Brandon Vogel is a DevSecOps and infrastructure engineering leader with more than 30 years of experience supporting mission-critical systems across scientific research, national security, and government operations. His career includes major technical roles at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and the Federal Public Defender’s Office, where he guided modernization efforts in highly secured and complex computing environments.
Bob Frankston is a pioneering software engineer best known as the co-creator of VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet. Released in 1979, VisiCalc transformed personal computing from a hobbyist pursuit into an essential business tool and is widely regarded as the application that ignited the PC revolution.
Bill Aspray is a prominent historian of computing whose scholarship, professional leadership, and archival work have helped define the academic study of information technology. He has held faculty positions at institutions including the University of Texas at Austin, Georgetown University, and Indiana University, teaching and researching the history of computing, information policy, and the social impact of digital technology.
