DOE Cybersecurity and Technology Innovation Conference 2024 | eventPower | 29 July 2024 | Hilton Anatole, 2201 N Stemmons Fwy, Dallas, TX 75207, USA

The Conference will explore the developments and challenges in cybersecurity, technology innovation, workforce development, and critical infrastructure protection. Speakers and attendees will include top thought leaders from across the DOE enterprise, the federal interagency, academia, international partners, and private industry leaders for thoughtful conversations about cybersecurity, modernizing IT and OT environments and solutions, sharing tools, data management, technology, and best practices with the energy industry, and developing technical solutions to meet national challenges.

The Conference will be hosted by the Chief Information Officer and co-hosted with the Office of Environmental Management (EM), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Southwest Power Administration. This year’s conference theme is Accelerating and Securing the Mission through Technology.

2024 Speakers

MODERATORS:

Paul Selby
Chief Information Security Officer and Deputy CIO, US Department of Energy

Dr. Nat Horner
Director, Grid Cybersecurity and Communications, DOE, Office of Electricity

Maria McClelland
Cybersecurity Division Director, CISO, ORNL

Glenn Fink
Cyber Strategy Director, Advanced Technology and Analysis Division, Global Security Directorate, SRNL

Bill Parks
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Grid Controls and Communications, DOE-OE

Vicki Michetti
Deputy CIO, DOE-IM

Nick DeRoller
Principal Engineer, Asymmetric Engineering & Technology, Global Security Directorate, SRNL

Roxana Melendez
General Engineer, DOE-OE

Jason Altman
Geospatial & Operations Site Systems Manager, Hanford Mission Integration Solutions, EM Hanford Site

Roshanak Nateghi
Program Manager, Grid Controls, DOE-OE

Kenneth Hunt
Deputy CIO, DOE-IM

Tammie Borders
Associate Director of Computational Science and Engineering, NETL

Mo Kamaludeen
Director, Storage Validation, DOE-OE

Garland Garris
Quantum Lead, AFS

Charlie McMillan
LANL

Bill Bodine
Senior IT & Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy Advisor, Office of Environmental Management, US Department of Energy

Cole Smith
IT Cybersecurity Specialist, Grid Cybersecurity and Communications, DOE-OE

PANELISTS:

Antonia Cruz
Aviation Program Manager, Golden Field Office

Todd Eckman
Vice President of Information Management Services, Hanford Mission Integration Solutions, EM Hanford Site

Shawn Otto
TRU Waste Sciences Manager, Test Coordination Office, Repository Science & Operations, LANL - Carlsbad Operations

Miroslav Begovic
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University

Sarah Smith
LBNL

Emily Lies
CI Analyst and SCRM Lead, DOE-IN

Amber Romero
Supply Chain Analyst and Sandia Fellow, Sandia

Eric Schweser
Counterintelligence Officer and Supply Chain Specialist, SRNL

Jessica Smith
Sr. Cyber Researcher and SCRM Specialist, PNNL

Silverstein Allison
Consultant

Steve Hauser
CEO, Association of Edison Illuminating Companies

Stephanie Crowe
Australian Signals Directorate

Max Jacobs
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

Tony Mather
Chief Information Officer and Executive Director Security, UK Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)

Jason Reno
Business Intelligence Manager, EM, Hanford Mission Integration Solutions

Angie Kelic
SNL

Carol Larvick
Sr. Power Systems Engineer - Comms, Pacific NW National Laboratory

Bradley Nelson
INL

Adam Mansour
Senior Engineer, Asymmetric Engineering & Technology, Global Security Directorate, SRNL

Caleb Scott
AR/VR Team Lead, Asymmetric Engineering & Technology, Global Security Directorate, SRNL

Dr. Peter Fuhr
Distinguished Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jim Ogle
PNNL

Mike Skwarek
Deputy CIO and CISO, Argonne National Laboratory

Brian Biesecker
Technical Director, Intelligence Community, Esri

Kip Holdridge
Current Operations Program Manager, DOE/NNSA Emergency Operations Center

Tonya Jeppesen
Senior Emergency Management Specialist (Geospatial), NNSA

Tessica Oldemeyer
Enterprise GIS Lead, Campus Development Office, INL

Kevin Wright
Geospatial Information Officer, DOE - OCIO

Brad Rhodes
iJC3 Contract Lead, AFS

Ruishu Wright
Research Physical Scientist, Leidos, NETL

Srikanth Allu
ORNL

Erik Dufek
INL

Noah Paulson
ANL

Dr. Yuliya Preger
Principal Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Labs

Vincent Sprenkle
PNNL

Dr. Nelli Babayan
Federal Civilian AI Director, Microsoft

Seth Berl
Deputy Chief Data Officer, OCIO, US Department of Energy

Bridget Carper
Deputy CIO, DOE-IM

Sean Tabbert
Generative AI lead for the Federal Market, IBM

Ranjan Banerji
Amazon Web Services

Supriya Chinthavali
ORNL

Don Benza
Senior Electrical Engineer, SRNL

Keith Mecham
Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Engineer, Idaho National Laboratory

Dakota Roberson
Associate Professor, University of Idaho

Brandon Workentin
Consultant, Enaxy LLC

SPEAKERS:

Ann Dunkin
Chief Information Officer, US Department of Energy

Sami Khoury
Head, Canadian Centre for Cyber Security

Saman Zonouz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Schools of Cybersecurity and Privacy (SCP) and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Georgia Tech

Paula Gold-Williams
Past President & CEO, CPS Energy and Co-Chair, Keystone Policy Center

Gene Alvarez
Distinguished VP Analyst, KI Leader, Gartner