Speakers at the Innovators Summit

Safi Bahcall

Author of Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas that Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

Sara Irvani

CEO Okabashi Brands

Nabil Nasr

Associate provost for academic affairs and founding director of Rochester Institute of Technology’s (RIT) Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS).


Tom Kurfess

Georgia Tech Manufacturing Research Institute, Professor and HUSCO/Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion Control

Sarah Eckersley

VP R&D, Industrial Intermediates & Infrastructure, Dow Chemical

Alex Goranin

Trial Lawyer Specializing in High-Stakes Intellectual Property and Technology-Driven Cases in the Software, Web, and Life Sciences Industries, Duane Morris


Kyle Kent

Director of R&D, Technical Solutions, Campbell’s

Gracy Wingkono

Global R&D – Principal Scientist Beverage Industry

Joe Mazzeo

Vice President of Business Development, Crossfire Consulting


Felix Patricio

Scientist, Colgate-Palmolive

Jamie Pero Parker

Sustainability Sector Lead, RTI

Estelle Chaussard

FM Global


Jiim Euchner

Jim Euchner

Editor in Chief, Research-Technology Management

Chad Moutray

Chief Economist, National Association of Manufacturers