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Expert Speakers

Innovators. Makers. Doers. Shakers.

World-Class Speakers Sharing Knowledge & Expertise

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Michael J. Hayduk

Deputy Director, Information Directorate

Air Force Research Laboratory

Hope Knight

President, CEO & Commissioner

Empire State Development

Dr. Omkaram (Om) Nalamasu, Ph.D.

Senior VP, CTO

Applied Materials, Inc.

Joseph Stockunas

President

SEMI Americas

Ben Verschueren

Executive Director

NYSTAR, Empire State Development

Speakers & Panelists

Merideth Andreucci

Senior VP, Executive Director

GO-SEMI

RJ Ball

Senior Director of Industry Development in Optics, Photonics, Imaging and Laser

Empire State Development

Jack Baron

Managing Director

Venture for Scale for Climate Tech

Loretta Beine

Senior Director of Industry Development

Life Sciences

Richard Bourgeois

Associate Director, Innovation Partnerships

NYSERDA

Nicole Camarre

VP of Investments & Platform

43North

Mujdat Cetin

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science; Director, Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

University of Rochester

Jen Chiang

Founder

WearOpal

Christopher Choi, PhD

Senior Vice President for Industry Partnerships

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Dana Citron

VP of Marketing

OrbitalFire Cybersecurity

Nikki Coughlin

Executive Vice President

CoExcel Solutions

Scott Couwenhoven

Senior Specialist, Artificial Intelligence

L3Harris

Dr. Dimah Dera

Assistant Professor

Rochester Institute of Technology

Kurt Deriziotis

Director, CAT Business Outreach

Cornell University, Center for Life Science Enterprise

Stephen Dewhurst, Ph.D.

VP, Research

University of Rochester

Ms. Susan Easton

Product & Marketing Director

New York Fashion Innovation Center

Mr. David Esler

Technology Manager Electronics and Packaging Lab

GE Aerospace

Jeffrey M. Fitzgerald

Defense Applications Lead Consultant

D-mEP Consultants

Anna Vulaj Fitzsimmons

Program Director

Upstate NY APEX Accelerator

Allison Freedman

Director of Operations

Uncaged Innovations

Dr. Kevin Gu

Founder and CEO

Astrabeam LLC

Rohit Gupta

Managing Director

Future Communities Capital

Raza Hassan

Chief Technology Officer

IAMBIC

Everton H. Henriques MA, HON

Director of Manufacturing and Technology Initiatives

FuzeHub

Ted Jeske

President

110 Metalworks

Mr. Rami Katz

COO

Excell Partners, Inc.

Stephanie Kedzior

Program Manager

Empire State Development

Mr. James Kostenblatt

Senior Director, Industry Development - Cleantech, Financial Services, Software Development

Empire State Development

Marnie LaVigne

President & CEO

Launch NY

Elizabeth Lusskin

Executive VP, Small Business and Technology Development

Empire State Development

Victoria Manganiello

Co-Founder

Craftwork

Alejandro Mendoza

Director, Human Resources

Optimax Systems Inc.

Seth Mulligan

Chief Operating Officer

Griffiss Institute

Mr. Charles J Murray

President

Switched Source

Syed Ahmed Mustafa

President

BioSpherix, LLC

Christoph Neumayer

Postdoctoral Fellow

NYU Langone Health

Dr. Mason Peck

Professor

Cornell University

Michael Queralt

Investor | Entrepreneur | Business Strategist

Startup IQ

Nicholas Querques

Vice President of Innovation and Partnerships

SUNY Research Foundation (RF)

Lovinia Reynolds

Associate Manager

The Clean Fight

Aric Shorey

VP, Glass Technologies and Gov. Affairs

Menlo Micro

Barry Silverstein

Senior Director, CTO of Optics and Display - Reality Labs

Meta

John Spiezio

Chairman

ADDAPT

Joan Spivak

Vice President, Life Sciences

Empire State Development

Bogdan Stanciu

Product | Design | Marketing

Startup IQ

Lindsay Karas Stencel

Partner

Thompson Hine

Per Stromhaug

Senior Associate Vice President for Economic Development

University at Buffalo

Jaime A. Sweet

President/CEO

Hartmann Enterprises

Bill Taylor

Director of Semiconductor Operations

FuzeHub

Mrs. Jennifer Tegan

Managing Director

Empire State Development; New York Ventures

Linda Ann Tempelman, PhD

CEO

Persista Bio, Inc

Winthrop Thurlow

Executive Director

Life Sciences NY

Ms. Jennifer Waters

Vice President, Business Development Governor's Office of Semiconductor Expansion, Management, and Integration, GO-SEMI

Empire State Development

Jonathan Whitton

Vice President, Global Program Head Genetic Medicines

Regeneron

Commercialization Competition Judges

David Brown

Founding Managing Partner

Impellent Ventures

Toby Garcia

Sr. Program Manager, Entrepreneurial Acceleration

Empire State Development

Richard E. Honen

Startup Practice Team Lead

Phillips Lytle LLP

Shelby Schneider

President & CEO

Upstate Capital Association of New York

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