Keynote Speakers


Stan Williams

Stan Williams is research scientist in the field of nanotechnology and a Senior Fellow and the founding director of the Quantum Science Research Laboratory at Hewlett-Packard. He has over 57 patents, with 40 more patents pending. At HP, he led a group that developed a working solid state version of Leon Chua's memristor. Williams earned a bachelor's degree in chemical physics in 1974 from Rice University and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978. After graduating, he worked at Bell Labs before joining the faculty at UCLA, where he served as a professor from 1980 to 1995. He then joined HP Labs as director of its Information and Quantum Systems Lab.

Stan Williams

Todd Hylton

As Senior Vice President of Brain Corporation, Dr. Todd Hylton leads the development of business and technical strategies within the company. Prior to joining Brain Corporation in 2012, Hylton was a Project Manager at DARPA, where he focused on fostering a revolution of understanding intelligence & development of electronics technologies to build intelligent machines. Before DARPA, Hylton served as Director, Center for Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). There, he built and managed a diverse group of scientists & engineers pursuing development & applications of materials and nanotechnology for government clients.

Todd Hylton