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Keynote Speakers – 2022 IEOM Orlando Conference
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Conference Welcome and Opening:<\/span><\/strong> Sunday, June 12<\/strong>, 2022, 10:00 – 10:20 am am<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Opening Keynote I: Sunday, June 12<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>, 2022, 10:20 – 11:00 am<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Randy Avent<\/strong><\/span>
\nPresident<\/span>
\nFlorida Polytechnic University<\/span>
\nFlorida, USA<\/span><\/h3>\n

Dr. Randy K. Avent is founding president of Florida Polytechnic University, the state\u2019s only public university dedicated 100% to STEM. Named the University\u2019s inaugural president in 2014, Avent is responsible for its development and operation, and is committed to strategically advancing Florida Poly as a research-and-jobs institution, an agent for growth, and a beacon for the economy.
\nHis career exemplifies the qualities of innovation, leadership, and entrepreneurship the University seeks to instill in students. An accomplished academician, senior administrator, and research scientist, Avent has an extensive background teaching and directing research at higher-education institutions dedicated to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Keynote II:<\/span> Sunday, June 12, 2022, 11:00 – 11:40 am<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Kay M. Stanney, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/span>
\nCEO and Founder, Design Interactive, Inc.<\/span>
\nMember, National Academy of Engineering (NAE)<\/span>
\nOrlando, Florida, USA<\/span><\/h3>\n

Dr. Kay M. Stanney is CEO and Founder of Design Interactive (DI), Inc., a woman-owned, small business focused on human-systems integration. She is recognized as a leader in eXtended Reality (XR, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality) systems, especially as they relate to training, human performance, and cybersickness. In 2019, she was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for her contributions to human factors engineering through virtual reality technology and strategic leadership. Her research has influenced the design of current generation XR headsets, Universal Studios and Disney immersive experiences, Chevron immersive environments, Procter & Gamble training solutions, as well as numerous military XR systems. Stanney has been a pioneer in formalizing XR R&D by serving as editor of the Handbook of Virtual Environments: Design, Implementation, and Applications (1st edition, 2002, LEA; 2nd edition, 2014, CRC Press), cofounding\/ co-chairing the 1st International Conference on Virtual Reality, and co-founding the Virtual Environments Technical Group (VETG) within the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. In recognition of these efforts, Dr. Stanney received the 2006 IEEE Virtual Reality Technical
\nAchievement Award from the IEEE Computer Society, an award designed to honor individuals for their seminal technical achievement in virtual and augmented reality.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Keynote III:<\/span> Sunday, June 12, 2022, 11:40 am – 12:20 pm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Professor Alex Frino<\/strong><\/span>
\nDeputy Vice-Chancellor (Global Strategy)<\/span>
\nUniversity of Wollongong<\/span>
\nWollongong, NSW, Australia<\/span><\/h3>\n

Professor Alex Frino is a distinguished financial economist who fosters the interaction of business with academe. He is an alumnus of UOW and Cambridge University, and a former Fulbright Scholar.<\/p>\n

He is one of the best published financial economists in the world with over 100 papers in leading scholarly journals. He has won over $10 million in competitive research funding and is frequently cited in the global press.<\/p>\n

Professor Frino was previously Chief Executive Officer of the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre Ltd and has held visiting academic positions at leading Universities in Italy, New Zealand, the UK and the United States. He has also held positions with leading financial market organisations, including the Sydney Futures Exchange, Credit Suisse and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the USA.<\/p>\n

He is regularly called upon to act as an independent expert witness in major Australian court cases and has acted as a consultant to many large Australian listed companies.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Keynote IV:<\/span> Sunday, June 12, 2022, 12:20 – 1:00 pm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ms. Jessica Ascough<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Chief Software Architect, AI Solutions Architect, Data Scientist
\n<\/span>L3Harris Technologies
\nFlorida, USA<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Jessica Ascough is a L3Harris Technologies Scientist. Over the past twenty-eight years Jessica has served as a Chief Software Engineer, Chief Software Architect, Principal Investigator, Solutions Architect, and Data Scientist, identifying and developing software, system, security, mission critical network, energy, predictive analytics, algorithmic processing chain, and artificial intelligence solutions and services for proprietary and commercial programs.<\/p>\n

Jessica has five U.S. patents for Seismic Analysis and one patent pending for Patterns-of-Life\/Patterns-of-Activity Normalcy Models. Jessica\u2019s L3Harris awards include \u201cTrusted Advisor & Industry Thought Leader\u201d, \u201cInnovation\u201d, \u201cRainmaker\u201d, \u201cBeyond the Call of Duty\u201d, \u201cOutstanding Leadership\u201d, \u201cTeamwork\u201d, \u201cGolden Quill\u201d, and \u201cBest Conference Paper\u201d.\u00a0 Jessica has actively participated in, and presented at, organizations and conferences such as the North American SynchroPhasor Initiative (NASPI).<\/p>\n

Jessica was the 2010 Co-Chair of the Cybersecurity Working Group for the international Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC).<\/p>\n

Currently, Jessica is performing Chief Systems Engineer duties for an analytics hybrid cloud App Store Marketplace. Recently, Jessica architected an unsupervised real-time dissimilar phenomenologies generalized upstream fusion framework, that is mission and data independent, to generate generic normalcy models.<\/p>\n

Previously, Jessica worked ten years with Florida Power Corporation, now Duke Energy, and was the first female Journeyman Lineman, constructing, maintaining, and troubleshooting electrical power distribution and transmission lines.<\/p>\n

Jessica holds a Bachelor\u2019s of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) from USF, a Master\u2019s of Science in Engineering Management (MSEM) from UCF, and a Master\u2019s of Science in Predictive Analytics (MSPA) from Northwestern University.<\/p>\n

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Monday, June 13, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Conference Chair Remarks: Monday, June 13, 2022, 10:00 – 10:20 am<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Keynote V<\/strong>:<\/span> Monday, June 13, 2022, 10:20 – 11:00 am<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Regiane Relva Romano<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nProfessor and Head of Smart Cities at Facens <\/span>
\nAdvisor to Brazil\u2019s Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication, Brazil<\/span><\/h3>\n

Has over 30 years of international experience working in technology and innovation. Former as Special Adviser to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation in Brazil. Head of Research and General Coordinator at Smart Campus FACENS, a prototype of a Smart City inside the College, that received the \u201cTop Educational\/ABMES\u201d and the \u201cInnovation GS1\u201d awards in 2016; \u201cSmart City UK-London\u201d in 2017; \u201cBest IoT Implementation Europe IdTechEx\u201d; \u201cTop of Academy\/RFIDBR\/2018\u201d and \u201cInovaCidade\u201d at Smart City Business America 2019. Also work as CEO at VIP-SYSTEMS Inform\u00e1tica. Writer. Professor at FGV, FIA, ESALQ\/USP, FDC, EINSTEIN and FACENS. International speaker. Consultant of innovation and technologies applied to businesses, retail and Smart Cities. As a researcher in the business and emerging technologies, she has lectured in China, Dubai, Germany, Colombia, Poland, The Netherlands, Uruguay, Canada, Spain, Per\u00fa, Portugal, United States, and others. She developed the First Smart Store in Latin America, in 2011, and is widely recognized as an expert in topics related to Smart and Sustainable Cities, retail, RFID and technology. She earned a Ph.D. in a concentration in Information Technology Management, at FGV and a Master\u2019s degree in Informatics Management of Information Systems from PUC-CAMPINAS. She completed some studies in the improvement of international Retailing at the University of Ohio, in RFID at the University of Arkansas, in Business at Columbia University and in Smart Cities at Lleida University.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Keynote VI:<\/span> Monday, June 13<\/strong>, 2022, 11:00 – 11:40 am<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"H.D. Polumbo Jr.<\/strong><\/span>
\nMaj Gen USAF (retired)<\/span>
\nFounding Partner and Senior Consultant<\/span>
\nTwo Blue Aces LLC<\/span>
\nWinter Haven, Florida, USA<\/span><\/h3>\n

Major General H.D. “Jake” Polumbo (ret) is a founding partner and senior consultant for Two Blue Aces, LLC, a leadership firm that specializes in strategic reviews, business plan development, leadership training and mentoring. His primary focus is in the defense and aerospace sectors, with an emphasis on leadership and business networking.<\/p>\n

In 2015, after 34 years of service, Jake retired from the Air Force as the commander of the Ninth Air Force in South Carolina, comprising eight active-duty wings in the southeastern United States with more than 450 aircraft and over 29,000 active-duty and civilian personnel.<\/p>\n

He entered active duty as a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1981 and commanded at the squadron, group, and three times at the wing level. He served in strategic planning positions in Europe as the director of strategy and plans at U.S. Africa Command and in the Pentagon as the assistant deputy director for Global Operations on the Joint Staff. \u00a0General Polumbo also served as a task force commander in Afghanistan in 2012. He attended the Federal Executive Institute and was a Senior Fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy.<\/p>\n

A decorated command pilot, Jake logged over three thousand flying hours in all models of the F-16 and holds the distinction as the first and only U.S. Air Force general officer to fly the U-2S in combat, completing twenty-one missions in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.<\/p>\n

Jake is the Past Chair on the Board of the Central Florida Development Council, serves as an advisor for the aviation program at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida, and also volunteers for his church in various capacities. He is active in the local General Aviation community, is a Certified Flight Instructor – Instrument (CFII) in single and multi-engine land aircraft as well as an instructor pilot in single engine seaplanes. \u00a0Jake and his wife Sandra, a Florida native, have been married for forty years. Their oldest son, Chad, is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force with his wife, Julie, and they have two sons, Nolan and Garrett. \u00a0Jake and Sandra’s youngest son, Erik, lives in Virginia with his wife, Alexine, where they run four very successful businesses together.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Keynote VII: Monday, June 13<\/span><\/span>,<\/span> 2022, 11:40 am – 12:20 pm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Duane Davis<\/span><\/strong>
\nChief Physician Executive AdventHealth Institutes
\nOrlando, Florida, USA<\/span><\/h3>\n

Dr. Duane Davis is the Chief Physician Executive of AdventHealth Institutes. As CPE, Dr. Davis oversees the Cardiovascular, Cancer, Neurosciences, Orthopedic, Digestive Diseases and Surgery Institutes of AdventHealth Central Florida Division based in Orlando, Florida. He is responsible for strategy, quality and consultative engagement for the finances and operations of these Institutes, all nationally ranked or recognized by U.S. News & World Report. He remains clinically active in the lung transplant and CTEPH programs.
\nPrior to joining AdventHealth, Dr. Davis was Professor of Surgery and Director of Transplantation at Duke University Medical Center, where he served for over two decades. Prior to leaving Duke, he had performed the most lung transplants worldwide. Published in more than 250 referred journals, Dr. Davis has also contributed to 27 books and over 150 selected abstracts. As an expert in his field, Dr. Davis has been served as a consultant on over 58 advisory boards and committees and has given numerous educational presentations worldwide. His areas of research interest include: the role of environmental exposure and innate immunity of chronic pulmonary allograft injury; optimization of donor lung utilization\u2014novel strategies to preserve and improve lung organ function; lung transplant outcomes; and tolerance in lung transplantation. Since 2010, his research has raised NIH external support exceeding $4 million. He is currently licensed to practice medicine in Florida, North Carolina, Missouri and Virginia, and certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners, the American Board of Surgery, and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Davis received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of California medical school in Los Angeles, California, and later earned a Master of Business Administration from Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, focused on Health Sector Management. He holds two Bachelor of Science degrees from Stanford University in Chemical Engineering and Biologic Sciences. He is married with three children and resides in Winter Park, Florida.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Keynote VIII: Monday, June 13<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>, 2022, 12:20 – 1:00 pm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Ms. Donna Slyster<\/strong>
\nSenior Vice President and CIO
\nSaddle Creek Logistics Services
\nFlorida, United States<\/span><\/h3>\n

Quality-driven Global Supply Chain and Information Technology Executive who delivers consistent successful results for increased shareholder value, business profitability, customer satisfaction and employee engagement. Exceptional in building global teams and creating business partnerships that drive improved performance and innovation. Extensive experience in developing Supply Chain solutions, process improvements, system implementations and people leadership. Skilled in the following competencies:<\/p>\n