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Speaker Last Name

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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Mohammad Atif Faiz Afzal	Schrödinger Inc.	United States	Associate Principal Scientist
Tarek Agag	Parker Hannifin Corporation	United States	Staff Scientist
Kamyar Alavi	Nynas AB	Sweden	Senior Specialist
Mark Arigo	Eastman Chemical Company	United States	Associate Scientist
Tamsin Astor	Tamsin Astor	United States
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Fabio Bacchelli	versalis	Italy	PhD, Technical Mngr. SBR/BR/Tyre
Maximilian Backenstos	DatenBerg GmbH	United States
Lakisha Barclay		United States
Lakisha Barclay		United States
Bruce Bartlett	NISSO AMERICA INC.	United States
Kenneth Bates	Polymer Solutions Group	United States	Global Account Manager
Michael W. Batton	Entex Rust & Mitschke Gmbh	Germany	Engineer
Pilar Bernal Ortega	University of Twente	Netherlands	Dr.
Manuel Bessler	UTH GmbH	Germany
Asit Baran Bhattacharya	Rubber Technology Centre, IIT Kharagpur	India	Mr.
Anil Bhowmick	The University of Houston	United States	Professor
Md Bhuiyan	The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company	United States	Sr. Development Engineer
Anke Blume	University of Twente	Netherlands	Prof. Dr.
Jason Bokar	Michelin	United States	Manager - Tire Design School
Charles Brady	Rubber Division, ACS	United States	Technical Program Manager
James Busfield	Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom	Professor
Gina Butuc	University of Twente	United States	PhD Candidate/Technical Development Manager
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Michael Cai	University of Houston	United States	PhD Candidate / Research Assistant
Brian Carney	Parker LORD	United States	Sr Staff Scientist
Roger Cassell	DUPONT M&M	United States	Principal Investigator
Kevin Cavicchi	University of Akron	United States
Limeng Chen	Cabot Corporation	United States	R&D Manager
Ben Chouchaoui	Windsor Industrial Development Laboratory, Inc.	Canada	Testing for Minimal Pressure to Seal
Howard Colvin	Colvin Consultants	United States	Retired
Katrina Cornish	The Ohio State University	United States	Endowed Chair & Ohio Research Scholar, Bioemergent Materials
Vince Cremona	Polymer Solutions Group	United States	Innovation Program Manager
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Mithun Das	Research Scholar (PhD student)	India	Mr.
Saikat Das	IIT Kharagpur	India
Saikat Das	IIT Kharagpur	India
Mousumi De Sarkar	DENKA CORPORATION	United States	Technical Manager
Mousumi Desarkar	Denka Performance Elastomer LLC	United States	Technical Manager
Shruti Deshmukh	University of Massachusetts Lowell	United States
Joseph DeSimone	Stanford University	United States
Eric Devney	The Ohio State University	United States	Student Researcher
John Dick	Alpha Technologies	United States	Semi Retired
Wilma Dierkes	University of Twente, The Netherlands	Netherlands	Associate Professor
Cristina DiFranco	Parker LORD	United States	Engineer
Duane Dunston	Champlain College	United States	Professor of Cybersecurity
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Paul Engel	Howard and Howard, PLLC	United States	Patent Attorney
Elnaz Esmizadeh	Airboss of America	Canada
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Suman Kumar Ghosh	IIT Kharagpur	India
Jessica Gialamas	Alpha Technologies	United States
Mohit Goswami	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	India	Senior Research Fellow
Tyler Gruber	Birla Carbon	United States	Group Lead, Microscopy Laboratory
Fabian Grunert	University of Twente	Netherlands	Dr.
Laurent Guy	Solvay	United States	Global Technical Marketing Manager / R&I Fellows Scientist
H
Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Rick Hanzlik	Alpha Technologies	United States	Applications Specialist
Ned Hardman	Monolith Materials	United States	Vice President of Product Development
Nicole Hershberger	Akron Rubber Development Laboratory, Inc.	United States	Senior Technical Advisor
Margaret Hwang	Dow	United States
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Frederick Ignatz-Hoover	Flexsys	United States	Technology Fellow
Yuko Ikeda	Kyoto Institute of Technology	Japan	Professor
Takashi Inoue	Tokyo Institute of Technology	United States
Krishnan Iyer	ExxonMobil Chemical	United States	Polymer Scientist
J
Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Sunny Jacob	ExxonMobil Chemical	United States	Principal Scientist
K
Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Surya K P	IIT Kharagpur	India
Sarath Kamath	The University of Akron	United States	Mr.
Sipra Khanra	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	India	Mrs.
Vitaly Khusidman	G3C Technologies	United States	CEO
Arash Kiani	Harmony Elastomers, LLC	United States	CEO
Kylie Knipp	Akron Rubber Development Laboratory, Inc.	United States	Technical Advisor
Riya Koley	IIT Kharagpur	India
James Kollar	Aditya Birla -Birla Carbon	United States	Development Chemist
August Krupp	Molecular Rebar Design	United States	Director of Rubber Development
Abhay Kumar	IIT Kharagpur	India
Mike Kumbalek	Bolder Industries	United States	VP of Customer Solutions
William Kyei-Manu	Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Sam Landers	Retired 2010 from Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company	United States
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Thomas Maier	Monolith Materials Inc	United States	Chief Technology Officer
Will Mars	Endurica LLC	United States	President
Colleen McMahan	US Dept of Agriculture	United States	Lead Scientist, Domestic Natural Rubber
Bob McNabb	Zeppelin Systems USA	United States	National Sales Manager, Rubber Plants
Fred Meadows		United States
Vihang Mhatre	Virginia Tech, Center for Tire Research	United States
Mark Miller	Biosynthetic Technologies	United States	CEO
Lakisha Miller-Barclay	Rubber Division, ACS	United States	Executive Director & CEO
Lakisha Miller-Barclay	Rubber Division, ACS	United States	Executive Director & CEO
Lakisha A Miller-Barclay	Rubber Division, ACS	United States	Executive Director & CEO
Salvatore Monte	Kenrich Petrochemicals, Inc.	United States	President
Salvatore Monte	Kenrich Petrochemicals, Inc.	United States	President
AA Mubasshir	University of Massachusetts Lowell	United States	Mr.
Anas Mujtaba	ExxonMobil	Belgium	Dr
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Victor Nasreddine	ARLANXEO North America	United States	PhD
Joel Neilsen	LANXESS	United States	Technical Applications Specialist
Joel Neilsen	LANXESS	United States	Technical Applications Specialist
Craig Norton	Bridgestone	United States
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Shinya Oshita	Kuraray America, Inc.	United States	Technical Service Engineer
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Paul Pavka	Akron Rubber Development Laboratory, Inc.	United States	Technical Advisor
Richard Pazur	Department of National Defence	Canada	Lead Scientist
Aswathy Pillai	The Ohio State University	United States	PhD, Graduate Research Associate
Judit E. Puskas	The Ohio State University	United States	Distinguished Professor of CFAES in Polymer Science
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Aswathy Raju	IIT KHARAGPUR	India
Buddy Ratner	University of Washington	United States
Christopher Robertson	Alpha Technologies	United States	Principal Applications Scientist
Clément Robin	Hutchinson	France	Dr
Brendan Rodgers	Akron Polymer Solutions	United States	Engineer
Amrita Roy	Prof. Anil K Bhowmick	India
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Subhabrata Saha	Jeonbuk National University	Korea, Republic of	Ph.D.
Semih Sasmaz	Eskisehir Osmangazi Universitesi	Turkiye	Polymer Eng, MsC
Christopher Schneider	Parker LORD	United States	Manager, Global Product Development
Sujit Sharma	IIT Kharagpur	India
Erick Sharp	Ace Products & Consulting	United States	CEO
Kerry Smith	Nabaltec USA Corporation	Germany	Vice President of Sales
Pete Spanos	ARLANXEO	United States	Sr. Technical Manager
Richard Spontak	North Carolina State University	United States	Distinguished Professor
William Stahl	Rainbow Master Mixing LLC	United States	Chemist/Market Development
Kapil Surve	University of Houston	United States	PhD student
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
SREETHU T K	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	India	Ms
Solomon Tang	Lion Elastomers	United States	Research Fellow
AV Tech	3Rivers	United States
AV Tech	3Rivers	United States
Steve Teertstra	ARLANXEO	United States	Technical Marketing Manager, ARLANXEO Canada Inc.
Edward Terrill	Akron Rubber Development Laboratory, Inc.	United States	Applied Research Fellow
Christian Tittensor	Zeppelin Systems USA, Inc.	United States	Director of Sales & Marketing
John Torkelson	Northwestern University	United States	Walter P Murphy Professor
Paul Tuckner	Grace Technology & Development	United States	President
Lewis Tunnicliffe	Birla Carbon	United States	Scientist
Costas Tzoganakis	University of Waterloo	Canada	Professor
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Leslie Ungar	Electric Impulse Communications, Inc.	United States	CEO
Marek Urban	Clemson University	United States	J.E. Sirrine Foundation Endowed Chair and Professor
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Joe Walker	Elastomer Technologies	United States	Global Technology Director, Materials & Laboratory Services
Mykhel Walker	University of Massachusetts Lowell	United States	Student
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Weinan Xu	The University of Akron	United States	Assistant Professor
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Jay Yun	Schlumberger	United States	Project Manager, Principal, 3MT-Polymer
Irene Yurovska	Himadri Speciality Chemicals, YI Global	United States	Consultant YI Global, VP Himadri Speciality Chemicals
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Name	Company Name	Country	Title
Mathias Zabel	KrausMaffei	Germany	Dr.