Professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Purdue University

Chief Executive Officer, Horizon3.ai

Developer Relations Engineer, Google

Executive AI Solutions Officer, Dell Technologies

Executive Director of Purdue Online Academics and Strategic Initiatives, Purdue University

Vice President of Life Science Software, Schrödinger

Indiana State Senator, Indiana Legislature

State Sen. Liz Brown has served Hoosiers since 2014 as a member of the Indiana Senate. She represents Senate District 15, which includes portions of Allen County. Brown serves as member of the Senate Committees on Appropriations, Corrections and Criminal Law, Ethics, Health and Provider Services and Judiciary. She is also a member of the Senate School Funding Subcommittee and advisory member to the Distressed Unit Appeals Board. In 2023, Brown was named the Midwest Region Champion of Innovation due to her work on cybersecurity and data privacy issues.

Outside of the General Assembly, Brown is the legislative representative on the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership’s Regional Opportunities Council and has served on the Indiana
School for the Blind and Visually Impaired Board since 2016. Brown holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Notre Dame and a Juris Doctor from the University of Iowa.
Brown and her husband, Steve, reside in Fort Wayne. They are the proud parents of seven children and have five grandchildren, two cats named Walker and Texas Ranger, and one dog named Corby.

Cloud AI Customer Engineer, Google

Professor of Civil Engineering
Director of the Joint Transportation Research Program, Purdue University

Field CTO for Education at Google Public Sector
Head of Industry at Google Cloud, Google

Chief Information Officer, Indiana Secretary of State

Director, Institute for Physical AI
Samuel D. Conte Professor, Computer Science

Director for State Engagement, Center for Democracy and Technology

Dr. Travis Hall is the State Director for CDT, where he helps to champion, coordinate, and strategize CDT’s policy initiatives at the state level.

Prior to joining CDT, Dr. Hall served as the Associate Administrator for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Office of Policy Analysis and Development. In this role, he oversaw NTIA’s policy development on issues including Artificial Intelligence, privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, national security, and telecommunications. Prior to this position, Dr. Hall served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Assistant Secretary and acting Deputy Associate Administrator for the Office of Policy Analysis and Development at NTIA.

Before joining the Department of Commerce in 2015, Travis taught at American University and was a research fellow at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin, Germany. He received his PhD in Media, Culture, and Communications from New York University, and his MA in International Communications and BA in International Relations from American University.

Chief Information Officer, Ohio Department of Youth Services

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University

Head of Education and Workforce, Grow with Google

Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University

Chief Digital and Information Officer, Corteva Agriscience

Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, US Department of Transportation

Seval Oz serves as the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology. In this role, she is charged with aligning the Department’s research, development, and technology programs with President Trump and Secretary Duffy’s strategic goals and promoting innovation deployment across the national transportation system.

Seval was the Senior Business Development and Global Partnerships Lead at Google [X]’s Self Driving Car Program that later evolved into Waymo, where she owned partnership portfolio programming. Subsequently, as CEO of Continental Intelligent Transportation Systems, she was responsible for building a new business unit for Continental AG based in Silicon Valley and spearheading advancements in connected vehicle technology and digital transformation. Seval also served as CEO of Aurima, leading the development of camera-radar hardware and machine learning for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving platforms.

Seval has held advisory and board positions in the mobility sector, including Member of the Board for Microvision, (MVIS- Nasdaq) a leader in automotive lidar technologies, and Executive Board Advisor for Pioneer Electronics, a next generation telematics and infotainment global supplier. She was a founding partner for Archimede Ventures, an early-stage artificial intelligence software fund focused on transportation technologies including global logistics, delivery, routing, ADAS, and robotics. Investments. As a Strategic Advisor for Moove.ai, she guided business and technical strategies for end-to- end-predictive road intelligence analytics.

Seval holds an MBA in finance and marketing from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Wellesley College and MIT. She has nine patents in vehicular technology software and has been published in MIT Technology Review. A well-known public speaker, she has shared her transportation technology expertise through numerous keynotes, panels, and roundtables at industry conferences, university lectures, technical workshops, and global tours.

Commissioner, Indiana Department of Transportation

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

Principal Scientist, Computational Chemistry, Evotec

Jacob Remington, Ph.D., is a Principal Scientist at Evotec, where he leads the development and application of advanced AI technologies for real-world pharmaceutical discovery programs. His work combines generative AI, multimodal transformer architectures, computational chemistry, and large-scale GPU computing to help identify and optimize novel therapeutics. Working at the interface of AI and medicinal chemistry, he focuses on translating cutting-edge machine learning methods into practical tools that address current drug discovery challenges and integrate seamlessly into scientific workflows. Over the course of his career, he has contributed to in silico and AI-enabled approaches spanning virtual screening, QSAR modeling, targeted protein degraders, antimicrobial peptide design, and molecular simulation. Dr. Remington earned his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Montana State University and has published in peer-reviewed journals on computational chemistry, machine learning, and drug discovery. He is particularly interested in bridging advances in AI with the expertise of medicinal chemists and drug discovery scientists to accelerate pharmaceutical R&D.

Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

Chief Executive Officer, Benefits Data Trust

Trooper Sanders is president of the State AI Safety Roundtable, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to support and strengthen the role of states in advancing trustworthy AI and good governance. Trooper has spent nearly a decade working on AI including serving a term on the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee where he co-chaired the workforce and opportunity working group and leading efforts to use data and AI to improve access to public benefits. Trooper has served in White House policy roles in two administrations and grown a number of domestic and international social impact ventures. He is a member of Purdue University’s Military Family Research Institute advisory committee. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, London School of Economics, and the University of London. 

Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Research and Education Executive Lead, Google

Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University

Industry Business Development Manager, NVIDIA

Zihan Wang leads global business development in AgTech at NVIDIA. He started his career as an engineer at Argonne National Lab and was a management consultant at Ernst and Young.

Head of Transportation Strategy and Partnerships, Google