Leveraging Data and AI for Market Disruption and New Venture Creation

Bryan Boots Is an Associate Professor at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management and Managing Director of the Regnier Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). Dr. Boots holds a PhD in Systems Engineering from Colorado State University (2022), an MS in Engineering from the University of Arkansas (2020), and an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Finance from UMKC (2014). He teaches courses on business analytics, information systems, technology entrepreneurship, and management. His research focuses on computational social science, applied network science, and online platforms. He leads a grant-funded project developing open-source tools to enhance informational diversity in social media feeds. Dr. Boots has worked for large tech corporations (Garmin), startups (Ainstein.ai), and consulted on machine learning (computer vision) for global organizations. In 2024, as a Fulbright Scholar in Chile, he developed machine learning models to predict demand for premium Chilean wines and taught business analytics at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.