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Speaker Last Name

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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Mary Ann Abney	Ergon, Inc.	United States	Global Technical Marketing Manager - Process Oils
Rigoberto Advincula	University of Tennessee at Knoxville	United States	Professor
Ramin Akbarighochani	Michigan State University	United States
Malik Al-Afyouni	Eastman Chemical Company	United States	Advanced Chemist
Sharif Alazhary	Michigan State University	United States	Grade Student
W Craig Allshouse	Fluence Analytics	United States	Strategic Advisor
Erica Anderson	Hallstar	United States	Senior Chemist
Matt Angell	Jarrett Logistics Systems, Inc.	United States	VP, Logistics Operation
Mark Arigo	Eastman Chemical Company	United States	Associate Scientist
Siddharth Athreya	Inhance Technologies	United States	Director - Technical Services & Development
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Fabio Bacchelli	Versalis	Italy	PhD, Technical Mngr. SBR/BR/Tyre
Lakisha A Barclay	Rubber Division, ACS	United States	Executive Director & CEO
Brian Barkes	GFL Americas LLC.	United States	Business Development Manager
Michael W. Batton	Entex Rust & Mitschke Gmbh	Germany	Engineer
Sadegh Behdad	TA Instruments - Waters Corporation, LLC	United States	Applications Engineer
Rojin Belganeh	Frontier Lab	United States	Technical Director
Beth Berkheimer, CMP, CEM	R.D. Abbott Company, Inc.	United States	Expo & Future Sites Director
Michael Bethell	University of Tennessee at Knoxville	United States
Harshal Bhogesra	Sigma Plastic Services, Inc.	United States	Project Engineer
Volker Boerger	Schill+Seilacher Struktol	United States	Division Manager Rubber Chemicals
Haoua Amina Brahami	LRCCP	France	PhD student
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Peter Cameron	Tokai Carbon CB	United States	Manager Technical Service
Pengfei Cao	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	United States	Staff Scientist
Marlene Cardin	ProSensus	Canada	Director of Projects
Yang Chen	Michigan State University	United States	Student
Yusheng Chen	Flexsys	United States	research assistant
Jim Coffey	ExxonMobil Chemical	United States	Stragic Market Research
Howard Colvin		United States	Retired
Katrina Cornish	The Ohio State University	United States	Endowed Chair & Ohio Research Scholar, Bioemergent Materials
Matthew Crosley	Fluence Analytics	United States	Applications Scientist
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Tina Darnell	Collin Aerospace	United States	Sr. Manager Product Support
Saikat Das	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	India
Arpan Datta Sarma	Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology	Luxembourg
Olivier Defrain	Total Cray Valley	France	Technical Manager
Terry Delapa	Alpha Technologies	United States
Kimberley Dempsey-Miller	Pilot Products, Inc.	United States	Chemist
Mousumi Desarkar	Denka Corporation	United States	Technical Manager
John Dick		United States	Semi Retired
Wilma Dierkes	University of Twente	Netherlands	Dr.
Cristina DiFranco	Lord Corporation	United States
Kevin Dove	W. L. Gore & Associates	United States	New Product Development Engineer
Laura Duda	The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company	United States	Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
James Eddy		United States
Gabe Ellis	Jarrett Logistics Systems, Inc.	United States
Selim Erhan	Process Oils Inc.	United States	Director of Business Development
Peter Evanson	3M Advanced Materials	United States	Elastomer Product Engineer
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Leandro Forciniti	Becton, Dickinson & Company	United States	Senior Application Research Scientist
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Aref Ghaderi	Michigan State University	United States
Ulrich Giese	German Institute of Rubber Technology (DIK)	Germany	Managing Director
Kenneth Gillen	Sandia National Laboratories (retired)	United States	Retired scientist
Leo Goss	LANXESS	United States	Technical Services
Mohit Goswami	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	India	Senior Research Fellow
H
Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Rick Hanzlik	Alpha Technologies	United States	Applications Specialist
Carin Helfer	The Ohio State University CFAES	United States	Research Assistant Professor
Nicole Hershberger	Akron Rubber Development Laboratory, Inc.	United States	Manager of Compounding Development
Gillian Holcomb	University of Tennessee, Advincula Group	United States
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Frederick Ignatz-Hoover	Eastman Chemical Company	United States	Technology Fellow
Nihat Isitman		United States
J
Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Sunny Jacob	ExxonMobil Chemical	United States	Research Associate
Jacob Jordahl	ExxonMobil Chemical	United States
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Surya K P	Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur	India	Miss
Teresita Kashyap	Dow Chemical Co.	United States
Charles Kerobo	BASF Corporation	United States	Technical Development Leader
Lucas Kilpatrick	University of Tennessee at Knoxville	United States
Edward Kim	Citrine Informatics	United States
Ji Yeon Kim	Hyundai Motor Company	Korea, Republic of
Myoeum Kim	The University of Akron	United States
Erich Klein	Kuraray America, Inc.	United States	Market Manager - Elastomers
Kylie Knipp	Akron Rubber Development Laboratory, Inc.	United States	Technical Advisor
Riya Koley	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	India	MISS
Andrew Kosal	Eastman Chemical Company	United States
August Krupp	Molecular Rebar Design	United States	Product Manager
Rajeev Kumar	UT Battelle Inc	United States	Research Scientist
Mike Kumbalek	Bolder Industries	United States	VP Customer Solutions
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Oren Lawit	ExxonMobil Chemical	United States	Application Development Engineer
Sebastian Leineweber	Leibniz Universität Hannover Institut für Transport- und Automatisierungstechnik	Germany	M. Sc.
Greg (Guangming) Li	Dow Chemical Co.	United States	Research Scientist
C. Jeffrey Lin	Eastman Chemical Company	United States	Associate Research Scientist
Whitney Luckett	Southland Rubber Inc.	United States	President
Benjamin Lund	Adaptive 3D Technologies	United States	Vice President of Materials
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Sushil Mandot	ExxonMobil Company India Private Limited	United States	Customer Development Engineer
Partheban Manoharan	Alliance Tire-A Group Company of Yokohama	India	Research and Development
Anthony Mariniello	Nordmann US Inc	United States	Technical Sales Manager
Will Mars	Endurica LLC		President
Yan Maschke	Yan Maschke Group	United States	Strategy & Leadership Advisor
Carl McAfee	McAfee Consulting	United States	President & CEO
Jerry McCall	R.D. Abbott Company, Inc.	United States	Vice President
Gregory McKenna	Texas Tech University	United States	Professor of Chemical Engineering
Fred Meadows		United States
Mark Miller	Biosynthetic Technologies	United States	CEO
Lakisha A Miller-Barclay	Rubber Division, ACS	United States	Executive Director & CEO
Andrew Mittermiller	Zeon Chemicals	United States	Applications Development - Hydrin ECO
Melanie Moczadlo	University of Tennessee-Knoxville	United States
Hamid Mohammadi	Michigan State University	United States
Kristof Molnar	The Ohio State University CFAES	United States	Research Associate
Marzyeh Moradi	KLA	United States	Application Engineer
Andres Munoz Salgado	The Ohio State University	United States
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Sujith Nair	ExxonMobil Chemical	United States	Applications & Customer Development Engineer
Joel Neilsen	LANXESS	United States	Technical Applications Specialist
Reagan Newman	The University of Tennessee	United States
Wei Niu	University of Tennessee	United States
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Kimberly O'Farrell	Collaborative Testing Services	United States	Rubber Program Analyst
Crittenden Ohlemacher	Smithers	United States	Manager APTS Testing
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Abraham Pannikottu			Operations Manager
Paul Pavka	Akron Rubber Development Laboratory, Inc.	United States	Technical Advisor
Richard Pazur	Department of National Defence	United States	Lead Scientist
Kathy Perevosnik	North Shore Rubber	United States	Director of Operations
Jessica Petras	ChemRep, Inc.	United States	President
William Pipkin	Frontier-Lab	United States
Dillon Presto	University of Akron	United States
Aaron Puhala	Polymer Solutions Group	United States	Vice President of Innovation
R
Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Revathy Ravendren	Apollo Tyres	India	Scientist
Sandeep Reddy	TA Instruments - Waters Corporation, LLC	Germany	Applications Engineer
Christopher Robertson	Endurica LLC	United States	Sales Director and Materials Expert
Luis Rodriguez-Guadarrama	Dynasol Group	United States	TIRE RESEARCH LEADER
Salvador Rohan	The University of Tennessee/ Dr. Rigoberto Advincula	United States
Alicia Rul	NANOCYL SA	United States	Sales Manager NA
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Semion Saikin	Kebotix Inc	United States	Chief Science Officer
Brian Satterley	ExxonMobil Chemical	United States	Senior Staff Chemist
Roberto Scotti	University Milano Bicocca	Italy
Olena Shafranska	North Dakota State University	United States
Erick Sharp	Ace Products & Consulting	United States	President & CEO
Katsunori Shimizu	Tohoku University, Graduate school of Engineering,	Japan
Abhishek Singh		United States	Research Assistant Professor
Carlton Slough	TA Instruments - Waters Corporation, LLC	United States
Paul Smith	Zeon Chemicals	United States	Applications Development Chemist
Richard Spontak	North Carolina State University	United States	Distinguished Professor
William Stahl	Rainbow Master Mixing LLC	United States	Chemist/Market Development
Bonnie Stuck	Akron Rubber Development Laboratory, Inc.	United States	President
Zhigang Suo	Harvard University	United States
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Edward Terrill	Akron Rubber Development Laboratory, Inc.	United States	Applied Research Fellow
Deidre Tucker	SKF Sealing Solutions	United States	Manager Material Development Lab (SKF Elgin)
Paul Tuckner	Grace Technology & Development	United States	President
Lewis Tunnicliffe	Birla Carbon	United States	Scientist
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Tejas Upasani	The Chemours Company	United States	Technical Service Consultant
V
Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Konstantinos Vogiatzis	University of Tennessee	United States	Assistant Professor
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Joe Walker	Elastomer Technologies	United States	Owner
Eric Wamsley	ExxonMobil Chemical	United States	Application and Customer Development
Ao Wang	Northwestern University	United States	Mr.
Xiaosong Wu	Dow Chemical Co.	United States
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Jiaqi Yan	North Carolina State University	United States
Yaroslava Yingling	North Carolina State University	United States
Osamu Yoneji	Kuraray America, Inc.	United States	Sales Representative
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Hao Zhang	EVE Rubber Institute	China	Engineer
Allan Zhong	Halliburton Company	United States	Chief Technical Advisor -Mechanical
Liang Zhong	EVE Rubber Institute	China	Material Research and Development Engineer
Alireza Zolfaghari	Schlumberger Tech Corp	United States	Senior Materials Engineer