Dr. Igor Mezić is Chief Technology Officer and Chief Scientist at MixMode AI. Mezic works on operator-theoretic methods in nonlinear dynamical systems and control theory and their applications in fluid dynamics, energy efficient design and operations and complex systems dynamics. He did his Dipl. Ing. in Mechanical Engineering in 1990 at the University of Rijeka, Croatia and his Ph. D. in Applied Mechanics at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Mezic was a postdoctoral researcher at the Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, UK in 1994-95. From 1995 to 1999 he was a member of Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he is currently a Professor. In 2000-2001 he worked as an Associate Professor at Harvard University in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He won the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award from NSF and the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award on "Control of Mixing" from IEEE. He also won the United Technologies Senior Vice President award for Science and Technology Special Achievement Prize in 2007. He was an Editor of Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Mechanics and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. Dr. Mezic is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), Fellow of Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the Director of the Center for Energy Efficient Design and Head of Buildings and Design Solutions Group at the Institute for Energy Efficiency at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Claire Zulkey is an experienced professional writer based in her home town of Evanston, IL. The author and co-author of numerous books, she began her freelance career in 1998 and since then has had bylines in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Entrepreneur and Vice.
Ken Walker is the Chief Technology Officer for Owl Cyber Defense. He joined Owl in August 2019 following the merger of Owl and Tresys Technology, having spent 13 years at Tresys. Bringing nearly 30 years of experience in information systems security, he is responsible for the planning, creation, maintenance, and support of all Owl packaged solutions and products. Before Tresys, Ken was the Co-founder and Chief Architect for Secure Methods, Inc. where he was responsible for the development of the company's product suite. Ken was a senior security engineer for Trusted Information Systems, Inc. where he worked on a variety of security projects including the Gauntlet firewall, Domain and Type Enforcement, key escrow, and Trusted Xenix. In addition, Ken held related technical positions with DynCorp and Booz-Allen Hamilton.
Dan Conrad is Federal CTO, Field Strategist, and Identity and Access Management Specialist at One Identity. He has been with One Identity/Quest Software since 2007 where his roles have included Systems Consultant and a Solutions Architect for Compliance Solutions. He retired from the USAF in 2004 and returned to government IT as a contractor where his primary focus was Active Directory design, migration, and sustainment. He holds many certifications, the highlights include CISSP, MCITP, and MCSE/MCSA.
