Engineering & Operations Conference 2024 | American Public Power Association (APPA) | 7 April 2024 | Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Two Poydras St, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA

Your Challenges, Shared Solutions
This conference is APPA’s annual meeting—attracting over 400 utility professionals, industry experts and suppliers—to share information, discover best practices, and learn from case studies.

Meet other utility professionals—both veterans and those new to the electric utility industry—and share ideas and experiences in four critical areas:
• Environmental Issues
• Grid Modernization
• Safety
• Transmission & Distribution
Topics
Conference attendees get the latest information from experts in their fields, learn about the national issues and industry-wide activities and trends that are affecting their communities and utilities, network and share experiences and strategies for dealing with key issues and challenges including:
• Distributed energy resources; environmental regulations; technology innovations; reliability, safety and mutual aid; security; system planning, forecasting and modeling; and operational resilience and process improvement.
• Who Should Attend
Conference sessions are designed for utility employees at both the professional and management levels.
Attendees typically include vice presidents, superintendents, directors, managers, engineers, and safety and training personnel. Electric utility directors, city managers, and future leaders, will also benefit from learning more about these strategic areas and making connections with the national public power community.

2024 Speakers

Mike Robbins
Author, Teamwork and Leadership Expert, Former Professional Baseball Player

Rachel Huang
Director of Energy Strategy and Research and Development, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, California

Harsha Padullaparti, PhD
Senior Researcher, Power Systems Engineering Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Scott Woodward, P.E.
Distribution Engineer, Grand River Dam Authority, Oklahoma

Robert Beidler
Senior Manager of Safety, Security and Emergency Management, Snohomish County PUD, Washington

Travis Hoops
Manager, Training & Support, Omaha Public Power District, Nebraska

Patrick Frazier
COO, ARC Power

Justin Siemens
Special Consultant, Acumen

Kyle Stabile
Senior Power Supply Analyst, AC Power

Rachel Combs
Manager, Strategic Asset Management, Tennessee Valley Authority

Brian Owens
Senior Vice President, WSP

Nathan Mitchell
Executive Engineer, Power, MRP Associates

Mark Ponder
President, IPKeys Power Partners

Inalvis Alvarez Fernandez, PhD
Senior Research Engineer, Electric Power Research Institute

Beth Massey, PhD
Director, Data Dynamics, Strategic Innovations

Sarah Valovcin
Principal Data Scientist, The Energy Authority

Michael Harris
Director, Enforcement and Compliance Assurance Division, Environmental Protection Agency

Lori Myott
Manager, Environmental Services and Reliability Compliance, Lansing Board of Water and Light, Michigan

Kristie Kelley
Director, Workforce Development, Center for Energy Workforce Development

J.T. Flick, MPA, CEM, AEMT-P
Director, Crisis Management, New York Power Authority

Jason C. Miller
Electric Distribution Engineering Coordinator, Lafayette Utilities System, Louisiana

Arthur Bishop
Manager of Transmission and Distribution Technology Support, Alabama Municipal Electric Authority

Albert Saenz, P.E.
Principal Electric Utility Engineer, Silicon Valley Power, Santa Clara, California

Paul Zummo
Director, Research and Development, American Public Power Association

Dawn Santoianni
Principal Consultant, ESG & Resilience Practice Leader, Haley & Aldrich

Brandon Delis, P.E.
Director, Research and Development, Electric Power Research Institute

Troy Gauthier
Fire Training Chief, Lafayette Fire Department

Matthew Paiss
Technical Advisor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Mandip Samra
Head of Power Supply, City of Burbank Water and Power Supply, California

Ricardo da Silva
Vice President, Strategic Operations, New York Power Authority

Robert Kabera
President, Sheltera AI

Sean Kelly
Chief Executive Officer, Amperon

Jim Boyd
Electric Operations Safety Manager, Transmission & Distribution, Tacoma Power Utilities, Washington

Paul Duncan
Engineer, MPR Associates

Emma Hillman
Engineer, MPR Associates

Christopher Lee
Electrical Engineer, Seattle City Light, Washington

Cameron Cowan
General Manager, Intermountain Power Agency, Utah

Patricia Scroggin-Wicker, P.E.
Director of Decarbonization, Burns & McDonnell

R. John Miner, P.E.
President, Collaborative Learning, Inc.

M. Thomas Black, P.E.
Technical Consultant, Collaborative Learning, Inc.

DawnRenee Garner
Safety and Security Manager, Huntsville Utilities, Alabama

Scott McKenzie
Senior Director of Member Training and Safety, American Municipal Power, Ohio

Brooke Sinclair, CHMM, CSP
Senior EHS Regulatory Specialist, Utilities National Market Sector Lead, EnSafe

Brandon Wylie, CUSP
Program Executive, Quanta Apprenticeships, Northwest Lineman College

Christopher Kelley
Vice President, Beam Reach Consulting Group

Ji Yoon Lee
Manager, Research & Development, American Public Power Association

Emmanuel Taylor, Ph.D
Senior Energy Consultant, Beam Reach Consulting Group

Liz Williamson
Partner, Balch & Bingham, LLP

Carolyn Slaughter
Senior Director of Environmental Policy, American Public Power Associates

Adam Steltzner
Leader & Chief Engineer, NASA Mars 2020 Mission, Rover Perseverance

Scott Corwin
President and CEO, American Public Power Association

Josh Loyd
Associate Project Manager Transportation Electrification Consulting, 1898 & Co.

Kieran McInerney
Associate Project Manager Energy Storage Consulting, 1898 & Co.

Adam Young
Director of Utility Financial Advisory and Rates Practice, 1898 & Co.

2024 Sponsors

ADVOCATE SPONSORS:
• Hometown Connections
• Automated Energy
• PowerSecure
• The Energy Authority
• Utilismart

SIGNATURE SPONSORS:
• Irby
• Wesco
• Permacast

NETWORK SPONSORS:
• MPR
• Convergent