Douglas Vakoch | Talking to Extraterrestrials

For over fifty years, astronomers have pointed their telescopes to the sky, looking for signals from advanced civilizations—a project called SETI, the search for extraterrestrial civilizations. So far, they’ve found nothing. But what if there *are* other civilizations out there, but they’re doing exactly what we are doing—simply listening, and not transmitting? I advocate a
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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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Jianan Sun | Self Driving Cars: Good, Bad, or Indifferent

Technological innovations have changed the way we think, we behave, and we interact. What forms of transportation service should we expect in the next decade?
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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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Keith Coker | Navigating Cloud Technologies

About Keith Keith is CEO of Green Cloud Technologies, an emerging company that helps clients understand and navigate cloud technologies. Keith spent 14 years serving in various executive level technical capacities, including Chief Technology Officer at two telecommunications organizationswhere he managed $275 million of network infrastructure deployment, capital expenditures, and operating expenses. Keith also served
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David Pence | Cryptocurrency and the Cloud

Greenville SC Native. Attended Clemson University with B.S. in Computer Engineering. Started Acumen consulting right out of college. Travelled the country as an IT Consultant full time for another firm. Went back to Acumen and turned it into a full time career in 1999. Greenville Chamber Business of the Year, Top 25 Fastest Growing in
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Apparao Rao | Enhanced Performance in Imperfect Materials

Apparao Rao is a professor of physics and director of The Nanomaterials Center at a national university. Rao is a recipient of the 2014 Governor’s Award For Excellence and leader in green energy.
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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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