Agenda

Speaker Bios

Elizabeth Edwards, Founder of Volume PR, Engagement Science Lab, and The Affect Institute

Elizabeth Edwards is the behavioral communication scientist teaching organizations how to thrive in the AI era. Founder of Volume PR, Engagement Science Lab, and The Affect Institute, she's spent 25 years developing the science that reveals how communication actually works—why people trust, how they decide, and what drives real change. Her pioneering work in Behavioral Communication has transformed how leading organizations connect with audiences, build movements, and create lasting impact.

Today, this foundation becomes your advantage. As AI reshapes every industry, Edwards' Affective AI approach—built on decades of behavioral research—shows you how to work with these technologies in ways that amplify rather than undermine human connection. Her clients achieve what others struggle to reach: authentic engagement that converts, teams that embrace rather than resist AI, and competitive advantages that grow stronger over time.

Hunter Field, Arkansas Business

Allyson Lewis, Founder and CEO of 7 Minute AI and member of Governor Sarah Sanders’ AI Taskforce

Devin Bates, Partner at Mitchell Williams Law Firm and member of the Arkansas Bar Association Task Force on Artificial Intelligence

Audrey P. Willis, Co-founder of CodeCrew and radio host of “(AI) Actual Intelligence with Audrey”

Shannon Lynn, PE of Trinity Consultants
Mr. Lynn is a Principal Consultant who assists key clients execute their strategic environmental plans by providing and coordinating resources across Trinity’s offices and service areas. He manages complex air projects, environmental compliance audits, risk analyses, and ambient dispersion, modeling studies. Mr. Lynn teaches Trinity’s flagship course Introduction to Air Quality Regulations, has taught one of Trinity’s newest offerings: Understanding Engines – Their Emissions and Your Compliance Requirements, and has been a regular speaker on Arkansas air issues at essentially every Arkansas Environmental Federation (AEF) workshop. Mr. Lynn has been a presenter and chair at numerous environmental conferences, and provided expert testimony at hearings for several high profile air permitting projects.

During Mr. Lynn’s 30 years of dealing with the Clean Air Act, he has performed emissions inventories, modeling assessments, permit applications and regulatory compliance and review in over 30 states and 9 of the 10 EPA Regions. Mr. Lynn’s regulatory experience includes Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and minor (state) New Source Review (NSR), nonattainment new source review (NNSR), federal operating permits (Title V), Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) compliance, state and federal environmental reporting, environmental health and safety (EH&S) auditing, and Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) development.