For more than a decade, the groundbreaking Technology Leadership & Strategy Initiative (TLSI) works to continue the Council’s legacy of innovation policy and thought leadership.
The TLSI draws on nearly 50 Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) from industry, academia, and the national laboratories and makes the business case for strategic, prioritized investments in the research, talent and infrastructure necessary for tech-based innovation in an era of endless frontiers but limited resources.
These CTOs have identified strategic technologies and grand challenges, advanced policies to speed new products to market, and suggested how to build more productive research partnerships.
The TLSI strives to enable more productive American research partnerships and to preserve the nation’s technology leadership which has been at the core of the nation’s productivity revival during the past quarter century. An invigorated innovation enterprise creates new jobs and firms, drives economic growth, and is essential to solving some of America’s greatest challenges in areas as diverse as health care, energy and security.
Steven Ackerman
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Karen Burg
University of Georgia
Carol Burns
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
James Davis
University of California, Los Angeles
Tomás Díaz de la Rubia
University of Oklahoma
Peter Dorhout
Iowa State University
Joe Elabd
Texas A&M University
Patricia Falcone
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Thomas Gardner
HP Inc.
Jeanne Hossenlopp
Marquette University
Pramod Khargonekar
University of California, Irvine
Pradeep Khosla
University of California, San Diego
Fred King
West Virginia University
René Lammers
PepsiCo, Inc.
Jennifer Lodge
Duke University
David Luzzi
Northeastern University
Larry Marshall
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Theresa Mayer
Purdue University
Sally Morton
Arizona State University
Om Nalamasu
Applied Ventures, LLC
David Norton
University of Florida
Anthony Peurrung
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Narasimha Reddy
Texas A&M University
David Rosowsky
Kansas State University
John Smee
Vice President, Engineering
Qualcomm
Carolyn Stephens
University of California, Irvine
Stephen Streiffer
Argonne National Laboratory
Sridhar Sudarsan
SparkCognition, Inc.
Bogdan Vernescu
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Marianne Walck
Idaho National Laboratory
Jay Walsh
University of Illinois System
Lora Weiss
The Pennsylvania State University
James Weyhenmeyer
Auburn University