2016

Abhishek Mehta is the founder of Tresata, an analytics startup focused on solving one of the biggest problems businesses face today – how to use ALL their data to get, grow and keep their customers. The ultimate vision? Help transform the way the businesses deliver products and services that advocate consumer needs, and work towards […]

David Olaleye is a Senior Manager and Principal Research Statistician at SAS Institute, Cary, NC. He received his postgraduate training in statistics, demography and clinical epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, and College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA. He has spent the last 16 years at SAS working on statistical software […]

Steve Ott is the Dean of the Belk College of Business and holds the John Crosland, Sr., Distinguished Professor of Real Estate. Prior to becoming Dean of the Belk College of Business in 2011, Dr. Ott was Director of the Center for Real Estate at UNC Charlotte, where he was instrumental in establishing a strong […]

Rob is the energy & sustainability manager for the City of Charlotte. Serving an organization of 7,000+ staff and a city of nearly 800,000 people, he supports a variety of internal and external programs in the energy, sustainability and smart city spaces. Examples of internal initiatives include the implementation and continued evolution of Charlotte’s Internal […]

Derek Raghavan MD PhD FACP FASCO, President of the Levine Cancer Institute, Charlotte, NC, has served as Director & Frank Rudy Distinguished Chair, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Chair of Medical Oncology & Associate Director (Clinical Research), University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Professor & Chair of Solid Tumor Oncology/Investigational Therapeutics, Roswell […]

Sam Ransbotham is an associate professor of information systems at Boston College and the MIT Sloan Management Review Guest Editor for the Data and Analytics Big Idea Initiative. In 2014, he was awarded an NSF CAREER Award for his analytics-based research in information security. His recent article “Minding the Analytics Gap” describes how organizations, with […]

Zbigniew Ras is a Professor of Computer Science and KDD Laboratory Director at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He also holds professorship position in the Institute of Computer Science at Warsaw University of Technology. His areas of specialization include Actionable Knowledge Mining, Recommender Systems, Sentiment Analysis, Health Informatics, Music Information Retrieval, and Flexible Query […]

Bradley is the manager of Products and Services Customer Support at Duke Energy. He previously managed the Business Customer Behavioral Programs at Duke Energy. In that capacity he was responsible for developing and implementing new behavioral based programs and strategies to decrease energy consumption within business markets. He was also responsible for Smart Energy in […]

As General Manager of Technical Programs in Duke Energy’s Fossil Hydro Group, Michael Reid is responsible for partnering with internal business units to develop standardized, cost effective technology solutions to continuously improve process efficiency and equipment reliability. Under Michael’s leadership, Duke Energy is applying developments with sensors, computing and communication technology to create value with […]

William Ribarsky was the Bank of America Endowed Chair in Information Technology at UNC Charlotte (2004-2015) and the founding director of the Charlotte Visualization Center. From 2008 till 2014, he was Chair of the Computer Science Department. His research interests include visual analytics; 3D multimodal interaction; bioinformatics visualization; sustainable system analytics; visual reasoning; and interactive […]