Speakers & Attractions

Jay Hoying

Chief Scientist, ASI Life Sciences

Topic:
Rebuilding the Body: Advances in Tissue Therapeutics

Regenerative medicine — repairing or replacing cells, tissues, and organs — is one of the most promising frontiers in modern medicine. But building living tissue means following the “tissue rules” that govern how cells grow, organize, and function together. New tools like smart sensors and automated systems are helping researchers uncover and apply these rules, manufacturing therapeutic tissue faster and more precisely than ever. The result: personalized regenerative therapies that can be safely produced right where patients need them, turning a once-distant dream into a present-day reality.

More speakers will be announced soon.

FIRST New Hampshire

FIRST Robotics will demonstrate student-built robots and showcase several of its competition programs.

FIRST LEGO League:
Explore a variety of student-built robots and preview the 2026 BIOGLOW Challenge.

FIRST Tech Challenge:
Watch medium-sized robots compete on a 12-foot-by-12-foot game field.

FIRST Robotics Competition:
See 150-pound robots demonstrate the latest REBUILT game challenge.

Food trucks

Bring your appetite and grab a bite from one of these food trucks:

Mi Casita

Kona Ice

The Eatery

Raina White

Dartmouth College
11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m.

Topic:
Dartmouth Formula Racing and Formula Hybrid

Carson Taylor

Epic Games/Fortnite
12:30–1:15 p.m.

Topic:
Careers and trends in the video game industry

Jennifer MacDonald

Chief Operating Officer, ARMI/BioFabUSA
1:30–2:15 p.m.

Topic:
Transforming the Future: Biomanufacturing and the Future of ReGen Valley

Andrew Mitchell

President, North Light AI
2:30–3:15 p.m.

Michael Decelle

Dean, College of Professional Studies at UNH, and principal investigator for the Common Campus Initiative
3:30–4:15 p.m.

Topic:
Common Campus Initiative

Robots, robots and more robots

FIRST Robotics demonstrated student-built robots alongside exhibitors from across the region.

Dartmouth Formula Racing Hybrid Car

Dartmouth Formula Racing is a student-run team at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering that designs, builds and drives a custom racecar each year at SAE’s Formula Hybrid Electric Competition.

STEM-MoBILE at UNH Manchester

The STEM-MoBILE, or STEM Mobile Biofabrication Integrated Lab Experience, is a traveling laboratory that brings the science of biofabrication across New Hampshire.

Combining biology, engineering, manufacturing and automation, biofabrication seeks to produce biological substitutes and personalized living tissue as treatments for disease and traumatic injury.

Sydney Rollins

STEM-MoBILE Project Manager, STEM Mobile Biofabrication Integrated Lab Experience
11:30–11:40 a.m.

Dr. Sherman Bigornia

Associate Professor of Nutrition, Department of Agriculture, Nutrition and Food Systems, College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, University of New Hampshire
11:40 a.m.–noon

Topic:
Brain Food: Research Helps Us Guide Eating Decisions — The Power of STEM Research, One Bite at a Time

Zach Umperovitch

Zach’s Contraptions; co-host of “Contraption Masters”; producer of “Domino Masters”; Rube Goldberg machine expert
12:15–12:45 p.m.

Chris Rake

Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, FIRST
1–1:30 p.m.

Topic:
The Critical Role of Caring Adults in Nurturing STEM Youth

Brian Brady

Founder and CEO, Inciting Incident Game Design and Development Studio
1:45–2:15 p.m.

Topic:
Design Hacks: Tricks Game Developers Use to Keep You Playing

Francis Tarasiewicz

Weather Observer Educational Specialist, Mount Washington Observatory
2:30–3 p.m.

Topic:
Extreme Weather Observations from the Top of Mount Washington

Eric Salovitch

Owner, Northam Survey LLC
3:15–3:45 p.m.

Topic:
An Aerial Advantage: How Drones Are Impacting Land Surveying and Other Industries