Ann-Marie Adams | Digital Discourse: Promise or Breach?

Ann-Marie Adams loves words, written and spoken. She has framed a lifetime of work around public engagement via employment in public relations and advocacy. Her academic career in higher education seeks out to address the impact that evolving platforms of discourse have on people, media, and the communication professions.  About Ann-Marie Ms. Adams views literacy
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Michael Mino | Building Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in the Carolinas

How do we create environments that encourages and inspires entrepreneurs and the spirit of entrepreneurship? How do we build these ecosystems to challenge traditional business models? About Michael Michael is a serial entrepreneur who has founded and grown a number of technology-based start-ups. His most recent re-startup, PropertyBoss Solutions, was sold to a private equity
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Tobi Stansell | Industrial Revolution 4.0: Expanding Opportunities for Tech Entrepreneurs

We are in the midst of an industrial revolution. The world of work is changing like never before. How do we create new, innovative opportunities for tech entrepreneurs? About Toby For more than three decades, G. T. “Toby” Stansell has served in executive roles for high-impact, fast-growth organizations that understand the need to leverage innovation
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Jeff Dugan | Tiny Fibers for Big Jobs

Etched-plate technology is a exploding new approach to making fibers. Fibers so tiny they can’t be seen can now be made into filters that capture invisibly small particles. Or you can write your name in a 10-micron fiber and use it to trace a terrorist’s bomb. Or…there’s lots more, and it’s all enabled by this
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Joachim Tabor | The Automotive Future

Get a glimpse into the future of mobility and reflect how we need to prepare properly to benefit from the opportunities that are offered to us as a society. About Joachim Joachim has been academically trained at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland and started his professional career in the automotive industry
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Eric Chaniot | Technology and the Automobile

About Eric As Chief Digital Officer with Michelin North America, Eric Chaniot is a dynamic and seasoned innovator, who has been in the technology business for over 20 years. He began his career at Apple Inc. in the mid 90’s, and was responsible for the first wireless notebook. He then left to build on his expertise at
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Chase Michaels | The Economics of Buying Local

Chase Michaels is the CEO and Founder of Locally Epic. Chase is a strong advocate for supporting the local economy and provides a mobile platform for local consumers and local businesses to be of service to one another.
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Laura Bogardus | Why We Should Go Beyond EEO

Laura Bogardus is the Chapter Operations Director for the Greenville Society for Human Resource Management and President of Bogardus Research Consulting. Laura is a member of Greenville CAN Disability Employment Committee, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, American Sociological Association and the Society for Human Resource Management.
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Jim Sevier | Bridging the Digital Divide

Jim is a seasoned thought leaders, educator, and mentor for the technology industry who has consulted for both national and international dignitaries for the past thirty years.
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Zachary Brewster | People are the Problem

Zachary is an HR Specialist and a pastor which surely benefits his colleagues through encouragement, aiding in talent acquisition, workforce development and strategic planning.
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Adam Anderson | Cyber Crime Isn’t About Computers, It’s about Behavior

Adam is a serial entrepreneur, scholar, and author who is sought after for his expertise in cyber security.
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George Austin | Aircraft Carriers Stranded in the Middle of the Desert

George has worked as an educator for the past 10 years and has worked from the premise and focus of the importance for developing the integration of mathematics and technology to real-world scenarios to pique STEM interests.
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