ESCA Summer Educational Conference 2026 Exhibitor List

Former CEO and business marketing firm owner, author and business branding speaker. Explores the shift in buyer behavior and expectations, identifying how to eliminate barriers and engage prospects.

Marsha Flanagan, M.Ed., CEM is the President and CEO of the International Association of Exhibitions and Events® (IAEE).

Chris has been a volunteer member of ISECOM working on the OSSTMM since early 2004. Spending the next few years with the team to help create and finalize the OSSTMM v3 and now preparing for the release of the OSSTMM v4. Along that road he became involved in the Hacker High Scholl project as well to assist in representing ISECOM and the HHS project at RSA San Francisco, and becoming a Board Member in 2017. Along with the ISECOM work he has been a penetration tester for 14 years and worked in Audit/Compliance and SOC prior to that. His goal is to spread the word on the OSSTMM quantifiable Trust Metrics and use of Controls for a fully measurable and complete security program to secure, anything you wish to secure which spans from Physical, Data, Network, Wireless and more.

Nicholas Johnston is Publisher at Axios, a media company that, through Smart Brevity, gets you smarter faster on the topics that matter through coverage of business, tech, media, politics.

Mary is the CEO of Productive Leaders, a firm dedicated to leadership and economic development. After graduating from the United States Naval Academy, Mary spent 21 years on active duty in the Navy, mostly in Asia, as an intelligence officer. She is the author of 18 books on business growth, leadership, and today’s economy. As a business advisor, Mary has worked with hundreds of organizations and companies across the globe. She is currently listed as one of today’s most influential economists and business strategists, and is named as one of the Top 50 Motivational Speakers in the world. Mary is also one of only 150 people named to the Speakers’ Hall of Fame. As a high-energy keynote speaker, Mary focuses on using data, and research, laughter, and experience to help professionals excel.

Jeff McKissack discusses the takeaways attendees will gain at the session he will be presenting during Expo! Expo! IAEE’s Annual Meeting & Exhibition 2023 on 5-7 December in Dallas, Texas. He has 35+ years of speaking at countless events and has seen what has worked and what has not. He utilizes these strategies himself when soliciting sponsors and exhibitors for events he has coordinated or helped coordinate on various sponsorship committees over the years.

Dr. Sam Potolicchio was named one of “America’s Best Professors” by the Princeton Review and is the President of the Preparing Global Leaders Forum.