MARCH 10-12, 2026 | RALEIGH, NC
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2026 FEATURED SPEAKERS


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Jonathan Adams

Jonathan Adams

Researcher, Nanosurf






Babak Anasori

Babak Anasori

Associate Professor, Purdue University






Craig Arnold

Craig Arnold

Professor, Vice Dean for Innovation, Princeton University






Netz Arroyo-Curras

Netz Arroyo-Curras

Associate Professor, UNC Chapel Hill






Amir Asadi

Amir Asadi

Associate Professor, Texas A&M






Jared Ashcroft

Jared Ashcroft

Professor, Pasadena City College






Veronica Augustyn

Veronica Augustyn

Professor, North Carolina State University






Travis Bailey

Travis Bailey

Professor, Colorado State






Elif Balkas

Elif Balkas

CTO, Wolfspeed






Nina Balke

Nina Balke

Associate Professor, North Carolina State University






Amay Bandodkar

Amay Bandodkar

Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University






Matt Becker

Matt Becker

Professor, Duke University






Subhashish Bhattacharya

Subhashish Bhattacharya

Distinguished Professor, NCSU






Crysten Blaby-Haas

Crysten Blaby-Haas

Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory






Jonathan Boreyko

Jonathan Boreyko

Associate Professor, Virginia Tech






Katie Bornfleth

Katie Bornfleth

Marketing Communications Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI






Pat Brant

Pat Brant

Chief Polymer Science Advisor (retired), ExxonMobil






Robin Brigmon

Robin Brigmon

Adjunct Professor, Clemson University






Dave Calabro

Dave Calabro

Scientist, ExxonMobil (retired)






Maria Fernanda Campa

Maria Fernanda Campa

Staff Scientist, TJFACT






Kim Chaffin

Kim Chaffin

Vice President, Medtronic






Julie Champion

Julie Champion

Professor, Georgia Tech






Chih-Hao Chang

Chih-Hao Chang

Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin






Sehoon Chang

Sehoon Chang

Advanced Materials Team Leader, Aramco Americas






Marti Checa Nualart

Marti Checa Nualart

R&D Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory






Yongsheng Chen

Yongsheng Chen

Professor, GaTech






Ravi Chilukuri

Ravi Chilukuri

Innovation Ecosystem Director, North Carolina State University






Hanna Cho

Hanna Cho

Associate Professor, Ohio State






Orlando Coronell

Orlando Coronell

Professor, UNC Chapel Hill






Clay Cuddington

Clay Cuddington

Product Development Engineer, ExxonMobil






Honggang Cui

Honggang Cui

Professor, Johns Hopkins






Mahrokh Dadsetan

Mahrokh Dadsetan

Principal Research Fellow, Evonik






Jeseth Delgado Vela

Jeseth Delgado Vela

Assistant Professor, Duke University






Tejal Desai

Tejal Desai

Professor, Brown University






Maude Desroches

Maude Desroches

Dow, Associate Research Scientist






Ali Dhinojwala

Ali Dhinojwala

Professor, University of Akron






Robert Dilmore

Robert Dilmore

Research Engineer, NETL






Emily Dinu

Emily Dinu

Founding Partner, Numinous Capital






Anna Duraj-Thatte

Anna Duraj-Thatte

Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech






Babak Eslami

Babak Eslami

Associate Professor, Widener University






Aaron Franklin

Aaron Franklin

Professor, Duke University






Alison Fritz

Alison Fritz

Research Engineer, National Energy Technology Laboratory






Stephen Furst

Stephen Furst

Founder, EO, Smart Material Solutions






Christine Galib

Christine Galib

Director, Advancing Photonics Technologies, Princeton University






Joshua Gallaway

Joshua Gallaway

Associate Professor, Northeastern University






Ricardo Garcia

Ricardo Garcia

Keynote Speaker, Professor, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid CSIC, Spain






Anthe George

Anthe George

Senior Manager, Sandia National Laboratories






Charles Geraci

Charles Geraci

Associate Director, NIOSH (retired)






Roozbeh Ghaffari

Roozbeh Ghaffari

CEO/Co-Founder, Epicore Biosystems






Jon Greene

Jon Greene

COO, ITA International






Jan-Willem Handgraaf

Jan-Willem Handgraaf

Senior Technical Product Manager, Siemens Digital Industries Software






Greg Haugstad

Greg Haugstad

Technical Staff Member & Director, Characterization Facility (CharFac), University of Minnesota






Christy Haynes

Christy Haynes

Professor, University of Minnesota






Marcus Hays

Marcus Hays

Founder, CEO, Orbis Electric






Ting He

Ting He

Senior Principal Textile Engineer, Edwards Lifesciences






Felix Heide

Felix Heide

Assistant Professor, Princeton University






Callie Higgins

Callie Higgins

Project Leader, NIST






Eli Hornstein

Eli Hornstein

Founder, CEO, elysia bio






Qingguo (Jack) Huang

Qingguo (Jack) Huang

Professor, University of Georgia






Matthew Hull

Matthew Hull

Director, Nanoscale Characterization and Fabrication Laboratory, Virginia Tech






Brian Ingram

Brian Ingram

Group Leader of the Materials and Device Evaluation Group, Argonne National Laboratory






Jonathan Jakischa

Jonathan Jakischa

Open Innovation Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI






Santa Jansone-Popova

Santa Jansone-Popova

R&D Scientist, Critical Materials Innovation Hub, Oak Ridge National Laboratory






Jim Johnston

Jim Johnston

Professor, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand






Andrew Jones

Andrew Jones

Assistant Professor, Duke University






Jacob Jones

Jacob Jones

Professor, North Carolina State University






Jesse Jur

Jesse Jur

Deputy Director, North Carolina Department of Commerce






Nick Kacsandi

Nick Kacsandi

Senior Business Development & Sales Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI






Fred Kish

Fred Kish

Distinguished Professor, NCSU






Brian Korgel

Brian Korgel

Professor, UT Austin






Arun Kota

Arun Kota

Associate Professor, North Carolina State University






Girish Kumar

Girish Kumar

CTO, Gadgeon Systems






Matthew Laudon

Matthew Laudon

VP TechConnect Division, Advanced Technology International (ATI)






Daeyeon Lee

Daeyeon Lee

Professor, University of Pennsylvania






Hansol Lee

Hansol Lee

Senior Research Engineer, 3M






Cora Leibig

Cora Leibig

Founder and CEO, Chromatic 3D Materials






Xiaolin Li

Xiaolin Li

Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory






Yongtao Liu

Yongtao Liu

R&D Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory






Daniel Lopez

Daniel Lopez

Professor, Penn State University






Susan MacKay

Susan MacKay

Senior Program Manager, University of Maine






Tim Martin

Tim Martin

Interim Assistant Vice Chancellor, North Carolina State University






James McCabe

James McCabe

Engineer, NASA






David McGee

David McGee

Professor, The College of New Jersey






Brittany McGinley

Brittany McGinley

Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP






Mireya McKee

Mireya McKee

Interim Director, UNC Innovate Carolina






Will McNamara

Will McNamara

Analyst, Sandia National Laboratories






Emma Mooney

Emma Mooney

Outreach and Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI






Jeffrey Moseley

Jeffrey Moseley

Researcher, University of California, Berkeley






Greg Mulholland

Greg Mulholland

Founder, Citrine Informatics






Prathima Nalam

Prathima Nalam

Associate Professor, University of Buffalo






Prakash Nallathamby

Prakash Nallathamby

Associate Director, Notre Dame University






Chang-Yong Nam

Chang-Yong Nam

Group Leader, Brookhaven National Lab






SungWoo Nam

SungWoo Nam

Professor, University of California, Irvine






Mohammad Naraghi

Mohammad Naraghi

Professor, Texas A&M






Roger Narayan

Roger Narayan

Professor, North Carolina State University






Xiaoyue Ni

Xiaoyue Ni

Assistant Professor, Duke University






Jahavi Nistane

Jahavi Nistane

Scientist, Matmerize, Inc






Alex Norman

Alex Norman

Executive Director, Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University






Jan Odegard

Jan Odegard

Founder, 62X Ventures






Kwang W. Oh

Kwang W. Oh

Professor, University at Buffalo, SUNY






Sehmus Ozden

Sehmus Ozden

Scientist, Aramco Americas






Andriy Palasyuk

Andriy Palasyuk

Research Scientist, Critical Materials Innovation Hub, Ames National Laboratory






Zehra Parlak

Zehra Parlak

CEO, Qatch Technologies






Jason Patrick

Jason Patrick

Associate Professor, North Carolina State University






Cassandra Phillips

Cassandra Phillips

Product Manager, Bruker






Christina Piard

Christina Piard

Talent Manager, Wolfspeed






William Polacheck

William Polacheck

Associate Professor, UNC Chapel Hill and NC State University






Radislav Potyrailo

Radislav Potyrailo

Senior Principal Scientist, GE Vernova






Roger Proksch

Roger Proksch

Chief Technology Officer, Oxford Instruments






Zhe Qiang

Zhe Qiang

Associate Professor, University of Southern Mississippi






James Quinn

James Quinn

Senior Hydrometallurgist, Australia Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)., Australia






Carlos Quiroz-Arita

Carlos Quiroz-Arita

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories






Srinivasa Raghavan

Srinivasa Raghavan

Professor, University of Maryland






Kelly Raymond

Kelly Raymond

Principal Scientist, Merck






Nigel Reuel

Nigel Reuel

Associate Professor, Iowa State University






Sam Roberts

Sam Roberts

Nanofabrication Facility Director, CUNY






Stefan Roberts

Stefan Roberts

CEO, Insomabio






Jennifer Rocha

Jennifer Rocha

Strategic Partnerships, TechConnect Division, ATI






Bart Romanowicz

Bart Romanowicz

Sr. Advisor, TechConnect Division, ATI






Sameer Sankusale

Sameer Sankusale

Professor, Tufts






Michael Schmidt

Michael Schmidt

Professor, Medical University of South Carolina






Russ Schmitz

Russ Schmitz

R&D Engineer, 374Water






Larissa Shepherd

Larissa Shepherd

Assistant Professor, Cornell University






Richard Sheridan

Richard Sheridan

Research Scientist, Duke University






Maksim Shivokhin

Maksim Shivokhin

Polymer Innovation & Lightweighting strategist, ExxonMobil






Christopher Sims

Christopher Sims

Research Chemist, National Institute of Standards and Technology






Ryan Sochol

Ryan Sochol

Associate Professor, University of Maryland






Ben Solomon

Ben Solomon

Founder & CEO, FedTech






Steve Sopher

Steve Sopher

Executive Vice President, JSP






Heather Splawn

Heather Splawn

President and Founder, Kyma Technologies






Erik Spoerke

Erik Spoerke

Senior Analytics Advisor for Energy Storage, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity






Vince Sprenkle

Vince Sprenkle

Senior Strategic Advisor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory






Camille Stebbins

Camille Stebbins

Deputy Director and Program Manager, Advanced Technology International (ATI)






Mike Stebbins

Mike Stebbins

Sr. Vice President, Medical & Threat Countermeasures Division, Advanced Technology International (ATI)






Roy Stillwell

Roy Stillwell

CEO, NearWave






Kevin Stoll

Kevin Stoll

Engineering Project Manager, TDVib






Kristian Stout

Kristian Stout

Director, International Center for Law & Economics






Phillip Strader

Phillip Strader

RTNN Manager, NCSU






Anirudha V. Sumant

Anirudha V. Sumant

Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory






Sam Swan

Sam Swan

Researcher, Sandia National Laboratories






Mamoun Taher

Mamoun Taher

Director of Research and Innovation, 2D-RIC, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates






Esther Takeuchi

Esther Takeuchi

Professor, Stony Brook University






Matt Tamasi

Matt Tamasi

CTO, Plexymer, Inc.






Halil Tekinalp

Halil Tekinalp

R&D Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory






Chandra Sekhar Tiwary

Chandra Sekhar Tiwary

Faculty, IIT-Kharagpur, India






Tem Tumurbat

Tem Tumurbat

Co-founder and Managing Partner, Nomadic Venture Partners






Chuck Turick

Chuck Turick

Consultant, ElectrioBioDyne






Tzuen-Rong (Jeremy) Tzeng

Tzuen-Rong (Jeremy) Tzeng

Professor, Clemson






Raymond Unocic

Raymond Unocic

Associate Professor, North Carolina State University






Abraham Vázquez-Guardado

Abraham Vázquez-Guardado

Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University






Lu Wang

Lu Wang

Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee






Meng Wang

Meng Wang

Associate Professor, University of Houston






Yichun Wang

Yichun Wang

Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame






Taku Watanabe

Taku Watanabe

Principal researcher, Matlantis






Michael Webb

Michael Webb

Assistant Professor, Princeton University






Sarah Wenning

Sarah Wenning

Executive Director, Event Operations, TechConnect Division, ATI






Christopher Wohl

Christopher Wohl

Assistant Branch Head, NASA Langley Research Center






Thaiesha Wright

Thaiesha Wright

Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles






Xiaoji Xu

Xiaoji Xu

Associate Professor, Lehigh University






Dalia Yablon

Dalia Yablon

Technical Program Chair, TechConnect World Innovation Conference






Yalcin Yamaner

Yalcin Yamaner

CEO/Co-founder, Clearsens






Lingchong You

Lingchong You

Distinguished Professor, Duke University






Jeff Youngblood

Jeff Youngblood

Professor, Purdue University






Helen Zha

Helen Zha

Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute






Tommee Larochelle

Managing Partner, L3 Process Development






Patrick Wellenius

Research Scholar, NCSU






 








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