Mayor Paul Voelker is a sales and marketing professional in the Information Technology and Communications industry and has over 30 years of experience working in Richardson’s Telecom Corridor® area. Mayor Voelker previously served on the Texas Governor’s IT Cluster Committee.

Dr. Calvin Jamison serves as vice president for facilities & economic development at UT Dallas. His office oversees facilities management, economic development, construction, real estate, and auxiliary services. UT Dallas has received 35 awards for building designs, LEED certification and sustainability under his leadership.

Etay Maor is an Executive Security Advisor at IBM Security, where he leads security and fraud fighting awareness and research. Previously, Etay was the Head of Cyberthreat Research at RSA Labs where he managed malware research and intelligence teams and was part of cutting-edge security research.

Dr. Christopher S. Simmons is the Director for Cyberinfrastructure Researcher Support for the Office of Information Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas as well as adjunct faculty in Computer Science. His Ph. D. is from the University of Texas at Austin in Chemical Physics with an emphasis on Computational Quantum Mechanics. His research interests include Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification to enable Predictive Science and Engineering, Multilevel and Multifidelity Monte Carlo methods, and application of the above to problems in machine learning / data science. Dr. Simmons contributes to several open source software projects and also serves on the Technical Steering Committee for OpenHPC.

Laurie Burrus is a professor emeritus at Pasadena City College and a consultant in education at LinkedIn Learning, where she’s advocated for academic initiatives, supported teaching and learning, and provided integration and implementation solutions since 2009.

Gaurav is a Senior Lecturer in the Information Systems area. He is also the Program Manager for the Masters in Information Technology and Management program at UT Dallas, a program he is an alum of. He enjoys working with students and works with them across academic and non-academic areas. He has been instrumental in setting up student and corporate engagement programs at UT Dallas. He is one big believer in the concept of Servant Leadership which is the base of most of his initiatives. He is open to new ideas and feels that empowering the students is a great way to serve the school and the university. He heads the Toastmasters District in North Eastern Texas, which has a strong presence in the School of Management as well.

Brad Skiles is the Manager of Digital Content Services in OIT, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Communication and head coach of the UT Dallas Speech Team. Brad has received over 100 awards for public speaking, including state and national championships. He has worked in higher education for over 30 years.

Ashoo Shetty is a Technology Advisor at Amazon Web Services. In his presentation, Ashoo will explore the democratization of machine learning and how the growth of cloud services makes it easy for customers to move from idea to production with machine learning.

Dr. Morgan's research area is higher education technology strategies, including learning management systems and platforms, learning analytics, learning spaces, and new and emerging teaching and learning technologies. Prior to joining Gartner, Dr. Morgan had 20 years of experience in higher education, including as a faculty member and most recently leading the Academic Technology Services unit at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

She directed the Academic Technology Services group at the University of Illinois, where she set strategy and provided support for classroom technology, digital media services, e-textbooks, general access computing laboratories, emerging technologies and teaching and learning support.