March 30
Finding Your Personal North Stars for A Meaningful Career
Lei Zong, Partner and Senior Manager, Computer Engineering Group, Key Tech
March 14
Journey to the Stars
Kerry Wisnosky, Chief Operating Officer, Quantum Space LLC
The Whiting-Turner Lecture Series celebrates the fearlessness of entrepreneurship and brings leading technology enterprise thinkers who deal with the real-world challenges of a fast-paced, global economy to campus.
A student speaks with Donya Douglas-Bradshaw, Project Manager for the Lucy Mission, after her Whiting-Turner lecture.
In their lectures and question-and-answer sessions, speakers share their insights and experiences as well as their lessons and advice, inspiring students and faculty to apply new ideas and approaches to their careers and ideas for new ventures.
The Clark School would like to thank the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company for supporting this lecture series.
Turning Crazy Ideas Into Reality
Chance M. Glenn '91, Provost, Vice President of Academic Affairs, University of Houston, Victoria;
Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Morningbird Foundation;
Founder, President, and CEO of Morningbird Media
Is creativity enough? What about skill, knowledge or hard work? Alone they may not be but combined they represent a powerful formula for success.
Dr. Glenn will discuss his two cutting-edge scientific and technological endeavors that require this formula to succeed. The Electronic Alchemy eforge is a 3D printer capable of creating functional electronic devices. He will discuss the product’s development from conception to realization. Dr. Glenn will also discuss his research in Experimental Spacetime Distortion, an effort to show that a faster than light warp drive might be possible. From his academic beginnings at the University of Maryland at College Park, Dr. Glenn will share his journey and show how struggle creates the drive and perseverance critical for successful endeavors.
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Matthew Dowling (Ph.D. '19, bioengineering), Chief Scientific Officer and Director, Medcura
Finding Your Personal North Stars for A Meaningful Career
Lei Zong, Partner and Senior Manager, Computer Engineering Group, Key Tech
Journey to the Stars
Kerry Wisnosky, Chief Operating Officer, Quantum Space LLC
Lucy Strong: Getting top Successful Launch in Spite of a Once-in-a-Lifetime Pandemic
Donya Douglas-Bradshaw, Project Manager for the Lucy Mission
Blue Origin and the Four Futures of Human Space Flight
Brent Sherwood, Senior Vice President, Advanced Development Programs at BLUE ORIGIN
The World is Hyperconnected
Bikash Koley (M.S. '97, Ph.D. '00, electrical and computer engineering), Vice President and Head, Google Global Networking; Head, Technology and Strategy, Google Cloud for Telecommunications
The Opportune Trajectory: an approach in navigating the worlds of spaceflight and entrepreneurship
Lisa Policastri ('00 aerospace engineering), Owner and Chief Operating Officer, Space Exploration Engineering (SEE)
Your Engineering Education at Work: Using STEM Training to Run a Business
Adam Behrens ('10 chemical engineering; Ph.D. '15 bioengineering), CEO and Co-Founder of Mori
Funding Life Science Entrepreneurs
Bret Schreiber, Vice President for Life Sciences and Technology at Fulton Bank
The Only Constant is Change
Sheila Cummings ('95 aerospace engineering), Founder, President, and CEO of Cummings Aerospace, Inc.
From Mechanical Engineering to Patent Law: A Changed Paradigm in Championing Innovation
Dr. Laleh Jalali ('89 mechanical engineering), Co-Founder, Director, Principal, and Senior Patent Attorney for Alliance IP
Building Trendsetting Disruptive Technologies: Thoughts and Experiential Lessons
Dr. Anuja Sonalker, Founder and CEO, STEER Tech
The Student Advantage: Why You Should Start Your Company Today
Joe Sciamanna, Owner, Heliostatix Biotechnology
Keeping Up With Transformation
Sheila Rohra, Chief Transformation Officer and Chief of Staff to the CEO, NetApp
Endless opportunities: Thoughts on a growing career fueled by “paying forward”
Tim Regan, President and CEO, Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
Tech innovation through private equity and venture capital
Ralph E. Taylor-Smith, Managing Director, GE Ventures
Mission-driven research innovation in the intelligence community
Stacey Dixon, Director, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
Lessons learned by a serial technology entrepreneur over the last 30 years
Ken Lee, Founder and CEO, VanGogh Imaging
Today's Strategic Cyber Challenge
Dan Ennis, Global Head of Advanced Threat Intelligence, BlueVoyant
Reaching Across
Lisa Atherton, President and CEO, Textron Systems
Lessons Learned Over a 34-Year Career
Michael Simon, Co-founder, President and CEO, CroptoniteNXT
Open Data in the Public Sector: Unlocking Innovation & Enhancing Accountability
Mark Turner, Founder, President, CEO, and Principal Research Associate, Optimal Solutions Group
M3D: Defining How U.S. Innovators Compete Globally
Michael Armani, Co-Founder and CEO, M3D
Disruption & Opportunity: Technology Risks in a Fast-Paced Global Technology World
Patrick Antkowiak, Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Northrop Grumman Corporation
Foundations for Technological Surprise
Stefanie Tompkins, Director of the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Innovation at IBM
Naguib Attia, Distinguished Engineer and VP of IBM Global University Programs
Will Clean Energy Take Our Economy to the Cleaners?
Kristina M. Johnson, Co-Founder and CEO of Cube Hydro Partners, LLC
Space 2.0
Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium
Innovation Physics
Harry Weller, NEA General Partner
Empathetic Engineering: An Engineer’s Journey
Kevin Apperson, Chief Information Officer of Maxim Healthcare Services
Welcome to the Third Industrial Revolution: Local Motors and the 3-D Printed Car
Jay Rogers, Co-Founder and CEO of Local Motors
Research to Results: Translating Research Success in the Lab to Financial Results in the Board Room
S. Gulu Gambhir, Chief Technology Officer, Leidos