2016

Ramesh (“Rudy”) Shankar is appointed as a Professor with the EnergyProduction Infrastructure Center (EPIC) at University of North Carolina Charlotte, and as the Power Modernization Cluster Leader. In this role he will assist in broadening the scope of the research areas that include Grid Modernization, the Smart Grid, Renewable Energy and Energy Utilization to include […]

Dr. Shehab is an Associate Professor of Software and Information Systems Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in August 2007. His research and teaching interests are in the broad areas of network and information security. In particular, his research […]

Orion Stallard is engaged in data analytics, inspired by trends in technology, and very busy. He believes that the vision of a technologically connected world he once held as a child has finally arrived and is constantly scanning the horizon and seeking to improve his own awareness around these trends. He’s extremely passionate about one […]

Larry’s career spans 35 years deeply entrenched in technology. Mr. Steffann held several roles with a number of startups, from advisor, angel investor and as executive/founder. He served in executive roles at two publicly traded companies, CEO of NSO/AMEX and COO BOCI/Nasdaq. As a serial entrepreneur, Mr. Steffann’s recent roles have included GM of the […]

Dr. Ashit Talukder is the Bank of America Endowed Chair in Information Technology at UNC Charlotte and the Director of the Charlotte Visualization Center. He has vast experience in a number of areas spanning computer science and electrical engineering, both foundational and applied in several domains. He has extensive experience in the Federal Government and […]

For the last 15 years, John Thomas’ research has focused on statistical modeling and machine learning and its practical implementation in industry. He has started and grown data science teams inside four different organizations across a variety of fields including text analytics, online advertising, telecom analytics, and sales and marketing. John earned his M.S. and […]

Dan is passionate about building cool stuff, writing articles, having fun with technology and talking about it in user groups. Dan’s articles and videos have accumulated over half a million views and Microsoft Channel 9 has featured Dan’s projects 8 times! Dan is co-founder and CTO of Logical Advantage, www.logicaladvantage.com. Logical Advantage has successfully delivered […]

Joe Topinka is a dynamic author, speaker, coach, and career CIO. He has over 35 years of success leading IT organizations and driving meaningful business results in the process. His game-changing IT Business Partner Program bridges the chasm between business stakeholders and IT organizations. Joe is a frequent keynote speaker on this subject where he […]

Derek Wang is the founder and CEO of Taste Analytics, a technology company that uncovers hidden signals in massive unstructured text data that drive business results and optimized business practices. Taste’s cutting-edge visual analytics platform extracts the most critical and nuanced factors for a brand and distills them into an exploratory visual dashboard for analytics […]

Phil West is a life-long North Carolina resident, who has held various technical positions in the commercial application development, systems and network management, and product development areas of technology. In his tenure with Microsoft, he is focused on the use of technology to collect and visualize data in a meaningful manner. The Internet-of-Things initiatives are […]