LiveLink Aerospace

Livefront is a digital product consultancy that has been helping companies grow by designing, building, and scaling digital products people love since 2001. With deep expertise in digital strategy, experience design, AI & automation, software engineering, and data & analytics, Livefront partners with ambitious organizations to move faster, think bigger, and create products that command attention and inspire joy. Their unique MESH model distills 25 years of experience into a co-creation approach that brings clients, Livefront, and AI together into one unified team built to win. Trusted by some of the world's most admired companies, Livefront has delivered transformative results for Fortune 500 enterprises and innovative startups alike. Their portfolio spans household names like Target, Samsung, General Mills, and Optum, as well as successful startups like HomeSpotter and Credly that were acquired by industry leaders. In 2023, Livefront joined forces with Zeal to become a leading provider of AI-first digital transformation, enabling them to offer expanded services and help clients harness the power of AI at scale while answering for governance and reliability.

For more than 100 years, GE Aerospace has been driven by a singular purpose: to invent the future of flight, lift people up, and bring them home safely. What began in 1917 with a turbosupercharger contract has evolved into the world's leading provider of jet and turboprop engines and integrated systems for commercial, military, business, and general aviation. With over 44,000 commercial and 26,000 military aircraft engines in service worldwide, GE Aerospace's technology powers the skies that connect families, economies, and nations. The stakes are incredibly high - every day, millions of lives depend on the reliability and performance of GE engines. That's why GE Aerospace invests billions in research and development, pushing boundaries from advanced materials to alternative fuels and revolutionary propulsion systems like the XA100 adaptive cycle engine. The company's 53,000 employees across 100+ countries are committed to safety, quality, and innovation, ensuring that whether carrying a soldier to defend their country or a family to their next adventure, flight remains safe, efficient, and sustainable for future generations.

Liven powers the future of hospitality with Asia Pacific's largest end-to-end hospitality technology platform. The company serves over 6,000 venues across Australia, the USA, and Southeast Asia, processing more than 120 million transactions worth $3 billion AUD annually. Liven's all-in-one platform integrates POS systems, digital ordering, inventory management, customer loyalty programs, and AI-enriched data insights into a single cloud-based ecosystem. In 2023, Liven completed $152 million in acquisitions of OrderUp, Abacus, Zeemart, and Copper to create a comprehensive hospitality technology group. The platform enables restaurants, cafes, bars, and franchises to streamline operations, maximize profitability, and deliver exceptional guest experiences through unified ordering, kitchen management, supply chain optimization, and customer engagement tools. As an AI-first organization, Liven automates workflows and provides venues with the intelligence needed to compete in today's market.

We're a telecommunications company that's been around since 1930, starting as a small local telephone operation in Louisiana. Today, we provide high-speed internet over fiber-optic and DSL networks, digital voice landline phone service, and TV to residential and small business customers across the country. We're now part of Lumen Technologies, which has expanded our capabilities while keeping CenturyLink focused on homes and small businesses. Our team works every day to keep people connected - whether that's helping someone work from home, streaming entertainment, or staying in touch with family and friends. We know reliable connectivity matters, and we're committed to delivering service that customers can count on. Beyond our services, we're also active in our communities, focusing our philanthropic efforts on K-12 education, youth programs, and technology initiatives that help strengthen the places where we all live and work.

At The Aerospace Corporation, we are a trusted partner to the nation's space programs, operating the only federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) committed exclusively to the space enterprise. Our team of problem solvers, thought leaders, and innovators tackle the hardest problems in space, delivering unmatched technical expertise across satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil, and commercial customers. We foster a collaborative, mission-driven culture where technical excellence meets national service, and where our experts work across every discipline of space-related science and engineering to advance capabilities that outpace evolving threats. Since 1960, we have been at the forefront of space innovation, from the early days of space exploration to today's complex national security challenges. Our engineers and scientists engage with cutting-edge technologies including cloud computing, AI, and advanced cybersecurity to deliver responsive, resilient systems for our government partners. We value curiosity, technical rigor, and the relentless pursuit of solutions that keep America strong in space. Whether you're working on missile warning systems, launch vehicle engineering, or next-generation space architectures, you'll find an environment where complex challenges are met with deep expertise and collaborative spirit.

In 2012, George Dochev was leading engineering teams spread across France, Bulgaria and the US when he realized something was fundamentally broken. Builds went out at 9 am Paris time, hours passed while they synced to Bulgaria, and the US team was still downloading yesterday's files. Half the day was gone before anyone was looking at the same version. The tools promised collaboration across distance, but the tradeoff was clear: you could work from anywhere, as long as you were willing to work slowly. George questioned the premise itself. What if distance wasn't the problem? What if cloud data didn't have to feel remote at all? In January 2016, he and former DataCore colleague Peter Thompson founded LucidLink on a single conviction: data should be instantly and securely accessible from anywhere. They introduced the world to a first-of-its-kind storage collaboration platform using file streaming technology - instead of copying entire files back and forth, you stream only the data you need, exactly when you need it. The file stays in one place and behaves like it's local. Today, teams like Warner Bros., Discovery, Spotify, Paramount, Adobe and Netflix use LucidLink to collaborate on massive files in real time, from 4K video to CAD models. Recognized with a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for transforming television workflows, LucidLink has made distance disappear for creative teams worldwide, proving that when you remove the wait, you unlock what teams can create together.