David Cummins

Executive Director, President and CEO
Blue Sky Maritime Coalition

April Danos

Vice President
OD Grant Solutions, LLC

Jeffrey DeCoux

Chairman
Autonomy Institute

Dr. Joe Direnzo III

Director of Research Partnerships
U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center

Javier Franco

Maritime Lawyer and Research Professor
Universidad del Externado, Colombia

Julio R. Gonzalez

Supervisory Protective Security Advisor- Gulf of Mexico U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Natascha A. Gutermuth

Lead Program Manager
Biometrics Program Office
U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Robert Hawn

Vice President, Maritime Affairs
WGMA

Brian P. Hill

Director, Western Gulf Gateway U.S. Maritime Administration Dept. of Transportation

Geir-Eilif Kalhagen

Director of Maritime Texas Dept. of Transportation

Margaret A. Kidd

Program Director/Instructional Associate Professor, Supply Chain & Logistics
University of Houston

Vesa Koivumaa

Head of Growth
Wartsila Voyage

Starr Long

Executive Producer
The Acceleration Agency

Stephen Metruck

Executive Director
Port of Seattle

Marco Poisler

Chief Operating Officer – Global Energy & Capital Projects UTC Overseas, Inc.

Col. Randall Pugh, USMC (ret.)

Vice Provost, Warfare Studies
Director, Naval Warfare Studies Institute
Naval Postgraduate School

Jean-Paul Rodrigue, PhD

Author and Professor
Department of Maritime Business Administration
Texas A&M – Galveston

Hady Salloum, PhD

Professor
University of Houston

Rohit Saxena

Director, Facility Planning
Planning

Elliott Vera

Americas Technology Project Manager
Shell Shipping and Maritime

David Walker

Vice President
ABS

Chris Wolski

Founder and CEO
Applied Security Convergence
(ASC)

Dan Yuska

Director
Office of Environment and Innovation
U.S. Maritime Administration