TechConnect: World Innovation Expo 2021 | TechConnect Innovation | 18 October 2021 | Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center, 201 Waterfront Street, National Harbor, MD 20745, USA

The 2021 TechConnect World Innovation event includes the annual SBIR/STTR Innovation Conference, AI TechConnect, and the TechConnect Technical Program - more than 35 world-class technical symposium, and the Nanotech Conference Series – the world's largest and longest running nanotechnology event.

Through these joint programs, TechConnect has published over 10,000 technical papers, connected over 20,000 innovations with industry partners, provided prospecting to most all Fortune 500 technology companies, and supported most every U.S. Science and Technology agency including the National Nanotechnology Initiative since its inception.

2021 Speakers

Colonel Gina Adam
Commander, U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity

Masoud Agah
Professor, Virginia Tech

Becky Aistrup
Managing Partner, BBC Consulting

Nicolas Alvarez
Professor, Drexel University

Samiul Amin
Associate Professor, Manhattan College

Kawakahi Amina
Logistics Science and Technology Lead, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM)

Thomas Anchordoquy
Professor Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado

Nina Archie
SBIR Reviewer for National Science Foundation, Innovator-Connector LLC

Wolfgang Bacsa
Professor, University of Toulouse, France

Chulsung Bae
Ford Foundation Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Sanjoy Banerjee
CEO, Urban Electric Power

Andrew P. Baumann
Mechanical Engineer, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Vikas Berry
Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago

Ben Bollinger
VP Strategic Initiatives, Malta, Inc.

Carlos Bosques
Vice President of R&D and Innovation, Evolved by Nature

Eric Brack
Research Chemist, U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Solider Center (DEVCOM-SC)

Cayle Bradley
Program Manager and Naval Architect, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Navy

Sara Brenner
Chief Medical Officer for In Vitro Diagnostics and Associate Director for Medical Affairs in the Center for Devices and Radiological Healt, U.S. Food & Drug Administration

Scott Broderick
Assistant Professor, University of Buffalo

Keith Brown
Assistant Professor, Boston University

Joe Bryan
Senior Advisor on Climate, Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense

Ahmed Busnaina
WL Smith Chair, Director Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) for High-rate Nanomanufacturing, Northeastern University

Makini Byron
Director of External Technology, Linde

James (Jim) Caley (Col., USMC, Ret.)
Director of Operational Energy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Energy, U.S. Navy

Alexis Wells Carpenter
Chief Scientist, AxNano

Alf Carroll
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Black Belt, Raytheon Technologies

Isabella Casillas Guzman
Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration

Frank Cassou
CEO, CycloPure Inc.

Susan Celis
Deputy SBIR/STTR Program Manager, OUSD, (R-E) Small Business and Technology Partnerships, U.S. Department of Defense

Ethan Chadwick
Graduate Student, University of Connecticut

Ishita Chakraborty
Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist, Stress Engineering Services

Winston Chang
Creative Ideation Chief, Oasys International Corporation

Brad Chedister
CTO, Defenswerx
Yupeng Chen
Associate Professor, University of Connecticut

Zhaofeng Chen
Head of the Department of Materials and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Ken Church
CEO, nScrypt Inc.

Conrad Clyburn
CEO, MedForeSight

Alisa Morss Clyne
Associate Professor, Bioengineering, University of Maryland

Jeannine M. Coburn
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Howard Colvin
Consultant, Colvin Consultants

Khershed P. Cooper
Program Director, Advanced Manufacturing Program, National Science Foundation

Katrina Cornish
Professor, The Ohio State University

Ronald A. Coutu
Professor and V. Clayton Lafferty Endowed Chair, Marquette University

Matt Crowe
Business Scientist, Ingredion

Lou Dadok
Business Development Manager, FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc.

Marie-Christine Daniel
Associate Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Payel Das
Principal Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center

Barry Datlof
Chief, Business Development and Commercialization for the Medical Technology Transfer Office, US Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC)

Marcelo Davanco
Research Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology

John David
VP, Health & Biosciences Market Development, Parsons

Cesar de La Fuente
Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Philip Demokritou
Director of the Center for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology, Harvard School of Public Health

Shanta Dhar
Assistant Director of Technology and Innovation, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Associate Professor, University of Miami

David Dierig
Sec. Manager, Agro Operations, Guayule Research Bridgestone Americas, Inc.

Charles Dimmler
Co-Founder & CEO, Checkerspot

Harry Dreany
Artificial Intelligence Development Lead, U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Lab

Brian Dupin
Technical Advisor, Energy Distribution and Information Communication and Cybersecurity, EPRI

Christine E. Duval
Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University

Chris Erickson
Founding General Partner, Pangaea Ventures

Anne Fischer
Program Manager, DARPA

Jake Fontana
Scientist, Naval Research Laboratory

Daniel Forchheimer
Chief Operating Officer, Intermodulation Products AB, Sweden

Hans Fraaije
Chief Science Advisor, Siemens, Netherlands

Aaron D. Franklin
Addy Professor, Duke University

Lisa E. Friedersdorf
Director, National Nanotechnology Coordination Office

Kun Fu
Professor, University of Delaware

Eric Gale
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Slade H Gardner
Founder, Big Metal Additive, Inc.

Geoffrey M. Geise
Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Tom Gillespie
Managing Partner, In-Q-Tel

Kathleen Gisser
Staff Scientist, Sherwin-Williams Company

Anita Goel
Conference Plenary Speaker, Chairman & Scientific Director, Nanobiosym, Inc.

Bill Goldner
Senior Advisor Renewable Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment, USDA Office of the Chief Scientist

Liang Gong
Senior Research Scientist, 3M

Joamin Gonzalez-Gutierrez
Chair of Polymer Processing, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg

Eric Griesenbrock
Lead Integrator, Air Force Digital Transformation Office (DTO), U.S. Air Force

Grace Gu
Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Roberto Guerrero
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Operational Energy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force-IE&E, US Air Force

Imre Gyuk
Director, Energy Storage Research, U.S. Department of Energy

Daryl Haegley
Principal Cyber Advisor, U.S. Secretary of Defense

Donny Hanjaya-Putra
Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame

Nanci Hardwick
CEO, MELD Manufacturing Corporation

Jens A. Hauch
Research Unit Head, Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg

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

Ryan Hayleck
Additive Manufacturing R&D Manager, U.S. Navy

James Hill
Research Director, NanoAffix Science LLC

Shinichi Hirano
Chief Engineer, Hyzon Motors

Cliff Ho
Senior Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories

Jerry Hollister
Principal Consultant, BBC Entrepreneurial Training & Consulting

James Horwath
Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania

Matthew Huffman
Mechanical Engineer, Carderock Naval Surface Warfare Center, U.S. Navy

Qun 'Treen' Huo
Associate Professor, University of Central Florida

Sean Ireland
Vice President Business Development, Fiberlean Technologies Ltd.

Jonathan Jakischa
Senior Program Manager for Challenges & Crowdsourcing, TechConnect Ventures

Michael Jakubinek
Research Officer, Division of Emerging Technologies, National Research Council Canada, Canada

Sumanth Jamadagni
Group Scientist, Procter and Gamble

Ed Jameson
Managing Partner, Jameson and Company

Arthi Jayaraman
Professor, University of Delaware

Yun Jin
Senior Scientist, FiberLean Technologies Ltd., United Kingdom

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

Ron Jones
Director, NIST nSoft Consortium, National Institute of Standards and Technology

George Ka'iliwai, III
Director, Resources and Assessment (J8), U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM)

Nick Kacsandi
Executive Director, TechConnect Ventures

Yuriko Kaida
General Manger, AGC, Inc.

Haresh Kamath
Director DER and Energy Storage, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Matthew Kanan
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Senior Fellow at the Precourt, Institute for Energy, Stanford University

Mandakini Kanungo
Senior Research Scientist, Corning, Inc.

Andy Klassen
CTO, Invinity Energy Systems, Canada

Peter Koenig
Group Head, Procter & Gamble

John P. Kopasz
Chemist/Group Leader, Argonne National Laboratory

Jan Kośny
Research Professor, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Sanat Kumar
Bykhovsky Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University

Rick Langley
Senior Technical Executive Electromagnetic Threats Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Major Steve Lauver
Division Chief, AFWERX

Kock-Yee Law
Founder and CEO, Research and Innovative Solutions

Daeyon Lee
Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Patrick Lee
Professor, University of Toronto, Canada

Marina S. Leite
Professor, University of California, Davis

Wing Kam Liu
Walter P. Murphy Professor, Northwestern University

Ying Liu
Reader in Intelligent Manufacturing, Fellow, Data Innovation Research Institute, Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Rebecca Locker
Sustainability Lead, Modern Meadow

Bradley Lusk
CEO, Precient Technologies LLC

Vy Ly
Engineering Manager, Lithium Battery Safety Program, U.S. Navy

Katharina Maisel
Assistant Professor, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland

Vasilios I. Manousiouthakis
Distinguished Professor, Director, Hydrogen Engineering, Research Consortium (HERC) UCLA

Tom Marsh
Managing Director, Global Latex Operations, Pioneer Worldwide

Justin Martin
Technical Executive DER and Energy Storage Integrated Grid and Energy Services, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Major General David Maxwell
Vice Director for Logistics, J4, Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Department of Defense

Prantik Mazumder

Senior Research Associate, Corning Research and Development Corporation

Michael Mazzocco
President & CEO, Alytic

Kevin McGrath
Strategic Initiatives Manager, Mission Systems Global Supply Chain (GSC), Northrop Grumman

Colleen McMahan
Bioproducts Research Chemist, USDA Agricultural Research Service

Joey Mead
Professor; Director of the Nanomanufacturing Center, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Chris Menzel
Principal Scientist, Fujifilm Dimatix, Inc.

Landon Mertz
Conference Plenary Speaker, Chief Executive Officer, Cerion Nanomaterials

Amanda Mills
Rerearch Scientist and Industry Project Manager, North Carolina State University

Karren L. More
Director, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Phalguni Mukhopadhyaya
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Victoria, Canada

Rangachary (Mukund) Mukundun
Technical Staff Member, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Deborah J. Myers
Leader, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Materials, Argonne National Laboratory

Sharon Myers
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Focal, Boeing

Prakash D. Nallathamby
Research Assistant Professor, Notre Dame University

William Niaura
Director - New Business Development, Bridgestone Americas

World L-S Nieh
National Program Lead, Forest Products & Wood Utilization Research, U.S. Forest Service

Jan-Steffen Niehaus
Head of Department Quantum Materials, Fraunhofer-Center for Applied Nanotechnology CAN, Germany

Patricia Nieva
Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada

Alex Norman
Associate Director of Materials Science, Modern Meadow

Kim Ogden
Professor, University of Arizona

Kwang W. Oh
Professor, University at Buffalo (SUNY)

Craig Owens
Corporate & Aeronautics Program Mgr, Small Business Innovation Research - SBIR, Lockheed Martin

Ron Owens
Programs and Assessment, US Central Command (USCENTCOM)

Len Pagliaro
CEO, Siva Therapeutics Inc.

Kyoo-Chul (Kenneth) Park
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

Harley Parkes
Integrated Adaptive Cyber Defense Program Lead, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Sandeep Patel
Director, Division of Research, Innovation, and Ventures, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)

Charles Paul
Vice President Technology, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

Kristin Persson
Director, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Srikanth Pilla
Jenkins Endowed Professor, Clemson University

Bede Pittenger
Application Scientist, Bruker Nano

Lawrence Pleis
Chief, Logistics Programs & Assessments Division (CCJ4), U.S. Central Command

Johan Pluyter
President and Founder, Pluyter Consulting, LLC

Martin Poitzsch
Leader Reservoir Engineering Technologies Team, Aramco Services Company

Elena Polyakova
Founder, Graphene Laboratories, Inc.

Yuliana Porras-Mendoza
Advanced Water Treatment Coordinator, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

Jason Quinn
Associate Professor, Colorado State University

G. Nagesh Rao
Chief Information Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Bureau of Industry and Security U.S. Department of Commerce

YuanQiao Rao
Fellow, The Dow Chemical Company

Major Jason Rathje
AFVentures Director, AFWERX

Ken Rice
CFO and Executive Vice President, Metamaterial

Jennifer Rocha
Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, TechConnect

Ryan Roeder
Professor, University of Notre Dame; Founder, Spinesmith LLC

Orlando Rojas
Director BioProducts Institute, University of British Columbia, Canada

Ross Roley
Energy Innovation Lead, J8, U.S. Indo Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM)

Rick Ross
Lead Research Specialist, 3M Company

Robert Ryan
Chief Executive Officer/President, Twining, Inc.

Lisa Sanders
Director of Science and Technology for Special Operations Forces, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)

Luis Santos
Scientist, AstraZeneca

Axel Scherer
Bernard A. Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Medical Engineering, Applied Physics and Physics, Caltech

Mollie Schwartz
Staff Scientist, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Paul Seidler
Research Staff Member, IBM Research – Zurich, Switzerland

Jeffrey Shallenberger
Associate Director, Penn State Materials Characterization Lab

Amarda Shehu
Professor, George Mason University

Rajesh Shende
Professor of Chemical Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

Lance Sherry
Associate Professor of Systems Engineering and Operations Research, George Mason University

Jennifer Shieh
Chief Scientist and Program Manager Office of Innovation and Technology Office of Investment and Innovation, U.S. Small Business Administration

Maksim Shivokhin
Senior Research Scientist, ExxonMobil

Jonathan Shu
Associate Director, Cornell Center for Materials Research

Michael Shur
Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts Professor of Solid State Electronics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Christopher Sims
Research Chemist, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Harjit Singh
Senior Lecturer, Brunel University London, United Kingdom

Justin Sink
Corporate Development, ExxonMobil

David Skuse
VP Technology, FiberLean Technologies Limited, United Kingdom

Bob Smith
Director, SBIR/STTR, U.S. Navy

Edsger Smits
Senior Researcher, Holst Centre, Netherlands

Ryan Sochol
Professor, University of Maryland

Lydia Sohn
Chancellor's Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Kenan Song
Professor, Arizona State University

Steven R. Sopher
Technical Director, JSP

Erik Spoerke
Energy Storage Materials Lead, Sandia National Laboratories

Christopher M. Stafford
Materials Science & Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Stacey Standridge
Deputy Director, National Nanotechnology Coordination Office

Samuel Stavis
Group Leader, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Anirudha V. Sumant
Scentist, Argonne National Laboratory

Scott Swanson
Director of Operations, Tech Warrior Enterprise

Mark Swihart
UB Distinguished Professor and Department Chair, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Aya Takase
Director of X-ray Imaging, Rigaku

Ichiro Takeuchi
Professor, University of Maryland

Sam Tangredi
Captain, USN (Ret.), Leidos Chair of Future Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College

Sarah Tao
Technology Lead, Sanofi

Eldon Tate
Chief Executive Officer, Inhibit Coatings

Reginald Thomas
Deputy Director, Branch Head, Logistics Combat Element (LCE) Division, Expeditionary Energy Office (E2O), U.S. Marine Corps

Pratyush Tiwary
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland

James M. Tour
Keynote Presenter, Professor, Rice University

Caitlin Tressler
Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Bruce Tromberg
Director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health

Loucas Tsakalakos
Senior Engineering Manager, Space & Sensors Division, L3Harris Technologies, Inc.

Puneet Tyagi
Senior Scientist, AstraZeneca

Armin VahidMohammadi
Research Assistant Professor, Drexel University

Maria Vasilopoulou
Scientific Staff, Institute of Microelectronics (IMEL), NCSR Demokritos, Greece

Diedrik Vermeulen
Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer, SiPhox, Inc.

Krista Walton
Professor, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Tech

Mian Wang
Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard Medical school; Research Affiliate,, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ping Wang
Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Tim Watkins
Global Business Development Manager – Cybersecurity and OT SDN, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories

Thomas J. Webster
Chief Scientific Advisor, Interstellar Therapeutics

Russ Weed
Chief Development Officer, Advanced Rail Energy Storage

Jianqiang Wei
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Kathleen Weigandt
Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Jason C. White
Director, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES)

Christopher Williams
Professor, Virginia Tech

John Williams
Director of Innovation & Technology, SBA, Office of Investment & Innovation

William (Cy) Wilson
Electronics Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center

William L. Wilson
Executive Director, Center for Nanoscale Systems, Harvard University

Jim Windgassen
Sr. Staff Engineer & Technical Fellow, Northrop Grumman

Colonel Jay Wisham

Director, Army Applications Lab

Tak-Sing Wong
Wormley Family Professor in Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University Cofounder, spotLESS Materials Inc

Michael Wu
Principal, Converge Strategies

Yiliang Wu
Principal Scientist, R&D Manager, TE Connectivity

Dalia Yablon
Technical Program Chair, TechConnect World Innovation Conference

Amir Yacoby
Lazaridis Chair in Physics, Harvard

David Yarbrough
Vice President, R&D Services, Inc.

Brenton Young
President, AOSense, Inc.

Mark Young
Professor, Montana Nanotechnology Facility

Guichan Yu
Staff Scientist, University of Minnesota

Xindi Yu
Research Scientist, The Dow Chemical Company

Peter Zelinski
Editor-in-Chief, Additive Manufacturing

Lijie Grace Zhang
Associate Professor, George Washington University

Zheshen Zhang
Professor, University of Arizona

Brian Zhou
Assistant Professor, Boston College

Xing Zhou
Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Zareh S. Zohrabian
President and Chief Operating Officer, Applied Concepts Group

Steven Zullo
Program Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)/NIH

2021 Sponsors and Partners

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Cerion
• SEL
• EPRI
• TechOpp Consulting
• Innovate Hawaii
• Wellspring

TECHCONNECT ACCLERATION PARTNERS:
• AGC
• Linde
• Arkema
• Lockheed Martin
• Boeing
• NorthRop Grumman
• Exon Mobil
• Raytheon Technologies
• Henkel
• Sherwin Williams
• LG
• Nova

TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION PARTNERS:
• Ames Laboratory
• National Energy Technology Laboratory
• Clemson University Research Foundation
• NetNumber
• Czech is Nano
• Rowan University
• Czech Invest
• OTL
• Fermilab
• TechOpp Consulting
• Fovi3D
• Research Commercialization
• GW Technology Commercialization Office
• Unico.AI
• The HongKong Polytechnic University
• UCSB
• HKPC
• UCF
• INL
• Office Of Innovation & Commercialization
• Innovate Hawaii
• The Unversity of Tennesse Knoxville
• IOWA State University
• The University of Vermont
• Larta Institute
• VCU
• Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic
• Warf
• Mississipi State University

SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS:
• The Graphene Council
• SBA
• The Silver Institute
• World Gold Council
• SBIR STTR