Norman Augustine is a retired CEO and chairman of Lockheed Martin. He has served as undersecretary of the U.S. Army and chairman of the council of the National Academy of Engineering and as a trustee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton University. He is a trustee emeritus of Johns Hopkins University, has served on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and is a former chairman of the Defense Science Board. He also has served on the boards of Black and Decker, Lockheed Martin, Procter and Gamble, and Phillips Petroleum, and served as chairman of the Business Roundtable Taskforce on Education.
Augustine is a member of the Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences under the auspices of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as chairman of the National Academy of Sciences committee that wrote the report, Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future. Additionally, he is the author or coauthor of four books, including Augustine’s Laws and Shakespeare in Charge. Augustine is a five-time recipient of the Department of Defense’s highest civilian award, the Distinguished Service Medal. He was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States. Augustine was named to the 2014 U.S. News & World Report STEM Leadership Hall of Fame.
Mathew J. Burrows serves as the Director of the Atlantic Council’s Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He was appointed counselor to the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in 2007 and director of the Analysis and Production Staff (APS) in 2010. As director of APS, Burrows was responsible for managing a staff of senior analysts and production technicians who guide and shepherd all NIC products from inception to dissemination. He was the principal drafter for the NIC publication Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds, which received widespread recognition and praise in the international media and among academics and think tanks. In 2005, he was asked to set up and direct the NIC’s new Long Range Analysis Unit, which is now known as the Strategic Futures Group. Burrows joined the CIA in 1986, where he served as analyst for the Directorate of Intelligence (DI), covering Western Europe, including the development of European institutions such as the European Union. From 1998 to 1999 he was the first holder of the intelligence community fellowship and served at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Other previous positions included assignments as special assistant to the US UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke (1999-2001) and Deputy National Security Advisor to US Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill (2001-02). He is a member of the DI’s Senior Analyst Service. Burrows graduated from Wesleyan University in 1976 and received a PhD in European history from Cambridge University, England in 1983.
Eric J. Barron is President of Penn State University. He is a former dean at Penn State and former president of Florida State University, began his presidency at Penn State on May 12, 2014. Succeeding former President Rodney Erickson, who had served since 2011, Dr. Barron was named the 18th President of Penn State by the University’s Board of Trustees February 17, 2014.
Barron returned to Penn State from the helm at Florida State, bringing with him nearly 35 years of leadership experience in academic administration, education, research, and public service, and a track record as a talented manager of fiscal policy within large and complex institutions. Dr. Barron led Florida State to two consecutive U.S. News and World Report rankings as the nation’s “most efficiently operated” institution of higher education.
Dr. Barron earned a bachelor of science degree in geology at Florida State in 1973 before moving on to the University of Miami, where he earned master’s and doctoral degrees in oceanography, in 1976 and 1980, respectively. Dr. Barron spent 20 years of his career at Penn State, serving as dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences from 2002 to 2006, and as founding director of the Earth System Science Center, one of the first major initiatives focused on the total study of Earth as a system, from 1986 to 2002. He also had a simultaneous appointment as director of the Earth and Mineral Sciences Environment Institute from 1998 to 2002. In 1999, he was named Distinguished Professor of Geosciences at Penn State, and during his tenure as director, Industry Week magazine ranked him among “50 R&D Stars to Watch.”
An accomplished scientist with a long background in atmospheric research, Barron served as director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) from 2008 to 2010 and as dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin from 2006 to 2008. Early in his career, he was a postdoctoral research fellow and scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, a federal research center focusing on atmospheric and related science issues. Barron originally worked at NCAR as a postdoctoral fellow (1981–85) and served for one year on the faculty at the University of Miami before joining Penn State.
Over the decades, Barron has lent his significant expertise in the areas of atmospheric science and the geosciences to many national committees and federal organizations, including contributions as chair of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) science advisory board and nearly 20 years of service as the chair of multiple National Research Council committees and boards. Throughout his career he has earned numerous accolades and awards, including Penn State’s Wilson Award for Excellence in Teaching (1999); the National Aeronautic and Space Administration’s (NASA) Distinguished Public Service Medal (2003); and the Bridge Builders Leadership Award from the Martin Luther King Foundation of Florida (2012).
Barron is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society, the Geological Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has authored more than 125 peer-reviewed papers in geology, oceanography, and climate issues.
Ellen Laipson is the Director of the International Security program at the Schar School of Government and Public Policy at George Mason University. She joins George Mason University after a distinguished 25 year career in government and as President and CEO of the Stimson Center (2002-2015). She serves on a number of academic and other non-governmental boards related to international security and diplomacy, and is a weekly columnist for worldpoliticsreview.com. Her last post in government was Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council (1997-2002). She also served on the State Department’s policy planning staff, the National Security Council staff, and the Congressional Research Service. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, she serves on the Advisory Councils of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. She served on the board of the Asia Foundation (2003-2015). She was a member of the CIA External Advisory Panel from 2006-2009, President Obama’s Intelligence Advisory Board from 2009-2013, and on the Secretary of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board 2011-2014. Laipson has an M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University and an AB from Cornell University.
General James Cartwright (USMC, ret.) hails from Rockford, Illinois. He attended the University of Iowa and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marines in 1971. He was both a naval flight officer and naval aviator who flew the F-4 Phantom, OA-4 Skyhawk, and F/A-18 Hornet. In 1983, he was named Outstanding Carrier Aviator of the Year by the Association of Naval Aviation and went on to command Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 12, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 232, Marine Aircraft Group 31, and 1st Marine Aircraft Wing. He also served in a wide range of Marine and joint billets including as assistant program manager for engineering, F/A-18 Naval Air Systems Command; deputy, Aviation Plans, Policy, and Budgets, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps; and director, Force Structure, Resources and Assessment, J-8, Joint Staff.
General Cartwright graduated with distinction from the Air Command and Staff College, received an M.A. in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College, completed a fellowship with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was honored with a Naval War College Distinguished Graduate Leadership Award. Unique among Marines, General Cartwright served as commander, U.S. Strategic Command, before being nominated and appointed as the eighth vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s second-highest military officer. During his four-year tenure as vice chairman, across two presidential administrations and constant military operations against diverse and evolving enemies, General Cartwright became widely recognized for his technical acumen, vision of future national security concepts, and keen ability to integrate systems, organizations, and people in ways that encourage creativity and spark innovation in the areas of strategic deterrence, nuclear proliferation, missile defense, cyber security, and adaptive acquisition processes.
Malia K. Du Mont is Chief of Staff at Bard College. Prior to this position, she was Co-President and COO of Amur Equipment Finance, a nationally ranked commercial equipment finance company. Previously she held multiple positions in the Pentagon, including Director of Strategy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), where she managed the intelligence, strategic futures, and risk portfolio in addition to overseeing implementation of the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review.
She has covered South and Southwest Asian issues as a senior intelligence analyst in Afghanistan and at NATO, and as an assistant for special operations policy on the Joint Staff and in OSD. She also worked in homeland defense policy, focusing on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief planning, and on developing policy to respond to insider threats.
Malia is fluent in Spanish, French, and Mandarin and has worked in China as an English teacher, a TV news editor, and in the American Embassy. She also managed Chinese executive programs at Harvard, worked as a Chinese military affairs analyst at the CNA Corporation, and co-founded the China-Eurasia Forum. She has degrees from Bard College and Harvard University, and studied in the Hopkins-Nanjing program. Additionally, she is an intelligence officer in the Army Reserve. Malia volunteers on the boards of the Amur Foundation and the Alliance to Lead Impact in Global Human Trafficking, and on the Leadership Council for Arts in the Armed Forces.
Steve LeVine is Future Editor for Axios, a startup news site created by the founders of Politico, where he looks at the geopolitics, economics, and social impact of robots, artificial intelligence, and new energy technology. Steve is also a Future Tense Fellow at the New America Foundation and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, where he teaches energy security in the graduate-level Security Studies Program.
Previously, Steve was a foreign correspondent for eighteen years in the former Soviet Union, Pakistan and the Philippines, running a bureau for The Wall Street Journal, and before that writing for The New York Times, the Financial Times and Newsweek. Before joining Axios, Steve was on the team that launched Quartz, where he served as Washington Correspondent for four years.
The Powerhouse is Steve’s third book. In 2007, Random House published The Oil and the Glory, which chronicled the struggle for fortune and power on the Caspian Sea. BusinessWeek magazine selected it as a Top 10 book for the year. In 2008, Random House published Putin’s Labyrinth, a profile of Russia through the life and death of a half-dozen Russians. Both books are on numerous university reading lists.
Steve lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Nurilda, and their two daughters.
Debra Knopman is a Principal Researcher at the RAND Corporation and a Professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School She served as Vice President and Director of RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment, later called Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment from 2004 to 2014.
Knopman’s expertise is in hydrology, environmental and natural resources policy, systems analysis and operations research, and public administration. Her project work spans a range of topics including adaptation of urban regions to a changing climate, long-term water management, policy options for disposition of nuclear waste, governance and funding for U.S. Gulf Coast recovery, and the design of a National Research Fund for Qatar.
She served for six years (1997–2003) as a member of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board and chaired the board’s Site Characterization Panel. She was the director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s Center for Innovation and the Environment from 1995 to 2000. From 1993 to 1995, Knopman was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, U.S. Department of the Interior. She had previously been a research hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and later chief of the Branch of Systems Analysis in the USGS’s Water Resources Division. From 1979 to 1983, she served first as legislative assistant for energy and environmental issues to Senator Daniel P. Moynihan and then as professional staff member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Knopman earned her BA from Wellesley College, MSCE from M.I.T., and Ph.D. in geography and environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
Robert Lempert is a Principal Researcher at the RAND Corporation and Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition. His research focuses on decisionmaking under conditions of deep uncertainty, with an emphasis on climate change, energy, and the environment. Lempert and his research team assist a number of natural resource agencies in their efforts to include climate change in their long-range plans. He has also led studies on national security strategies and science and technology investment strategies for clients such as the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Lempert is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Panel on Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Political and Social Stresses, and a lead author for Working Group II of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report and for the IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. Lempert was the Inaugural EADS Distinguished Visitor in Energy and Environment at the American Academy in Berlin.
A professor of policy analysis in the Pardee RAND Graduate School, Lempert is an author of the book Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Longer-Term Policy Analysis. Lempert received his Ph.D. in applied physics and S.M. in applied physics and science policy from Harvard University.
Gen. C. Robert Kehler, USAF, Ret., is a senior fellow for the National Defense University in support of the Pinnacle, Capstone and Keystone programs.
General Kehler served as the Commander, United States Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, from January 2011 until November 2013.
As the Commander of United States Strategic Command, General Kehler was directly responsible to the Secretary of Defense and President for the plans and operations of all U. S. forces conducting global strategic deterrence, nuclear alert, global strike, space, cyberspace and associated operations. While in command, he crafted and implemented critical elements of policies and plans to deter strategic attacks against the United States and its key allies, and led a joint team of over 60,000 military and civilians to 100 percent mission success in multiple, high-stakes global operations. He also integrated Department of Defense activities for global missile defense, combating weapons of mass destruction, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. His forces directly supported combat operations in Southwest Asia and North Africa.
General Kehler’s military career spanned almost thirty-nine years of service that included progressively important operational and staff assignments. He was one of a very few officers to command at the squadron, group, wing, major command and combatant command levels, and he had a broad range of operational experience in Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, space launch, space control, space surveillance and missile warning units. Before taking command of USSTRATCOM, General Kehler commanded Air Force Space Command where he organized, trained and equipped over 46,000 professionals conducting mission-ready nuclear missile, space and cyberspace operations. In that role, he designed the Air Force’s inaugural blueprint, operating concept, organizational structure and personnel program to meet rapidly growing cyberspace challenges. Other command tours included the 508th Missile Squadron, 341st Operations Group, 30th Space Wing and 21st Space Wing. He also served as Deputy Commander, 351st Operations Group, Deputy Director of Operations, and as Deputy Commander of USSTRATCOM.
His staff assignments included tours with the Air Staff, Strategic Air Command, Air Force Space Command and the Joint Staff. He was also assigned to the Secretary of the Air Force’s Office of Legislative Liaison where he was the point man on Capitol Hill for matters regarding the President’s ICBM Modernization Program. As Director of the National Security Space Office, General Kehler integrated the activities of a number of DOD and Intelligence Community organizations on behalf of the Undersecretary of the Air Force and Director, National Reconnaissance Office.
He entered the Air Force in 1975 as a Distinguished Graduate of the Pennsylvania State University ROTC program, has master’s degrees from the University of Oklahoma in Public Administration and the Naval War College in National Security and Strategic Studies, and completed executive level programs at Carnegie-Mellon University, Syracuse University and Harvard University.
Roberto dos Reis Alvarez is the Executive Director of the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils (GFCC), a global organization that has members from more than 35 countries and catalyze cross-learning and the implementation of competitiveness and innovation strategies, policies and initiatives. He is also a research scholar at Arizona State University (ASU).
Dr. Alvarez was trained in Quality Control and Productivity Technique at the Japan Productivity Center and in exponential technologies and entrepreneurship at the NASA AMES-based Singularity University. He holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering and a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS; Brazil), as well as a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ; Brazil).
Before joining the GFCC and ASU, he was the Senior Manager of the Analysis and Strategic Projects Unit at the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI), an organization that he joined in 2005 and where he held several other positions.
During his time at ABDI, Dr. Alvarez coordinated ABDI’s bilateral innovation initiatives with the United States, Sweden and Germany, as well as economic integration initiatives with Africa and Latin America. He co-developed the C-Suite U.S. Brazil Innovation Summits and Innovation Learning Laboratory series, designed to spark business and research partnerships between the Western hemisphere’s two largest economies.
Dr. Alvarez has an innovation-driven business background, having worked as a management and operations consultant (manufacturing and logistics) and co-founded 3 tech companies. He taught graduate courses at different Brazilian universities and is an active angel investor.
Roberto dos Reis Alvarez has appeared in the media (Brazil, India, Russia, Sweden, Uruguay, US, Venezuela…) in different occasions. He was an angel investor and columnist for Startupi, Brazil’s leading media vehicle on startups and technology.
He currently sits on the board of Global Urban Development (GUD), a global network of thought leaders concerned with world’s urban problems, and is an advisor to Instituto Illuminante, a Brazilian nonprofit that promotes the development of the innovation ecosystem in the Country.
Martin Pietrucha received his Bachelor of Science degree, magna cum laude, in civil engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He also holds a Master of Science degree in civil engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in civil engineering from the University of Maryland. He has over 40 years experience in transportation engineering specializing in transportation policy, funding, and financing; highway design; highway traffic operations; highway safety; and human factors issues for a variety of public and private institutions.
Pietrucha recently served as the director of the Engineering Systems Program, a research, education, and outreach program that is at the nexus of engineering, management, and the social sciences at The Pennsylvania State University. He also completed a seven-year term as director of The Thomas D. Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute at PSU. The Larson Institute is an interdisciplinary research unit in Penn State’s College of Engineering. Over 250 faculty, students, and staff receive financial or administrative support from the institute, which performs nearly 18 million dollars of research annually. He recently served as the President of the Council of University Transportation Centers, a professional organization of university-based transportation research, education, and outreach units and as the President of the Research and Education Division of the American Road and Transportation Builders.
Pietrucha is a Professor of Civil Engineering with the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University Park campus of Penn State where he teaches courses in transportation policy, transportation engineering, highway engineering and safety, and human factors. He has been principal investigator or co‑principal investigator on numerous research projects for the Federal Highway Administration, the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
Pietrucha is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). He is past chair of the National Research Council’s Transportation Research Board Committee on Traffic Control Devices, ASCE’s Highway and Traffic Safety Committee, and ITE’s Transportation Education Council. He is also a registered Professional Engineer in the State of New Jersey.
Jan Kwakkel is an Associate Professor in the faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management Faculty at Delft Technical University. His research interest is model-based decision support for decision making under deep uncertainty. He is the lead developer of an open source workbench for exploratory modeling, scenario discovery, and multi-objective robust optimization. Over the last four years, he was funded through a VENI grant, which is a personal development grant of the Dutch National Science Foundation. His research focuses on the developing innovative model-based techniques for the design of dynamic adaptive policy pathways. Next to his research on decision making under deep uncertainty, Kwakkel also has an interested in text mining with a focus on analyzing scientific publications and patents.
Conrad Tucker is an Associate Professor of Engineering Design and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He is also an affiliate faculty in Computer Science and Engineering. Tucker is the director of the Design Analysis Technology Advancement (D.A.T.A) Laboratory. His research focuses on the design and optimization of complex systems through the acquisition, integration and mining of large scale, disparate data. Tucker has served as PI/Co-PI on several federally-funded grants from the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He is currently serving as PI and Site Director of an NSF I/UCRC: Industry/University Cooperative Research Center at Penn State. Tucker is part of the inaugural class of the Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) program. In February 2016, Tucker was invited by NAE President Dan Mote, to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee for the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers of Engineering.
Gina Guillaume-Joseph is an Information Systems Engineer at The MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia. In her current role, she acts as a trusted advisor to senior leadership in Federal Agencies by partnering with them to design enhancements to their work systems. Dr. Guillaume-Joseph’s work has led to improvements that allow the systems and processes to operate more efficiently and effectively in fulfillment of specific functions. Her various roles have been a software developer, test engineer, and quality assurance engineer within the private, government consulting, non-profit and telecommunications arenas. Dr. Guillaume-Joseph also serves as an Adjunct Professor and Doctoral Research Advisor at the George Washington University supporting students pursuing their doctorate in Systems Engineering. She is a conference presenter and published author and co-author of several journal publications and to include the newly published Wiley Series in Systems Engineering book, Trade-off Analytics: Creating and Exploring the System Tradespace.
Guillaume-Joseph received her B.A. in Computer Science from Boston College and M.S. in Information Systems from The University of Maryland. She obtained her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from The George Washington University with a topic focused on Predicting Software Project Failure Outcomes using Predictive Analytics and Modelling.
Guillaume-Joseph is currently the Director for Outreach and most recently has served as the Assistant Director for INCOSE Standards Initiatives where she makes every effort to ensure that INCOSE participates in any Systems Engineering standards development activity that represents the interests of all appropriate domains to include defense, government, commercial, academic, and all appropriate member regions. As such, the Standards Initiatives division is one of the most active communities within INCOSE.
John Regas is strategist, thinker, and speaker on the intersection among technology, complexity, and national security. He joined The MITRE Corporation last year as a Principal Intelligence Analyst. From 2005 to 2013, he served on the staff of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, including six years on the National Intelligence Council where he shepherded three National Intelligence Estimates and contributed to Global Trends 2030. He left government to join PwC’s corporate intelligence consulting practice to advise Fortune 500 clients on the full range of strategic threats. Seeking to get back in the fight after a foray into the private sector, in 2014 John joined Leidos, where he led a team of analysts that directly enabled counterterrorism operations worldwide. John subsequently contributed to national counterterrorism strategies and plans at NCTC and also supported the National Intelligence Manager for Cyber. Prior to his ODNI career, John served in other national security positions at FAA, DIA, State, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He has an M.A. from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and a B.A. from Ohio State University.
John’s thought leadership includes, Applying Information and Communications Technology in Humanitarian Response, Containing and Adapting to Digital Wildfires, and contributions to Global Trends 2030.
John lives in the walkable area of the City of Falls Church and has two daughters who are away at school. He enjoys fitness, hiking, swimming, Pilates, live music, and DC culture in all its forms.
Dan Cahoy specializes in the teaching and study of intellectual property law, as well as related issues in technology law and general business law concepts. He has published numerous articles in academic law journals on topics such as IP and alternative energy policy, FDA regulatory policy, reforming the U.S. patent system, the use of contracts to extend limited intellectual property rights, and the use of experimental economics to improve jury studies. In 2007, Professor Cahoy was awarded the Junior Faculty Award of Excellence, the Academy of Legal Studies in Business’s highest award for a junior faculty member. During the fall 2009 semester, Professor Cahoy was in residence at the University of Ottawa in Canada serving as the Fulbright Visiting Chair in International Humanitarian Law. He served on the Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed American Business Law Journal from 2005-2010, including as the Editor-in-Chief from 2009-2010, and now acts in an advisory capacity. Professor Cahoy is a Past President of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
Professor Cahoy is a patent attorney, licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and is admitted to the New York State Bar and several federal courts, including the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Prior to joining the University, Cahoy practiced in New York City at the large intellectual property-oriented law firm of Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto, where he specialized in complex patent litigation. He gained extensive experience in the development and protection of intellectual property rights in the chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology arts while working for such clients as Pfizer, Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., and Bausch & Lomb Incorporated. He is a member of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business and the American Intellectual Property Law Association.
Professor Cahoy is currently pursuing a number of projects related to the impact of property and intellectual property rights on natural gas extraction (fracking) and climate change (sustainable) technologies. He is also investigating aspects of university patent ownership, including license restrictions and the impact on stakeholders.
Commander Eric Popiel is a 1998 graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. Prior to his current assignment, CDR Popiel served as an Engineer Officer of the Watch, Auxiliary Division Chief, and Electrical Division Chief aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Chase. In 2001, he graduated from Navy Flight School in Corpus Christi Texas and has flown Coast Guard missions and instructed pilots in both the HU-25 Falcon Jet and the HC-144 Ocean Sentry. His aviation assignments include Air Station Miami, Air Station Cape Cod, and Aviation Training Center Mobile Alabama. He is currently assigned to the Emerging Policy Staff (DCO-X) under the Deputy Commandant for Operations at Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He manages the Evergreen Program, the Coast Guard’s Strategic Foresight Initiative, and serves as the co-leader of the Federal Foresight Community of Interest. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Joint Professional Military Education Level 1 certification, and a Masters degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College. He has attended advanced facilitator training at the Luma Institute, facilitated multiple workshops for Senior Coast Guard leaders, Senior Federal Executives, and foreign countries. He teaches Human Centered Design methodology, and provides foresight guidance to multiple federal agencies. He is married to Chelsea Hartz of Columbia Maryland and together they have two children; Lucas and Syndey. They reside in Odenton Maryland along with their golden retriever MaeDay.
Willem Auping is lecturer and researcher in the Policy Analysis section of the Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management at Delft Technical University. Earlier, he worked as a strategic analyst at the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, a The Hague based think tank. His research interests lie in the development and use of exploratory models: simulation models to explore the consequences of deep uncertainty. Willem uses these models for real-world policy analysis of grand societal challenges, including societal aging, the 2014 Ebola outbreak, future prices of resources like copper, oil, and gas, and state stability of rentier states. He currently teaches the System Dynamics (SD) starter course in the bachelor education offered by his faculty, which is the largest SD course in the world. Next to his work, Willem is an active amateur musician and chairman of a municipal department of a Dutch political party.
Bruce Vojak is Managing Director of Breakthrough Innovation Advisors, LLC, which was founded to help companies survive and thrive in a volatile, complex and increasingly ambiguous world. As a leading authority on Breakthrough Innovation, Bruce brings a unique and powerful combination of deep and broad expertise, as well as a rich network of other experts, to guide his clients in harnessing its benefits.
Spanning a career at the intersection of business and technology, Bruce has experienced and explored Breakthrough Innovation purposefully and variously. Having first established himself as a successful technology executive in industry, he understands first-hand the business need for and benefits of Breakthrough Innovation. Having later transitioned to academia, he followed his passion by conducting groundbreaking research on the practice of Breakthrough Innovation across a wide cross-section of mature companies and industries.
Bruce is co-author of Serial Innovators: How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2012) and five book chapters on innovation. He serves on the Board of Directors of Midtronics, Inc. and the Advisory Board of JVA Partners, periodically consults on the topic of innovation for Procter & Gamble, and regularly presents to, leads workshops for, and advises various other companies.
Prior to founding Breakthrough Innovation Advisors Bruce served as Associate Dean and Adjunct Professor in the top-ranked College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign. Earlier in his career he was Director of Advanced Technology for Motorola’s non-semiconductor components business, held research and business development positions of increasing responsibility at Amoco Corporation, and was on the research staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He holds BS (with Highest Honors), M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA, with concentrations in finance and marketing, from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
Anthony Atchley is Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Acoustics in Penn State’s College of Engineering. Atchley joined Penn State as head of the Graduate Program in Acoustics in 1997 after serving as chair of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Physics Department. He became associate dean in 2008. As Associate Dean, Atchley’s responsibilities include oversight of research administration and development, budget and finance, faculty affairs, human resources, intellectual property, facilities, and network and information systems. He has served as Deputy Director for the Department of Energy’s Energy Efficient Buildings (EEB) Hub since 2011. From 2004-2009, Atchley was Penn State’s Principal Investigator for the FAA/NASA/Transport Canada-sponsored Partnership for Air Transportation Noise and Emissions Reduction (PARTNER) Center of Excellence, led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Atchley has conducted research in areas including shock formation in very high amplitude noise, measurements of noise from commercial aircraft and sub- and super-sonic military jets, acoustic propagation modeling, optical imaging of sound fields, ultrasonics, oscillatory boundary layer processes, and acoustic heat transport. Atchley is Fellow and Past-President of the Acoustical Society of America, past member of the American Institute of Physics Governing Board Executive Committee, and currently serves on the American Society for Engineering Education’s Engineering Research Council Board of Directors.
Darryl Farber is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Engineering Design at Penn State University, where he also serves as the Managing Director of the Engineering Systems Program.
Farber’s work focuses on strategic foresight of engineering systems and policy, primarily on critical infrastructures for security and resilience. Using scenario planning and systems analysis, he and colleagues conduct workshops with diverse stakeholders to understand critical infrastructure strategic risks. Recently, he has developed the course: “Global Trends: Strategic Analysis and Systems Thinking for Leadership.”
Farber serves on the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal Committee and on the Executive Committee of the Council of Engineering Systems Universities.
