Lauren Dwyer is Vice President of Executive Education & CEO Programs at the American Bankers Association in Washington, D.C., where she designs and runs the conferences, schools and leadership programs that shape how bank CEOs and senior executives learn their craft. A Penn State graduate with an MBA, the CAE and AMA-CPM credentials, she has spent two decades inside trade associations - building rooms where industry leaders sharpen each other.
Akhil Seth is the CEO and founder of Advanced Engineering Services (AES), a San Jose-based engineering design, automation, and product development firm with technical centers across India. A University of Utah-trained mechanical engineer, he has consulted to Apple, NVIDIA, Intel, Dolby, Stryker, Lam Research, Thermo Fisher and others before building AES into a ~70-person multi-discipline shop spanning CAE, embedded systems, robotics and industrial automation.