Environment & Cleantech

Skilled professionals dedicated to innovative technologies and practices that reduce environmental impact and promote sustainability

Andrew Blance

Andrew Blance

Dr Andrew Blance is an innovation consultant at Waterstons and the founder of the early-stage startup Pasimo. At Waterstons, he works alongside clients of all shapes and sizes to help them be braver, too undertake new projects, and get them to think differently. At Pasimo, he aims to develop real-time solutions to translate sign language to written English and provide novel new ways to teach it using spatial computers. During his doctoral research, he investigated how AI and quantum computing can be applied to high-energy physics challenges.

Andrew enjoys engaging with the tech community and runs a local meetup group in the North East of England. He regularly talks around the world about his work with emerging technologies. He co-hosts a podcast called Brains on the Outside, where he pitches silly, wholesome and fun business ideas. He can run 5km pretty fast and thinks modern Star Trek isn't as bad as people make it out to be.

Dr Andrew Blance is an innovation consultant at Waterstons and the founder of the early-stage startup Pasimo. At Waterstons, he works alongside clients of all shapes and sizes to help them be braver, too undertake new projects, and get them to think ... Show more

David Nguyen

David Nguyen

David is working as Lead Engineer for a major U.S. retailer. His team built the pricing engine for both the mobile app and the retail site. When not building the next product features, he teaches classes on web development using ReactJS, Restful micro services, and DevOps.

David had presented at Cloud Expo Asia in Singapore, DevOpsDay Taipei, and VNITO in Vietnam. He is also a DevOps/Agile conference organizer for the Asia Pacific region, covering Singapore/Taiwan/Vietnam.

David is working as Lead Engineer for a major U.S. retailer. His team built the pricing engine for both the mobile app and the retail site. When not building the next product features, he teaches classes on web development using ReactJS, Restful mic... Show more

Ming-Jyh Chen

Ming-Jyh Chen

Ming-Jyh Chen works in the Office of Sustainable Development at China Medical University Hospital in Taiwan. With training in environmental health, he focuses on verified healthcare service carbon footprinting, carbon-data governance, and healthcare decarbonization. His work bridges carbon accounting and hospital operations, translating service-level carbon data into traceable and accountable management decisions while safeguarding healthcare quality, patient safety, and operational feasibility.

Ming-Jyh Chen works in the Office of Sustainable Development at China Medical University Hospital in Taiwan. With training in environmental health, he focuses on verified healthcare service carbon footprinting, carbon-data governance, and healthcare ... Show more

Julie Hopper

Julie Hopper

Dr. Julie Hopper joined USC’s Office of Sustainability in 2022 as a data analyst, where one of her current projects involves calculating Scope 3 Emissions from USC’s purchased goods and services, as well as from employee and student commuting. In addition to calculating Scope 3 Emissions data, Julie led the design and implementation of USC’s Assignment: Earth Dashboard, and oversaw the completion of USC’s 2024 STARS Gold Report. In efforts to collect and analyze data for the dashboard and STARS report, Julie led the development and implementation of USC’s Sustainability Survey, as well as data programming tools to help automate the collection of sustainability curriculum and research data and dashboards to showcase these data in a user-friendly format for the USC community. The code underlying these data programming tools and dashboards are open-access via USC's Sustainability Github account to assist other institutions that are interested in adapting these methods. Prior to this position, Julie conducted research and taught undergraduate courses in Environmental Studies and Ecology at USC. Julie holds a PhD in Environmental Science, Policy and Management from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Julie Hopper joined USC’s Office of Sustainability in 2022 as a data analyst, where one of her current projects involves calculating Scope 3 Emissions from USC’s purchased goods and services, as well as from employee and student commuting. In add... Show more

Alissa Nemmers

Alissa Nemmers

Alissa Nemmers is the Sustainability Education and Operations Coordinator at Vail Health in Colorado. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies and Sustainability from Northern Michigan University and is passionate about making sustainability concepts accessible and actionable. Her work focuses on sustainability education, helping individuals understand complex environmental processes, and connecting human and environmental health to inspire engagement and meaningful change. Alissa enjoys building awareness and support for sustainability initiatives within healthcare and the broader community. Outside of work, she serves as the head coach of a local high school dance team and is actively engaged in community events. She also enjoys gardening and spending time outdoors, embracing Colorado’s abundant sunshine.

Alissa Nemmers is the Sustainability Education and Operations Coordinator at Vail Health in Colorado. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies and Sustainability from Northern Michigan University and is passionate about making sustain... Show more

Pamela Mischen

Pamela Mischen

Professor of Environmental Studies and former Chief Sustainability Officer at Binghamton University, Pam Mischen also runs an organic vegetable and poultry farm in central Vermont. As founder of the Climate Change Quilt Project, she is preparing for her transition from professor to climate change activist.

Professor of Environmental Studies and former Chief Sustainability Officer at Binghamton University, Pam Mischen also runs an organic vegetable and poultry farm in central Vermont. As founder of the Climate Change Quilt Project, she is preparing for ... Show more

Daita Serghi

Daita Serghi

Drawing from a scientific background and over 20 years of experience in higher education and sustainability as an educator, researcher, and staff member, Daita has a profound interest in education programs that foster improved human connections, communication, and learning on a broad scale. In her current role as a Senior Education Manager, she is responsible for developing, innovating and advancing AASHE’s education vision and strategy, overseeing professional learning initiatives encompassing virtual and in-person workshops, webinars, and other educational programs. Prior to joining AASHE, Daita was the first Interim Sustainability Coordinator for the University of Hawai‘i System, and also taught courses and integrated sustainability in the curriculum at the University of Hawai‘i. Daita is a LEED Green Associate, an ISSP Sustainability Excellence Professional (SEP), and holds a BS degree in Molecular Biology and Biosciences from the University of Bucharest, Romania and MA, MPhil and PhD degrees in Biological Sciences from Columbia University in the City of New York.

Drawing from a scientific background and over 20 years of experience in higher education and sustainability as an educator, researcher, and staff member, Daita has a profound interest in education programs that foster improved human connections, comm... Show more

Maximilian Behrendt

Maximilian Behrendt

Maximilian Behrendt is a Green BPM Consultant at envite. He has been working on the automation of business processes in numerous customer projects for several years. In addition to the technical implementation in the backend, he always keeps an eye on the interaction with business modeling and business value and aims to improve the sustainability of business process execution.

Maximilian Behrendt is a Green BPM Consultant at envite. He has been working on the automation of business processes in numerous customer projects for several years. In addition to the technical implementation in the backend, he always keeps an eye o... Show more

Noah Upchurch

Noah Upchurch

Noah has worked with the Center for the Environment team since 2022. He leads sustainability reporting for the College's AASHE STARS report. He is an advisor for the Environmental Stewards program and supports the implementation of campus sustainability projects in transportation, clean energy, procurement, and data management.

Noah has worked with the Center for the Environment team since 2022. He leads sustainability reporting for the College's AASHE STARS report. He is an advisor for the Environmental Stewards program and supports the implementation of campus sustainabil... Show more

Ufuoma Akpojivi

Ufuoma Akpojivi

Ufuoma Akpojivi (PhD, Leeds, FHEA) is an independent researcher. Previously, he served as Policy, Research, and Learning Lead at Advocates for International Development in the United Kingdom; Associate Professor/Head of Department in the Media Studies Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; and Visiting Professor at the School of Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria. He is also a Research Fellow in the Department of Communication Science at the University of South Africa (UNISA). He has over 16 years of professional experience, with exceptional teaching and research in Media and Communications, with numerous teaching and research awards to his credit. He holds a PhD and M.A. in Communications Studies from the University of Leeds; a B.A. in Mass Communication from Delta State University; a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education from the University of the Witwatersrand; and a Postgraduate Certificate in Climate Change from Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests span new and emerging technologies and citizenship, democratisation, media and communication policies, and the intersection of climate change and culture.

Ufuoma Akpojivi (PhD, Leeds, FHEA) is an independent researcher. Previously, he served as Policy, Research, and Learning Lead at Advocates for International Development in the United Kingdom; Associate Professor/Head of Department in the Media Studie... Show more

Sohan Das

Sohan Das

As the Executive Vice President of EVS, Inc., I lead a team of over 315 professionals who provide innovative and sustainable solutions for solar, substation and energy storage projects across the U.S. I have been with EVS since 2014, when I helped launch the Solar group and later expanded it to include Energy Storage in 2017. With more than 33GW of solar and 13GWh of storage designs completed, we are one of the most experienced and trusted renewable energy service providers in the industry.

I have a passion for renewable energy and a vision for a greener future. I am responsible for growing the group, strategic planning, managing clients, hiring and developing talent, contract management, and overseeing the engineering quality control and training. I also steer the company into new markets such as Transmission, SCADA, System Impact studies and look into AI and Automation related improvements. I have a Master's Degree in Sustainable Architecture from State University of New York at Buffalo and a Bachelor's Degree in Architecture from Shivaji University, India. I have been working in the solar energy sector since 2009, having previously worked for Solar developers and EPC contractors.

As the Executive Vice President of EVS, Inc., I lead a team of over 315 professionals who provide innovative and sustainable solutions for solar, substation and energy storage projects across the U.S. I have been with EVS since 2014, when I helped la... Show more

Meghann Jarchow

Meghann Jarchow

Meghann Jarchow is Chair and Professor in the Department of Sustainability & Environment at the University of South Dakota. Her research includes a focus on sustainability education including the key competencies in sustainability framework.

Meghann Jarchow is Chair and Professor in the Department of Sustainability & Environment at the University of South Dakota. Her research includes a focus on sustainability education including the key competencies in sustainability framework. Show more

Mache Dolores

Mache Dolores

MACHE NGASSING Darcise Dolorès is a climate advocate and youth leader with over seven years of experience in youth engagement, environmental leadership, and community mobilisation. As Youth Team Lead at Mboa Hub, a Greenpeace Africa–championed youth space, she has supported young people to develop their leadership, advocacy, and climate action skills through practical and creative approaches. Her work has included capacity-building on climate justice, environmental advocacy, innovation, climate well-being, and youth empowerment, using sports, crafts, public speaking, renewable energy workshops, and community-based activities to foster active participation.

She currently serves as a Youth and Volunteer Coordinator with Greenpeace Africa, where she supports the mobilisation, engagement, and coordination of youth in environmental campaigns and community initiatives. Through these roles, she has contributed to empowering and engaging more than 5,000 young people in environmental action.

MACHE NGASSING Darcise Dolorès is a climate advocate and youth leader with over seven years of experience in youth engagement, environmental leadership, and community mobilisation. As Youth Team Lead at Mboa Hub, a Greenpeace Africa–championed youth ... Show more

Gareth Thomas

Gareth Thomas

Serial startup CTO Gareth brings engineering best practice to the world of software development.

Originally an Electrical Engineer with a background in Process Control and Lean Manufacturing, Agile felt like the natural way to work as he followed his passion and moved into the world of Software Development.

He is now spreading the message of small batch sizes, continuous improvement and self organisation and has implemented agile principles in diverse industries.

Serial startup CTO Gareth brings engineering best practice to the world of software development. Originally an Electrical Engineer with a background in Process Control and Lean Manufacturing, Agile felt like the natural way to work as he followed ... Show more

Tina Woolston

Tina Woolston

Tina Woolston (she/her) has served as the Director of Tufts University’s Office of Sustainability since 2010, spearheading efforts that have earned national recognition for waste reduction and transportation demand management. She collaborates with faculty to integrate real-world sustainability challenges into the classroom and created flagship programs like the Eco-Ambassador, Eco-Rep, and Green Office Certification, which have inspired similar initiatives nationwide. Tina developed and oversees the Green Fund, supporting community-led sustainability projects, manages Tufts’ comprehensive greenhouse gas inventories, and has led campus-wide resilience workshops. She has developed and taught sustainability courses while providing consultations to students, faculty, and staff—both at Tufts and other institutions—on creating sustainable systems. Tina also established Tufts’ first sustainability council and has advanced plans for integrating sustainability into university operations. She holds both a B.S. and M.S. from Cornell University, along with a certificate in Community Environmental Education from Tufts.

Tina Woolston (she/her) has served as the Director of Tufts University’s Office of Sustainability since 2010, spearheading efforts that have earned national recognition for waste reduction and transportation demand management. She collaborates with f... Show more

Krista Bailey

Krista Bailey

Krista Bailey has worked with Penn State Sustainability since 2022, bringing experience developing curriculum, teaching sustainability courses, and leading campus and community sustainability initiatives to the team. Throughout their career, they have put their skills in sustainability research, writing, training, project development, implementation, and evaluation into practice. As a faculty member in a Big Ten Sustainability Studies program, they developed and taught courses for both undergraduate and graduate students online, face-to-face, and in hybrid formats. All courses in the program utilized engaged scholarship and active learning and with a range of campus and community partners. As the first sustainability coordinator with the city of South Bend, Indiana, they developed the city’s first sustainability plan with input from a diverse group of community leaders and piloted a zero-waste city-scale event for the city’s 150th anniversary.

Bailey’s research is at the nexus of health, wellness, and sustainability and has focused research on creating a holistic learning environment that enables learners to put theory into practice.

Outside of sustainability work, Bailey teaches fitness classes, practices organic gardening, is an avid bicyclist and active member of South Bend Community Rowing and enjoys spending time with their two children and exploring and doing projects with their spouse.

Krista Bailey has worked with Penn State Sustainability since 2022, bringing experience developing curriculum, teaching sustainability courses, and leading campus and community sustainability initiatives to the team. Throughout their career, they hav... Show more

Philip Kwasi Banini

Philip Kwasi Banini

Philip Kwasi Banini is the Team Lead and Co-Founder of iWatch Africa, where he leads initiatives in data journalism, misinformation, climate action, human and digital rights, and illicit financial flows. He manages projects supported by UK aid, the European Union, DANIDA, the US Government, Google and other partners.

Philip Kwasi Banini is the Team Lead and Co-Founder of iWatch Africa, where he leads initiatives in data journalism, misinformation, climate action, human and digital rights, and illicit financial flows. He manages projects supported by UK aid, the E... Show more

Pallavi Pokharel

Pallavi Pokharel

Pallavi Pokharel is the Sustainability Manager at Idaho State University, where she leads campus-wide initiatives focused on resource efficiency, waste reduction, and long-term sustainability planning. With over seven years of experience in the environment and sustainability field, she has worked across higher education institutions, including Idaho State University and the University of Wyoming, advancing sustainability through operations, student engagement, and institutional strategy. At ISU, she collaborates across departments to align campus practices with sustainability goals and national benchmarking frameworks such as AASHE STARS.

Pallavi currently serves on the AASHE STARS Steering Committee, contributing to the development of sustainability standards used by higher education institutions across North America. Her previous experience includes work with organizations such as NASA and the International Water Resources Association (IWRA), University of Wyoming (UW), where she supported sustainability research and program development. She is particularly passionate about designing systems that connect students to real-world sustainability solutions and make sustainable choices more accessible, scalable, and embedded within campus culture.

Pallavi Pokharel is the Sustainability Manager at Idaho State University, where she leads campus-wide initiatives focused on resource efficiency, waste reduction, and long-term sustainability planning. With over seven years of experience in the envir... Show more

Elisabeth Earley

Elisabeth Earley

Elisabeth Earley is an Administrative Officer for the UH Mānoa Institute for Sustainability and Resilience, providing operational and organizational support to facilitate the Institute's mission. Her background is in social science research and project management. She holds BAs in Political Science and Latin American Literature (2019) from UC Berkeley and a Master of International Affairs (2023) from UC San Diego's School for Global Policy and Strategy. She is originally from Paradise, California and grew up on an orchard, which informs her love and commitment to sustainability and community eco-resilience.

Elisabeth Earley is an Administrative Officer for the UH Mānoa Institute for Sustainability and Resilience, providing operational and organizational support to facilitate the Institute's mission. Her background is in social science research and proje... Show more

Maram Falk

Maram Falk

Maram Falk is the Assistant Director of Facilities Engineering and Energy Efficiency at the University of Minnesota. Originally from Chicago, she studied Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Her work experience covers the gamut of coal power generation, natural gas power plant conversions, biofuel applications, and efficient distribution systemsas well as pharmaceutical, nutrition, and food manufacturing from FDA-certified facilities. She adopted the Golden Gopher life in 2014 to live closer to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and began working for the UMN as Senior Energy Engineer for the agriculture-oriented St. Paul campus. Through her experiences, she gained a passion for energy systems and sustainable practices. She earned a Master’s in Public Affair at the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs, aiming to better connect the technical energy world and the layman policy influencers. Through her work at UMN, she oversees the district energy conservation work for about 350 buildings across 1,500 acres, bridging multiple university initiatives to optimize energy use, advance the building automation system, and meet goals for the climate action plan and local utility energy savings.

Maram Falk is the Assistant Director of Facilities Engineering and Energy Efficiency at the University of Minnesota. Originally from Chicago, she studied Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Her wo... Show more

Lynda Natacha Awoukeng Jeutang

Lynda Natacha Awoukeng Jeutang

Experte en durabilité et en gestion de projets, j'accompagne depuis de nombreuses années la transformation des filières agricoles au Cameroun. Titulaire d'un Master II en Contrôle Qualité et d'un Master en Biochimie, j'ai débuté ma carrière dans l'audit des référentiels et l'amélioration des procédés, avant de me spécialiser dans la certification et les programmes de cacao durable, notamment chez Barry Callebaut Cameroun.
J'y ai conduit des programmes couvrant la certification de groupes de producteurs, la formation des agriculteurs, la prévention du travail des enfants, l'autonomisation économique des femmes et la digitalisation des paiements aux producteurs.
Aujourd'hui à la tête de la durabilité de MOI FOODS Cameroon (Mewah Group), j'ai construit le programme cacao de l'entreprise et je pilote sa mise en conformité avec le règlement européen sur la déforestation (EUDR)

Experte en durabilité et en gestion de projets, j'accompagne depuis de nombreuses années la transformation des filières agricoles au Cameroun. Titulaire d'un Master II en Contrôle Qualité et d'un Master en Biochimie, j'ai débuté ma carrière dans l'au... Show more

Farees Fathima

Farees Fathima

Farees Fathima is a Global Responsible AI Leader and AI Governance Strategist at Carlsberg Group, where she drives the practical operationalisation of Responsible AI, AI risk management, assurance, and literacy across the global enterprise. With over 13 years of experience across Carlsberg, HSBC, Boston Scientific, and Accenture, she bridges the gap between high-level AI principles and high-velocity business execution.

At Carlsberg, Farees established and operationalised a lightweight AI Risk Management Framework that reduced assessment friction by 70% and accelerated safe AI adoption across eight global business units. She leads end-to-end lifecycle governance from ideation and experimentation to deployment and continuous monitoring with a strong focus on Generative AI, Agentic AI, and human oversight in increasingly autonomous systems.

An ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer and EXIN AI Certified Professional (AICP), Farees advises CIOs, CTOs, Legal, Privacy, and Risk leaders on translating emerging global regulations including the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO/IEC 42001 into actionable enterprise frameworks. As an active industry speaker and mentor, she empowers organizations and founders to build trustworthy, scalable AI systems that deliver tangible business value.

Farees Fathima is a Global Responsible AI Leader and AI Governance Strategist at Carlsberg Group, where she drives the practical operationalisation of Responsible AI, AI risk management, assurance, and literacy across the global enterprise. With over... Show more

Sean O'Dell

Sean O'Dell

Sean O'Dell is an Executive Vice President at Baxter & Woodman in Chicago, Illinois. He has worked for this 450-person consulting firm since graduating from college (2002, Bradley) and currently helps lead their Water Group and Illinois Business Development Team. He represents the ISAWWA at the Illinois Public Service Institute (Graduate, Class Rep and Current Committee Leader). He is also a member of the ISAWWA Leadership and Management Committee.

Sean O'Dell is an Executive Vice President at Baxter & Woodman in Chicago, Illinois. He has worked for this 450-person consulting firm since graduating from college (2002, Bradley) and currently helps lead their Water Group and Illinois Business Deve... Show more

Sai Santhankrishnan

Sai Santhankrishnan

Sailakshmi "Sai" Santhanakrishnan is Founder and Principal Advisor of Periculum LLC, a boutique AI governance, cybersecurity and integrated-risk advisory, and creator of the 6A Compass™ methodology. She has spent 20+ years building risk programs at SIFI and enterprise-platform scale, including senior roles at Amazon (AWS, Alexa), BNY Mellon and The Hartford. She holds ISO 42001, CISM, CRISC and CDPSE credentials, is a Fulbright Specialist Scholar, and co-authored The CISO Mentor. She is co-founder of WeInspire.Guru, a Board Member of Empowering Women as Leaders, and has mentored 25+ emerging leaders in AI and cyber risk.

Sailakshmi "Sai" Santhanakrishnan is Founder and Principal Advisor of Periculum LLC, a boutique AI governance, cybersecurity and integrated-risk advisory, and creator of the 6A Compass™ methodology. She has spent 20+ years building risk programs at S... Show more

Clémence Piteau

Clémence Piteau

As an independent and committed product designer, I explore new design practices to put my knowledge at the service of a more desirable future for the environment, society and individuals.

As an independent and committed product designer, I explore new design practices to put my knowledge at the service of a more desirable future for the environment, society and individuals. Show more

Eric Broda

Eric Broda

Eric Broda is the Founder and President of Broda Group Software, a boutique consulting firm that specialized in building GenAI, agent, and data ecosystem solutions. He is an expert in delivering large scale data management solutions and is the author of O’Reilly’s Implementing Data Mesh book. Eric has delivered GenAI and agent solutions in with international banks, global insurers, large retailers, and global technology firms. Mr. Broda’s next book will be available in November 2025 on highly reliable autonomous agents for the emerging agent ecosystem.

Mr. Broda has written extensively about his Agents experiences, architecture, and implementation at medium.com/@ericbroda

Eric Broda is the Founder and President of Broda Group Software, a boutique consulting firm that specialized in building GenAI, agent, and data ecosystem solutions. He is an expert in delivering large scale data management solutions and is the autho... Show more

Brigid Gregory

Brigid Gregory

Brigid Gregory ( sher/her) is the Director of Sustainability at Loyola University Maryland, leading environmental stewardship, climate action, and sustainable operations rooted in the principles of Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’. With more than a decade of experience leading waste reduction, energy efficiency, and community‑centered environmental programs, she has held roles at Plastic Free Delaware, Johns Hopkins University, and Aramark. She holds a B.S. from Penn State and an MBA from the University of Delaware. In her free time, Brigid enjoys exploring Baltimore and surrounding parks with her three daughters and husband.

Brigid Gregory ( sher/her) is the Director of Sustainability at Loyola University Maryland, leading environmental stewardship, climate action, and sustainable operations rooted in the principles of Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’. With more than a decade o... Show more

Tim Huckaby

Tim Huckaby

Tim Huckaby is an industry luminary focused on AI, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, AR/MR, Data Visualization, & Edge computing.

Mr. Huckaby has over 35 years of technology experience including serving on a server product team as a development lead on an architecture team at Microsoft. Mr. Huckaby worked on some famous and not so famous Microsoft Server products in the late nineties where, as a young man he learned how scalable enterprise software is built. Mr. Huckaby is a Microsoft Global RD, a Microsoft AI MVP and serves on many councils and boards like the Microsoft Application Development Partner Advisory Council.

Having worked for or with Microsoft for over 25 years, Mr. Huckaby has been on stage with and done numerous keynote demos for many Microsoft executives including Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer and many other Microsoft and other technology executives over a 20+ year speaking career. Mr. Huckaby has been awarded many times for the highest rated technical & industry presentations and keynotes for Microsoft and many other vertical (retail, hospitality, healthcare, etc.) & technology conferences like CES and events all around the world. Mr. Huckaby is consistently rated in the top 10% of all speakers at these events and is frequently the top-rated speaker.

Mr. Huckaby is an accomplished writer having been published thousands of times including authoring 3 books, hundreds of magazine articles and hundreds of internet publications. Mr. Huckaby frequently works directly with the Technology Press and financial analyst community on technical messaging and industry comprehension.

Mr. Huckaby’s expertise encompasses Emerging Experiences in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision on MSFT and Intel (OpenVino), Machine Learning, Enterprise LLM Wrapper Applications, Touch & Gesture systems, Voice Recognition, AR&VR, Holographic, Neural, Demographic, Emotional, demographic & Face and Object Recognition and other futuristic interfaces as applied by a number of compelling software technologies on many hardware platforms on a broad spectrum of devices.

Mr. Huckaby was deemed a “Pioneer of the Smart Client Revolution” by the press. Mr. Huckaby’s uncanny prediction of locally installed, native application dominance (ie: Apps on smartphones) in spite of a significant trend towards web application popularity became true. This prediction of “The Smart Client Revolution” was the predecessor to the app store phenomena we see today where applications are downloaded from an application store and installed natively on a smart phone device or tablet as contrasted to using web applications in a browser.

In 1999 Mr. Huckaby founded InterKnowlogy, a worldwide leader in custom application development. InterKnowlogy builds enterprise software for companies large and small all over the world. IK has delivered countless consumer quality desktop, web & mobile experiences with enterprise grade scalability earning customers 100’s of millions in revenue. With expertise in AI, Computer Vision, 3D, data visualization, & AR/MR InterKnowlogy is uniquely positioned to build v1 product with emerging technology. Mr. Huckaby served as InterKnowlogy’s board chair and chief technical strategist before he sold his membership interest in the Company in December of 2021.

In 2011 Mr. Huckaby founded Actus Interactive Software, which licensed a suite of computer vision-based software products. In 2015 Actus was transformed into VSBLTY which went public in 2019. VSBLTY has a suite of retail & security products distributed worldwide that does analytics by audience measurement, sentiment analysis and object recognition through computer vision within interactive digital signage solutions. VSBLTY also offers a SAAS licensable, scalable, performant security suite products with features including facial recognition / person identification with precision in cloud and edge modalities. Mr. Huckaby served as VSBLTY’s CTO before he sold his interest & resigned from Company in December of 2021.

Mr. Huckaby has been named on a number of software patents.

Currently Mr. Huckaby serves as the CTO for Lucihub which leverages AI and software automation in it’s suite of professional video production products.

Email: Tim@TimHuckaby.com
Blog: www.TimHuckaby.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/timhuckaby
Twitter: @TimHuckaby

Tim Huckaby is an industry luminary focused on AI, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, AR/MR, Data Visualization, & Edge computing. Mr. Huckaby has over 35 years of technology experience including serving on a server product team as a development l... Show more

Maged Nawar

Maged Nawar

I am an experienced educator, sustainability leader, and learning & teaching coach with more than 11 years of experience in international education across Bahrain, Qatar, and the UAE.
Currently, I serve as the Head of Sustainability, Learning & Teaching Coach, and Grade 4 English Teacher at Abdulrahman Kanoo International School (ARKIS) in Bahrain. In this role, I lead whole-school sustainability initiatives aligned with Bahrain Vision 2030 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). My work focuses on embedding sustainability, global citizenship, and wellbeing into the curriculum while promoting meaningful, action-based learning experiences that empower students to make a positive impact in their communities.

I hold a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature from Zagazig University, a PGCE from Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom, a CELTA qualification from Cambridge University, a Bahrain Teaching License from the University of Bahrain, and a Certificate in School Management and Leadership from Harvard Business School Online.

I am an experienced educator, sustainability leader, and learning & teaching coach with more than 11 years of experience in international education across Bahrain, Qatar, and the UAE. Currently, I serve as the Head of Sustainability, Learning & Tea... Show more

Sean MacInnes

Sean MacInnes

Sean joined UNCG in the Fall of 2018. He manages UNCG’s Green Fund, measures the university’s carbon footprint, conducts UNCG’s AASHE STARS report, supports the Sustainability Council, writes grants, and provides education and community outreach to help further the University’s sustainability mission. He has over a decade of experience in higher education administration and a background in multi-modal transportation planning, having served as member of the Memphis Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Active Transportation Advisory Committee, and as the chair of the Alternate Transportation and Fuels Working Group for the Mid-South Regional Greenprint Consortium in Memphis, TN.

Sean joined UNCG in the Fall of 2018. He manages UNCG’s Green Fund, measures the university’s carbon footprint, conducts UNCG’s AASHE STARS report, supports the Sustainability Council, writes grants, and provides education and community outreach to h... Show more

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