Barbara Humpton is CEO of Siemens USA, where she guides the company’s strategy and engagement in serving the company’s largest market in the world, with more than 50,000 employees and over $23 billion in revenues and $5 billion in annual exports.

Most recently, Humpton served as president and CEO of Siemens Government Technologies, Inc. (SGT), a leading integrator of Siemens’ products and services for federal government agencies and departments. In this role, Humpton also served as an officer/director member of the board of directors of SGT.

Prior to joining Siemens in 2011, Humpton served as a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton where she was responsible for program performance and new business development for technology consulting in the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security. Earlier, Humpton was a vice president at Lockheed Martin Corporation with responsibility for Biometrics Programs, Border and Transportation Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection, including such critical programs as the FBI’s Next Generation Identification and the TSA’s Transportation Workers’ Identification Credential.

Humpton is a graduate of Wake Forest University with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. She serves on the board of directors of MorganFranklin, the American Heart Association Greater Washington Region, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), and The George Washington University Law School Government Contracts Advisory Board. She resides in Washington, D.C., with her husband David.

The Honorable Mark Wesley Menezes, Under Secretary of Energy, serves as the Department’s principal advisor on energy policy and on a wide array of existing and emerging energy technologies. The Under Secretary is responsible for driving transformative energy policy, and technology solutions through coordinated planning, management and performance of the Department’s energy programs.

Prior to being confirmed as Under Secretary of Energy, Mr. Menezes was an executive with Berkshire Hathaway Energy in its Washington, D.C. office. Before joining BHE, Mr. Menezes was a partner at Hunton & Williams LLP, where he headed the Regulated Markets and Energy Infrastructure practice group. Prior to Hunton, he served as Chief Counsel, Energy and Environment, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, serving as chief negotiator for the House Majority in the enactment of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Before his service with House Energy & Commerce, he was Vice President with Central and South West, and upon its merger with American Electric Power, served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel for federal and state legislative and regulatory affairs.

Mr. Menezes has been named in National Journal’s “Hill 100”—top Congressional staff for his work on both energy and environmental matters. He has been frequent guest speaker and lecturer before numerous associations and civic groups, including legal education seminars where he has been called on to address the nation’s energy and environmental policies, utility restructuring, telecommunications, ethics, merger and acquisition practices, and regulatory and legislative processes. He has co-authored numerous articles, a practice manual, and been quoted in the New York Times, Law360, Oil and Gas Journal, Politico as well as interviewed by E&ETV. He’s been listed Best Lawyers in America 2013–2016, Corporate Counsel’s Top Lawyers 2006–2011, Washington Post’s Top Lawyers 2008–2016, and DC Super Lawyers 2012–2016.

Mr. Menezes is a graduate of Louisiana State University receiving both his undergraduate and juris doctor degree. Until joining the government he was a charter member of the Advisory Council, Louisiana State University Law John P. Laborde Energy Law Center, and served on the Board of Directors of the Congressional Chorus & American Youth Chorus.

On July 26, 2017, Maria Pope was appointed by PGE’s board of directors to succeed Jim Piro in the roles of president, CEO and member of the board. On Oct. 1, 2017, Pope took on the role of president, and on Jan. 1, 2018 she will also assume the roles of CEO and member of the board when Jim Piro officially retires.

Most recently, Pope served as senior vice president of Power Supply, Operations and Resource Strategy, overseeing PGE's energy supply portfolio, operations — including wholesale power, fuels, marketing, trading and long-term resource strategy— and generation facilities, including 15 thermal, hydro and wind facilities.

Pope joined PGE in 2009 as senior vice president of finance, chief financial officer and treasurer. She served on PGE’s Board of Directors from 2006 to 2008. Prior to joining PGE, Pope was chief financial officer of Mentor Graphics Corporation and served in senior operating and finance positions within the forest products and consumer products industries. She began her career in banking with Morgan Stanley.

She was appointed by Oregon’s governor to chair the Oregon Health & Science University governing board and also serves on the board of Umpqua Holdings Corporation. She has previously served on several other U.S. and Canadian boards. Pope is an alumna of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and earned her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University.

After serving as president and CEO of PJM since 2008, Mr. Boston retired January 2016 and received a 2017 Presidential appointment to the National Infrastructure Advisory Council.

Mr. Boston is past president of the Association of Edison Illuminating Companies and past president of GO 15, the association of the world’s largest power grid operators which serves 3.4 billion people. He was as a U.S. VP of CIGRE, the International Council of Large Electric Systems and received the CIGRE 2016 Attwood Award.

Mr. Boston was a founder and the first chair of the North American Transmission Forum. He also was one of the eight industry experts selected to direct the North American Electric Reliability Corporation investigation of the August 2003 Northeast/Midwest blackout.

In 2014 Mr. Boston was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional honors accorded an engineer. Mr. Boston was honored with the 2011 “Leadership in Power” award from the IEEE Power and Energy Society. He led PJM to win Platts Global Energy Awards in Industry Leadership 2010, Excellence in Electricity in 2012 and in December 2015 he was unanimously selected the winner of the Global Energy Life Time Achievement Award.

Prior to joining PJM, Mr. Boston was the executive vice president, Power System Operations (PSO), at the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public power provider. He led PSO to an all-time record of 6.3 million safe work hours without a lost-time injury and PSO benchmarked best in class in the U.S. for safety of electrical workers. In his 35 years at TVA, Mr. Boston directed divisions in transmission and power operations, pricing & contracts and electric system reliability.

He is chair of the Electric Infrastructure Security Council E-PRO executive committee and served three years as chairman of the Southeastern Electric Reliability Council Board. He served on the board of Electric Power Research Institute, is currently on the Boards of GridLiance GP LLC, Grid Protection Alliance, Dewberry Engineering, and the National Academy's Board on Energy and Environmental Systems. He chaired the DHS/DOE Electric Subsector Coordination Council’s R&D committee, previously served on the NERC Stakeholders Board and was elected to the NERC Members Representative Committee.

Mr. Boston holds a BS in engineering, Tennessee Technological University and a MS in engineering administration, University of Tennessee.

John Di Stasio, joined the Large Public Power Council (LPPC) in August 2014. The LPPC represents the twenty-six largest consumer-owned utilities in the United States. Di Stasio serves as the Association’s President, based in Washington DC, representing the interests of the member organizations.

Di Stasio was formerly the General Manager and CEO of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) from June of 2008 through April of 2014.

Di Stasio is the past president of both the Northwest Public Power Association and the California Municipal Utility Association and the vice chair of the Large Public Power Council. He was also a board member of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy and the American Public Power Association. He was a member of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s Members Representative Committee.

Di Stasio was also a gubernatorial appointee to the California Workforce Investment Board. He was the Electric Light and Power Large Utility CEO of the Year in 2013

Di Stasio was also active in international energy issues in other countries including Bangladesh, Brazil, Botswana, India and Jordan. He was named Volunteer of the Year in 2013 by the United States Energy Association.

He is a graduate of the University of San Francisco and a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum.

Di Stasio is a native Californian and fourth generation farmer. He is the owner of Di Stasio Vineyards, a commercial vineyard in Amador County, California. Di Stasio enjoys foreign travel, golf, fishing and Amador Zinfandels.

Steven Martin is Vice President and Chief Digital Officer for GE Power, and Chief Commercial Officer for GE Digital.

At GE Power, Steven is responsible for leading and advancing the businesses’ digital industrial strategy. This includes the development of product, service and solution roadmaps, and designing new customer experiences and business models.

At GE Digital, Steven is responsible for driving GE Digital’s commercial success and aligning customer needs with GE Digital’s portfolio of solutions for the Industrial Internet of Things.

Prior to joining GE, Steven spent fourteen years at Microsoft and was most recently the general manager and chief data scientist for Azure. In this role, Steven was responsible for global operations, customer acquisition and billing, analytics and data science, as well as the underlying data platform for services management.

Steven previously held several other roles at Microsoft with increasing responsibility, including General Manager of Business Planning and Strategy, Senior Director Business Operations, director of Product Management for Microsoft’s Platform Middleware, .NET and App Servers.

Prior to Microsoft, Steven held product management and marketing roles with other tech‐related businesses. Steven holds a BS in Behavioral Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin and is an ongoing student of Behavioral Economics.

Pedro Pizarro is president and chief executive officer of Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the nation’s largest electric utilities. Edison International is also the parent company of Edison Energy, a portfolio of competitive businesses providing commercial and industrial customers with energy management and procurement services. He is a member of Edison International’s board of directors.

Pizarro served as president of SCE from October 2014 through May 2016, when he was elected president of Edison International. He was elected chief executive officer in October 2016. Previously, Pizarro was president of Edison Mission Energy (EME) and chaired its board of directors from 2011 until the sale of its assets to NRG Energy in April 2014. EME, a subsidiary of Edison International at the time, was an independent power producer that owned, leased, operated and sold energy and capacity from electric power generation facilities, and engaged in hedging and energy-trading activities in competitive power markets. Pizarro joined Edison International in 1999, moved to SCE in 2001, and progressed through several leadership roles prior to joining EME.

Prior to his work at Edison International and SCE, Pizarro was a senior engagement manager with McKinsey & Company in Los Angeles providing management consulting services to energy, technology, engineering services, and banking clients. There, he developed corporate strategy, handled mergers and acquisitions, and oversaw operational and organizational engagements.

Pizarro earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Caltech and held National Science Foundation and Department of Defense graduate fellowships. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Harvard University.

Pizarro serves on the boards of Argonne National Laboratory, Electric Power Research Institute, Edison Electric Institute, and California Institute of Technology. He has also served on the boards of Electric Power Supply Association, California Power Exchange, Colburn School, House Research Institute, Southern California Leadership Council and Western Energy Institute.

M. Beth Trombold was appointed to the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) by Governor John Kasich in 2013 and reappointed to a second term in 2018.

Commissioner Trombold serves as vice-chair of the PUCO, and alongside the chairman has coordinated the PUCO’s PowerForward initiative focused on modernizing the electric grid.

She is a member of the National Association of Regulatory Utilities Commissioners where she serves on the Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment. She is the past president of the Organization of PJM States, Inc., an organization of 14 state commissions in the service area of PJM, the regional transmission operator. Trombold is chair of the Independent State Agencies Committee focused on transmission needs within PJM. She also serves on the Financial Research Institute advisory board at the University of Missouri.

Prior to her appointment, Trombold served as assistant director of the Ohio Development Services Agency (ODSA). A long time public servant, she also served in a variety of roles within the PUCO, including director of Economic Development and Public Affairs. During her career, Commissioner Trombold led legislative efforts on many important utility issues; including: electric restructuring, natural gas choice, and telecommunications reform.

Commissioner Trombold received a bachelor's in business administration from Ohio University and a master’s in public policy and management from The Ohio State University. She currently serves on the Glenn College Alumni Society Board. In 2002, the PUCO awarded Trombold the Frank B. Richards Award for Excellence in Management and Public Service. In 2012, she received the Outstanding State Government Alumnus Award from the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University.

Daniel Arnold received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, San Diego, in 2005, the M.S. degree in engineering science from the University of California, San Diego, in 2006. From 2006 to 2009 he was conducted research and development of unmanned underwater vehicles for the United States Navy at the Space and Naval Warfare Center in San Diego. He then received his Ph.D. from the Mechanical Engineering Dept. at the University of California, Berkeley in 2015. He was a 2015 ITRI-Rosenfeld Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is now a research scientist in the Grid Integration Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Presently, his research focuses on the application of control, optimization, and machine learning techniques for electric grid management and cyber security.

Dr. Steven Ashby is the Director of the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he is responsible for setting PNNL’s strategic direction and overseeing its 4,500 staff and nearly $1 billion R&D budget. Under his leadership, PNNL’s talented scientists, engineers and support professionals are advancing scientific discovery, improving energy resiliency, and enhancing national security. PNNL is recognized as the nation’s premier chemistry, earth sciences, and data analytics laboratory; it provides national leadership in grid modernization, energy storage, nuclear non-proliferation and cyber security. A widely recognized leader in computational science, Dr. Ashby is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences; and serves on advisory committees for local and state organizations, including the Washington Roundtable. He received a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

Mr. Ball has 40 Years of experience in Information Technology, Security, and Power Systems Operations. He has a unique breadth of experience ranging from a junior systems administrator and punchcard operator to managing multiple data centers in a transmission utility covering over a quarter of the United States. A retired Naval Officer, Mr. Ball was in the vanguard of the introduction of automated engineering systems controls. Since his retirement from active service in 1994 he has held positions in the modeling and simulation industry, served as the European Union’s IT manager for their U.S. diplomatic operations, as well as holding information security positions in the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration. He has held several information security positions in the Department of Energy dealing with both technical and policy issues.

Mr. Ball is currently the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at the Western Area Power Administration, a position held since 2011. In this role, he is responsible for information assurance and cyber operations in a transmission utility encompassing most of the Western United States. He manages security on four large SCADA/EMS systems and a very large business network as well as substation automation in over 400 locations. He is an active participant in the GRIDEX incident response exercise series.

Prior to his retirement Mr. Ball served 24 years in the United States Army and Navy in a series of engineering, communications, intelligence, and IT positions. He has directly managed the operation of complex conventional power generation and marine propulsion systems.

Mr. Ball holds Masters Degrees from Troy University and the United States Army Command and General Staff College as well as a Bachelors Degree from the University of Hawaii. He holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and the Global Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Professional (GICSP) and Global Critical Infrastructure Protection (GCIP) certifications.

Russell Bent received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Brown University in 2005. Since then he has been a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA. He is currently in the Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics Group (T-5), where he leads LANL’s inter-organizational Advanced Network Sciences Initiative (ANSI). ANSI is an interdisciplinary initiative that enables fundamental and applied research to address long-term challenges in critical infrastructure design, operation, and security. The primary philosophy of ANSI is that combining insights from Theoretical Physics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering can result in novel computational methods that address a variety of emerging challenges in infrastructure networks. Dr. Bent is the principal or co-principal investigator for DOE projects in critical infrastructure systems research and development that focus on improving robustness of infrastructure systems to extreme events, increasing resilience of distribution networks, modeling interdependencies between systems, managing disasters that impact critical infrastructure, modeling smart grid technologies, and developing methods for mixed-integer, non-linear optimization. Such projects include the Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium (GMLC) Project Extreme Event Modeling, the GMLC and DOE Smart Grid Project LPNORM: A LANL, PNNL, and NRECA Optimal Resiliency Model, and the DOE Advanced Grid Modeling (AGM) Project Joint Power System and Natural Gas Pipeline Optimal Expansion Planning. He is also the lead developer for the software POD, A Global Solver for Nonconvex MINLPS and the software GasModels.jl, a toolbox for modeling natural gas systems. He is the author of one book, Online Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization, and over 80 peer reviewed journal and conference publications. Dr. Bent is also an associate editor for the INFORMS Journal of Computing.

Hawaiian Electric serves 95% of Hawaii’s electric customers with a service area made up of five separate islanded electric systems. At 27% RPS with 17% of its customers deploying various rooftop solar systems, Hawaiian Electric has taken a leading role in the integration of renewable and DER systems. And most recently, they have announced its contracting of 262 MW of grid scale PV coupled with over 1 GWh of battery storage.

Colton has responsibility for planning Hawaiian Electric’s 100% renewable energy grid and integrating needed new technologies into the system. He previously served as Vice President of Energy Delivery as well as Vice President of System Operation and Planning and has 28 years of utility experience.

In addition to his work at Hawaiian Electric, Colton serves on the Metro Board of Directors of the YMCA of Honolulu, the Executive Board of the Aloha Council Boy Scouts of America, and on the Advisory Council to the State of Hawai‘i Emergency Management Agency. Colton is also one of 13 inaugural cohorts in the Omidyar Fellows Leadership program.

Colton was born and raised on the island of Maui and is a graduate of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa where he received a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He now calls Kāneʻohe home where he resides with his wife Vicky and their son Jacob.

John Collins is currently with FoxGuard Solutions focused on OT Cybersecurity for critical infrastructure. John has over led the efforts at FoxGuard Solutions in developing a BAS Cyber Security Solution which was awarded the DoD ESTCP in 2017 for BAS Cyber Monitoring. With over 8 years’ experience working with control system at Major BAS OEM where he designed, managed projects, and focused on operations and maintenance for customers in the Baltimore and Washington DC areas. Through numerus critical infrastructure projects at multiple large Electric Utilities, airports, and multiple US intelligence agencies he has gained real world experience protecting operational technology (OT) through IT compliance requirements. He has experience in automating vulnerability detection and patching systems for compliance requirements including NERC CIP 002,007,010; CFR Part11, UL864 and NFPA72. John has a graduate degree in Supply Chain Management from Penn State University and an undergrad from Robert Morris University, in addition he is a LEED accredited professional and completed Department of Homeland Security industrial control system Cybersecurity programs W220 & W100.

With an education in mathematics, physics and computer science, Philip's career has spanned both technical and team leadership roles in industrial process control, mobile device and business computing solutions through to technology development for electric vehicles and distributed energy systems. His current focus is helping to accelerate humanities transition to distributed renewable energy while leveraging Open Source infrastructure and Agile development processes to speed this process.

Livio Dalloro heads the Product Design, Modeling and Simulation research group at Siemens Corporate Technology and is located in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Born and raised in Milano, Italy, he began his career with Siemens developing SCADA software for large building automation systems before moving to the company’s research facility in Princeton. While there, he founded a new research group focused on the discovery and creation of the next generation cognitive algorithms for design, simulation and manufacturing. Livio has multiple granted patents including residential-level EV charging and pipelining for cyclic control systems, among others. A recipient of two simultaneous DARPA grants and of several Siemens’ strategic innovation projects for the Digital Twin, he now runs the largest and fastest growing Siemens research team in the U.S. He has also an R&D Council Edison Patent Award in the energy category for a novel solution using a collaborative energy management strategy that includes a distributed system to manage the residential-level power distribution grid in a collaborative way for E-car charging stations. In addition, he was the Siemens representative member for the Technical Advisory Committee of the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing in Richmond, VA. Passionate about his roots, he can't say no to a good 'carbonara pasta', which he enjoys cooking to perfection for his friends and family. In his free time, Livio enjoys running and spending time with his two sons and wife at his vacation home in Italy.

Karen S. Evans was sworn in by U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette as the Assistant Secretary for the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) on September 4, 2018. Mrs. Evans was confirmed as Assistant Secretary for CESER by the U.S. Senate on August 28, 2018.

Before being nominated by President Donald J. Trump to lead the Department of Energy’s cybersecurity efforts, Mrs. Evans was the National Director of the U.S. Cyber Challenge, a public-private program designed to help address the skills gap in the cybersecurity field. She also served as an independent director and outside manager for publicly-traded companies.

Mrs. Evans was previously a top IT official at the Office of Management and Budget under President George W. Bush in the position that is now known as the Federal CIO and also served as the Department of Energy’s Chief Information Officer.

She received her MBA and BA in Chemistry from West Virginia University.

Dr. Robert F. Jeffers is a Systems Scientist and Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, where he applies system dynamics and power engineering principles to diverse problems concerning the intersection between social, natural, and engineered systems. He is the technical lead for Sandia's Urban Resilience Initiative which applies infrastructure modeling, resilience science, and economics to resilience problems at the city scale. Dr. Jeffers's previous projects include a city-wide design of microgrids focused on improving community resilience metrics for the City of New Orleans. His current focus is on developing a process to better align community resilience strategies with electric utility investment planning. He is developing approaches to support utilities, regulators, state and local governments in this integrated planning process. Prior to his time at Sandia, Dr. Jeffers worked at Idaho National Laboratory as an Energy and Environmental Systems Modeler and Power and Controls Researcher. Dr. Jeffers earned his master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Power Systems from Virginia Tech, and his doctorate in Environmental Science from Washington State University.

Mark Hadley is a Senior Cybersecurity Researcher at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Mr. Hadley’s research and project management activities with PNNL focus on national security solutions in support of non-governmental organizations, the U.S. Departments of Energy, Department of Defense, and Homeland Security. He is a nationally recognized leader in the fields of critical infrastructure protection and industrial control system security.

The technology he has transferred to industry and the commercial products he has helped create are actively protecting both legacy and next generation energy delivery systems (EDS) communication environments around the world. The impact of his work extends beyond the electric sector with deployed security solutions protecting critical infrastructure systems used by water, waste water, natural gas, secure facilities, and Department of Defense customers.

Most recently, Mr. Hadley is leading a pilot effort to demonstrate that DOE sponsored Software Defined Networking technology can be used to protect energy delivery systems at multiple Department of Defense, Coast Guard, and Veteran’s Administration facilities.

Mr. Imhoff manages the Electric Infrastructure market sector within Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Energy and Environment Directorate. The market sector conducts advanced electric infrastructure research and product development with the U.S. Department of Energy, state governments, vendors, and commercial energy firms. In this role he is responsible for PNNL's research and development programs on innovations in the areas of advanced power transmission reliability concepts, demand response, development of improved integration concepts for renewable energy generation technologies, policy and strategy for smart grid concepts, and cross-cutting grid analytic tools in visualization and high performance computing.

As leader of PNNL's Laboratory Objective for a Secure and Efficient Grid, Mr. Imhoff is accountable for Lab-level strategy and execution of strategic development for grid strategy, capabilities, and partnerships, ensuring continued leadership by PNNL in grid modernization over the next decade. In November 2014, Mr. Imhoff was selected by DOE as Laboratory Integrator Team Chair for the DOE Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium. This Consortium is charged with increasing integration among DOE offices and national laboratories working to transform the U.S. power grid to meet the consumer, economic, environmental, and security priorities of the 21st century.

During his 30-plus years at PNNL, Mr. Imhoff has conducted and managed a broad range of energy research. His technical work emphasizes systems engineering and operations in the areas of power system reliability, smart grid, energy efficiency, energy storage and clean power generation. He has been actively involved in a number of electric power system organizations and bodies, including the North American Synchrophasor Initiative, the GridWise Alliance, the Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions, and the Western Electric Coordinating Council.

Brian is responsible for leading the development and execution of Microsoft’s global data center energy strategy. These data centers provide the foundational cloud infrastructure for Microsoft’s online and cloud services for consumers and businesses worldwide. His responsibilities include oversight of all energy supply agreements, renewable energy purchasing, distributed generation, and strategic partnerships to ensure a power supply that is reliable and sustainable. As Director of the Energy Strategy and Research team, he creates end-to-end strategies that will drive innovations in the next generation of cloud data centers, and supports efforts to establish energy market policies that will foster end-user innovation.

Brian joined Microsoft in 2011 after 12 years in the energy industry where he worked as a Sr. Consultant at Brubaker & Associates, assisting Fortune 500 companies with energy procurement, policy, and sustainability matters. Brian holds an MBA from Webster University, a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Missouri, and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Missouri.

Raymond leads a software team developing an open Distributed Energy Management platform. For the past 15 years, he has provided energy and environmental consulting to local, state and federal agencies, utilities, major developers, engineering firms, and national and international architectural firms.

He is co-chair of the SEPA Energy Services Interface Task Force and was co-chair for the US Dept of Energy’s Orange Button Initiative Design & Construction workgroup to establish Open Solar Data Exchange standards.

Raymond has presented at several leading conferences including EPRI/OpenADR DER Protocol workshop on the future of DER C&C; the Intelligent Energy Management conference in Sweden, the DOE Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium Technical Review meeting, SEPA’s Grid Evolution Summit, and Solar Power International.

Paul K. Kearns has served as Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory since 2017. Kearns manages a growing multidisciplinary science and engineering research center with an $831 million diversified research portfolio and more than 3,200 employees, 8,300 facility users, and 1,600 visiting researchers. Kearns served as Argonne Chief Operations Officer from 2010 to 2017.

Kearns is a biologist and accomplished steward of diverse scientific resources to achieve ambitious goals in energy, environment, and national security. For over 30 years, Kearns has managed complex research and development enterprises by prioritizing science and technology leadership, operations excellence, and world-class talent.

Kearns’ resume includes five years as an executive with Battelle Global Laboratory Operations and accomplished tenures with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Kearns is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He serves on the Executive Committee of the DOE National Laboratory Directors’ Council and the U.S. Council on Competitiveness’ National Commission on Innovation and Competitiveness Frontiers.

Kearns has a doctorate and a master’s degree in bionucleonics and bachelor’s degree in natural resources and environmental sciences, all from Purdue University. He and his wife, Lynn Kearns, have three children and four grandchildren.

Bob Kirchmeier is a Senior Energy Policy Specialist in the Washington State Department of Commerce, where he is the technical lead for the Washington State Clean Energy Fund Grid Modernization Grants Program. He has over 38 years of experience working with Northwest electric utilities and is a licensed professional electrical engineer in Washington State. Previously, he was the Senior Manager for Substations, Metering and Telecommunications at Snohomish PUD and spent 25 years at Tacoma Power working on a wide variety of generation, substation, protection, communication, transmission and distribution automation projects.

Curtis Kirkeby holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering (BSEE) from Montana State University and a Masters in Engineering Management (MSEM) from Washington State University. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Washington and has extensive experience in the electric and gas utility industry; 6 years in substation design; 18 years in GIS, outage management, asset management, advanced metering systems, engineering modeling; and 14 years in applied research and development focused on energy storage, renewable integration, smart grid, and smart cities. Mr. Kirkeby is currently responsible for innovation strategy and applied research and development, focused on technologies and solutions that enhance the grid and deliver increased value to customers.

Dr. Teja Kuruganti is the Group Leader for Modeling and Simulation in the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where he has worked since 2003. He currently leads ORNL activities in developing novel sensors and controls for improving energy efficiency of buildings and novel techniques for enabling grid-responsive building loads. Dr. Kuruganti is also a Joint Faculty Associate Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dr. Kuruganti’s R&D expertise includes modeling of communications and controls systems, wireless sensor networks, wireless modulation techniques, retrofit sensors and control platforms for improving energy efficiency in buildings and enabling building-to-grid services, low-cost manufacturing techniques for integrated wireless sensors, and collaborative signal and information processing in sensor. He won an R&D 100 award in 2012 for co-developing an electromagnetic wave propagation simulation engine for harsh environments. He earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has authored/co-authored 95+ peer-reviewed conference and journal papers and 10+ book chapters/refereed technical reports.

Dr. Stuart Laval is a member of Duke Energy's Emerging Technology office, where he leads the development of grid-edge operational technologies and pioneering utility interoperability standards. He currently serves as the co-chairman of the Open Field Message Bus (OpenFMB) task forces at the UCA International Users Group (UCAIug) and North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB). Dr. Laval has over 15 years of experience in the development of over 30 technology solutions in electric utility power systems, telecommunications, and power electronics. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT, a MBA from Rollins College, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida.

Elliot Mainzer was named Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) in January 2014 but had served as Acting Administrator since July 2013. In that role, he is responsible for managing the nonprofit federal agency that markets carbon-free power from Columbia River hydroelectric dams and the region's one nuclear plant. BPA also operates most of the high-voltage power grid across the Pacific Northwest, distributing wind and other energy to the region and beyond.

From February to July of 2013, Mainzer served as BPA’s acting deputy administrator, responsible for Finance, Strategy, Legal, Public Affairs, Risk Management, Compliance, Governance and Internal Audit functions. He also served as the principal policy and strategy adviser to the BPA administrator.

Mainzer, who joined BPA in 2002, has held a variety of management positions within the agency’s Power, Transmission and Corporate organizations, including trading floor manager and manager of Transmission Policy and Strategy. Most recently, as executive vice president of Corporate Strategy, he led the agency’s strategic planning process and provided policy leadership and cross-agency coordination on renewables integration, market design, climate change and integrated planning.

He has provided leadership and coordination of significant regional initiatives, including the Northwest Wind Integration Action Plan in 2007 and the Northwest Power Pool Members’ Market Assessment and Coordination Initiative. Prior to joining BPA, Mainzer established and managed Enron’s Renewable Power Desk out of its offices in Portland, Ore.

Mainzer earned his bachelor’s degree in geography from the University of California, Berkeley. He has an MBA and Master of Environmental Studies degree from Yale University.

An avid hiker and amateur jazz saxophonist, he lives in Portland with his wife and twin sons.

Pete Maltbaek has over 30 years of experience working in the electric utility industry in North America and around the world. He is considered an expert in the design and technology requirements of electric utility grid control systems and deregulated electricity power markets. He has worked with utilities and regulators in over 30 countries and on projects sponsored by the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, and has served as a post-graduate mentor at Stanford University. A 20-year career with ABB culminated in the position of Vice President in the Power Markets Systems business. For the past 10 years, Mr. Maltbaek has worked for a series of Silicon Valley start-up companies in the electric energy sector, and for the last three years as General Manager for North America for Smarter Grid Solutions.

Cheryl Mele is ERCOT’s senior vice president and chief operating officer (COO). She oversees Grid Operations and Planning, Commercial Operations and Governance, Security and Compliance.

Prior to joining ERCOT, Ms. Mele served as deputy general manager and COO for Austin Energy, where she led its power delivery, generation and market operations, as well as compliance and planning activities.

Ms. Mele has over 30 years of experience in the power industry through her work at ERCOT, Austin Energy and General Electric.

A registered professional engineer in Texas, Ms. Mele has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Union College in Schenectady, New York, and completed The Utility Executive Course at the University of Idaho.

While at Austin Energy, Ms. Mele served on the boards of the South Texas Nuclear Operating Company, the Texas Public Power Association and the RMEL. She currently serves as a board member for the Austin Science Education Foundation and the Association of Women in Energy.

Heather O'Neill is President of Advanced Energy Economy (AEE). Prior to assuming her role as President, Heather was Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, responsible for deepening and broadening AEE's relationships with funders and foundations, as well as building partnerships with allied organizations that advance industry growth.

Heather brings multi-sector experience to AEE, having helped build organizations in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors in her career. Before joining AEE, Heather built and led the clean energy and environment portfolio at the Robertson Foundation, a $1B family philanthropy. Previously, she was Director, Public Affairs, for Danco Laboratories LLC, a start-up women's health pharmaceutical company.

Heather graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. in Government and returned to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government to receive a Master in Public Policy.

Michael Pesin is Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Advanced Grid Research and Development Division in the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity. Mr. Pesin has 30 years of experience in the electric utility industry, much of it directing development and execution of advanced technology programs. His most recent assignment was with Seattle City Light (SCL) where he developed the technology strategy, managed research and development projects and directed strategic programs to management demonstration projects. His subordinate strategic programs included substation automation, distributed automation, advanced metering infrastructure, enterprise OT communication networks, energy storage, microgrids, transactive energy management and distributed management systems.

Mr. Pesin has numerous professional affiliations, publications and patents. He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia, is a Licensed Professional Electrical Engineer in the State of Washington, a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA).

Dr. Mark C. Petri is the Director of Argonne’s Electric Power Grid Program. He is responsible for coordinating the laboratory’s large and multidisciplinary activities to improve the reliability, resiliency, security, and efficiency of the nation’s electric power grids. He also serves as a Vector Lead in Grid for Argonne’s National Security Programs.

Petri recently led a multi-laboratory DOE effort to adapt power grid modeling tools to help Puerto Rico better prepare for future storms. This included training Puerto Rico grid analysts on Argonne’s hurricane hazard assessment software and infrastructure interdependency tools that are used extensively on the mainland to train operators on postulated disasters and to respond to actual events.

Prior to rejoining Argonne, Petri was Director of the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute, a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence that conducts research and education to enhance the resilience of the nation’s critical infrastructures. He was also Director of the Iowa Energy Center, which supports economic development, environmental sustainability, and social well-being in Iowa through energy innovation, education, and entrepreneurship.

Petri was formerly the Technology Development Director within Argonne National Laboratory’s Energy Engineering and Systems Analysis Directorate, where he developed and coordinated multidisciplinary applied and basic research programs aimed at sustainable energy production, transmission, and efficiency. The work included research on a wide range of alternative energy sources and power grid modeling and simulation. Petri received his Ph.D. from Purdue University through the School of Materials Science and Engineering. From 2007 to 2008 Petri served as Science and Technology Advisor to Illinois Senator Richard J. Durbin in Washington, D.C., where he focused on energy and environmental issues.

Conner Prochaska currently serves as Chief Commercialization Officer for the Department of Energy and Director as Office of Technology Transitions. Prior to OTT, Prochaska served as Senior Advisor and Chief of Staff of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).

As part of the agency’s leadership team Conner managed day-to-day operations and provided strategic leadership for the agency. Prior to joining DOE, Prochaska was Senior Vice President and the Associate General Counsel at a public investment fund where he led fund operations. Prochaska also served as an Intelligence Officer in the United States Navy, obtaining the rank of Lieutenant. During his Navy career Prochaska focused on Anti-submarine Warfare and Counter –Weapons of Mass Destruction intelligence.

Prochaska earned his J.D. at The George Washington University School of Law and his B.A. at Texas A&M University where he was elected Student Body President.

Anda Ray is the Senior Vice President of External Relations and Technical Resources and Chief Sustainability Officer at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). She leads the government affairs, stakeholder relations, strategic communications, laboratories, environmental health and safety, marketing and corporate social responsibility. She is also responsible for leading an external advisory group of senior stakeholders representing regulators, academia, environmental and business sectors who advise management and the Board ensuring EPRI’s relevance and balance in serving the public interest. Ray began at EPRI in September 2013.

Prior to EPRI Ray was at TVA for over 30-years, serving in a variety of executive-level positions, including leading environment, engineering, technical services, strategy, power supply planning, research and development. The breadth of her utility experience includes almost all aspects of the electric industry, including nuclear power, fossil fueled generation, renewable energy, development of new products and services and emergency response and recovery.

A few of Ray’s career milestones include: establishment of the Southeastern U.S. first renewable energy premium program, negotiation of one of the nation’s most significant Clean Air agreements with the EPA, and the executive over the Kingston Ash Spill recovery. Ray has served on several boards of directors, including Red Cross, a fuel cell company, and energy services company.

She has appeared on “World Business Review” with former U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, “60 Minutes” with Leslie Stahl, National Public Radio (NPR), and was recognized by the Harvard Business Review for efforts on corporate performance scorecards. She also collaborated with the Secretaries of Energy and Agriculture on delivering the first U.S. Roadmap for Biomass.

She has earned several certifications in Project Management, Emergency Response and Hazardous Waste. Her degrees are in Solid State and Nuclear Physics.

Frank Ronci serves as Sr. Director for Electrical and Control Systems Engineering at the New York Power Authority. He joined the NYPA in 2003, serving in a number of engineering positions in operations, maintenance and design across NYPA’s facilities. In his current role, Ronci leads electrical systems engineering groups including Relay Protection, Control Systems, Metering, Test Engineering, Power System Equipment, and Electrical Engineering.

Frank has served as a member of Northeast Power Coordinating Council TFSP-SP8 working group, drafting reliability requirements for network based protection systems, has Chaired the NYISO System Protection Advisory Subcommittee, and was involved in drafting NYPA’s Smart Generation and Transmission strategic plan.

Frank holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from NYU Polytechnic University, a M.S. in Civil Engineering – Construction Management from Manhattan College, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of New York.

Siva Sankaranarayanan currently serves as Senior Technical Leader, Energy Utilization at EPRI in Palo Alto, CA. In his role, he is responsible for data infrastructure, governance, and analytics for a portfolio of projects in the Advanced Buildings Program covering Zero-Net Energy, Energy Efficiency, Efficient Electrification, and Building Decarbonization areas. Siva is also serving as the principal technical architect for the open Demand-Side Resources Integration Platform, a framework for enabling flexible grid operations by integrating demand-side (behind-the-meter) Distributed Energy Resources under a common data and control model. Prior to joining EPRI, Siva worked in several top-tier companies spanning multiple industry verticals and has also significantly contributed to the development of international standards related to telecommunication protocols for high-speed broadband networks.

In his role as Assistant Secretary in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Daniel Simmons leads EERE to promote affordable and reliable energy to enhance America’s economic growth in energy security. He oversees technology development in the energy efficiency, renewable power and sustainable transportation sectors.

Before joining the U.S. Department of Energy, Daniel served as the Institute for Energy Research’s Vice President for Policy, overseeing its energy and climate policy work at the state and federal level.

He previously served as the director of the Natural Resources Task Force of the American Legislative Exchange Council, was a research fellow at the Mercatus Center and worked as professional staff on the Committee on Resources of the U.S. House of Representatives.

He is a graduate of Utah State University and George Mason University School of Law.

Travis M. Smith is a member of the Research Staff in the Power and Energy Systems group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is a Senior IEEE member, a member of the NCEES exam development committee, and is a licensed Professional Engineer. He has a combined total of 27 years power systems experience, including Federal and Private Utility, Consulting, and Research. His research focus includes simulation and modeling, system protection, substation design, wind/solar generation interconnection, microgrid protection, and power quality analysis.

Emma Stewart is a Deputy Associate Program Leader for Energy Infrastructure at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in the area of Cyber and Infrastructure Resilience. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2009, and Masters in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering in 2005, both from University of Strathclyde in Scotland. Prior to joining LLNL she led the Grid Integration group in the area of Distribution Planning and Analysis at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Emma also worked as a senior engineer at BEW Engineering before joining LBNL, leading high penetration of distributed energy resource studies at large utilities, and has extensive experience with distribution planning and operations tools.

Bruce J. Walker was nominated by President Donald J. Trump and confirmed by the Senate as Assistant Secretary for the Office of Electricity (OE) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in October 2017. The focus of his responsibility is to provide leadership on a national level to develop technologies to enhance the security and reliability of energy infrastructure and facilitate the federal and state electricity policy planning that shapes electricity and market operations. This is critical to meeting the Nation’s growing demand for resilient electricity by overcoming the challenges of our Nation’s aging electricity transmission and distribution system and addressing the vulnerabilities in our energy supply chain.

He holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College and a Juris Doctor in Law from Pace University where he was the technical editor on the Environmental Law Review and received an Environmental Law Certificate. He has completed the Distribution Systems program from Siemens – Power Technologies International. He is a distinguished graduate of the United States Air Force Academy Preparatory School and received an Honorable Discharge from the United States Military Academy.

Tracy West currently serves as director of R&D for Southern Company, America’s premier energy company. Southern Company provides clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy through electric operating companies in three states, natural gas distribution companies in four states, a competitive generation company serving wholesale customers in 11 states across America and a nationally recognized provider of customized energy solutions, as well as fiber optics and wireless communications. Through an industry-leading commitment to innovation, Southern Company and its subsidiaries are building the future of energy by developing the full portfolio of energy resources, including carbon-free nuclear, advanced carbon capture technologies, natural gas, renewables, energy efficiency and storage technology.

In her role, West oversees a broad spectrum of research programs and projects, including the generation, environmental, power delivery, end-use and gas sectors of Southern Company.

Prior to joining Southern Company’s R&D organization in 2016, West was a general manager in environmental affairs for Southern Company’s Georgia Power subsidiary, overseeing air emission strategies, compliance monitoring and reporting, as well as the Georgia Power environmental laboratory, which provides services for the entire Southern Company system electric generating fleet.

From 2010 to 2014, West served as plant manager of Georgia Power’s Plant Hammond, a four-unit coal-fired plant. She also held several roles in Southern Company’s engineering and construction services organization, including technical services manager and project manager for a major flue-gas desulfurization project, the first commercial scrubber in the Southern Company generation fleet.

West began her career at the consulting firm Energy Management Associates in Atlanta. West provided global support to electric utilities and regulatory commission staffs on probabilistic modeling and analysis used for bid evaluations, mergers and planning studies. Nine years later, she joined Southern Company’s system planning organization. Over the course of her career, she has held positions within five Southern Company business units.

West holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Samford University. She currently serves on Georgia Tech’s Mechanical Engineering External Advisory Board and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Microgrid Steering Committee.

Steve Widergren contributes to new solutions for reliable operation of electric power systems. Common throughout his career is the application of information technology to power engineering problems including, simulation, control, and system integration. He is a principal engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory where he directs electric power projects and supports the U.S. Department of Energy. He is a past member of the board and Plenary Chair for the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (now merged with SEPA) and was also the founding administrator for the GridWise® Architecture Council – both groups formed with the mission to enable interoperability of automated systems related to the electric system. Prior to joining the Laboratory, Mr. Widergren worked in industry for an electricity control center supplier, and electric utility service providers. In these positions, he engineered and managed energy management systems products for electric power operations and supported power system computer applications, including information modeling, SCADA systems, and power system reliability assessment tools. He received his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and is actively involved in the IEEE Power & Energy Society and participates in standards efforts that bridge power engineering with information technology.