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VP – Chief Data Scientist, Microsoft Corporation Juan M. Lavista Ferres is currently the Chief Scientist and Lab Director of the Microsoft AI For Good Research Lab, where he works with a team of data scientists and researchers  in AI, Machine Learning and statistical modeling, working across Microsoft AI [...]

Sesh Velamoor, recognized as a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, has had a unique and distinguished career in three different fields spanning over nearly 45 years: in business, as a member of boards, chief executive and consultant in the electromechanical manufacturing industry; as a lecturer [...]

HistorianAlice Miller has been collecting women’s military, service and civilian uniforms and outfits for over 20 years. Her collection spans from 1898 to today’s women. She has a deep appreciation for history. As she started collecting the uniforms she found that each and every uniform or outfit told a story [...]

Anna Swenson is the Outreach Manager at Recompose, where she leads marketing, public policy, and community outreach. Recompose is an ecological death care company based in Seattle. Recompose was the first funeral home to offer the process of natural organic reduction, also known as human composting, which gently transforms [...]

Primary Healthcare Performance Initiative – Ariadne Labs Dr. Zeina Ali Siam is a Senior Research Manager at the Primary Healthcare Team at Ariadne Labs, and the technical lead for the Primary Healthcare Performance Initiative. Previously, Dr Siam was Associate Program Officer at the Polio Team within the Bill and [...]

A partner at Northwest Eye Surgeons, Dr. Rostov is Director of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery and Global Medical Liaison at SightLife.  Dr. Rostov completed her preclinical medical education at Harvard Medical School and a research fellowship in ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary before receiving her M.D. [...]

NW News Network (heard on KUOW)Since January 2004, Austin Jenkins has been the Olympia-based political reporter for the Northwest News Network. In that position, Austin covers Northwest politics and public policy, as well as the Washington State Legislature. You can also see Austin on television as host of TVW's (the [...]

Vice President and Regional Executive – Seattle Branch of Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Darlene Wilczynski is vice president and regional executive of the Seattle branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. In this role, Darlene engages with members of the business and banking sectors, as [...]

Mr. Clark has an extensive background in civil litigation, including personal injury, product liability and professional malpractice actions. Mr. Clark did defense work at the Seattle firm Karr Tuttle Campbell for nearly 15 years before he joined his present partners in a practice devoted to representing injured persons. In [...]

Co-Founder and CEO of Combat Flip Flops Matthew “Griff” Griffin is a former Special Operations Army Ranger, West Point Graduate, co-founder and CEO of Combat Flip Flops, award winning documentary producer, and philanthropist. After serving four combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq with the storied 2d Ranger Battalion, Griff [...]