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Laura Stack Award-winning keynote speaker and bestselling author of seven books, Laura Stack is a noted expert in employee and team productivity. She is best known by her moniker, “The Productivity Pro®.” Her engaging personality, combined with nearly 25 years of experience helping organizations achieve RESULTS, have made her one of the most sought-after experts and keynote speakers in her field. John Steiner Mr. Steiner is CEO & Principal Scientist with Mecanica Scientific Services Corporation and specializes in the areas of accident reconstruction analysis including the access and analysis of Heavy Vehicle Event Data Recorders (HVEDR) and light-duty vehicle Event Data Recorders (EDR) sourced data. Mr. Steiner is an active, participating member of SAE International, the International Standards Organization (ISO), and the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM). He is Co-Chairman of the SAE J2728 Heavy Vehicle Event Data Recorder Truck & Bus Sub-Committee, which is an active Sub-Committee working to publish a Recommended Practice outlining the technical functions of an HVEDR. Mr. Steiner received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from California State University, Long Beach. Alan Stuart Alan D. Stuart is an Associate professor emeritus of acoustics at Penn State. Since 1993, he taught fundamentals of acoustics courses on both the graduate and undergraduate levels, as well as graduate courses on structural acoustics and applied acoustics. He has conducted numerous professional short courses on acoustics and vibrations and noise control engineering. At Penn State, he was the coordinator of the Summer Program in Acoustics and the Distance Education Program in Acoustics and received numerous awards for his contributions to Continuing and Distance Education. He is an active member of SAE, ASA, INCE and ASEE. Dr. Stuart received a BSME from Pratt Institute, an MSEE from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Acoustics from Penn State. Matthew Steiner Matt Steiner is the Applications Engineering Leader for the Automotive Segment at GGB Bearing Technology. He holds a BSME from Kettering University and has spent 10+ years in component design and systems engineering. The applications engineering team at GGB is responsible for the implementation of tribological solutions within customer products and the identifi- cation of key market needs and technological opportunities. Tom Stoltz Tom Stoltz is currently a Senior Engineering Specialist at Eaton Corporation’s Innovation Center and is also an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Detroit Mercy. His core expertise is in embedded computing hardware for control of energy systems; however, he enjoys practicing and teaching a
William Cory Spence As the founding partner of SpencePC, Mr. Spence assists individual and business clients in obtaining their best possible outcome in contentious legal matters. He has experience in litigation, arbitration, and mediation involving all areas of intellectual property law. He has litigated claims in both state and federal courts throughout the United States. Additionally, Mr. Spence has experience with patent monetization strategies and complex, inter- national patent infringement litigation involving multiple parties and jurisdictions, including Asia. He is a registered patent attorney and published author and frequent speaker on patent monetization and other intellectual property issues. Prior to forming Spence PC, Mr. Spence spent twelve years practicing law with Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago, IL and Tokyo, Japan. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where he obtained separate Bachelor of Science Degrees in Chemical Engineering and Biophysics (“Physics in Medicine”), and a graduate of the University of Houston Law Center. Robert Speirs Robert Speirs is Associate Professor of Plastics Programs at Ferris State Univ. Additionally, Speirs instructs many plastics engineering technology seminars covering material selection, product design and advanced plastics processing. Along with his vast teaching experience, Speirs brings practical industrial experience from his work with Baxter Travenol Laboratories and Dow Chemical. Speirs also has taught continuing education seminars in injection molding, mold design and injection molding troubleshooting for molders throughout North America and in Singapore and Hong Kong. Robert Spotnitz Robert Spotnitz leads Battery Design LLC, a company that provides consulting and software for battery developers and users. He founded Battery Design in 1999 and developed Battery Design Studio®, a virtual environment for battery design and simulation (see www.batdesign.com). Over the last decade he participated in the start-up of two battery developers: American Lithium Energy Corp. and Enovix. Prior to that, he was Director of Advanced Product Development at PolyStor Corp. where he led efforts to develop large lithium-ion batteries for hybrid electric vehicles. Before that he was a Staff Engineer for Hoechst’s Celgard Division where he built from the ground-up the Battery Applications Development Center and helped commercialize the tri-layer battery separator and also worked at the R&D center of W.R. Grace & Co where he co-invented multi-layer battery separators, as well as a number of electrochemical processes. Dr. Spotnitz provides tutorials on batteries for the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference, the Battery Power conferences, the EIS Short Course, as well for the Electrochemical Society. He has18 patents and 34 publications (including 3 book chapters). He is a member of the International Society of Electrochemistry and the Electrochemical Society. He has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Arizona State University, a M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Univ. WI-Madison.
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