Next Up: The W. David Duckett Speaker Series

Brian Ballard is the SVP of Product Management and Solution Delivery for TeamViewer, bringing the power of augmented reality to frontline workers in retail, logistics, manufacturing, and services industries. For over a decade, Ballard has been working on the next industrial revolution, pioneering the use of augmented reality in enterprise settings. Ballard co-founded and served as CEO of Upskill from 2011 until 2021 when Upskill was acquired by TeamViewer – having been recognized as a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer, Inc. Best Places to Work, and multiple recognitions for Upskill’s enterprise AR platform. In 2024, he was inducted into The Augmented World Expo XR Hall of Fame.

Prior to founding Upskill, Ballard served as Vice President of Product Development at BTS, CTO of ARES-SG, and spent over a decade with the Department of Defense, where his work ranged from FPGA-based supercomputing to software intelligence fusion for counter-terrorism.

Ballard has contributed to books, multiple publications, and patents related to wearable computing. He has served a three-year appointment on the National Academy of Sciences’ Technology, Insight—Gauge, Evaluate, Review (TIGER) Committee. Ballard holds a master’s and bachelor’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the University of Maryland.

Maurice has worked with Autodesk, Amazon, NIKE, Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, lululemon, Airbus, Telefonica, the Navy SEALS, the Government of Japan, and many others, to help them use emerging technology to solve some of the world’s toughest problems. 

As a futurist, deep tech authority, innovation executive, and international keynote speaker he has helped companies achieve truly disruptive innovation. He is a rare blend of hands–on practitioner and big thinker.

Maurice's work focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Immersive Reality (AR/VR), Advanced Manufacturing, and other emerging technologies, and how organizations can best leverage them today and in the future. He has more than a dozen patents in this space, and his vision for how AI can help us build a better world can be seen in his TED talk, viewed more than 13 million times.

Lisa Seacat DeLuca leads the engineering, design, and product management organization at Unstoppable Domains innovating the future of the decentralized web. She is the 2nd Most Prolific Female Inventor in the world and as a technology executive for the past decade, Lisa brings emerging technology to life. Previously, Lisa spent 16 years at IBM as a Distinguished Engineer and Director of Product Management. Lisa holds a Master of Science in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University with minors in Business Administration and Multimedia Productions.

Lisa is an Inductee into the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame, Entrepreneur Magazine listed Lisa as one of their "49 Female Entrepreneurs Who Are Reshaping the Business World", she's one of the 115 Most Inspirational Women in Web3 and the Metaverse, and she's been featured in #LinkedInTopVoices in Technology list three years (2019 #2, 2018 #1, 2017 #2), and was an MIT 35 under 35. She is a TED speaker, a self-published author of two children’s books titled "A Robot Story" and “The Internet of Mysterious Things”, and the most prolific female inventor in IBM history. Her innovation portfolio includes over 1,000 patents filed in the United States and abroad, of which, over 650 have been granted, to date. The topic of her innovations include cloud, mobile, IoT, social, security, AI, commerce, blockchain, web3. Lisa is an AAAS-Lemelson Inventor Ambassador where she increases visibility to the importance of innovation. Lisa has spoken at numerous tech conferences and written articles to share her technology and innovation passion with others.