Dr. John R. Hummel is the Lead for Integrated Resiliency Analyses in the Decision and Infrastructure Sciences Division at Argonne. He has over 30 years of experience in developing and using modeling and simulation applications in a variety of military domains, such as environmental representations, logistics, simulation architectures, and the impacts of climate change on National Security.  He led the development of efforts to create a framework for assessing societal and regional resiliency and has also supported activities analyzing critical resilient infrastructures. 

Dr. Jennifer Schneider, CIH is the Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking at RIT (ACT@RIT).  In addition to being the Fram Chair, Dr. Schneider is a professor and lead of the Collaboratory for Resiliency & Recovery at RIT, which specializes in the data to decision pipeline to support community resilience decision-making, particularly at the regional and local level.  Corporate sustainability, process safety (including cyber), risk and exposure assessment are other areas of focus.  Jen also grew up in a first responder family, and is a retired volunteer HAZMAT responder and commander, and was a member of the NY Respond Commission (Hurricane Sandy).