Mr. Kevin L. Faulconer became the 36th mayor of San Diego on March 3, 2014, on a campaign message of bringing San Diego together and restoring integrity to City Hall. Shortly after taking office, Mayor Faulconer began implementing his vision for "One San Diego," a unified city with an inclusive city government that creates opportunities for San Diegans and delivers results for every neighborhood.

Mr. SIEGEL assumed the post of Consul General of Israel in Los Angeles in August 2011, where he serves as the senior representative of the State of Israel to the Southwestern United States. Most recently, Mr. Siegel served as Chief of Staff to Israel's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. In this role, he was involved in policy formulation and decision-making at the senior levels of Israel's foreign policy establishment. Previously, Mr. Siegel served two terms at the Embassy of Israel in DC.

Dean Roberts is the founding dean of the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering at the University of San Diego (USD). He assumed his duties in July of 2013. During his first few years as dean at USD, Dr. Roberts led a team to develop a new general engineering degree that will house concentrations in sustainability, embedded software engineering, and bioengineering. These new areas were selected based on the region’s economic base and the potential for USD to contribute to San Diego. He also led

In 2004 Mr Elimelech was assigned to the directorate of R&D in the Ministry Of Defense.In this position, among other duties, Elimelech led the technological campaign dealing with armor protection technologies including the most advanced Active Protection Systems and Robotics Systems. In his last position at IMOD has served as the R&D Attaché at the Embassy of Israel in Washington DC, U.S. As R&D Attaché, he was responsible for R&D as well as S&T cooperation between the United States and Israel.

Mr. Gary Jacobs founded Jacobs Investment Company, a co. that participates in investment activities throughout the U.S., Israel and abroad. He serves as chairman of the board for DermTech International, Nutrinia Ltd., and Next Generation Technologies, and is a director of GEO2 Technologies, Bio2 Technologies, Motus GI Technologies, M.S.T - Medical Surgical Technologies, and Fallbrook Technologies. He owns the Lake Elsinore Storm Professional Baseball team. Mr. Jacobs severs UCSD BODs

Tina Beranbaum is managing partner of Centauric, a global consultancy that works with senior leaders and their teams to build high performance and scalable organizations. Her clients include startups, Fortune 100 businesses and federal regulators. Prior to founding Centauric, Dr. Beranbaum was a professor of Industrial Relations and Organization Behavior at McGill University where her research interests included corporate ethics and organization culture.

Member of Mintz Levin’s San Diego office as an honorary speaker at the Expo. Mr. Danzig has extensive experience in employment law and in intellectual property litigation and complex commercial litigation. He also served for 6 years as a member of his firm's Policy Committee. His work has focused on litigation in the areas of trade secrets, , employee mobility, wrongful termination, contracts, defamation, wage and hour, and unfair competition. As part of his counseling pract

Dr. Mike Lawless leads Entrepreneurship initiatives at the School of Business Administration at the University of San Diego. Since 2011, he founded, and then tripled participation and funding for the V2 Pitch Competition and the USD Legacy Entrepreneurship Conference. Mike launched a mentoring program for student entrepreneurs, and a process to help Mexican entrepreneurs to develop their new ventures. His article on “stretch goals” won the Academy of Management Review Best Article of 2011. M

One of America’s most dynamic speakers, is recognized as one of the leading executive coaches in the country. A highly sought after business consultant, he was named one of the top 100 thought leaders by the prestigious Leadership Excellence Magazine for his accomplishments in leadership development, managerial effectiveness and organizational productivity. He has been featured on NBC, CBS, CNBC and FOX TV and his new book, Seven Disciplines of Leader, was released on November 24, 2014 with all

Nikia Clarke joins WTC San Diego with an extensive background in global business strategy, foreign direct investment (FDI) policy research and investment trends consulting. She is a graduate of Oxford University with a Ph.D. in international relations, and has spent the last ten years working in the private, public, and non-profit sectors in the U.S., the U.K., China and South Africa, and is founder and former director of OUCAN, an international network of emerging market industry leaders.

Vice President, Thomson Instrument Company. Sam is a biochemist and molecular biologist who has worked in industry for 13+ years on process development for different analytical and fermentation processes. Sam Holds more that 15+ patents worldwide and has contributed to development of many techniques within the realm of analytical sciences and biochemistry. He serves as the Vice President of Thomson Instrument Company. He was recently co-chair of a session at Recent Advancement of Fermentation te

Professor Astrophysicist at UC San Diego's Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences (CASS). Brian G. Keating, an assistant professor of physics, and Katerina Akassoglou, an assistant professor of pharmacology, were among this year's recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. They were given their awards, which consists of up to five years of research funding, at a White House ceremony today by John H. Marburger III, President Bush's science

Sean Barr, Senior Vice President, Economic Development at San Diego Regional EDC.

UCSD Chancellor's Associates. Arthur Lipper is a leading innovator in the field of financial services, with more than five decades of experience in world financial markets. Through the Lipper Index, and the international Lipper Fund Performance Awards, he pioneered breakthroughs in the fields of mutual fund analysis, stock index futures and mutual funds. Mr. Lipper formed two New York Stock Exchange member firms, Arthur Lipper Corporation and New York & Foreign Securities.

Gilbert Campbell is one of the co-founders and principals of Volt Energy. Volt Energy is a renewable energy development firm that builds, operates, and maintains state-of the-art solar energy systems for commercial, industrial, government and educational institutions. Gilbert was recently named to EBONY magazine's 2014 Power 100 List, which recognizes influential achievements by African-Americans annually. Additionally, under Gilbert's leadership, Volt Energy is nationally recognized.

Deputy Director AutoAgronom Israel ltd. Roi is AutoAgronom’s (AA) deputy director. He is mostly engaged with the company’s international business development with a focus on China, where he resides and oversee the company’s activities. Roi holds a BA in Economics, Philosophy and Political Science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He lives in Beijing and defines himself as an “environmentalist”.

Yair Vardi, Director of Academic Affairs, Consulate General of Israel, Los Angeles

Gavin is a principal engineer in Corporate Research at Qualcomm leading the network architecture and security design for 5G. Gavin has over 15 years’ experience in communications and holds over 100 patents related to cellular technologies. Gavin has contributed to many areas of 4G design including the femto cells, relay, WLAN interworking and traffic offload features. Prior to Qualcomm, Gavin worked in video compression and reliable content delivery. He received a PhD in electrical engineering.

Howard Singer is a Medical Device Industry Expert with 40 years of industry experience. He founded and led the IBM Medical Device Industry Consulting Practice for 15 years. He previously spent 20 years with Grant Thornton, where he was the Managing Partner responsible for the firm’s Manufacturing and Distribution Industry Practice. He currently provides critical advice , strategy and consulting services to Medical Device Industry Companies. Howard holds a BA & MBA.

Founder and CEO at Stiya, a startup changing the way we capture search and share memories. Previously, Ilana founded Quali US, an enterprise cloud orchestration company and brought it from unknown business in the US to an industry standard with multimillion dollar deals. Engineering, product management and leading technical sales in major accounts and was part of a startup exit ~$300M (Veracity). BSc Hardware and software engineering in Technion - institute of Technology.

Glenn Johnson, Senior Vice President, Magic Software. Glenn Johnson is a Senior Vice President at Magic Software Americas. Mr. Johnson is the author of the award-winning blog "Integrate My JDE" on ittoolbox.com and contributor to the Business Week Guide to Multimedia Presentations (Osborne-McGraw Hill). He has presented at Collaborate, Interop, COMMON, CIO Logistics Forum and dozens of other user groups and conferences. His interviews on software industry issues have been aired on the NBC Today.

Anis Bishara is an Application Engineer at ICS^2 where he develops cybersecurity software for critical infrastructure. Before this, he helped developed advanced Industrial Control Systems to control solar-thermal power plants including Ivanpah, where we was the plant's first solar-side operator. Anis holds an M.Sc. in Applied Physics, B.Sc. in Computer Engineering and Applied Physics, and an M.B.A. from the Hebrew University.

Jewish Agency Israel Fellow. Gal graduated with a degree in Economics and Management from the Academic College of Tel Aviv–Jaffa, with an emphasis on capital markets. In college, he was the vice chair of the Student Union and founded three business. One was a students-teaching-students social enterprise. Another, called SeatApp, lets restaurant customers order and pay from their smartphone at their seats. The third company, which developed currency options alto-trading software.

Venkat Shastri is Professor of Practice at the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering in the University of San Diego, CA. Until September 2015, he was Chief Industry Advisor of PCN Technology, Inc., a role he assumed in December 2013. In the preceding eight years, as President and CEO, he grew PCN into a market leader in communication, industrial networking and energy management solutions. Venkat was VP of Engineering between 2002 – 2004 at Palomar Technologies, a packaging equipment.

Attorney, Financial Strategist, Business Advisor and Investor Relations Professional Executive advisor and operations leader with 20+ years helping companies improve their business performance. History of success driving revenue and profitability gains with highly competitive organizations in multiple sectors of the Private Banking, Financial and Investor Relations, both in USA and iabroad, industries. Demonstrated ability to build and lead global sales and operating teams.