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Frank Kim is the curriculum director at the SANS Institute and founder of ThinkSec, a security consulting and CISO advisory firm. Previously, as CISO at the SANS Institute, Frank led the information risk function for the most trusted source of computer security training and certification in the world. In his new role at SANS, he continues to lead the management and software security curricula, hel...

Michael Rovito is an Associate Professor of Health Sciences at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL and a certified health education specialist. He holds a PhD in Public Health, a MA in Urban Studies from Temple University, and a BA in Geography from Millersville University. His work specializes in testicular self-examination and testicular cancer, male health behavioral change, instru...

Andrew G. Huff was the former Associate Vice President at EcoHealth Alliance, Dr. Huff was working to develop novel methods of biosurveillance, data analytics and visualization for disease detection, and unique methods to identify disease emergence. His research centered on the interaction of human disease reporting, machine learning of passive and active surveillance data streams, and the interac...

Saber Fallah is a Associate Professor at the University of Surrey, a past Research Associate and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Waterloo Centre for Automotive Research. Dr Fallah's research has contributed to the state-of-the-art research in the areas of connected autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems. So far, his research has produced four patents (three filed by Jaguar...

Sonia Livingstone is a professor of Social Psychology and former head of the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Sonia has published 20 books on media audiences, especially children and young people’s risks and opportunities, media literacy and rights in the digital environment, including The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age...

Joni McGary is a co-founder of NoCollegeMandates.com and a former entrepreneur, and worked in business development in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Joni was just a regular mom who wasn't involved in any kind of activism. That was until her son was faced with a COVID booster vaccine mandate in order to remain in college and reaching out online through groups sparked a movement of No Co...

Gordon Graham is a former information technology professional with over 30 years of experience in the electric utility industry. Gordon wrote the book "The Intrepid Brotherhood" a story that came to be when he decided to blow the whistle on Chelan County Public Utility that was leading down a path of corruption. A multimillion-dollar project had the potential to transform the PUD’s business manage...

Ed Martini is Professor of History at Western Michigan University, where he currently serves as Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning and Dean of Merze Tate College. He is the author and editor of several books, including Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000, Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty, and At War: The Military and American Culture in the...

Mel Slater is a computer scientist known for his work in virtual reality, in particular in the field of embodiment and presence in VR. He invented the technique known as walking-in-place that allows people to ‘walk’ through a virtual environment that is much larger than the physical space in which the action is taking place. Mel is currently the Distinguished Investigator at the University of Barc...

Dr. Janci C. Lindsay is the Director of Toxicology and Molecular Biology for Toxicology Support Services, LLC. She holds a doctorate in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center-Houston. Dr. Lindsay has extensive experience in analyzing the molecular profile of pharmacologic responses as they pertain to the d...

Michael G. Flaherty is Professor of Sociology at Eckerd College and the University of South Florida his teaching and research interests include self and society, deviance, qualitative methods, time and temporal experience, social interaction, and the social construction of reality. He is the author of "The Textures of Time: Agency and Temporal Experience" and more recently "The Cage of Days: Time...

Carla Peeters obtained a PhD in Immunology from the Medical Faculty of Utrecht, studied Molecular Sciences at Wageningen University and Research, and followed a 4-year course in Higher Nature Scientific Education with a specialization in medical laboratory diagnostics and research. Carla worked as an immunologist on vaccines for the prevention of infectious diseases and was for 15 years change man...

Peter H. Meyers served as Director of the law school’s Federal and Appellate Clinic and Vaccine Injury Litigation Clinic. Meyers has published articles on the constitutionality of pretrial drug testing and reform of the flaws in the Federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. He also served as a Designated Reviewer of nine publications issued by the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medic...

Peter J. Boni an author and public speaker and advocate with a experience that led to a book called "Uprooted". Peter intimately shares his personal odyssey and acquired expertise to spotlight the free market methods of gamete distribution that conceives dozens, sometimes hundreds, of unknowing half-siblings from a single donor. Peter shares his knowledge about the long, secretive, and sometimes s...

Jim DiEugenio is a writer, known for JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, JFK: Destiny Betrayed and King Kill 63 and is one of the most respected researchers and writers on the political assassinations of the 1960s. Jim is the author of "Destiny Betrayed," about the Garrison investigation of the Kennedy assassination, first published in 1992, with a second, greatly revised edition issued in 2...

Gregg D. Caruso is Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Corning, Visiting Fellow at the New College of the Humanities (NCH London), and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. His research focuses on free will, moral responsibility, punishment, philosophy of law, jurisprudence, social and political philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of mind, moral psychology, and neurolaw.

Brandon C. Johnson an associate professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences in Purdue University’s College of Science. Brandon's work is primarily focused on impact cratering and impact processes, his research and teaching also includes interest in the geophysics of planets and the various processes that modify planetary surfaces.

Daniel M. Gerstein is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Previously, he served at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as under secretary (Acting) and deputy under secretary in the Science & Technology Directorate. He has extensive experience in security and defense while serving as a Senior Executive Service (SES) government civilian, in uniform, and in industry. He...

David Pearce is a British transhumanist and a prominent figure within the transhumanism movement and is one of the co-founders of the World Transhumanist Association, currently rebranded and incorporated as Humanity+. He outlines how drugs and technologies, including intracranial self-stimulation ("wireheading"), designer drugs and genetic engineering could end suffering for all sentient life.

Nicholas Kortessis is a Evolutionary ecologist and Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Florida at the Arthur R. Marshall, Jr. Ecological Sciences Laboratory. His interest in understanding the processes that generate and maintain biological diversity, The major theme of his research is the role that environmental variability--both in space and time--plays in species persistence. More than...

Michael Graziano is an American scientist and novelist who is currently a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. His scientific research focuses on the brain basis of awareness. He has proposed the "attention schema" theory, an explanation of how, and for what adaptive advantage, brains attribute the property of awareness to themselves.

Zach Vorhies better known as the Google Whistleblower was a Senior Software Engineer at YouTube/Google for 8.5 years. While working at YouTube, he learned that Google was censoring "fake news". and investigated further into the company, only to find that not only had Google defined "fake news" to mean actual events that had happened, but also had created an artificial intelligence system to classi...

James Giordano is Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Biochemistry, Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program, and Chair of the Project in Military Medical Ethics of the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, at Georgetown University Medical Center. As well he is J5 Donovan Group Senior Fellow, Biowarfare and Biosecurity, at US Special Operations Command. His ongoing research focuses u...

Baruch Fischhoff is the Howard Heinz University Professor in the Department Engineering and Public Policy and Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is an elected member of the (US) National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine. His research focuses on judgment and decision making, including risk perception and risk Analysis.

Luciano Floridi is an Italian and British philosopher. He holds a double appointment as Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford. Floridi is best known for his work on two areas of philosophical research: the philosophy of information, and information ethics. Floridi is deeply engaged with emerging policy initiatives on the socio-ethical value and implications...