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Meet the Speakers

Zach Aldrich

Zach Aldrich

Senior Manager, Insights & Analytics

Walmart

Zach Aldrich is the Senior Manager, Insights & Analytics for Walmart’s Corporate Affairs division. The teams work revolves around understanding consumer trends and supporting communication efforts through analyzing open source text and social media data. Zach’s prior Walmart experience includes analytics work in both the Legal and Capital Markets domains. Before joining Walmart, Zach completed his Master in Business Analytics at the University of Texas at Austin with an emphasis in helping companies leverage analytics to support their data driven decision making efforts.

Jonathon Morgan

Jonathon Morgan

Chief Executive Officer

Yonder

Jonathon Morgan is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Yonder. Prior to Yonder, he published research about extremist groups manipulating social media with the Brookings Institution, The Atlantic, and the Washington Post, presented at NATO’s Center of Excellence for Defense Against Terrorism, the United States Institute for Peace, and the African Union. Jonathon also served as an adviser to the US State Department, developing strategies for digital counter-terrorism. He regularly provides commentary about online disinformation for publications such as New York Times, NBC, NPR, and Wired.