Joshua Jones is CEO of QuantHub, a DARPA award-winning AI-education provider that delivers modular, adaptive curriculum for use in university business schools. QuantHub’s catalog ranges from AI literacy to data science and business analytics courses, while syncing with LMS platforms like Canvas and Blackboard. A lifelong entrepreneur and four-time Inc 5000 member, Jones has launched 6 startups while working in 4 different languages. Before QuantHub, he founded StrategyWise, an award-winning data science and AI consulting firm serving clients such as Samsung, McKinsey, and Chick-fil-A. Quoted in Forbes, Newsweek, Inc. Magazine, and Entrepreneur, he is also a TEDx speaker and frequent lecturer at universities and conferences nationwide. Joshua earned his MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School and his BS from the University of Alabama.

Jeff Lucas is an MIS faculty member at the University of Alabama, where he serves as Undergraduate Coordinator, Director of Capstone Projects, and MIS Faculty Fellow. Drawing on nearly two decades of industry experience, he leads curriculum innovation focused on experiential learning, industry engagement, and AI integration. Jeff works closely with corporate and advisory board partners to design high-impact learning experiences that prepare students to solve real-world business problems and contribute immediately in a rapidly evolving, technology-driven workforce.

Mark McNeilly is a professor at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School and Chair of the UNC Provost’s AI Committee, which enables the university’s adoption of artificial intelligence across teaching, research, and operations. Mark speaks to companies and organizations about AI and writes about it in his Substack newsletter, Mimir’s Well. He is also an advisor for QuantHub, an AI focused Ed Tech firm. As a former global marketing executive with IBM and Lenovo, he brings deep industry experience in technology, strategy, and innovation to his academic and advisory work. Mark is also the author of three books with Oxford University Press, including the popular Sun Tzu and the Art of Business: Six Principles for Managers.