Blake has over 10 years of mobile experience and has worked on mobile apps such as PetCo, TB12 (Tom Brady), and Sleep Score Max, just to name a few. He is now in the second year of running his own mobile development consulting business, just purchased a commercial building, and is looking to hire his first full-time employee.

Chris has 16 years of leadership and software development experience. He previously served as the VP of Technology at ATLAS, which was a small startup of 5 people when he joined. He also built the booking platform for Pan Am’s startup jet charter division, and rebooted Stubs.net while still he was still at ATLAS. He’s is now at J.B. Hunt as an I.T. director, and continues to be the sole proprietor of Stubs.net.

Lucas is a Sr Software Engineer at J.B. Hunt focusing primarily on designing web applications and helping others. He has a habit of collecting hobbies he doesn’t have time for and a passion for technology both new and old. Before joining J.B. Hunt he was a 3D artist and engineer at the Tesseract Center for Immersive Environments.

Kurt Haas is currently Director of Business Development at Kitestring Technical Services, connecting top talent to top companies. His presentations borrow from 18 years of retail and technology insight, as Mobile/Cloud/Enterprise Architecture at both QuikTrip and Walmart, and in previous roles as public school teacher, application developer, product manager, board member, and non-profit co-founder. After two decades in technology, Kurt is still driven by his initial passion: connecting and sharing with people.​

Michael co-founded digital product studio, RevUnit, in 2012 and has helped grow it from 2 employees to over 100 today. Spending the first 10 years of his career as a developer in corporate environments, small businesses, and agencies and the last 8 as a company co-founder have allowed him to form a well-rounded perspective on the intersection of technology and business. Today, he’s passionate about a number of areas including helping technology experts transition to business leaders.

Aaron Teague is a Software Engineer with Qbox’s Supergiant team. He manages several Kubernetes clusters that host instances of Elasticsearch. He enjoys mentoring others, making complex problems palatable, and discovering those “aha!” moments. Before joining Qbox, he was a hobbyist game developer and has experienced quite a transition from thinking in terms of hit boxes to Docker containers. In addition, Aaron considers himself a maker and enjoys tinkering with Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and 3D printers.

Austin is a Data Scientist at OneStone, working on novel methodologies to interpret and utilize ecommerce data. Formerly Data Scientist at VMLY&R, consulting on client pitches and estimations for new data science work. He has also held positions as software engineer and developer, always with a passion for data.

Daniel is a Master Software Engineer at J.B. Hunt Transportation. He has been in the industry since 2005, graduating from UALR with a degree in Computer Science. Daniel has a passion for diving into new emerging technologies and integrating them into revenue systems.

I am a front-end-focused software engineer with more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of development. For the past eight years I’ve been purely focused on front-end technologies with a focus on JavaScript frameworks. I am passionate about Angular and JavaScript and am an official ng-conf Champion. I’ve been doing constant Angular development since the early alphas of Angular 2. In my spare time I enjoy photography and 3D printing/modeling.

John Weis has been an Education Specialist with NASA for the last 14 years. He is currently stationed at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. In addition to providing online professional development for educators, John is responsible for educational outreach including professional development for pre-service and in-service teachers, community programs and liaising with state and local education agencies in the Marshall region of Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Alabama and Tennessee. John earned a BS in Science and Mathematics Teaching with an emphasis in Mathematics and Physics from the Florida State University and an MS in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Scranton.

Colin enjoys machine learning, particularly deep learning, both professionally and personally. With a long history of work in programming, computational math and finding analytical solutions to data problems, designing electronics and robots, and even having code that has run a self-driving Lincoln MKZ, he has a wealth of trivia amassed over the years to share.

Jennifer McCool is an Associate Manager in Engineering & Technology at J.B Hunt and consultant through her business, Organize This AR. She assists businesses and non-profits to increase their efficiency and productivity. After more than a decade in banking, in compliance and internal audit, Jennifer understands the necessity of proper policies, procedures, research, and documentation, and the importance of an organized work space.

A member of NAPO, the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals, Jennifer believes in proper training and education. She has earned a Professional Organizer certificate from the International Association of Professions Career College, a Workplace Productivity Specialist certificate from NAPO, and Scrum Master from the International Scrum Institute.

Midwest native with a penchant for wiggling into interesting situations.

I run ads for a variety of eCommerce brands, I work in sales at Engine eCommerce (the platform of the future), and I study as much about advertising for now and the future as I can.