Government, Social Sector & Education

Valued individuals involved in shaping public policies, providing essential services, and promoting education, tirelessly looking to improve society and empower citizens

Guilherme Machado

Guilherme Machado

Servidor público e autor do QPC - Quero Passar em Concursos, blog especializado em preparação para concursos públicos.

Servidor público e autor do QPC - Quero Passar em Concursos, blog especializado em preparação para concursos públicos. Show more

Denaya Dennis

Denaya Dennis

Denaya Dennis is a South Sudanese passionate about digital education, peace and development. He is a 2019 Mandela Washinton Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. A graduate of IT, Denaya volunteers as a teaching assistant at the University of Juba, South Sudan.
He is the cofounder of Alela Technologies Ltd, a tech company providing digital solutions and products to government and private institutions.
Denaya is the founder of Koneta Hub, which is an innovation driven organization that uses the approaches of Human centered design in providing community driven solutions with emphasis on digital literacy and rights, business incubation, tech 4 peace and innovations in health.

Denaya Dennis is a South Sudanese passionate about digital education, peace and development. He is a 2019 Mandela Washinton Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. A graduate of IT, Denaya volunteers as a teaching assistant at the University of Juba,... Show more

Anas AlChalabi

Anas AlChalabi

Anas Alchalabi, or “That Entrepreneurship guy” as he’s known in the streets of the Middle East, has enabled hundreds of Refugee founders to create small empires that solve major challenges in industries like Finance, Education, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Retail. For the past 4 years, Anas has contributed to initiatives with Governments, UN, World Bank, Venture Capitalists, Google, Facebook, and many more to bring investment and opportunities to Young founders in the Middle East.

Anas Alchalabi, or “That Entrepreneurship guy” as he’s known in the streets of the Middle East, has enabled hundreds of Refugee founders to create small empires that solve major challenges in industries like Finance, Education, Healthcare, Manufactur... Show more

Ronald Woerner

Ronald Woerner

Ron Woerner, CISSP, CISM, has over 20 years of IT and security experience and is a noted consultant, keynote speaker, teacher, blogger, and podcaster. As President and Chief Security Evangelist of Cyber-AAA, LLC, he delivers awareness, risk assessments, and advising to small, medium, and large organizations. Woerner also teaches at Bellevue University, a USA Center of Academic Excellence. Woerner has been speaking at the RSA Conference since 2005 and is a member of the RSAC Program Committee. His crowning achievement was being selected as the US Air Force Association CyberPatriot 2014 Mentor of the Year for his work coaching high school cybersecurity students. Woerner has multiple technology degrees and is passionate about building the next generation of cyber professionals.

Ron Woerner, CISSP, CISM, has over 20 years of IT and security experience and is a noted consultant, keynote speaker, teacher, blogger, and podcaster. As President and Chief Security Evangelist of Cyber-AAA, LLC, he delivers awareness, risk assessmen... Show more

Russell Eubanks

Russell Eubanks

As founder of Security Ever After, consultant for Enclave Security and IANS Faculty, Russell is responsible for assessing the cyber security of many diverse organizations and increasing their maturity while decreasing the probability of a breach. He is the former chief information security officer (CISO) of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and especially passionate about helping new or aspiring cyber leaders increase their influence. Russell is a SANS Certified Instructor and co-author of the new five day version of MGT521: Leading Cybersecurity Change: Building A Security-Based Culture and the new SANS SEC405: Business Finance Essentials course for SANS Technology Institute.

As founder of Security Ever After, consultant for Enclave Security and IANS Faculty, Russell is responsible for assessing the cyber security of many diverse organizations and increasing their maturity while decreasing the probability of a breach. He ... Show more

Bhavita Lalwani

Bhavita Lalwani

Full Stack developer. Doing cool things that matter.
Worked on building the world's first regional and India's second-largest Mobile OS, developed Indic Keyboard, an advocate of Digital India
contributed to the Aadhaar Authentication system, Smart City initiatives, and build apps on India Stack - Aadhaar, DigiLocker, UPI payments.

Currently trying to make the world retain millions of users by the power of CleverTap

Full Stack developer. Doing cool things that matter. Worked on building the world's first regional and India's second-largest Mobile OS, developed Indic Keyboard, an advocate of Digital India contributed to the Aadhaar Authentication system, Smar... Show more

Steven Wakabayashi

Steven Wakabayashi

Steven Wakabayashi is the founder and president of QTBIPOC Design - an organization that provides free and accessible design education, mentorship, and networking opportunities to LGBTQ+ designers of color. An agency veteran, Steven has led creative teams working on some of the biggest brands including Apple, Salesforce, Sephora, Mercedes-Benz, and Samsung.

Steven Wakabayashi is the founder and president of QTBIPOC Design - an organization that provides free and accessible design education, mentorship, and networking opportunities to LGBTQ+ designers of color. An agency veteran, Steven has led creative ... Show more

Gernot Kühn

Gernot Kühn

Gernot Kühn ist Gründer und Initiator der LERNFUTURISTEN in Berlin. Darüber hinaus ist er als Berater für Dynamics 365 und KI bei der Microsoft Deutschland GmbH tätig. Was modernes Arbeiten und berufliche Weiterbildung konkret für die Menschen bedeutet, entfaltet er an seinen Überlegungen und Konzepten zum vernetzten Lernen. Agile Methoden sind dabei fester Bestandteil in seinen Workshops und Kundenprojekten.

Gernot Kühn ist Gründer und Initiator der LERNFUTURISTEN in Berlin. Darüber hinaus ist er als Berater für Dynamics 365 und KI bei der Microsoft Deutschland GmbH tätig. Was modernes Arbeiten und berufliche Weiterbildung konkret für die Menschen bedeut... Show more

Kenzie Woodbridge

Kenzie Woodbridge

Kenzie Woodbridge is a Web Developer, Community Manager, and Knowledge Base Administrator at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Kenzie also recently completed a MA in Professional Communication at Royal Roads University and their thesis focused on prosocial community in online Minecraft. Kenzie is awesome and you totally want to be their friend (offer of friendship void where local laws do not permit, not guaranteed in all circumstances, skill-testing questions required).

Kenzie Woodbridge is a Web Developer, Community Manager, and Knowledge Base Administrator at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Kenzie also recently completed a MA in Professional Communication at Royal Roads University and their thesis fo... Show more

Diego Pino

Diego Pino

Diego Pino Navarro is a friendly Software Engineer, Software Architect and Open Source Maintainer from Chile and located in NYC since 2016, leading for the last 2 years a Drupal8/9 based architecture named Archipelago. He has been involved in Intersecting OSS technologies and initiatives & many times release manager of Islandora 7 and a committer. His current main areas of interest are Digital Object Repositories, Semantic Web, IIIF, JSON, OS Communities, Teaching and his many Dogs.

Diego Pino Navarro is a friendly Software Engineer, Software Architect and Open Source Maintainer from Chile and located in NYC since 2016, leading for the last 2 years a Drupal8/9 based architecture named Archipelago. He has been involved in Interse... Show more

Matthew Dyer, MLIS

Matthew Dyer, MLIS

There's a lot of information out there, and it can be hard to sift through it all. I connect people to reliable resources, learning, and each other. I'm a librarian who doesn't work in a library.

There's a lot of information out there, and it can be hard to sift through it all. I connect people to reliable resources, learning, and each other. I'm a librarian who doesn't work in a library. Show more

Joan Alba

Joan Alba

Teams, Agility and Innovation Facilitator through Gestalt Approach, Design Thinking, Belbin and Agility. He has worked in projects and solutions (products), empowering people and teams for the last 20 years.

Teams, Agility and Innovation Facilitator through Gestalt Approach, Design Thinking, Belbin and Agility. He has worked in projects and solutions (products), empowering people and teams for the last 20 years. Show more

Amy Leneker

Amy Leneker

Amy Leneker is an optimistic, joy-seeking, recovering perfectionist. She is also a Leadership Consultant and a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator. Amy was born and raised in the Midwest where she learned to work hard, tell the truth, and be kind. Although Amy left Ohio long ago, those Midwestern values are still very much a part of who she is and how she works. With over two decades of experience in leadership development, Amy has trained thousands of leaders and teams all over the world. She and her husband have two wonderful kiddos and three wacky dogs and make their home in the Pacific Northwest.

Amy Leneker is an optimistic, joy-seeking, recovering perfectionist. She is also a Leadership Consultant and a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator. Amy was born and raised in the Midwest where she learned to work hard, tell the truth, and be kind. Al... Show more

Mathias Segerlund

Mathias Segerlund

Working with cloud for public sector in Sweden. Experienced in security and compliance

Working with cloud for public sector in Sweden. Experienced in security and compliance Show more

David Geddes

David Geddes

David has been involved in the analysis of software engineering workflows, such as frameworks, environments, and plugins that support engineering projects for more than five years. [NN, ML/DL, NLP, NLU, NLG] He is particularly interested in applications that utilize declarative artificial intelligence techniques. [Agents, Experts, Assistants, Associates] David developed a rubric to score tools and talent to better understand systems capabilities and project plans. His customers are engineering leaders seeking to mimic complex ways of thinking such as belief, desire, and intent into their platform strategies. David built his own model based tool called SymblGraph.

David is also an innovator at the crossroads of sport and technology as one of two founders of the International Sports Technology Association. He created the Society of Sports Knowledge Engineering (SSKE) , Center for Sports Innovation Research, and other successful technology leadership groups. David is the grand son and son of award winning research scientists.

David has been involved in the analysis of software engineering workflows, such as frameworks, environments, and plugins that support engineering projects for more than five years. [NN, ML/DL, NLP, NLU, NLG] He is particularly interested in applicat... Show more

Uzoma Agba

Uzoma Agba

Uzoma Agba is a business catalyst, digital and brand strategist with a passion for creating impact driven solutions for professionals, corporate organisation and startups.

She is a digital skills trainer with Haptics on the Grow with Google Initiative and Facebook on the Boost Your Business Project. She has also worked as a Judge Advisor and Mentor for Technovation, Business Support for Fate Foundation, Nigerian Breweries, Jago Milk, American Honey Drink as a Sales and Marketing personnel, She also took part in the UNICEF/Cartedo COVD-19 Design Challenge by developing products, services and solutions in design thinking to the challenges faced by people in my community acknowledging my positive contribution in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

An active volunteer for community building and development projects like Green Peace, Amnesty International, Paradigm Initiative (Aba Life Digital Inclusion), Vision Alive Foundation, TedxAbayi, and TedxAbiaPoly.

I am strongly committed in helping professional brands to build, grow and scale their brand and career .

Uzoma Agba is a business catalyst, digital and brand strategist with a passion for creating impact driven solutions for professionals, corporate organisation and startups. She is a digital skills trainer with Haptics on the Grow with Google Initia... Show more

Madeeha Khan

Madeeha Khan


I am a Mentor, Trainer and Coach by Passion & Profession both.

I am committed to positioning People Management and Project Management as a Strategic Enabler for Business Excellence in current business world of Agility. I have been serving Information Technology | Telecommunications | Real Estate | Energy | Hospitality sectors across Pakistan | Norway | United States of America for last 11 years towards Digital Transformation.

I am an MBA qualified professional, Certified ScrumMaster®, IBM accredited Blue Core Coach | Business Coaching, IBM accredited Mentor | Project Management, IBM accredited Agile Explorer, and Certified NLP Practitioner | American Board of Neuro Linguistic Programming.

I am an active freelancer towards career coaching, professional development, promoting Agile mindset, and compassionate leadership. I have mentored and coached hundreds of people across globe. As of latest, I have represented Pakistan across United Kingdom, Nepal, India, Portugal, Africa as a speaker and jury member in most influential conferences for Scrum and Agile community.

I have earned multiple certifications through INSEAD, LinkedIn, Lynda, Coursera, Google Cloud, Udemy. My projects with Government of Punjab, Pakistan gained visibility across the globe and have been presented at different social media forums, including BBC Urdu Pakistan, Geo TV, MIT Technology Review Pakistan, World Bank, Gadgets 360 by NDTV and others.

I am a Mentor, Trainer and Coach by Passion & Profession both. I am committed to positioning People Management and Project Management as a Strategic Enabler for Business Excellence in current business world of Agility. I have been serving Infor... Show more

Michel Girard (Enseignant)

Michel Girard (Enseignant)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/themoat/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/themoat/ Show more

Laura B. Janusek

Laura B. Janusek

As a founding team member at Modern Teacher, Laura has held several roles. She's currently the Chief Product Officer, focusing on the design and development of the company's software solutions. In collaboration with the CEO, she defines Modern Teacher's current and upcoming product offerings and uses client feedback to oversee the development lifecycle, from ideation through live releases and enhancements. Laura leads the development and quality assurance teams, which have included both U.S.-based and nearshore developers. She has also managed Modern Teacher’s professional learning content creation team, including graphic and e-learning designers.

Laura also acted as VP of Curriculum and VP of Client Experience with digedu, The Digital Education Company, leading a team of over 40 digital content creators and overseeing client relationships nationally. Prior to her work in EdTech, Laura was involved with a variety of educational organizations, teaching in both Special Education and English departments as well as nontraditional learning environments.

Laura enjoys practicing yoga, playing violin, and listening to audiobooks. She is an active member of communities for women in technology, she has recently been recognized in a series on “Women on Top in Tech”, and she is passionate about education equity and technology’s ability to improve lives in the education space and beyond.

As a founding team member at Modern Teacher, Laura has held several roles. She's currently the Chief Product Officer, focusing on the design and development of the company's software solutions. In collaboration with the CEO, she defines Modern Teache... Show more

Vernon Jackson

Vernon Jackson

Senior Business Intelligent Engineer

Leadership Development Speaker & Coach

With over 15 years of combined experience in healthcare, education, consumer solutions, and technology. A natural leader focused on helping and developing others while creating an impactful learning experience. My ability to manage data, lead projects, conduct research and analysis, and provide subject matter expertise improves processes for functional operations. A diverse communicator who can efficiently engage in a variety of platforms.

Senior Business Intelligent Engineer Leadership Development Speaker & Coach With over 15 years of combined experience in healthcare, education, consumer solutions, and technology. A natural leader focused on helping and developing others while ... Show more

Andrew Spiece

Andrew Spiece

Andrews involvement with TEALS comes with a variety of technical educational experiences. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Michigan. He also received his Masters of Education in Instructional Technology from Wayne State University. As a face to face teacher, he taught STEM curriculum for 8 years at the Brandon School District and then was one of the first full time online teachers to be hired in Michigan as an instructor of Mathematics and Computer Science for Michigan Virtual. In his spare time, he ran a FIRST Robotics team and led them to great success both in Michigan and Internationally. In 2012, he was inducted into the Educator Hall of Fame for the Oakland County Competitive Robotics Association and in 2016 was the Woodie Flowers Finalist Award winner for the State of Michigan. Andrew is excited to be involved with TEALS to help bring Computer Science to Every High School.

Andrews involvement with TEALS comes with a variety of technical educational experiences. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Michigan. He also received his Masters of Education in Instructional... Show more

Amy Peck

Amy Peck

Amy Peck is the founder & CEO of EndeavorVR, a leading global VR/AR (XR) strategy & consulting firm. Amy is a recognized thought-leader in the space and speaks globally on the future of XR. She has deep connections within the industry and works with Fortune 500 companies, digital media/production companies and tech startups on XR strategy, content, development, product and GTM.

Amy holds several Advisory Board roles:
Geo.Network, a volumetric geospatial control platform
VantagePoint, VR Sexual Harassment Training
Venture Partner, Capital Region AR/VR Accelerator
XR Marin Leadership Council
Virtual World Society Ambassador

Amy is a mentor at Draper U, Women in XR Fund, Korean Innovation Center and River Studios and is an active member of several Women in Tech & STEM Education organizations. Amy is a member of the VR/AR Association’s (VRARA) Digital Healthcare Committee and Co-chairs the VRARA Enterprise Committee.

Amy's true passion for this technology emerged at Leap Motion where she launched the Enterprise division working with clients across every major vertical including healthcare, entertainment, retail, hospitality, education and government.

It became clear that there was a need to help foster XR development in the commercial arena and more importantly, shepherd these critical early wins. EndeavorVR was conceived for this very purpose.

Amy continues her work with Fortune 500 clients, helping them adopt XR for both internal process and consumer-facing initiatives, including marketing, customer experience, productivity and training. She engages the top content creators, designers, developers and platform partners to bring these solutions to fruition.

Amy’s forte is distilling complex technologies into meaningful solutions across many verticals and business lines, delivering strategy and resources at scale.

Her own personal mission is to see XR accessible to all - fundamentally improving every aspect of our lives and changing the way we work, learn, communicate and play.

Amy Peck is the founder & CEO of EndeavorVR, a leading global VR/AR (XR) strategy & consulting firm. Amy is a recognized thought-leader in the space and speaks globally on the future of XR. She has deep connections within the industry and works with ... Show more

Justin Recla

Justin Recla

Justin Recla has over 14 years of experience as a Counterintelligence Special Agent and Army soldier. He’s a subject matter expert in tactical questioning, counter espionage, threat assessments, and investigative techniques. Justin brings his skills from the military sector and delivers them to the boardroom to help business owners and investors protect their two most valuable assets: Time & Money.

Justin Recla has over 14 years of experience as a Counterintelligence Special Agent and Army soldier. He’s a subject matter expert in tactical questioning, counter espionage, threat assessments, and investigative techniques. Justin brings his skills ... Show more

Inger Greve

Inger Greve

Kommunikatör på DIGG och tidigare kommunikationsansvarig på fd E-legitimationsnämnden och för myndighetstjänsten Mina meddelanden. Flerårig erfarenhet som konsult och projektledare inom marknadsföring/kommunikation från strategiska förändringsuppdrag inom stora företag och organisationer.

Kommunikatör på DIGG och tidigare kommunikationsansvarig på fd E-legitimationsnämnden och för myndighetstjänsten Mina meddelanden. Flerårig erfarenhet som konsult och projektledare inom marknadsföring/kommunikation från strategiska förändringsuppdrag... Show more

Larry Sharpe

Larry Sharpe

Larry Sharpe (L) is a Bronx native, a Marine Corps veteran, an entrepreneur, and a management consultant with 15 years of experience mentoring international executives, entrepreneurs & sales people. He is also a teacher, previously serving as a guest instructor for business management and leadership at institutions such as Yale University, Columbia University, Baruch College and John Jay College. He is now running for Governor of New York in order to make education more effective through innovation, reform the criminal justice system to focus on rehabilitation, and build an economy that works for all of New York State.
The Three Pillars of Larry Sharpe’s Platform:
Economy:
Roll back regulations that stifle innovation and hurt small businesses, including regulations on blockchain technologies, cryptocurrencies, and the Bit-Licensing that is hindering economic and technological growth in the state, bringing more jobs and revenue to the people of New York.
Cut unnecessary spending by reducing or eliminating unfunded mandates, which will allow the state to help struggling New Yorkers by cutting property taxes and eliminating income tax.
Create real revenue raisers that are not tax based. Encourage innovation in business as the Marketer-in-Chief.

Education:
Free teachers to develop curriculum that focus on skills employers need.
Introduce more options to education by exploring innovative alternatives like K-10 programs, vocational training, and more school choice.
Allow communities to decide what works best in their school district.

Criminal Justice:
Give second chances and support to non-violent offenders who still have a chance to be productive members of society, thereby reducing prison populations.
Lowering the prison populations will allow for more specialized rehabilitation through educational and vocational training, which can reduce recidivism.
Allow Law Enforcement Officers to fight real crimes and help real victims by not enforcing laws that make criminals (like simple possession), in which there is no victim.

In addition to these three platforms, Larry Sharpe and his team have researched and developed policies relating to agriculture, immigration, infrastructure, budget reform, energy, unions, pension, medicaid, and much more. All of these policies have one thing in common: Larry Sharpe wants to empower the people of New York State to be free and innovative, bringing growth to our communities and prosperity to our state

Larry Sharpe (L) is a Bronx native, a Marine Corps veteran, an entrepreneur, and a management consultant with 15 years of experience mentoring international executives, entrepreneurs & sales people. He is also a teacher, previously serving as a guest... Show more

Tom Sherrington

Tom Sherrington

My name is Tom Sherrington. I am an experienced Headteacher and teacher and, having worked in schools for 30 years, I am now exploring the world of education consultancy working across the UK and internationally.

I am interested in working with teachers and school leaders to explore and implement contemporary educational ideas that help us deliver an excellent all-round education for all young people. My specialist areas are research-informed teaching and learning, curriculum and assessment.

I have recently published The Learning Rainforest: Great teaching in real classrooms with John Catt. I regularly contribute to conferences and CPD sessions and continue to write my blog teacherhead.com

My name is Tom Sherrington. I am an experienced Headteacher and teacher and, having worked in schools for 30 years, I am now exploring the world of education consultancy working across the UK and internationally. I am interested in working with ... Show more

Jennifer Fisher

Jennifer Fisher

Jen Fisher currently serves as the Assistant Vice President, Project Implementation and Support. In this role, Jen delivers leadership and implementation support for key organizational and strategic initiatives such as the College’s Strategic Plan. Jen’s experience includes creative problem-solving, facilitation, skills-based training, and strategic planning. Prior to her current role, Jen served as the Assistant Vice President of Employee Benefits at Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana beginning in 2013.
Prior to joining Ivy Tech, Jen worked in the Human Resources field in the transportation industry with Republic Airways and Vanguard Services, Inc. Jen has a Bachelors of Arts from Purdue University and a Masters of Business Administration from Butler University. She is a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist, a SHRM Certified Professional, a certified CliftonStrengths Coach, and Change Management Practitioner.

Jen Fisher currently serves as the Assistant Vice President, Project Implementation and Support. In this role, Jen delivers leadership and implementation support for key organizational and strategic initiatives such as the College’s Strategic Plan. ... Show more

Jennifer D. Daniel

Jennifer D. Daniel

Jennifer is a PhD candidate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Bristol. She is dedicated to understanding the factors that contribute to the success of women in technology entrepreneurship, with the ultimate goal of shaping better policies and practices for the transformation of developing economies.

Jennifer is a PhD candidate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Bristol. She is dedicated to understanding the factors that contribute to the success of women in technology entrepreneurship, with the ultimate goal of shaping bette... Show more

Alfi Oloo

Alfi Oloo

Alfi is a pioneer in the space of Learning & Development, with a revised approach to development centred around self-directed learning.

He is also a co-host on the “Edit Undo Podcast” and a Mentorship enthusiast.

Among other things, Alfi is a lifelong student in the field of mentorship, having played the role of a mentor at Jack Academy’s UX Bootcamp and a coordinator with Sprint, a student work-readiness program based in Pretoria, South Africa.

Alfi is a pioneer in the space of Learning & Development, with a revised approach to development centred around self-directed learning. He is also a co-host on the “Edit Undo Podcast” and a Mentorship enthusiast. Among other things, Alfi is a l... Show more

Harleen Kochar

Harleen Kochar

Literacy Warrior and Fitness Nerd.

Literacy Warrior and Fitness Nerd. Show more

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