academic appointments at Georgia Tech, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Aalborg University. He is also an entrepreneur and has founded six companies. In the investment world he co-founded Robo-Global that manages ~$3B in investments across robotics, AI and healthcare.

Henrik is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and has served on many editorial boards. He is the main editor of the US National Robotics Roadmap (2009, 2013, 2016 and 2020) that is presented to the Congress of the United States.

Anu Bradford
Henry L. Moses Distinguished Professor of Law and International Organization Columbia Law School | Columbia University

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Anu Bradford is Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organizations at Columbia Law School, a Director for Columbia’s European Legal Studies Center, and a Senior Scholar at Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business at Columbia Business School. Bradford is also a nonresident scholar in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research focuses on international trade law, European Union law, digital regulation, and comparative and international antitrust law.

Bradford earned her S.J.D. (2007) and LL.M. (2002) degrees from Harvard Law School and also holds a law degree from the University of Helsinki. After completing her LL.M. studies as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School, Bradford practiced antitrust law and European Union law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Brussels before returning to Harvard for her doctoral studies. She has also served as an adviser on economic policy in the Parliament of Finland and as an expert assistant to a member of the European Parliament.

Bradford is the author of The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (Oxford: 2020), which was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs. Her latest book, Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology was published by the Oxford University Press in September 2023.

Manuela M. Veloso
Herbert A. Simon University Professor, Emerita
Carnegie Mellon University

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Manuela Veloso, now Head of Artificial Intelligence Research for J.P. Morgan, joined the firm in 2018 to pioneer AI research in the financial services industry. Her team now includes 115 Ph.D. and M.S. credentialed researchers with AI-related backgrounds at J.P. Morgan offices across the globe.

Manuela has worked for more than 30 years in AI and before joining JP Morgan she was faculty in the Computer Science Department and the Head of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was a University Professor, the highest academic accolade bestowed by the university, and holds the Herbert A. Simon Chair in computer science. She has been honored as an Einstein Chair Professor by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering for “her contributions to artificial intelligence and its applications to robotics and the financial domain.”

She is a past president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and of the RoboCup Federation. She is a fellow of the AAAI, IEEE, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Manuela has a BSc. and MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisbon, an MA in Computer Science from Boston University, and a MSc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. See www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv for the list of her Ph.D. students and for her publications.

Zico Kolter
Associate Professor of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University

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Zico Kolter is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, and also serves as chief scientist of AI research for the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence. His work spans the intersection of machine learning and optimization, with a large focus on developing more robust and rigorous methods in deep learning.

In addition, he has worked in a number of application areas, highlighted by work on sustainability and smart energy systems. He is a recipient of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award, a Sloan Fellowship, and best paper awards at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, The International Conference on Machine Learning (honorable mention), The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, The Conference on Knowledge and Data Mining, and the Power and Energy Society General Meeting.

Nicholas Berente

Nicholas Berente
Professor of Information Technology, Analytics, and Operations  University of Notre Dame

Professor Nicholas Berente studies how digital innovations such as artificial intelligence technologies drive change in organizations and institutions. He teaches courses on Strategic Business Technology and is Co-Director of the GAMA Lab and affiliated faculty in Notre Dame’s Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, as well as the Notre Dame Center for Technology Ethics. Prof. Berente received his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University and conducted postdoctoral studies at the University of Michigan. He was an entrepreneur prior to his academic career, founding two technology companies.

He is the principal investigator for a number of U.S. National Science Foundation projects and has won multiple awards for his teaching and his research. Prof. Berente is a senior editor for Management Information Science Quarterly.

Heather Domin, Global Leader, Responsible AI Initiatives, IBM Office of Privacy & Responsible Technology

Dr. Heather Domin is Global Leader, Responsible AI Initiatives, IBM Office of Privacy &
Responsible Technology. She has been instrumental in developing and executing foundational
practices in AI ethics and governance, including building IBM’s Ethics by Design program and
its Algorithmic Impact Assessment. As Associate Director of the Notre Dame – IBM Tåch Ethics
Lab, she has shaped a robust industry-academic ecosystem and delivered novel research. As a
World Economic Forum Fellow, she has provided executive and research leadership on research
centered on generative AI.

Dr. Domin holds a Ph.D. in Business Analytics and Data Science and has accrued several
professional certifications in traditional and agile project management (PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM). She has provided leadership and made contributions to working groups such as the Data & Trust
Alliance User Group for the Algorithmic Bias Safeguard for Workforce, NIST Generative AI
Public Working Group, Ohio State University Program on Data and Governance’s Expert Group
on Responsible AI Management, and various IBM Open Innovation Community initiatives. She
has also served as a subject matter expert to help craft the IAPP AI Governance Professional
Body of Knowledge and its associated certification exam. Deeply committed to advancing
responsible technology, Dr. Domin writes and speaks about the topic across a diverse array of
platforms and venues.

Maryam Alavi
Elizabeth D. and Thomas M. Holder Chair and Professor of IT Management Scheller College of Business
Georgia Institute of Technology

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Maryam Alavi is a professor of IT Management and holds the Elizabeth T. and Tom M. Holder Chair at the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Institute of Technology. She served as dean of the College from 2014-2023. Dr. Alavi is a thought leader and researcher on digital innovation and transformation, with extensive experience in organizational capability-building and leadership and talent development for a digital age.

Dr. Alavi’s prolific academic contributions include numerous published papers, and serving on the editorial boards of several prestigious business and technology journals. Dr. Alavi’s work has received 37,500+ citations on Google Scholar, placing her within the top two percent of the world’s most-cited researchers by the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University. Dr. Alavi has advised executives on IT innovation and digital strategies and transformation for organizations including Bank of America, The Coca-Cola Company, Invesco, KIA Motors, Sodexo, Southern Company, and the World Bank.

She has received the prestigious Association of Information Systems Fellows Award, given in recognition of a role model to colleagues and students within the discipline. Dr. Alavi was also awarded the distinguished Marvin Bower Faculty Fellowship at Harvard Business School and was named Woman of the Year for mid-size organizations and educational institutions by Women in Technology of Georgia. This award celebrates women in their visionary efforts to transform the world of business and technology and recognizes Dr. Alavi’s accomplishments as a mentor, role model, and facilitator for both women and men pursuing careers in STEM fields.

She received the prestigious Georgia Tech Diversity Champion Faculty Award in recognition of her many contributions toward creating a diverse and inclusive community at Georgia Tech. Dr. Alavi has served on the advisory board of the Center for Knowledge-based Enterprise at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, the Board of Trustees of Marcus Autism Center in Atlanta, and the International Advisory Board of the Politecnico di Milano School of Management in Italy.

She was twice appointed by the Governor of the State of Georgia to the Georgia Technology Authority Board. She holds a B.A. in mathematics and computer science from State University of New York at Buffalo, and both an M.S. in computer science and a Ph.D. in management information systems from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

Harry Moser

Harry Moser
Founder of The Reshoring Initiative, Member Commerce Department Investment Advisory Council.

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Harry Moser founded the Reshoring Initiative to bring five million manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. after working for high-end machine tool supplier GF AgieCharmilles, starting as President in 1985 and retiring in 2010 as Chairman Emeritus.

Largely due to the success of the Reshoring Initiative, Mr. Moser was inducted into the Industry Week Manufacturing Hall of Fame 2010 and AME’s Hall of Fame 2021. He was named Quality Magazine’s 2012 Quality Professional of the year and FAB Shop Magazine’s Manufacturing Person of the year.

He participated actively in President Obama’s 2012 Insourcing Forum at the White House, won The Economist debate on outsourcing and offshoring, received the Manufacturing Leadership Council’s Industry Advocacy Award in 2014, along with the Made in America 2019 Reshoring Award.

Mr. Moser was recognized by Sue Helper, then Commerce Department Chief Economist, as the driving force in founding the reshoring trend and named to the Commerce Department Investment Advisory Council in August 2019. He testified to the House Commerce Committee and at a June 9, 2022 Senate commission Hearing on U.S. supply chains and China.

Mr. Moser received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.S. in Engineering at MIT in 1967, and an MBA from the University of Chicago in 1981.

Joseph Quinlan

Joseph P. Quinlan
Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Leadership Network. Senior Fellow, Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

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Joseph P. Quinlan is Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Leadership Network, with extensive experience global economics and global corporate strategy. He is a leading expert on the transatlantic economy and a well-known global economist/strategist on Wall Street. He specializes in global capital flows, international trade and multinational strategies.

Mr. Quinlan lectures on finance and global economics at Fordham University and has lectured at various universities around the world, including Wuhan University in China. In 1998, he was nominated as an Eisenhower Fellow. He has also served as a Fellow at the German Marshall Fund. In 2006, the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union awarded Mr. Quinlan the 2006 Transatlantic Business Award for his research on U.S.-European ties.

In 2007, he was a recipient of the European-American Business Council Leadership award for research on the global economy. He is an author, co-author or contributor to over twenty books and has published numerous on economics and trade.

Joshua Eisenman

Joshua Eisenman
Associate Professor, The Keough School of Global Affairs,
University of Notre Dame

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Joshua Eisenman is associate professor of politics at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs and senior fellow for China studies at the American Foreign Policy Council.

His research focuses on the political economy of China’s development and its foreign relations with the global south – particularly Africa. His work has been published in top academic journals including World Development, Journal of Contemporary China, Global Environmental Politics, and the Journal of International Development and in popular outlets such as the Wall Street Journal and Foreign Policy.

Eisenman’s book, China and Africa: A Century of Engagement (University of Pennsylvania Press), co-authored with Ambassador David H. Shinn, was named one of the “Best International Relations Books for 2012″ by Foreign Affairs. The book’s updated, uncensored Chinese edition
was published in 2020 by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. In China Steps Out: Beijing’s Major Power Engagement with the Developing World (Routledge, 2018), Eisenman and Eric Heginbotham analyze China’s policies toward countries in the Global South. His next book with Ambassador Shinn on China’s political and security relations with Africa will be published in 2023 by Columbia University Press.

David Cortright

Professor Emeritus, The Keough School of Global Affairs,
University of Notre Dame

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David Cortright is professor emeritus and former director of the Peace Accords Matrix at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs.

He is chair of the board of the Fourth Freedom Forum and a cofounder and board member of Win Without War. As an enlisted soldier from 1968 to 1971 he spoke out against the Vietnam War and filed a federal lawsuit against the Army to defend the right to dissent against unjust
war.

Prof. Cortright is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including Governance for
Peace: How Inclusive, Participatory and Accountable Institutions Promote Peace and Prosperity (2017) and Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (2008), both by Cambridge University Press, and with George A. Lopez half a dozen books on multilateral economic sanctions, including The Sanctions Decade (2000).

Dr. Bernard Nahlen

Bernard Nahlen
Director, Eck Initiative on Global Health, The Keough School of Global Affairs,
University of Notre Dame

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Dr. Bernard Nahlen is the Director of the Eck Institute for Global Health. His career has been spent working to address the many diseases that disproportionately impact people in low- and middle-income countries. From 2007-2017 he served as the Deputy Coordinator of the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). When launched in 2005, the goal of PMI was to work to reduce malaria-related mortality by 50% across 15 high-burden countries in Africa through rapid scale-up of proven tools for malaria prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

During his time as technical lead, PMI expanded to 24 high-burden countries in Africa as well as to Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand and developed effective partnerships with Ministries of Health, multilaterals (WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank, the Global Fund), other bilateral aid agencies in the UK and Australia, private foundations (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Clinton Health Access Initiative), non-governmental organizations, and the private sector. In 2015 WHO reported that malaria deaths had declined by 60% globally compared to the baseline year 2000.

A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, he completed his residency in Family Practice at the University of California, San Francisco, as well as a second residency in Preventive Medicine at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 1992 he arrived in Kenya where he spent the next 7 years as Director of the CDC field research station in collaboration with the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI). Under his leadership the field station conducted several seminal studies, including the health impact of insecticide-treated bed nets for malaria prevention in an area if intense perennial transmission, the efficacy of intermittent preventive treatment for control of malaria in pregnancy, and interactions between HIV and malaria among pregnant women and children.

From 2000-2005, he served as Senior Technical Advisor to the WHO Global Malaria Programme, where he led the Monitoring and Evaluation team and the Malaria in Pregnancy teams. From 2005-2006, Dr. Nahlen was Senior Advisor in the Performance Evaluation and Policy unit of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Maria Langan-Riekhof

Maria Langan-Riekhof
Director of Strategic Futures Group, National Intelligence Council

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Maria Langan-Riekhof is the Director of the Strategic Futures Group at the National Intelligence Council, leading the Intelligence Community’s assessment of global dynamics and charged with producing the quadrennial Global Trends product. She has spent more than 29 years in the intelligence community as both a senior analyst and manager, serving at the CIA and on the NIC. She brings a background in Middle East studies and has spent more than half her career analyzing regional dynamics.

Her leadership roles include: Chief of the CIA’s Red Cell, founder and director of the CIA’s Strategic Insight Group, and research director for the Middle East. She was one of the DNI’s Exceptional Analysts in 2008-09 and the Agency’s fellow at the Brookings Institution in 2016-17. She is a member of the Senior Analytic Service and the Senior Intelligence Service and holds degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Denver.

David Robinson

David Robinson
Former Assistant Secretary of State, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana

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Ambassador Robinson retired from the United States Senior Foreign Service in 2017. He served as an American diplomat for more than three decades, principally in conflict zones and developing countries, including Afghanistan, Bosnia and El Salvador.

As Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration and most recently as Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations, he focused on forced migration and refugee crises and immediate post-conflict stabilization challenges in, among other places, Somalia, Venezuela, and Syria. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1977 and is currently a lecturer at Yale University.

Richard Haass

Richard Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations

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Dr. Richard Haass is in his twentieth year as president of the Council on Foreign Relations. He previously served in the State Department under Presidents George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, at the White House under George H. W. Bush, and the Pentagon during the Carter administration. He was US envoy to the Cyprus negotiations and the Northern Ireland peace process, and after 9/11 was US coordinator for the future of Afghanistan.

Dr. Haass is the author or editor of fourteen books on American foreign policy and one book on management. His next book, The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens, will be published by Penguin Press in January 2023. A Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Haass holds a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College, the doctorate of philosophy degree from Oxford University, and numerous honorary degrees. He is, as well, the recipient of the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award, the Presidential Citizens Medal, and the Tipperary International Peace Award.

Dr. Haass was born in Brooklyn and lives in New York City.

The Space Barons and the Commercialization of Space

Christian Davenport is a staff writer at The Washington Post covering space for the Financial desk. He joined The Post in 2000 and was on a team that won the Peabody award in 2010 for its work on veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury and has been on reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize three times.

He is the author of two books, “The Space Barons: Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos” (2018) and “As You Were: To War and Back with the Black Hawk Battalion of the Virginia National Guard” (2009). A frequent commentator on television and radio, he was a producer of “Space: The Private Frontier,” a two-hour documentary that aired on the Discovery and Science Channels, and a producer and co-host of “Space Launch Live,” the networks’ live broadcast of SpaceX’s first crewed mission, which won an Emmy award in 2021 and was the highest-rated, non-primetime telecast in Discovery’s history.

Mr. Davenport has also served as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a fellow at the Alicia Patterson Foundation.

Lieutenant General William J. Liquori, USSF: Deputy Chief of Staff for Space Operations, Strategy, Plans, Programs, Requirements and Analysis | United States Space Force.

Space Threats and National Security

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Lt Gen William J. Liquori, Jr. is the Deputy Chief of Space Operations, Strategy, Plans, Programs, Requirements, and Analysis, United States Space Force, the Pentagon, Arlington, VA. As the Chief Strategy and Resourcing Officer, Lt Gen Liquori has overall responsibility for the strategies, requirements, and budget of the United States Space Force.

Lt. Gen. Liquori entered the Air Force in 1991 as a distinguished graduate of the Air Force ROTC program at Boston University. His career has included numerous operations and staff positions in Air Force Space Command, the National Reconnaissance Office, the Air Force Secretariat, U.S. European Command, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the White House, and the United States Space Force. Lt. Gen. Liquori has commanded a space operations squadron and the 50th Space Wing. He is a graduate and former instructor of the U.S. Air Force Weapons School. His operational experiences include operations Southern Watch and Enduring Freedom.

Prior to his current assignment, Lt. Gen. Liquori served as the Director of Strategic Requirements, Architectures and Analysis, Headquarters United States Space Force, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.

Benjamin Bahney: Senior Fellow | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Nation-state Competition in Space 

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Benjamin Bahney is a co-founder and the leader of LLNL’s space program, encompassing all work at LLNL for space science and space security. In this role, Ben oversees a leadership team that executes hardware development for space flight missions, software work for data science applications for space, mission analysis and engineering assessments for new missions, and new sensor development for remote sensing.  Ben also sets the direction for LLNL internal research and infrastructure investments for space, and develops key external partnerships on behalf of the program.  The Space Program supports the Department of Energy, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the U.S. Space Force, U.S. Space Command, NASA, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and other sponsors.

In addition to his work for the space community, Ben is a Senior Fellow at LLNL’s Center for Global Security Research where he does research on how space, cyber and emerging technologies affect strategic stability, deterrence, and escalation control.  He is currently working on issues surrounding the integration of space and cyber with the traditional military domains, and the impact of missile defense and counterforce on strategic deterrence.

Prior to joining LLNL in 2010, Ben was an associate at the RAND Corporation where he was an expert on counterterrorism. At RAND, he was an advisor to the Multi-National Force-Iraq, spending parts of 2008 and 2009 in Iraq advising General David Petraeus and his staff on the internal dynamics of the terrorist group which now calls itself the Islamic State.

Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars

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Eileen Collins, NASA Astronaut | U.S. Air Force Test Pilot.

NASA astronaut Eileen Collins reveals encouraging perspective and insight on the leadership skills needed to break barriers and become a successful pioneer in your field.

One of America’s most admired women, Col. Collins became the first female to pilot a U.S. spacecraft with the Discovery shuttle flight in 1995, and the first female commander on the 1999 Columbia shuttle flight. In 2005, NASA tapped Col. Collins to command the space shuttle Discovery’s historic “Return to Flight” mission, NASA’s first manned flight following the loss of space shuttle Columbia in 2003.

While logging 872 hours in space, Col. Collins earned a reputation for coolness under pressure. With that same calm demeanor, she shares how her career as an astronaut took shape, from her early years in the U.S. Air Force to her ground-breaking experience with NASA. Her memoir, Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars, was published in 2021.

Drawing from her career experiences, Eileen reveals valuable insights learned from both her successes and her failures. From the importance of working with others to achieve lofty goals, to successful leadership in dynamic environments, her perspective inspires you to embark on your own original journey. For audiences interested in space exploration, she can also provide insight into the future of space travel as the world turns to exciting new space frontiers.

Robert Jedicke: Professor of Astronomy | University of Hawaii

Asteroid Mining: A Trillion Dollar Industry for the 21^st Century 

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Dr. Jedicke has had professional careers in particle physics, astronomy, and software engineering. He received his PhD in experimental particle physics from the University of Toronto, Canada.

After a brief try-out with the B.C. Lions professional Canadian football team in Vancouver he held post-doctoral positions at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, and at the University of Arizona’s Lunar & Planetary Laboratory where he worked on the Spacewatch near-Earth asteroid survey.

He spent more than five years at Veeco Corporation in Tucson, Arizona, developing image analysis software for interferometers before accepting a faculty position at the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy. He was the development manager of their Moving Object Processing System for the Pan-STARRS telescope on Maui that is now the world’s leading discovery system for asteroids and comets.

His current research includes working with Trans Astronautica Corporation to develop techniques for mining asteroids to provide water as fuel for spacecraft missions.

Marina Brozovic, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | California Institute of Technology

Humans vs. Asteroids: Mitigating Risk and Expanding Opportunities

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Marina Brozović is a radar scientist and an orbital dynamicist from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Dr. Brozović observed hundreds of near-Earth asteroids with the Goldstone and Arecibo planetary radars, and she was involved in discoveries of a dozen binary and three triple asteroid systems, fourteen moons of Jupiter, and several Trans-Neptunian Objects. A main-belt asteroid 7295 Brozović is named after her. Her research also involves orbital dynamics of the moons of the outer planets, and she worked on the NASA’s New Horizons mission to the dwarf planet Pluto as a part of the Hazards Team. She received her undergraduate degree in physics at the University of Zagreb in Croatia and her Ph.D. in physics from Duke University. She spent several years at Caltech as a postdoc before joining JPL in 2007.

Eric Thomas, Mission Manager | New Shepard, Blue Origin.

Paving a Way for the Space Revolution

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Eric is a former Submarine Officer and Notre Dame MBA. He studied nuclear physics and was commissioned in the US Navy at Miami University. The majority of his naval career was spent leading sailors onboard ballistic missile submarines in the Pacific where he served as reactor officer and then operations manager for a nuclear submarine. Eric pivoted to an unconventional role to conclude his naval career. He joined the Naval Space Cadre as a Technical Program Manager for an Intelligence Community satellite constellation. Eric decided to pursue his MBA at the University of Notre Dame and graduated in 2021 concentrating in strategy and entrepreneurship. Eric spent his MBA internship with SpaceX working on Starlink. Eric is currently working as Mission Manager for New Shepard, Blue Origin’s premiere reusable launch vehicle, and has had the pleasure of launching both Jeff Bezos and William Shatner into space.

Matthew F. Ferraro is counsel in the Washington, DC office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP where he practices at the intersection of national security, cybersecurity, and crisis management. He counsels clients, writes, and speaks on the threats that digital disinformation and deepfakes pose to corporations, brands and markets and on the evolving regulatory environment surrounding these issues. Earlier in his career, Mr. Ferraro was a U.S. intelligence officer and held staff, policy, and operational positions at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a visiting fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason University where he writes widely on intelligence and national security issues. Born and raised in New York City, Mr. Ferraro was educated at Yale, Cambridge, and Stanford universities.

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Malachy Browne is a Senior Story Producer with the New York Times. He specializes in Visual Investigations, a form of accountability and explanatory journalism that combines traditional reporting with advanced digital forensics, such analyzing videos, photos and audio, using satellite imagery, and 3-D reconstructions of crime scenes. Malachy has led investigations on policing in America, Russian airstrikes on hospitals in Syria, the Las Vegas mass shooting, chemical weapons attacks in Syria, extra-judicial military shootings in Nigeria, the Saudi officials who killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, and the killing of a young Palestinian medic along the Gaza-Israel border.

Malachy and his team’s work has led to government inquiries, has been cited at United Nations

Security Council meetings and U.S. congressional hearings, has been used in murder trials and

has led Italy to cease arms exports to Saudi Arabia. Malachy and his team have shared in the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, a George Polk Award for International reporting, Emmys, OPC Awards and other distinctions. Prior to joining The Times in 2016, Malachy worked as a reporter and editor at Storyful and Reported.ly, two social journalism startups; at Village, a current affairs magazine in Ireland; and as a computer programmer. He is from Broadford, Co. Limerick, Ireland.

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Suzanne Spaulding is senior adviser for homeland security and director of the Defending Democratic Institutions project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She also serves as a member of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. Prior to joining CSIS, Ms. Spaulding was Undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security, leading the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), which has since been renamed to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

Ms. Spaulding has served in Republican and Democratic administrations, including as Assistant General Counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency, and on both sides of the aisle in Congress. She was general counsel for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and minority staff director for the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Additionally, Ms. Spaulding is the former chair of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security, and co-founder of the ABA’s Cybersecurity Legal Force.

Currently, Ms. Spaulding is on the Board of Directors for Defending Digital Campaigns and for Girl Security, and Advisory Boards for Nozomi Networks, Splunk, and Harvard University’s Defending Digital Democracy project. She is also a member of the Homeland Security Experts Group (HSEG).

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Matt Turek joined DARPA’s Information Innovation Office (I2O) as a program manager in July 2018. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and their application to problems with significant societal impact.

Prior to his position at DARPA, Turek was at Kitware, Inc., where he led a team developing computer vision technologies. His research focused on multiple areas, including large scale behavior recognition and modeling; object detection and tracking; activity recognition; normalcy modeling and anomaly detection; and image indexing and retrieval. Turek has made significant contributions to multiple DARPA and Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) efforts and has transitioned large scale systems for operational use. Before joining Kitware, Turek worked for GE Global Research, conducting research in medical imaging and industrial inspection.

Turek holds a Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Marquette University, and a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Clarkson University. His doctoral work focused on combinatorial optimization techniques for computer vision problems. Turek is a co-inventor on 14 patents and co-author of multiple publications, primarily in computer vision.

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Jamie Fly is the President & CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.  Jamie previously served as president and chief executive officer of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in Prague, the Czech Republic from 2019-2020. 

He most recently was a senior fellow and senior advisor to the president, working out of the Berlin, Germany office of the German Marshall Fund (GMF) where he researched and spoke about transatlantic relations, U.S. foreign policy, great power competition with Russia and China, and democracy and human rights. 

Prior to his time at RFE/RL, Fly served as a senior fellow, co-director of the Alliance for Security Democracy, and director of the Future of Geopolitics and Asia programs at The German Marshall Fund of the United States. He served as counselor for foreign and national security affairs to Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) from 2013-17, serving as his foreign policy advisor during his presidential campaign. Prior to joining Senator Rubio’s staff in February 2013, he served as the executive director of the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) from its founding in early 2009. Prior to joining FPI, Fly served in the Bush administration at the National Security Council (2008-09) and in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (2005-08). His articles and reviews have been published in a wide variety of outlets in the United States and Europe. For his work in the Department of Defense, he was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service. Fly received a B.A. in International Studies and Political Science from American University and an M.A. in German and European studies from Georgetown University.

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Hany Farid is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley with a joint appointment in Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information. His research focuses on digital forensics, image analysis, and human perception. He received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1989, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. Following a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, he joined the faculty at Dartmouth College in 1999 where he remained until 2019. He is the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

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Sarah Cook is Research Director for China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan at Freedom House. She directs the China Media Bulletin, a monthly digest in English and Chinese providing news and analysis on media freedom developments related to China. Cook is also the author of several Asian country reports for Freedom House’s annual publications, as well as four special reports about China: Beijing’s Global Megaphone (2020), The Battle for China’s Spirit (2017), The Politburo’s Predicament (2015), and The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship (2013). 

Her comments and writings have appeared on CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China.  

Before joining Freedom House, Ms. Cook co-edited the English translation of A China More Just, a memoir by prominent rights attorney Gao Zhisheng, and was twice a delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva for an NGO working on religious freedom in China. 

She received a B.A. in International Relations from Pomona College and as a Marshall Scholar, completed Master’s degrees in Politics and International Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

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Danielle Citron is a legal scholar addressing the scourge of cyber harassment by raising awareness of the toll it takes on victims and proposing reforms to combat the most extreme forms of online abuse. While she has explored a range of privacy and digital rights issues over the course of her career, much of her work has centered on gender-based discrimination in online environments, where women are disproportionately targeted with threats of a violent and sexual nature.

In her book, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014), and a series of law review articles that informed it, Citron documents the significant harms caused by various types of cyber stalking, cyber mob attacks, and “revenge porn”—the nonconsensual publication and dissemination of intimate photos or videos, typically by a significant other seeking to humiliate a former partner. Because offensive content often appears at the top of internet search results for a victim’s name and includes email, home, or work addresses, the consequences for victims can include jeopardized employment, education, and housing opportunities; an inability to maintain an online presence; and compromised personal safety. Citron not only analyzes the social and legal structures that make it so difficult to curb cyber harassment but also reframes the issue as a violation of civil rights. She likens dismissive attitudes about the gravity of its harms to similar views from the 1970s about sexual harassment in the workplace. Citron has proposed a variety of pathways for reform both through her scholarly publications and in the broader public realm. She has advised state attorneys general and legislators in efforts to criminalize nonconsensual pornography under existing statutes against stalking and harassment and has worked with technology companies to update safety and privacy policies. Mindful of concerns that an overly broad reaction to cyber harassment would infringe on constitutional protections of free speech, her proposals are characterized by clear distinctions that fit criminal penalties and invasion of privacy claims within the contours of the First Amendment.

More recently, she has expanded the scope of her work to explore the concept of sexual privacy as a distinct privacy interest that warrants recognition and protection and is foundational to human dignity. Citron’s respect for speech rights and persuasive articulation of the civil rights of harassment victims are spurring legal scholars, lawmakers, tech companies, and the public to view in a new light what many have simply accepted as the inevitable dark side of our digital age.

Danielle Citron received a BA (1990) from Duke University and a JD (1994) from Fordham University School of Law. In 2019, she joined the faculty of Boston University School of Law as a professor of law. She taught previously at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law (2004–2019), where she was the Morton and Sophia Macht Professor of Law. She is an affiliate scholar at the Stanford Center on Internet and Society, an affiliate fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law School and a senior fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum. She is also the vice president of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative and serves on Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council and Facebook’s Nonconsensual Intimate Imagery Task Force. Her publications have appeared in such journals as Yale Law Journal, Boston University Law Review, Michigan Law Review, and Notre Dame Law Review, among others.

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Basics of Privacy

James Lai

James Lai is a member of KPMG’s Cyber Security Advisory practice specializing in data privacy risk assessment and advice, developing privacy governance frameworks, and GDPR, CCPA, FTC, HIPAA, and global privacy compliance. He has substantial tech industry experience including Software as a Service, connected and automated driving, geolocation and other big data analytics, Internet of Things, mobile, wearable devices and applications.

Nicholas Schmidt

Nick is a member of KPMG’s Cyber Security Advisory practice specializing in data privacy risk assessment and advice, developing privacy governance frameworks, and GDPR, CCPA, FTC, HIPAA, and global privacy compliance. Nick has strong privacy experience as a former fellow at the International Association of Privacy Professionals, his published work is available for purchase on the IAPP website.  Nick has substantial experience in the technology industry, including two years as a software engineer before law school, during which he worked with Software as a Service applications, the Internet of Things, and data mining.

The Future of Privacy Law, Norms, Code, and Markets

John Verdi, Vice President of Policy, Future of Privacy Forum

John Verdi is Vice President of Policy at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF).  FPF is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization that serves as a catalyst for privacy leadership and scholarship, advancing principled data practices in support of emerging technologies.  FPF is supported by the chief privacy officers of more than 150 leading companies, several foundations, and an advisory board comprised of leading academics and advocates.  John supervises FPF’s policy portfolio, which advances FPF’s agenda on a broad range of issues, including: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning; Algorithmic Decision-Making; Ethics; Connected Cars & Mobility; Smart Communities; Student Privacy; Health; the Internet of Things; Wearable Technologies; De-Identification; and Drones.

John is a US/EU Privacy Shield arbitrator. He previously served as Director of Privacy Initiatives at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, where he crafted policy recommendations for the US Department of Commerce and President Obama regarding technology, trust, and innovation.  John led NTIA’s privacy multistakeholder process, which established best practices regarding unmanned aircraft systems, facial recognition technology, and mobile apps.  Prior to NTIA, he was General Counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), where he oversaw EPIC’s litigation program.  John earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Law from SUNY-Binghamton.

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Control Freak: Maintaining Privacy and
Security in the Quantum Era

Andrew Borene, President & CEO, Cipherloc Corporation

Andrew Borene has been the Chief Executive Officer of Cipherloc Corporation since November 2019. He also serves on the company’s Board of Directors. Cipherloc Corporation is a publicly-traded, US company, focused on the commercialization and delivery of next generation privacy, encryption and cybersecurity solutions to defend American and allied interests in the quantum-era.

Mr. Borene joined CipherLoc from Symantec Corporation where he led the company’s National Security Group. Andrew has also led high-performing teams and initiatives for companies including IBM, LexisNexis, Booz Allen Hamilton, Wells Fargo and several advanced technology startups. He was also a senior advisor to the Director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) as a contractor to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).

In government, Mr. Borene served as an Associate Deputy General Counsel at the Pentagon and as a U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer and cryptologic officer. He has received the FBI Director’s Award for Exceptional Service in the Public Interest and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Borene holds a B.A. in Economics from Macalester College and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School.

He completed executive education in international development finance at Harvard University, and completed the U.S. Marine Corps University’s Expeditionary Warfare School. He is a licensed attorney in Washington, D.C. and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

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Current Controversies in Face Recognition and Privacy

Kevin Bowyer,  Schubmehl-Prein Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame

Kevin Bowyer is the Schubmehl-Prein Family Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and also currently serves as Director of the College of Engineering Summer International Programs. In addition, he holds an appointment as Honorary Professor in Biometric Technologies in the College of Engineering and Informatics at NUI Galway.

Professor Bowyer is serving as the inaugural Editor-In-Chief of the new IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM). Please plan to submit your best work that falls within the scope of the journal.

Professor Bowyer is a Fellow of the IEEE, “for contributions to algorithms for recognizing objects in images”, a Fellow of the IAPR, “for contributions to computer vision, pattern recognition and biometrics”, received an IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award “for pioneering contributions to the science and engineering of biometrics”, and received the inaugural IEEE Biometrics Council Meritorious Service Award. He is serving as General Chair of the 2019 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision. He is also a member of the Editorial Board for IEEE Access, and a past EIC of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and the IEEE Biometrics Compendium.

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Digital-Surveillance Ecosystem of the Neighborhood Supermarket

Michel Laguerre, Director of the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology

Michel S. Laguerre is Professor of Global Metropolitan Studies and Director for the Berkeley Center of Globalization and Information Technology at the University of California.

Professor Laguerre holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, was a visiting scholar in the anthropology department at Harvard University in 1991-92 and in the Program in Science, Technology and Society at MIT in 2001-02.

In 1994, he held a U.C. Berkeley Barbara Weinstock Lectureship, The Morals of Trade. He has published more than 20 scholarly books, including Global City-Twinning in the Digital Age (University of Michigan Press, 2019). He is completing a volume on digital surveillance at the neighborhood level.

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The Future of Technology and Innovation in
Communications

Corey duBrowa, VP Global Communications and Public Affairs, Google

Corey duBrowa has served as Google’s vice president of global communications and public affairs since joining the company in 2018. Prior to that, he was executive vice president and chief communications officer at Salesforce during the period in which that company was named to the top spot in Fortune magazine’s “Future 50” most innovative companies in the world and was awarded Forbes magazine’s “Innovator of the Decade.”

Before his appointment at Salesforce, he served as senior vice president, global communications for Starbucks, which he helped raise to the status of fourth-most-admired brand in the world, according to Fortune.

duBrowa has earned multiple industry awards over the past 20 years, including four Sabres, three PRSA Silver Anvils, two PR Week Global awards, and was also named to the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communications Hall of Fame. He served as President of the U of O Alumni Association for two years and was on the association’s board for nearly ten. He currently serves on the executive committee for the Arthur W. Page Society’s Board of Trustees, and is a founding member of the USC Annenberg School’s Board of Advisors.

In addition to his day job, Corey was also a music journalist for two decades, with more than a thousand bylines in publications ranging from Rolling Stone to Village Voice to GQ. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife Courteneay and son Tanner, a student at the University of Oregon.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity: The New Frontier

Lisa Sotto, Partner and Chair, Global Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice
Hunton, Andrews, Kurth

Lisa Sotto is the managing partner of Hunton’s New York office and chair of the firm’s top-ranked Global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice.

Sotto was named among The National Law Journal’s “100 Most Influential Lawyers,” and has received widespread recognition for her work in the areas of privacy and cybersecurity. She was voted the world’s leading privacy advisor in all surveys by Computerworld magazine and has received top rankings for privacy and data security by Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500. Nicknamed both the “Priestess of Privacy” and “Queen of Breach,” Sotto assists clients in identifying, evaluating and managing risks associated with privacy and data security practices.

Sotto serves as Chairperson of the Department of Homeland Security’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. She speaks frequently at conferences, testifies regularly before the United States Congress and other legislative and regulatory agencies, and is the editor and lead author of the legal treatise entitled Privacy and Cybersecurity Law Deskbook, published by Wolters Kluwer.

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Privacy in the Era of  Surveillance
Capitalism

Mark McKenna, John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law at the Notre Dame Law School and the Acting Director of the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center

Mark P. McKenna is the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law at the Notre Dame Law School and the Acting Director of the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center.  His research focuses on intellectual property and privacy law, with a particular focus on the ways different regulatory regimes interact with each other. He has published more than 50 articles in leading journals and was the author or co-author of 5 of the 10 most-cited articles in his field during the period of a recent study.

Professor McKenna joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty on a permanent basis in the Fall of 2008 after visiting for a semester in the Spring of 2008.  He has also been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, and the Turin University-WIPO Master of Laws in Intellectual Property Program. Before entering the academy in 2003, Professor McKenna practiced with the intellectual property firm of Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson, where he litigated trademark and copyright cases and advised clients on a variety of intellectual property matters.  He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Virginia School of Law.

Social Networks, Fake News and Process Disruption

Tim Weninger
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Tim Weninger is an assistant professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, with appointments in the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications (iCeNSA) and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Professor Weninger joined the faculty in August 2013, after completing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

His research lies at the intersection of machine learning, network science and social media. Generally speaking, Professor Weninger is interested in uncovering how humans consume and curate information.

His work is funded through separate grants from the US National Science Foundation, the Army Research Office, DARPA, the Templeton Foundation via the University of Chicago, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Mobility, Networking and Innovation: Are We Facing a Paradigm Shift in Migration Research?

Prof. Sandro Cattacin
University of Geneva, Department of Sociology

Sandro Cattacin studied economic history, political science and political philosophy at the University of Zurich (1982–1987). With an Italian fellowship he then participated in the PhD programme in political and social science at the European University Institute in Florence (1987–1990) where he obtained his PhD in 1992.

After his graduate studies he started working as a researcher at the University of Geneva and in 1992 he obtained a position as senior lecturer in 1997, a position as executive director of the “Laboratoire de recherches sociales et politiques appliquées” (resop), an interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Geneva, and in April of 1999 a position as associate professor in sociology and political science. He has offered different courses at the University of Geneva on Swiss politics, comparative methods, political theory, and social policy topics.

From 1993 to 2000 he taught at the University of Fribourg, Faculty of Social Policy and Social Work (courses on welfare state theories). In the academic   year   1998/1999,   he   held   (stand-­‐in   professor)   the   Chair   of Regional Politics at the University of Constance, Faculty of Administrative Science. From September 1999 to September 2004, he was Director of the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies at the University of Neuchâtel and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the same university. From 2000 until 2006, he was (part-­‐time) Professor in Social and Health Policy at the IDHEAP [Institut des Hautes Etudes en Administration Publique] in Lausanne.

Since October 2003, he is Professor at the Sociology department of the University of Geneva.

Enabling What’s Possible for Rare Disease

Nicole Boice
Founder, Global Genes

Nicole founded Global Genes in 2008, with the goal of helping families affected by rare disease connect with tools, resources, and much needed support, helping eliminate the challenges of rare disease. Since it’s inception, Global Genes has impacted hundreds of thousands of patients worldwide.

Nicole was personally touched by rare disease through friends, whose son struggled to find a diagnosis for 2.5 years. Once diagnosed, they learned that there were neither treatments nor cures for their son’s disease. She understands the importance of finding a diagnosis, and has built an organization to help address this problem.

Nicole has held numerous consulting, sales, and marketing executive roles in her 25 years of experience. Nicole has worked with world-class organizations in media, pharmaceutical and high tech sectors – Schering Plough, CMP Media, United Business Media, and Burrill & Company. A Graduate of the University of California San Diego, Nicole is a proud wife, mother of two children, and adopted mother of two dogs.

In all of her spare time she has become a hot yoga junkie, still hits the gym at ungodly hours, and still thinks she can take down all of the young volleyballers at Main Beach in Laguna. Obviously, she is having trouble accepting getting older.

Kevin Hartman
Director Of Analytics, Google

As the leader of the analytics practice for Google’s Consumer, Government, & Entertainment sector, Kevin Hartman and his team of 60+ analysts partner with major advertisers, creative agencies, and media companies to develop digital solutions that build businesses and brands. His approach mixes science and art to deliver inventive, fact-based strategies that reduce uncertainty and increase effectiveness in marketing and advertising programs.

In addition to his role at Google, Kevin is an adjunct professor at The University of Notre Dame’s Masters of Business Analytics program, The University of Chicago’s Masters of Analytics and Masters of Public Policy programs, and The University of Illinois’s International MBA program lecturing on topics including digital marketing, data visualization, and Big Data. He is an active speaker at conference and industry events.

Kevin is a six-time winner of the Advertising Research Foundation Ogilvy Award which honors exceptional insights that inspire impactful advertising. He has overseen the design of marketing insights and strategies behind campaigns that earned 5 Cannes Lions, 5 Effies, over 50 Tempos, and dozens of other awards.

Kevin is a graduate of The University of Notre Dame and earned his MBA and Masters of Public Policy from The University of Chicago.

Two Decades of Covering Business: A Journalist’s View

Bethany McLean
Author of The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron and All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis

Bethany McLean is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. She is also a columnist at Yahoo Finance and a contributor to CNBC. Her two books are the The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron and All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis. She lives in Chicago. She has also written two mini books, Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the US Mortgage Giants and Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It’s Changing the World.

Kickstarter: How Technology Disrupts Markets and Empowers Entrepreneurs

Charles Adler
Founder, Kickstarter

Charles Adler is a social entrepreneur, Co-founder and former Head of Design at Kickstarter, the ground-breaking crowd-funding website. As a leading entrepreneur and designer, his work ranges from systems design to interaction and communications design, interface design to information architecture.

Charles co-founded Kickstarter in 2009 and shaped it into the world’s largest marketplace dedicated to funding independent creative endeavors since it’s inception, Kickstarter has raised over $1 billion from over 6.4 million people for over 64,000 successful projects ranging from computer games to music albums, technology, fashion, educational projects and even full length feature films.

As the Kickstarter phenomenon continues to grow and find an ever-expanding userbase, Charles has been widely recognized as one of the digital era’s most exciting innovators. In 2013 he was named as one of Forbes Magazine’s Top 12 Most Disruptive Figures in Business.

Charles Adler previously co-founded the online art publication Subsystence, a platform dedicated to leveraging the web to provide global exposure to the work of independent artists. He also co-founded Source-ID, where he operated as Principal Creative Director from 2004 to 2009.

The Membership Economy*
This lecture will be held in the Stayer Center for Executive Education

Robbie Kellman Baxter
Founder, Peninsula Strategies
Author of The Membership Economy: Find Your Superusers, Master the Forever Transaction & Build Recurring Revenue

Robbie Kellman Baxter brings over twenty years of strategy consulting and marketing expertise to Peninsula Strategies, a consulting firm focused on helping companies leverage subscription pricing, digital community and freemium to build deeper relationships with customers.  Her clients have included start-ups and mid-sized venture-backed companies as well as industry leaders such as ASICS, Netflix, Electronic Arts, and The Wall Street Journal. Peninsula Strategies has advised nearly 100 organizations in over 20 industries on growth strategy.

A sought-after writer and keynote speaker, Robbie has presented at top Universities, Associations and Corporations, as well as to Corporate Boards and Leadership Teams around the world.  Robbie has created and starred in 10 video courses in collaboration with LinkedIn Learning on business topics ranging from innovation to customer success and membership.

As the author of The Membership Economy: Find Your Superusers, Master the Forever Transaction & Build Recurring Revenue, a book that has been named a top 5 Marketing Book of the Year by Inc.com, Robbie coined the popular business term “Membership Economy”. Robbie’s expertise with companies in the emerging Membership Economy extends to include SaaS, media, consumer products and community organizations.

Prior to launching Peninsula Strategies, Robbie was a strategy consultant at Booz-Allen, a New York City Urban Fellow and a Silicon Valley product marketer. Robbie received her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and graduated with honors from Harvard College.

Ubiquitous Robots? Challenges and Opportunities

Dr. Jim Schmiedeler, Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering,
University of Notre Dame

Prof. Schmiedeler earned his B.S. in mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame. After receiving his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University, he held faculty positions at the University of Iowa and back at Ohio State before returning to Notre Dame in 2008. His research focuses on robotics, human biomechanics, and the intersection of the two. Prof. Schmiedeler is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Human-machine partnership: Thinking about the future

Nitesh Chawla, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Notre Dame

is the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and director of the research center on network and data sciences (iCeNSA) and the Data Inference Analytics and Learning Lab (DIAL) at the University of Notre Dame. He started his tenure-track career at Notre Dame in 2007, and quickly advanced from assistant professor to an endowed full professor position in 2016. He has brought in over $19.5M dollars in research funding to the university. He has published over 180 papers with over 10,600 citations and h-index of 40. His research is focused on data science, machine learning, and network science. His work has also led to transformative interdisciplinary applications in healthcare, environmental and climate sciences, education, and national security. A theme of his research program is “big data and data sciences for the societal benefit.” He is passionate about driving technological innovations to augment human intelligence and bridge the last mile challenge for the Common Good.
He has received numerous awards for research, scholarship and teaching. He is the recipient of the 2015 IEEE CIS Outstanding Early Career Award; the IBM Watson Faculty Award, the IBM Big Data and Analytics Faculty Award, and National Academy of Engineering New Faculty Fellowship. His work was also noted in PSFK Future of Health Innovation. His PhD dissertation also received the Outstanding Dissertation Award. He was noted as the He is a two-time recipient of Outstanding Teaching Award at Notre Dame. In recognition of the societal and community driven impact of his research, he was recognized with the Rodney Ganey Award and Michiana 40 Under 40. He is a Fellow of the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values;, Fellow of the Institute of Asia and Asian Studies; and Fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at Notre Dame. He is the founder of Aunalytics, a data science software company.

The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be: From Xbox to What’s Next

Otto Berkes, Chief Technology Officer, CA Technologies

As chief technology officer of CA Technologies, Otto Berkes is responsible for technical leadership and innovation, further developing the company’s technical community, and aligning its software strategy, architecture and partner relationships to deliver customer value.

Otto joined CA on June 15, 2015. As a 25-year industry veteran, he has a passion for innovation and development. He has extensive experience leading the development of cutting-edge products and technologies. An early champion of mobile computing, he led the development of touch-based technologies, user interfaces, hardware architectures, and physical designs that were the forerunners to today’s tablets.

Before joining CA, Otto served as the chief technology officer at HBO, where he directed efforts that created and delivered innovative digital technologies and products such as HBO GO®. During his tenure, HBO GO became one of the most popular streaming services in the U.S.

Previously, Otto spent 18 years at Microsoft and was one of the four original founders of Xbox. As Xbox’s first architect, he led its technical direction. He started his career at Microsoft as a senior software developer, where he worked on the first version of the Windows NT operating system, and re-wrote Microsoft’s OpenGL implementation. He led Microsoft’s OpenGL and DirectX graphics development groups in Windows during the formative years of the evolution of the modern GPU.

Earlier in his career, Otto served as a senior developer at both Autodesk where he wrote the graphics engine and user interface for the first Windows-based version of AutoCAD.

An advocate of diversity, he is a member of the University of Vermont’s STEM leadership council where he is focused on addressing gender, racial, and economic gaps across all of the STEM disciplines.

Otto earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Middlebury College in Vermont and a master’s degree in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Vermont. He is co-inventor on and holds multiple patents spanning design, mobile device interaction and core computing technologies.

Next Generation Technologies and Digital Leadership – An Executive Overview
Steve Shute, Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer, SAP Americas and Asia Pacific Japan

Steve Shute has a broad range of responsibilities across the Americas and Asia Pacific Japan, regions home to over 43,000 employees and nearly 230,000 customers. His primary objective is ensuring top and bottom line growth and overall performance by leveraging proven learnings and successes, and exploiting synergies within teams and the business.

Since joining SAP in 2014, Steve has held influential senior executive leadership roles, and become an invaluable member of the North America leadership team. Most recently, he served as chief operating officer for SAP North America, and was responsible for the development and consistent execution of SAP’s go-to-market and sales strategies. Ensuring Canada and the U.S. achieved revenue objectives and unprecedented levels of customer satisfaction, Steve played an essential role in SAP’s burgeoning cloud business and its increased market share. In his inaugural SAP North America post as senior vice president and managing director of the Midwest region, he oversaw all customer-related activities for one of the company’s largest business units in the world.

Prior to SAP, Steve served as executive vice president of sales and services for Allscripts, a market-leading provider of technology and software to the healthcare industry. In this role, Steve was the executive charged with architecting and executing the company’s aggressive revenue and profitability growth targets, and overseeing more than a third of the organization’s nearly eight thousand-person workforce. He also held a number of U.S. and international senior executive roles at IBM, including vice president of worldwide sales for Enterprise Content Management, vice president of Marketing for IBM Software Group North America, and vice president of Enterprise Sales in EMEA where he was based in Zurich, Switzerland. Steve began his career as a CPA with Coopers & Lybrand’s Business Assurance practice.

He received his MBA from the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, and is a graduate of the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio.

Big data gets physical

Dr. Hendrik F. Hamann, Senior Manager and Distinguished Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Dr. Hendrik F. Hamann is currently a Senior Manager and Distinguished Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. He received his PhD from the University of Göttingen in Germany. In 1999 he joined the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where is leading the Physical Analytics and cognitive Internet of Things program. Hamann’s current research interest includes sensor networks, sensor-based physical modeling, machine-learning, artificial intelligence as well as big data technologies. Hamann has authored and co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and holds over 110 patents and has over 100 pending patent applications. Dr. Hamann is an IBM Master Inventor, a member to the IBM Academy of Technology and has served on governmental committees such as the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation and as an industrial advisor to Universities. He won several awards including the 2016 AIP Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics. He is a member of the American Physical Society (APS), Optical Society of America (OSA), The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the NY Academy of Sciences.

The future of genomic medicine

Dr. Gill Bejerano, Associate Professor of Developmental Biology, of Computer Science and of Pediatrics, Bejerano Lab, Stanford University

Dr. Gill Bejerano is an Associate Professor of Developmental Biology, an Associate Professor of Computer Science, and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Medical Genetics) at Stanford University.

Dr. Bejerano’s lab, the Bejerano Lab, studies genome function in human and related species. The lab focuses on a fundamental question in Human Genomics: Mapping genome sequence (variation) to phenotype (differences) and extracting specific genetic insights from deep sequencing measurements. The Bejerano Lab has an interest in gene cis regulation and uses its joint affiliation with Stanford Hospital’s Pediatrics Department, Stanford’s Developmental Biology Department and Stanford’s Computer Science Department, to apply a combination of computational and experimental approaches. The lab collects large scale experimental data; writes computational analysis tools; runs them massively to discover the most exciting testable hypotheses; and experimentally validates the hypotheses.

Dr. Bejerano has a B.Sc., Hebrew University, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D., Hebrew University, Computer Science. He is a member of Numenta’s Technical Advisory Board as well a a member of Bio-X, the Cardiovascular Institute, the Child Health Research Institute, the Stanford Cancer Institute and the Stanford Neurosciences Institute.

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Scott Mereness,President, Lippert Components, Inc.

A 1994 graduate of Miami University (OH), Scott Mereness has helped lead Lippert Components for 23 years, the last 8 years serving as President of the company. Scott has also had a great effect on the RV Industry itself, serving on several committees, and just recently being elected to RVIA’s board of directors. Scott previously served as a board member for the Samaritan Center of Elkhart. Throughout Scott’s career Scott has built relationships with many industry leaders as well as several government officials and agencies that interact with the RV industry. Scott has also been an integral part of bolstering Elkhart’s ETHOS Science Center, serving as a board member for the last year. Scott is a dedicated husband and father and lives in Granger, Indiana with his wife Kristin and his three daughters Caroline, Anna Kate & Ashley.

Our Energy Future: The Influence of Climate Change

Professor Frank Incropera, H. Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Professor Emeritus and Matthew H. McCloskey Dean Emeritus, College of Engineering, University of Notre Dame

Professor Incropera received his BSME (1961) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and his MSME (1962) and PhD (1966) from Stanford University, all in mechanical engineering. Except for research leaves spent at NASA-Ames (1969), U.C. Berkeley (1973-74) and the Technical University of Munich (1988), he was with Purdue University from 1966 to 1998. He was promoted to Professor in 1973 and was Head of the School of Mechanical Engineering from 1989 to 1998. From 1998 to 2006, he served as the Matthew H. McCloskey Dean of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.

Professor Incropera has received the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Ralph Coats Roe Award for excellence in teaching (1982), the ASEE George Westinghouse Award for contributions to education (1983), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Heat Transfer Memorial Award (1988), the Melville Medal for the best original paper published by ASME (1988), and the Worcester Reed Warner Medal of ASME (1995). He received the Senior Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1988, and in 1996 was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. In 2001 he was named by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the 100 most frequently cited engineering researchers in the world.

Professor Incropera has had a long-standing interest in basic energy sciences and has authored or co-authored 15 books and more than 200 journal articles in the field. In recent years his work has focused on technology and policy issues associated with transition to a sustainable energy future, and he is author of a 2016 book on Climate Change: A Wicked Problem.

Social Enterprise for Four Changes

Matt Manos, Founder & Managing Director, Verynice

Matthew Manos is an award-winning design strategist, social entrepreneur, and educator. Called “crazy or genius” by Forbes Magazine, and named one of seven millennials changing the world by The Huffington Post, Matthew’s pioneering work in the field of social enterprise has inspired thousands of practitioners to engage in socially and environmentally responsible business. He is the Founder of verynice, a design strategy consultancy that gives half of its work away for free to nonprofit organizations. verynice’s clientele includes Google, UNICEF, and the American Heart Association. To date, verynice has donated over $6MM worth of pro-bono services and initiatives to benefit over 400 organizations across the globe.

Global Environmental Contextualism

Gordon Gill, Founding Partner, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

Gordon Gill is one of the world’s preeminent exponents of performance-based architecture. His work, which ranges from the world’s largest buildings to sustainable communities, is driven by his philosophy that there is a purposeful relationship between formal design and performance; and that there is a language of performance, which is the basis of his practice: Form Follows Performance.

A founding partner of award-winning Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, Gordon’s work includes the design of the world’s first net zero-energy skyscraper, the Pearl River Tower (designed at SOM Chicago), the world’s first large-scale positive-energy building, Masdar Headquarters, the world’s tallest tower, Kingdom Tower in Jeddah Saudi Arabia and most recently the design of Astana Expo 2017 and its sustainable legacy community for Astana, Kazakhstan. These landmark projects pursue energy independence by harnessing the power of natural forces on site and striking a balance with their environmental contexts. Gordon’s designs also include performing arts centers, museums, strategic carbon planning and urban master plans across the globe.

His work has been published and exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally and his designs have repeatedly been recognized by the American Institute of Architects. In 2009 he was selected as Chicago’s Best Emerging Architect by the Chicago Reader and in 2013 Gordon was elected to The College of Fellows at the American Institute of Architects.

Prior to founding AS+GG in 2006, Gordon was an Associate Partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and a Director of Design for VOA Associates. Most recently, he co-founded PositivEnergy Practice, a consulting firm that designs and implements energy and carbon reduction strategies for clients around the world.

E. & J. Gallo Winery: Looking to Our Core Values of the Past & Present to Create a Sustainability Plan for the Future
Stephanie Gallo, Vice President of Marketing, E.J. Gallo Winery

Stephanie A. Gallo is a Vice President of Marketing for E. & J. Gallo Winery of Modesto, California. The winery, co-founded by Stephanie’s grandfather Ernest and great uncle Julio 83 years ago, is now the largest family-owned winery in the world, exporting wine and spirits to 90 countries.

With a deep-rooted passion for wine and a strong commitment to family, Stephanie is leading worldwide marketing efforts for several prominent brands including Barefoot and Gallo Family Vineyards. Under Stephanie’s leadership, Barefoot has grown from 500,000 cases to the largest bottled wine brand in the world. She also plays an integral role in the development of innovative new products, which has led to highly successful brand launches like Vin Vault and Dark Horse.

In addition to her critical role in the growth of Barefoot, Stephanie’s key contributions to the business have included repositioning the Gallo Family Vineyards brand globally and pioneering the winery’s digital marketing efforts digital, brand ambassador programs and cause marketing initiatives.

Many of the brands she manages are consistently recognized for outstanding success, including the Beverage Information Group’s Fast Track Growth Brand Award, Market Watch Magazine’s Hot Brand Award, Event Marketer Magazine’s Ex Award for Best Retail/In Store Event Program and the Cause Marketing Forum’s Halo Award. In honor of this success, Stephanie was named one of the Top Women in Grocery by Progressive Grocer Magazine in 2011.

In 1994, Stephanie earned her bachelor’s degree in government and international studies from the University of Notre Dame. She then obtained an MBA from Northwestern University’s prestigious J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. She served Notre Dame as a Young Graduate Trustee from 1996 to 1999 and as a member of the Advisory Council for the university’s Mendoza College of Business from 1999 to 2002. Today, she remains active with Kellogg as a regional campaign co-chair, student mentor, and guest speaker.

Stephanie is involved in her community as she serves as a Trustee of the Gallo Center for the Arts and the Capital Campaign Chairperson for the Center for Human Services. She is a regular speaker on women in business, family business and the importance of community giving. Additionally, she is a leader in the company in supporting progressive work-life balance programs. She lives in her hometown of Modesto with her husband Chris Tyler and their two children, Amelia and Harrison.

Wind, Solar and Storage: A perspective from the Global Leader in Renewables

Mike O’Sullivan, Senior Vice President, Development, NextEra Energy Resources, LLC

Michael (Mike) O’Sullivan is senior vice president of development at NextEra Energy Resources, the nation’s leader in producing electricity from clean and renewable fuels and also the world leader in producing electricity from the wind and sun.

Mike received his BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and earned an MBA from the University of Chicago.

NextEra Energy Resources, LLC (together with its affiliated entities, “NextEra Energy Resources”), is a clean energy leader and is one of the largest wholesale generators of electric power in the U.S., with approximately 20,000 MW of generating capacity outside of FL in 25 states and 4 provinces of Canada. By year-end 2016, Nextera will, together with it’s affiliated entities, have over 16,000 MW of owned capacity in the US and Canada in our wind and solar fleet. The business also operates clean, emissions-free nuclear power generation facilities in New Hampshire, Iowa and Wisconsin as part of the NextEra Energy nuclear fleet, which is one of the largest in the United States. NextEra Energy Resources, LLC is a subsidiary of Juno Beach, Fla.-based NextEra Energy, Inc.

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Chris Walker, Director, North America, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Since, October 2014, Chris serves as the World Business Council for Sustainable Development as the Director, North America based in New York City. As part of his role, he manages the organization’s relationship with approximately 40 Fortune 500 companies with headquarters in North America and leads WBCSD’s engagement of the Financial and ICT sectors.

He has worked in a variety of roles over the last 15 years on climate and sustainability. Most recently he was a member of Ernst & Young LLP’s Americas Climate Change and Sustainability Services practice. He previously was the Executive Officer of the Carbon Trust, LLC, the US affiliate of the UK’s Carbon Trust. He has served on the National Academy of Science’s, congressionally mandated study “America’s Climate Choices” (July 2010) and as Executive Director for North America for The Climate Group and as Head of Swiss Re’s Sustainability Business Development. At Swiss Re, he ran a unit responsible for developing commercial applications to Swiss Re Sustainability as well as government affairs liaison on climate change/GHG emissions issues.

Prior to Swiss Re, he litigated environmental law. He is a graduate with a BA and JD from St. John’s University and attended the Institute on Comparative Political and Economic Systems at Georgetown.

Ten (Plus) Years Hence in Energy: Meeting the Climate Change Challenge

Gerard M. Anderson, Chairman and CEO, DTE Energy

Water, Energy & 21^st Century Solutions

Jon Freedman, Vice President, Global Partnerships, Government Affairs

Jon Freedman is based in Washington, DC, where he leads global partnerships and government affairs for GE’s water business. Previously, he was the project leader responsible for developing GE’s global environmental sustainability initiative now called ecomagination*. Jon joined GE in 2001 and then helped GE create a global water business by leading the acquisition of an NYSE-listed global water company. He teaches a class on water at the University of Pennsylvania, and serves on the advisory board of The Wharton School’s Institute for Global Environmental Leadership

Jon holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, a law degree from William & Mary, and an MBA in finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.