"Manufacturing as a Service: The Emerging Revolutions in How and What We Produce"

Mark Mills believes that emerging domains of manufacturing are poised to breathe new life into the US economy. Just as the tech boom gave rise to a whole new economy in the 1990s, Mills predicts that bioelectronics, transient electronics, electroceuticals, and the "Internet of things" could have a similar effect.

Mills is founder and CEO of Digital Capital Power, a tech-centric capital advisory group. He also co-founded the Digital Power Group, Digital Power Capital, and ICx Technologies. A trained physicist and development engineer, Mills served as a staff consultant to the White House Science Office under President Ronald Reagan, a number of federal research laboratories, and the US Department of Energy.

Mills is also a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, which performs research and advocacy for economics and policy. He is a faculty fellow at Northwestern Engineering, where he delivers occasional seminars, mentors students, advises faculty, and provides counsel to leadership on matters of strategy and opportunity.