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2026 FEATURED SPEAKERS


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Babak Anasori

Babak Anasori

Associate Professor, Purdue University






Nina Balke

Nina Balke

Associate Professor, North Carolina State University






Amay Bandodkar

Amay Bandodkar

Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University






Crysten Blaby-Haas

Crysten Blaby-Haas

Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory






Katie Bornfleth

Katie Bornfleth

Marketing Communications Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI






Pat Brant

Pat Brant

Chief Polymer Science Advisor (retired), ExxonMobil






Dave Calabro

Dave Calabro

Scientist, ExxonMobil (retired)






Kim Chaffin

Kim Chaffin

Vice President, Medtronic






Chih-Hao Chang

Chih-Hao Chang

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






Ravi Chilukuri

Ravi Chilukuri

Innovation Ecosystem Director, North Carolina State University






Alison Fritz

Alison Fritz

Research Engineer, National Energy Technology Laboratory






Christine Galib

Christine Galib

Director, Advancing Photonics Technologies, Princeton University






Jan-Willem Handgraaf

Jan-Willem Handgraaf

Senior Technical Product Manager, Siemens Digital Industries Software






Ting He

Ting He

Senior Principal Textile Engineer, Edwards Lifesciences






Matthew Hull

Matthew Hull

Director, Nanoscale Characterization and Fabrication Laboratory, Virginia Tech






Jonathan Jakischa

Jonathan Jakischa

Principal, Open Innovation, 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






Jacob Jones

Jacob Jones

Professor, North Carolina State University






Nick Kacsandi

Nick Kacsandi

Senior Business Development & Sales Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI






Pum Kim

Pum Kim

Senior R&D Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory






Arun Kota

Arun Kota

Associate Professor, North Carolina State University






Matthew Laudon

Matthew Laudon

Vice President, TechConnect Division, Advanced Technology International (ATI)






Xiaolin Li

Xiaolin Li

Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory






Susan MacKay

Susan MacKay

Senior Program Manager, University of Maine






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






Laura Murphree

Laura Murphree

Senior Marketing and Program Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI






Prakash Nallathamby

Prakash Nallathamby

Associate Director, Notre Dame University






Alex Norman

Alex Norman

Executive Director, Princeton Materials Institute, Princeton University






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






Carlos Quiroz-Arita

Carlos Quiroz-Arita

Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories






Jennifer Rocha

Jennifer Rocha

Strategic Partnerships, TechConnect Division, ATI






Bart Romanowicz

Bart Romanowicz

Sr. Advisor, TechConnect Division, ATI






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






Steve Sopher

Steve Sopher

Executive Vice President, JSP






Erik Spoerke

Erik Spoerke

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






Anirudha V. Sumant

Anirudha V. Sumant

Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory






Halil Tekinalp

Halil Tekinalp

R&D Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory






Abraham Vázquez-Guardado

Abraham Vázquez-Guardado

Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University






Meng Wang

Meng Wang

Associate Professor, University of Houston






Michael Webb

Michael Webb

Assistant Professor, Princeton University






Sarah Wenning

Sarah Wenning

Executive Director, Event Operations, TechConnect Division, ATI






Thaiesha Wright

Thaiesha Wright

Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles






Dalia Yablon

Dalia Yablon

Technical Program Chair, TechConnect World Innovation Conference






Helen Zha

Helen Zha

Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute






 



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