Juan Gilbert is a Andrew Banks Family Preeminent Endowed Professor and Chair at University of Florida. He possess expertise in databases, e learning, leadership, computer science, research and 39 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "As a researcher, Juan is full of ideas that remain in the realm of "doable" while still having an interesting unexplored edge to be investigated...thus no fanciful academic fluff here...SO real meaty APPLIED science as represented in his management style. Speaking of that Leadership style...it was/is one of defining a vision and then letting those develop and execute to a plan the fulfills the vision. This of course leads to self-organizing agile teams without prescribing that an actual agile process to follow. His students just need the discipline to keep up!" and "I had the honor and blessed opportunity to hear Dr. Juan Gilbert at the University of Texas, School of Information. It was well worth the drive! The sample production he shared that facilitates teaching Algebra to children through rap is absolutely ingenious!!! Additionally, his creative demonstration of work utilizing Human Centered Computing as a means to address a multiplicity of social issues has great capacity to immediately impact and ultimately change the world."