Visionary Headliners, Rockstars
and Fab Facilitators

Christine is a globally recognized presenter whose current role includes aligning resources across 11 global process improvements while identifying white space opportunities. She expertly designs and leads business processes that delight customers and exceed targets.

Sean founded LanzaTech in 2005. Since it’s founding, Sean as successfully developed, scaled and commercialized a novel industrial platform for the manufacture of sustainable fuels and chemicals. Sean also sits on the board of the start-up companies Avertana, and Dotterel and he has published over 20 journal articles and 200 patents.

As a self-proclaimed “proud Millenial,” Maikel is driven by his goal to equip learners with an education that enables them the ability to feed their families and/or provide for their communities. With a fearful admiration of digital disruption Maikel’s work focuses on digital literacy, accessibility and equity, rediscovering things we once knew, and the future of meaningful work.

Alina is Product Delivery Executive, Board Member, Executive Coach and Keynote Speaker. In her role at Cengage, she is responsible for driving meaningful business transformation, product delivery and operational maturity through the development and implementation of strategic and tactical initiatives across all functional areas of the global product technology organization.

Sree is leading digital product development at CVSHealth KidneyCare focusing on the opportunity to bringing Home Hemo Dialysis. He is interested in exploring challenges in balance of staying on the course over a long term and at the same time best strategies to calibrate stakeholder enthusiasm, ideas and deliver successful products.

Tim oversees the investments and commercial activities of the PURELL SMARTLINK Technologies business at GOJO Industries. He has focused on utilizing IoT technology to improve the method of hand hygiene performance and connecting devices in smart buildings.

Giovanni runs the team of academic strategy and innovation at Chamberlain University. His focus is on improving the student and faculty experience by providing practical yet innovative technologies, strategies, and processes that enhance their teaching and learning journey.

Jennifer is a global strategist who has dedicated her life to transforming organization and leaders through the power of collaborative innovation, clarity of vision (purpose) and resilience. Her experience entails collaborating across 80 countries to drive transformation and growth.

Dave is leading a new product and team that was hybrid before work from home became the norm. Launching their new product in February of 2021, Dave and team have gone from $0 revenue to $500,000 in eight months, with “rounding-error budget” and a whole lot of grit and innovation.

Jared has worked in the automotive industry for over 15 years, and has had the opportunity to work in several verticals of the auto industry from manufacturing to engineering to marketing. Today, he is responsible for product strategy as far out as 10+ years through the product lifestyle, technology adoption plans and future product innovation.

Erin brings the marriage of inspiration and pragmatism across diverse stakeholders to sidestep inefficiency for business impact. With over 15 years experience across hospital health systems, to biopharma and through consulting, she brings a unique and integrated view of healthcare.

Imran is an intrapreneur driving external innovation with entrepreneurs and has over 25 years of business development & licensing, strategy, economic development and technology transfer experience. At Bayer Pharmaceuticals; he is responsible for forging new business relationships with academia, biotech and venture capital for early access to technologies.

Elisa is passionate about understanding what the future brings for organizations and how they are redefining their strategy to leverage innovation and sustainability and make them maximize profit. She has combined her long career as C-suite executive of various international industrial groups with an intense activity in academia.

Over the years Nias has worked with several partners and applied innovative strategies at Siemens to develop medical devices including Computed Tomography (CT), X‐ray, Angiography, Interventional Radiology/Cardiology imaging systems and clinical applications. As Head of Technology and Innovation at Cerner, he led multiple global teams to develop large‐scale health care information systems, enterprise applications and interoperability solutions.

Theresa chairs the J&J Design Council which is focused on advancing world-class practices in product design to drive speed, simplification and robustness in the development of customer-centered health care solutions across J&J. As part of this effort she is responsible for creating customer experience frameworks from discovery to launch via customer engagement strategies and customer insights planning and execution guidelines.

David is a seasoned high tech executive, entrepreneur, patent holder, and the visionary behind AIStorm’s unique charge domain technology. His clear vision for revenue growth as well as his detailed oriented nature are unparallel among top business executives in the US.

With Scott’s expertise leading the development of consumer, medical, and industrial products, he has participated in all aspects of development for clients including Philips, Johnson & Johnson, and Amgen. He holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from University of Washington and is a licensed professional engineer.

Andrea is the first in her position where she builds upon Orange County Mayor Jerry L. Demings’ vision of “Orange Tomorrow” and creating a culture of innovation, collaboration and inclusiveness. In her role, she focuses on creating public and private partnerships throughout the entire organization to leverage technology to keep up with global trends and position Orange County as a leader in the innovation industry.