Dr. Eric Liguori is Jim Moran Professor and Associate Dean at Florida State University, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Small Business Management, and a globally recognized entrepreneurship educator whose work informs policy, Fortune 100 companies, Amazon, the United Nations, and multinational initiatives.

Dr. Jonathan Adams, a professor in the FSU School of Information, directs the CCI Machine Learning Lab (MLab), specializing in using synthetic visual data to train AI models. His broader research focuses on educational technologies, online learning, and entrepreneurship. With over 20 years of experience as an educator and a small business owner, he is also a Fulbright Scholar.