Robotics Alley Conference & Expo 2014 – September 17-18

 

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — The Robotics Alley Conference & Expo would like to welcome its 2014 advisory board members. Together this impressive group has experience in agriculture, health care, medical devices, manufacturing, assembly, transportation, engineering, security, defense, retail and commercial logistics, investment, research and development, legal issues, public policy, large and small business, academics, and more. That diversity mirrors the diverse array of robotics applications seen around the world today.

Robotics Alley’s Advisors are industry experts dedicated to growing robotics and automation in the Midwest and putting America’s heartland on the global robotics map. They have helped craft the largest conference agenda Robotics Alley has ever seen, featuring nine separate tracks of robotics content.

For the full bios of this year’s advisors and more information on the Robotics Alley, go to roboticsalley.org.

 

2014 Advisors:

Andrew Borene – Executive Director, Robotics Alley; Director of National Security Solutions, Nuance Communications

David Bak – Adjunct Staff Member, RAND Corporation

Norm Domholt –President, NPC Robotics

Sean Green – CEO, Green and Associates Consulting

Gene Jasper – Minnesota FIRST Regional Planning Committee
 
Margaret Anderson Kelliher – President & CEO, Minnesota High Tech Association

Chip Laingen - Commander, U.S. Navy (Ret.) Executive Director, Defense Alliance Communications and R&D Director, Minnesota Wire

Michael Langley – CEO, GREATER MSP – Minnesota Saint Paul Regional Economic Department Partnership

Mark Lawrence – Minnesota FIRST Regional Planning Committee Chair

Dana Lonn – Managing Director, Center for Advanced Turf Technology, Toro Company

Lt. General Rick Lynch – U.S. Army (Ret.) and Executive Director, University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute (UTARI)

Adam Marsh – Director of R&D and Business Segment Leader for Security and Development, PaR Systems

Kevin McKinnon – Executive Director of Business and Community Development, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development

James E. Merritt II – National Sales and Marketing Manager, Altron, Inc

Nikos Papanikolopoulos – Distinguished McKnight University Professor, IEEE Fellow, Director of the Center for Distributed Robotics and SECTTRA, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota

Mark Ritchie – Secretary of State, Office of the Secretary of State, Minnesota

Max Seeley – Electrical Engineer, IMRIS

Dale Wahlstrom – President and CEO, LifeScience Alley and BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota^TM

Patrick Weldon – Product Development Manager, Polaris Industries Inc.

 

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Robotics AlleyTM is an initiative to spur public-private partnerships in the business, research, and development of robotics and automation systems. Robotics leaders will share their insights into the worldwide explosion of robotics and autonomous systems on November 12-13, 2013 at the Robotics Alley Conference and Expo, Saint Paul RiverCentre in Saint Paul, MN.