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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
8:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom A
Defense TechConnect Innovation Keynotes: DOD Leadership, SBIR, ATI Consortia Spotlights, Resilience Week
US Armed Forces Color Guard, "The President's Own" US Marine Band Vocalist, U.S. Department of Defense
Jennifer Rocha, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, TechConnect Division, ATI
Joe Bryan, Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Advisor for Climate, U.S. Department of Defense
ATI Consortia Spotlights Keynote Panel: ADC, NSC, CREaTe, and RISE
Vipin Arora, America's DataHub Consortium (ADC), Deputy Division Director, NCSES, NSF
Joe Kochan, Executive Director, National Spectrum Consortium (NSC)
Marty Ryan, Consortium for Rare Earth Technologies (CREaTe), Vice President for Naval Technologies, ATI
Michael Wu, Executive Director, Resilient Infrastructure and Secure Energy Consortium (RISE)
Caitlin Durkovich, Senior Director for Resilience and Response, National Security Council
John Williams, Director of Innovation & Technology, Office of Investment & Innovation, U.S. Small Business Administration
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Coffee and Networking Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Funding and Partnership Models for Academia and Small Business
Join our panel of experts in a discussion about recommended pathways to work with the military and large defense companies (primes). From those new to working with the Department of Defense to those who have experience with military customers, this session will give you ideas and new connections.
Chair: Jennifer Rocha, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, TechConnect Division, ATI
Frank "D9" DiGiovanni, Col(r) USAF, Director, Agile Operational Technology, Academic Partnership Engagement Experiment (APEX)
Joe Epstein, Strategic Partnerships Lead, Engineering and Technology Strategy, Lockheed Martin Space
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlight: Autonomy, Mobility, Space and Defense
The Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlights are designed to accelerate private-sector and defense-sourced technology solutions aligned with warfighter and national security problem-sets.
Craig Owens, Corporate & Aeronautics Program Mgr, Small Business Innovation Research - SBIR, Lockheed Martin
Tim Fowler, (IAC) Field S&T Advisor, USSTRATCOM / NORAD-NORTHCOM
Scott Swanson, Deputy Director, Agile Operational Technology, APEX Program
Paul Staszak, BDS Technology Strategy SBIR/STTR Focal, Boeing
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom C
National Infrastructure Innovation Challenge Session I
The National Infrastructure Innovation Challenge (NIIC) Finalists compete for a $50K prize pool sponsored by Resilient Infrastructure & Secure Energy Consortium (RISE), National Spectrum Consortium (NSC), and Consortium for Rare Earth Technologies (CREaTe). NIIC aligns with the nation's monumental investments through the Infrastructure Law, the House's American COMPETES Act and the Senate's U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA).
Chris Murray, Consultant, RISE Consortium
Marty Ryan, Vice President for Naval Technologies, ATI
Joe Kochan, Executive Director, National Spectrum Consortium
Ross Roley, Energy Innovation, Battelle, in support of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
Eric Griesenbrock, Director of Innovation & Strategic Integration, Office of Energy Assurance, U.S. Air Force
Daphne Fuentevilla, Chemical Engineer and Power System Specialist, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, U.S. Navy
Josh Conway, Director of Semiconductor Technologies, America's Frontier Fund
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom D
America's DataHub Innovation Challenge I
Join the first ever innovation acceleration challenge for America's DataHub Consortium (ADC), representing the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) - the National Science Foundation's (NSF) statistical agency and one of 13 statistical agencies across the Federal government. This Challenge seeks the tools of new data integration and distribution solutions, data linking, as well as data security and privacy innovation, in order to more effectively use information to solve some of our toughest challenges.
Chair: Nick Kacsandi, Executive Director, TechConnect Ventures, TechConnect Division, ATI
Vipin Arora (Opening Remarks), Deputy Division Director, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), National Science Foundation (NSF)
Alex Marten, Associate Director, National Center for Environmental Economics, EPA
Linda Young, Chief Mathematical Statistician and Director of Research and Development Division, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom B
SBIR/STTR 101
Moderator:
John Williams, Director of Innovation and Technology, Office of Investment & Innovation
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Resilience Week: IEEE Papers I
Timothy Farkas, Movement-based disruption estimators: Using mobile location data to predict community variation in disaster impacts, RS21
Craig Bakker, Deception-Based Cyber Attacks on Hierarchical Control Systems using Domain-Aware Koopman Learning, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Resilience Week: IEEE Papers II
Mukesh Gautam, Post-Disaster Microgrid Formation for Enhanced Distribution System Resilience, University of Nevada, Reno
Som Dhulipala, Efficient Interdependent Systems Recovery Modeling with DeepONets, Idaho National Labratory
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Resilience Week: Catalyzing Resilience: A Conversation with Department of Defense Climate Advisors
Join Michael Wu, Executive Director of the Resilient Infrastructure and Secure Energy (RISE) Consortium, for a moderated conversation with senior climate officials from DoD. Attendees will learn about the evolving global strategic environment, threats to U.S. military missions and strategic interests related to climate, and innovations and investments to strengthen DoD's resilience posture.
Rachel Ross, Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer, U.S. Department of Defense
Annalise Blum, Senior Advisor for Climate, ASD Homeland Defense & Hemispheric Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense
Jennifer DeCesaro, Director for Climate Security and Resilience, National Security Council
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Resilience Week: States and Tribes Unlocking Historic Federal Investments in Resilience
This session discusses how states and tribal governments are unlocking a historic amount of federal investment in energy resilience through opportunities such as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The panelists will discuss how this opportunity can be leveraged to create a lasting transformation in resilience planning, which can thereby solidify a process for sustained, efficient, and effective energy resilience investment. Particular focus will be on understanding the analytical and informational needs of states and tribes as they embark on this transformation, and areas where the research community are poised to support these needs
Chair: Bobby Jeffers, Program Manager V-Research, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Liz Weber, Project Manager IV-Research, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Stan Atcitty, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratory
Dawn Davis, Environmental Justice Specialist, Idaho National Laboratory
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Lunch (on own)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Resilience Week Lunch (on own)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlight: Healthcare and Medical Devices I
The Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlights are designed to accelerate private-sector and defense-sourced technology solutions aligned with warfighter and national security problem-sets.
Kendra Lawrence, Project Manager, WPAC PMO, U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity
Edward Diehl, Commercialization Officer, Medical Technology Transfer, US Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC)
1:22 PM
MyoLink,
GreenLight Bionics, South Dakota
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom C
National Infrastructure Innovation Challenge Session II
The National Infrastructure Innovation Challenge (NIIC) Finalists compete for a $50K prize pool sponsored by Resilient Infrastructure & Secure Energy Consortium (RISE), National Spectrum Consortium (NSC), and Consortium for Rare Earth Technologies (CREaTe). NIIC aligns with the nation's monumental investments through the Infrastructure Law, the House's American COMPETES Act and the Senate's U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA).
Marty Ryan, Vice President for Naval Technologies, ATI
Joe Kochan, Executive Director, National Spectrum Consortium
Chris Murray, Consultant, RISE Consortium
Eric Griesenbrock, Director of Innovation & Strategic Integration, Office of Energy Assurance, U.S. Air Force
Daphne Fuentevilla, Chemical Engineer and Power System Specialist, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, U.S. Navy
Josh Conway, Director of Semiconductor Technologies, America's Frontier Fund
Amanda Blumenthal, Engineer, Naval Operational Energy Office, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Research Development and Acquisition
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom D
America's DataHub Innovation Challenge II
Join the first ever innovation acceleration challenge for America's DataHub Consortium (ADC), representing the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) - the National Science Foundation's (NSF) statistical agency and one of 13 statistical agencies across the Federal government. This $50K Prize Pool Challenge seeks the tools of new data integration and distribution solutions, data linking, as well as data security and privacy innovation, in order to more effectively use information to solve some of our toughest challenges.
Chair: Nick Kacsandi, Executive Director, TechConnect Ventures, TechConnect Division, ATI
John Finamore, Chief Statistician, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF
Emilda Rivers, Director, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF
Alex Marten, Economics, National Center for Environmental Economics, EPA
Linda Young, Chief Mathematical Statistician and Director of Research and Development Division, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
1:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom B
SBIR/STTR Agency Briefings
Agency presentations on current and upcoming funding opportunities. SBA overview of additional Agencies and closing brief. Agency reps will be available to speak with attendees in the Expo Hall 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Melissa Wong, Innovative Research Division, Department of Transportation
Edward Metz, ED SBIR Program Manager, Department of Education
Bob Renner, SBIR Program Outreach Manager, Department of Homeland Security
Eileen Chant, Outreach Program Manager, Department of Energy
Susan Celis, DoD SBIR/STTR Program Manager, Department of Defense
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
CWMD/MCDC Member Meeting
Consortia Updates, Proposal Process, Forecasts Support Programs & Member Reception
Mike Stebbins, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD), Vice President, Manufacturing & Threat Countermeasures, ATI
Jonathan Osborn, Executive Director, Composite Manufacturing Technology Center (CMTC)
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Resilience Week: Cybersecurity Nexus: National Security and the Private Sector
The cybersecurity crossroads of national security and the private sector. Attendees will learn about the blurring battle space between critical infrastructure owner/operators and the mission assurance they support in the Department of Defense and how coordinated cyber defense is essential to staving off the worst consequences of global energy insecurity.
Maggie Smith, Assistant Professor, Scientific Researcher, U.S. Army Cyber Institute
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Resilience Week: Community Instigators Forging Climate Resilience
Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Maria, Winter Storm Uri. No community is immune from the effects of extreme weather events caused by a changing climate. In this session, attendees will learn from organizations responsible for building our resilient future by designing infrastructure and planning criteria that prioritizes climate resilience.
Chair: Dawn Davis, Environmental Justice Specialist, Idaho National Laboratory
CP Smith, Executive Director, Cooperativa Hidroeléctrica de la
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Resilience Week: Networking Space: Cybersecurity for Protective Relays over Serial and IP
Jake Gentle, Senior Power Systems Engineer, Idaho National Laboratory
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM
DTC Break
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Expo Hall Opens
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Resilience Week Break
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlight: Healthcare and Medical Devices II
The Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlights are designed to accelerate private-sector and defense-sourced technology solutions aligned with warfighter and national security problem-sets.
Kendra Lawrence, Project Manager, WPAC PMO, U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom C
National Infrastructure Innovation Challenge Session III
The National Infrastructure Innovation Challenge (NIIC) Finalists compete for a $50K prize pool sponsored by Resilient Infrastructure & Secure Energy Consortium (RISE), National Spectrum Consortium (NSC), and Consortium for Rare Earth Technologies (CREaTe). NIIC aligns with the nation's monumental investments through the Infrastructure Law, the House's American COMPETES Act and the Senate's U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA).
Marty Ryan, Vice President for Naval Technologies, ATI
Joe Kochan, Executive Director, National Spectrum Consortium
Chris Murray, Consultant, RISE Consortium
Eric Griesenbrock, Director of Innovation & Strategic Integration, Office of Energy Assurance, U.S. Air Force
Josh Conway, Director of Semiconductor Technologies, America's Frontier Fund
Amanda Blumenthal, Engineer, Naval Operational Energy Office, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Research Development and Acquisition
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom D
America's DataHub Innovation Challenge III
Join the first ever innovation acceleration challenge for America's DataHub Consortium (ADC), representing the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) - the National Science Foundation's (NSF) statistical agency and one of 13 statistical agencies across the Federal government. This $50K Prize Pool Challenge seeks the tools of new data integration and distribution solutions, data linking, as well as data security and privacy innovation, in order to more effectively use information to solve some of our toughest challenges.
Chair: Nick Kacsandi, Executive Director, TechConnect Ventures, TechConnect Division, ATI
John Finamore, Chief Statistician, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF
Emilda Rivers, Director, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF
Alex Marten, Economics, National Center for Environmental Economics, EPA
Linda Young, Chief Mathematical Statistician and Director of Research and Development Division, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
2:15 PM - 3:10 PM
Operational Energy and Logistics Summit: Energy Innovation Spotlights
The Operational Energy and Logistics Innovation Spotlights are designed to accelerate private-sector and defense-sourced technology solutions aligned with operational energy and logistics capabilities to support the DoD's needs.
Reginald Thomas, Deputy Director, Branch Head, Logistics Combat Element (LCE) Division, Expeditionary Energy Office (E2O), U.S. Marine Corps
Maria Posada, Energy REACTS Portfolio Director, Energy KPP and Policy, DASN (RDT&E), Operational Energy, U.S. Navy
Robert Mitchell, Navy Maritime Energy Coordinator, N94D Operational Energy Office
2:41 PM
Stealth Power’s Clean Generator for Resilient Power, Stealth Power
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom B
SBIR/STTR: Inside the Head of the Evaluators
Ben Schrag, NSF Program Director, SBIR/STTR Program Director
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Resilience Week: The Road from Good Ideas to Fielded Tech Protecting the Energy System
Too many good ideas hatched in research labs never make it to operational technology securing real systems. Why? Is the technology not the right solution at the right time? Are motivations and incentives misaligned between research and OEMs? Can it be solved through more demonstration? Is the gap less in the technology and more in the policy and/or market realities? Or is it a mix of all of these factors?
Chair: Dan Herway, Vice President, Idaho Scientific
Pete Fischer, Senior Director, Cyber Programs, Sierra Nevada Corporation
Jordan Henry, Chief Cybersecurity Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Fowad Muneer, Acting Deputy Director, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Resilience Week: Calling on the Future to Protect the Mission: Methodology to Protect Critical Infrastructure
While mitigation – the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions – is getting a great deal of attention and capturing the majority of funds allocated in response to the climate crisis, infrastructure adaption and resilience is not adequately prioritized at present. Without a plan to identify and protect the most important infrastructure elements that undergird critical DHS missions, key USG functions will begin to experience unacceptable impairment and potentially, failure. In this interactive talk we will describe the three key elements of a pilot we're designing to address these challenges:
Chair: Andy Bochman, Senior Grid Strategist, Idaho National Laboratory
Ryan Hruska, Senior Infrastructure Analyst, Idaho National Laboratory
Kyle Pfeiffer, Director of the National Preparedness Analytics Center, Argonne National Laboratory
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom C
National Infrastructure Innovation Challenge Session IV and Prize Announcement
The National Infrastructure Innovation Challenge (NIIC) Finalists compete for a $50K prize pool sponsored by Resilient Infrastructure & Secure Energy Consortium (RISE), National Spectrum Consortium (NSC), and Consortium for Rare Earth Technologies (CREaTe). NIIC aligns with the nation's monumental investments through the Infrastructure Law, the House's American COMPETES Act and the Senate's U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA).
Marty Ryan, Vice President for Naval Technologies, ATI
Joe Kochan, Executive Director, National Spectrum Consortium
Chris Murray, Consultant, RISE Consortium
Eric Griesenbrock, Director of Innovation & Strategic Integration, Office of Energy Assurance, U.S. Air Force
Josh Conway, Director of Semiconductor Technologies, America's Frontier Fund
Amanda Blumenthal, Engineer, Naval Operational Energy Office, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Research Development and Acquisition
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom D
America's DataHub Innovation Challenge Prize Announcement
Join the first ever innovation acceleration challenge for America's DataHub Consortium (ADC), representing the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) - the National Science Foundation's (NSF) statistical agency and one of 13 statistical agencies across the Federal government. This $50K Prize Pool Challenge seeks the tools of new data integration and distribution solutions, data linking, as well as data security and privacy innovation, in order to more effectively use information to solve some of our toughest challenges.
Chair: Nick Kacsandi, Executive Director, TechConnect Ventures, TechConnect Division, ATI
John Finamore, Chief Statistician, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF
Emilda Rivers, Director, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF
Alex Marten, Economics, National Center for Environmental Economics, EPA
Linda Young, Chief Mathematical Statistician and Director of Research and Development Division, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
3:20 PM - 4:00 PM
Operational Energy and Logistics Summit: Alternative and Direct Energy to Power the Force
Next generation energy and logistics solutions to power the force is at the forefront of DoD priorities. Learn from this expert panel representing combatant commands, retired military, and federal laboratories as they discuss direct energy, nuclear, and other solutions to support our agile forces around the world.
Steve Gorin, Partnership Leader, Material and Chemical Science and Technology Directorate, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Ross Roley, Energy Innovation, Battelle, on behalf of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM)
James Gough, Transportation Services Director, Marine Corps Installations Command, G4, U.S. Marine Corps
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom B
SBIR/STTR: Conducting a Phase I
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Defense Innovation, SBIR/STTR Pavilion, ATI Consortia Pavilion, Resilience Week, and Smart Cities Expo & Reception
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
SBIR/STTR Pavilion Agency Meet and Greet, Expo Hall
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Resilience Week: Tech Transfer with Cyber CP Poster Sessions, Expo Hall
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
8:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom A
TechConnect Innovation Keynotes: DOD Leadership, ATI Consortia Spotlights, and Resilience Week
Jennifer Rocha, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, TechConnect Division, ATI
Roberto Guerrero, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Operational Energy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force-IE&E, US Air Force
ATI Consortia Spotlight Keynote Panel: MTEC, CWMD, MCDC, SHIC, VLC
Lauren Palestrini, Director of Research, Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC)
Mike Stebbins, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD), Vice President, Manufacturing & Threat Countermeasures, ATI
Mike Stebbins, Medical CBRN Defense Consortium (MCDC), Vice President, Manufacturing & Threat Countermeasures, ATI
Zachary Downs, Executive Director, Senior Healthcare Innovation Consortium (SHIC)
Paul Dudley, Vertical Lift Consortium (VLC), Vice President, Armament Technologies Division, ATI
Brigadier General Mark Clingan, Assistant Deputy Commandant to Combat Development and Integration and Deputy Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command
Resilience Week Keynote Panel:
Moderator:
Michael Wu, Executive Director, RISE and Principal, Converge Strategies
Maria Robinson, Director, Grid Deployment Office, U.S. Department of Energy, Grid Deployment Office
Keynote Panel: A New Model for Federal Partnerships: Scaling Up Collaborative, Competitive Ecosystems
Brittany Sickler, Program Manager, EDA Communities, U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA)
Eric Smith, Director, Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA)
Jennifer Garson, Director of the Water Power Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy
Thyaga Nandagopol, Directorate of Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP), National Science Foundation
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Coffee and Networking Break
10:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlight: AI/Data/Cyber/Software
The Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlights are designed to accelerate private-sector and defense-sourced technology solutions aligned with warfighter and national security problem-sets.
Chair: Jennifer Rocha, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, TechConnect Division, ATI
Justin Fanelli, Technical Director, Naval Information Warfare Center, U.S. Navy
Paul Staszak, BDS Technology Strategy SBIR/STTR Focal, Boeing
Ross Roley, Battelle, On behalf of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM)
Frank "D9" DiGiovanni, Col(r) USAF, Director, Agile Operational Technology, Academic Partnership Engagement Experiment (APEX)
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom C
Medical Innovation Challenge Session I
Join the world's largest medical innovation acceleration and awards program, featuring a $200K in prize pool aligned with four leading medtech consortia representing over $20 Billion in health technology contracting authority. This is the second in a series of ATI sponsored accelerator events aligned with government, industry and societal needs.
Chair: Emma Mooney, Outreach and Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI
Al Emondi, Consultant (formerly with DARPA), ATI
Kyle Braaten, Vice President, Business Development Biosurveillance and Environmental Secto, Parsons
Mike Stebbins, Vice President, ATI; Executive Director: CWMD (Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction) Consortium and MCDC (Medical CBRN Defense Consortium), CWMD and MCDC
Zachary Downs, Executive Director, Senior Healthcare Innovation Consortium (SHIC)
Mei Sun, Neurosensory Portfolio Manager, US Army Medical Research and Development Command (USMRDC)
Lauren Palestrini, Director of Research, Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC)
11:27 AM
MedSafer,
McGill University Health Centre, Canada
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom D
Urban Air Mobility Challenge I
Join the Urban Air Mobility acceleration and $50K Prize awards program sponsored by the Vertical Lift Consortium, the nation's leading organization rapidly transitioning innovative aviation technologies for the U.S. government.
Nick Lappos, Senior Technical Fellow, Advanced Technology, Sikorsky Aircraft
John McKeown, Independent Consultant, Piasecki Aircraft Corp
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Operational Energy and Logistics Summit: Fueling the Fight
Energy is an enabler of joint military capabilities, and ensuring availability of sufficient energy supplies will only grow in importance with the development of new energy-intensive technologies. Distributed operations and contested logistics will challenge the sustainment of combat forces and place a premium on capabilities with longer range, time on station, endurance, and the ability to adapt to evolving energy needs. U.S. Air Force and DoD experts in logistics, wargaming, and energy will discuss how this will impact operations and affect our ability to sustain the fight.
Chair: Troy Warshel, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Operational Energy, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Operational Energy (SAF/IEN), U.S. Air Force
Matthew Sigstad, Chief, Logistics and Sustainment, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Operational Energy (SAF/IEN), U.S. Air Force
Dominick Wright, Operational Energy Modeling & Simulation/Wargaming Analyst, U.S. Air Force
Lt Col Justin Settles, Deputy Director, China Aerospace Studies Institute
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom B
SBIR/STTR: Navigating SBIR Agency Differences
Nancy Kamei, NCI Program Director, National Cancer Institute at NIH
11:15 AM - 12:20 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom B
SBIR/STTR: Transitioning from Phase I to Phase II
Moderator:
John Williams, Director of Innovation and Technology, Office of Investment & Innovation
Dusty Lang, Director, SBIR Program, Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Resilience Week Special Session: The Cyber War: Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Resilience
Join CyberCP at Resilience Week 2022 for a special session dedicated to commercializing R&D for the Cyber War. The United States is under constant cyber attack from Russia, China, and other nation state adversaries. Cyberattacks are low cost missions that disrupt U.S. national security. The CyberWar has started. Protecting the most critical US infrastructure is paramount to maintaining the traditional military capabilities of the country. This panel explores the history, the best practices, capabilities and technologies developed for the US defense and intelligence community, bringing these to the critical infrastructure sectors to defend American Industry. Following this session, networking space will be provided for attendees to discuss technology transfer opportunities.
Craig Rieger, Chief Control Systems Research Engineer and a Directorate Fellow, Idaho National Laboratory
Zach Tudor, Associate Laboratory Director for National Homeland Security, Idaho National Laboratory
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Resilience Week: IEEE Papers III
Nina Lopez, Supply Chain Risk Management: Data Structuring, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Charles Prince, A Digital Twin System for Replaying Cyber Mission Data, NPS
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Resilience Week: IEEE Papers IV
Steven Foster, Organizational Adaptation to a Fundamental Surprise Event: The Case of Class Scheduling at a Large Academic Institution, Clemson University
Mohammed Hussain, A Smart Grid Co-Simulation Platform for Virtual Device Simulation, West Virginia Univeristy
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Resilience Week: Evaluating Energy Resilience Exercises
This session will dive deep into the when, why, and what it takes to execute three types of energy resilience exercises: tabletop, functional, and full-scale. Panelists will share their own real-world experiences to help the audience understand which exercise type is best for their own organization's energy resilience goals and how the exercises can be complementary.
Alex Pina, Director, Converge Strategies, LLC
Amanda Sramek, Senior Manager, Security, American Gas Association
Michael Savena, Director, Global Utility Operations, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) HQ
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Resilience Week: Technical Assistance Supporting Community Energy Resilience to Climate Risks
This session will present and demonstrate technical assistance provided by national laboratories to support energy resilience in at-risk communities. The session will begin with an overview of the Microgrid Conceptual Design Methodology, which enables communities to identify and priorities the critical services necessary to be powered during a resilience event. This discussion will include some of the core resilience metrics used to evaluate and improve resilience, such as the social burden metric which quantifies the additional effort that people must expend to obtain critical services during an electric outage. Next, place-based examples of past and ongoing technical assistance in island and remote communities will be presented. To end, as an interactive effort, the audience members will be collectively work through an exercise, guided by the presenters, to prioritize critical loads and begin the design process of a microgrid on “Paradise Island,” a fictional location with challenges reminiscent of the real-world locations the presenters have worked with.
Chair: Birk Jones, Research and Development Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories
Olga Hart, Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
Robert Broderick, Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
Andrea Mammoli, Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Lunch (on own)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Resilience Week Lunch (on own)
1:00 PM - 2:10 PM
Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlight: Electronics, Sensors, C5ISR
The Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlights are designed to accelerate private-sector and defense-sourced technology solutions aligned with warfighter and national security problem-sets.
Paul Staszak, BDS Technology Strategy SBIR/STTR Focal, Boeing
Scott Swanson, Deputy Director, Agile Operational Technology, APEX Program
Tim Fowler, (IAC) Field S&T Advisor, USSTRATCOM / NORAD-NORTHCOM
Paul Feinberg, Head Of Partnerships, Sector CTO Office, Northrop Grumman Corporation
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom C
Medical Innovation Challenge Session II
Join the world's largest medical innovation acceleration and awards program, featuring a $200K in prize pool aligned with four leading medtech consortia representing over $20 Billion in health technology contracting authority. This is the second in a series of ATI sponsored accelerator events aligned with government, industry and societal needs.
Chair: Emma Mooney, Outreach and Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI
Al Emondi, Consultant (formerly with DARPA), ATI
Kyle Braaten, Vice President, Business Development Biosurveillance and Environmental Secto, Parsons
Mike Stebbins, Vice President, ATI; Executive Director: CWMD (Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction) Consortium and MCDC (Medical CBRN Defense Consortium), CWMD and MCDC
Zachary Downs, Executive Director, Senior Healthcare Innovation Consortium (SHIC)
Mei Sun, Neurosensory Portfolio Manager, US Army Medical Research and Development Command (USMRDC)
Lauren Palestrini, Director of Research, Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom D
Urban Air Mobility Challenge II
Join the Urban Air Mobility acceleration and $50K Prize awards program sponsored by the Vertical Lift Consortium, the nation's leading organization rapidly transitioning innovative aviation technologies for the U.S. government.
Nick Lappos, Senior Technical Fellow, Advanced Technology, Sikorsky Aircraft
John McKeown, Independent Consultant, Piasecki Aircraft Corp
TBA, Operational Energy Office, U.S. Navy
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Operational Energy and Logistics Summit: Logistics in a Contested Environment
The character of war is changing. Hear from military leadership on how they are operating in a 21st century enviroment. Overall military logistics and specific projects will be discussed.
Moderator:
Jennifer Rocha, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, TechConnect Division, ATI
James Caley, Director of Operational Energy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Energy, U.S. Navy
Ross Roley, Energy Innovation, Battelle, in support of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
Lt Col Justin Settles, Deputy Director, China Aerospace Studies Institute
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom B
SBIR/STTR: Working With Defense Primes
Moderator:
Matt Williams, Director, Rapid Innovation Fund, Department of Defense (DoD)
Alf Carroll, SBIR Black Belt & Tech Transitions Lead, Raytheon Missiles & Defense
Craig Owens, Small Business Innovation Research Program Manager, Lockheed Martin
Paul Staszak, Defense, Space and Security (BDS) SBIR Focal, Boeing
Terrell Reid, Manager of Supplier Diversity Programs, Northrop Grumman Corporation
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Resilience Week: Valuing Resilience in Supply Chains
Organizations must think beyond their "fenceline" in order to achieve mission assurance and business continuity. Disruptions to interdependent, complex supply chains increasingly result in cascading failures that impact multiple users across the energy system. This session will identify cutting edge processes and tools for analyzing your organization's supply chain.
Chair: Eliza Hotchkiss, Senior Resilience Analyst and Technical Group Manager, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Lionel Toba, Research Engineer, System Dynamics and Modeling Group, Idaho National Laboratory
Jessica McBroom, Director at National Security Council, National Security Council
Phil Rausch, Solar Commercial Manager, Hemlock Semiconductors
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Resilience Week: Electrifying Transportation: EVs Resilience Assets
This session will explore how the widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) represents a unique opportunity to consider how the growth of electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) across cities, states, and transportation corridors can be designed to enhance resilience for the entire energy system.
Amy McGuire, Director, Market Development, Highland Fleets
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Resilience Week: Networking and Speed Dating: Innovation, Workforce, and Infrastructure
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM
DTC Break
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Expo Hall Opens
2:20 PM - 3:10 PM
Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlight: Materials & Manufacturing
The Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlights are designed to accelerate private-sector and defense-sourced technology solutions aligned with warfighter and national security problem-sets.
Joe Epstein, Strategic Partnerships Lead, Engineering and Technology Strategy, Lockheed Martin
Alison Gotkin, Associate Director, Strategic Business Development, Raytheon Technologies Research Center
Lana Stekovic, Future Technical Leader, Northrop Grumman Corporation
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom C
Medical Innovation Challenge Session III
Join the world's largest medical innovation acceleration and awards program, featuring a $200K in prize pool aligned with four leading medtech consortia representing over $20 Billion in health technology contracting authority. This is the second in a series of ATI sponsored accelerator events aligned with government, industry and societal needs.
Chair: Emma Mooney, Outreach and Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI
Al Emondi, Consultant (formerly with DARPA), ATI
Kyle Braaten, Vice President, Business Development Biosurveillance and Environmental Secto, Parsons
Mike Stebbins, Vice President, ATI; Executive Director: CWMD (Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction) Consortium and MCDC (Medical CBRN Defense Consortium), CWMD and MCDC
Zachary Downs, Executive Director, Senior Healthcare Innovation Consortium (SHIC)
Mei Sun, Neurosensory Portfolio Manager, US Army Medical Research and Development Command (USMRDC)
Lauren Palestrini, Director of Research, Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC)
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Operational Energy and Logistics Summit: Microgrid development for resilience, decarbonization, and mission sustainment
Chair: Katy Christiansen, Acting Laboratory Program Manager, Defense, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Tim Tetreault, Program Manager for Energy and Water, Environmental Security Technology Certification Program
Brian Miller, Senior Electrical Engineer and Principal Researcher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Michael McGhee, Executive Director for Climate Resilience, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Environment & Energy Resilience, U.S. Department of Defense
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom B
SBIR/STTR: How to Find Support Organizations
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
SBIR/STTR: Agency Meet and Greet, SBIR Pavilion, Expo Hall
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Resilience Week: Assessing Cascading Impacts to National Critical Functions
As our critical infrastructure systems become more connected and more complex, risks to those systems become harder to identify, let alone mitigate. The cascading effects of an outage across our interdependent network of infrastructures and the full spectrum of the resulting physical and societal impacts have never been more relevant or more difficult to identify. Siloed models of physical infrastructure cannot fully answer the question of what critical services and institutions will be interrupted during or following a disaster, nor can they identify which weak links in our existing systems we need to reinforce. To address this need, the National Risk Management Center has supported development of interdisciplinary tools to track cascading impacts between National Critical Functions and underlying physical infrastructure assets, and the prioritization of cascading impacts due to logical dependencies. These novel approaches to system decomposition and functional dependency identification are the first critical, necessary steps towards building the capacity for massive cross-industry risk analyses.
Chair: Chloe Applegate, Deputy Associate Program Leader for Cyber Systems Analysis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Chel Samuels, Global Security Systems Analyst, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Rob Edsall, Program Manager, Geospatial Science Lead, Idaho National Laboratory
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
RISE Consortium: Catalyzing Resilience with the DoD R&D Community and RISE Member Meeting
Join RISE Consortium Executive Director, Michael Wu, for a moderated panel discussion with leaders from the Department of Defense’s energy R&D programs, including the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), and Operational Energy Capability Improvement Fund (OECIF). Together, these organizations are responsible for promoting the transfer of innovative technologies to the field and use/accelerate the adoption of leading commercial technology throughout DoD and the federal government. Attendees will hear first-hand from DoD R&D leaders about the latest energy, climate, and cyber resilience initiatives and opportunities for collaboration with the RISE Consortium.
RuthAnne Darling, Director of Operational Energy Innovation, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Tim Tetreault, Program Manager for Energy and Water, Environmental Security Technology Certification Program
Lee Robinson, Defense Engagement Lead - Energy, Defense Innovation Unit
Elise Joseph, Portfolio Director - Power, Energy, and Propulsion, Army Futures Command
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom B
Future of Defense Acquisition
How will the government stimulate growth of a robust and resilient domestic industrial base? Join current government executives and senior policy experts to learn about the overarching vision, strategy, and sample programs to reduce barriers and burden on companies seeking government funding.
Anthony Di Stasio, Director, Industrial Base Investments (Acting), U.S. Department of Defense
Jerry McGuin, Executive Director, Center for Government Contracting
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom C
Medical Innovation Challenge Session IV and Prize Announcement
Join the world's largest medical innovation acceleration and awards program, featuring a $200K in prize pool aligned with four leading medtech consortia representing over $20 Billion in health technology contracting authority. This is the second in a series of ATI sponsored accelerator events aligned with government, industry and societal needs.
Chair: Emma Mooney, Outreach and Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI
Al Emondi, Consultant (formerly with DARPA), ATI
Kyle Braaten, Vice President, Business Development Biosurveillance and Environmental Secto, Parsons
Mike Stebbins, Vice President, ATI; Executive Director: CWMD (Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction) Consortium and MCDC (Medical CBRN Defense Consortium), CWMD and MCDC
Zachary Downs, Executive Director, Senior Healthcare Innovation Consortium (SHIC)
Mei Sun, Neurosensory Portfolio Manager, US Army Medical Research and Development Command (USMRDC)
Lauren Palestrini, Director of Research, Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC)
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom D
Urban Air Mobility Challenge III and Prize Announcement
Join the Urban Air Mobility acceleration and $50K Prize awards program sponsored by the Vertical Lift Consortium, the nation's leading organization rapidly transitioning innovative aviation technologies for the U.S. government.
Nick Lappos, Senior Technical Fellow, Advanced Technology, Sikorsky Aircraft
John McKeown, Independent Consultant, Piasecki Aircraft Corp
TBA, Operational Energy Office, U.S. Navy
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Defense Innovation, SBIR/STTR Pavilion, ATI Consortia Pavilion, Resilience Week, and Smart Cities Expo & Reception
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
SBIR/STTR Pavilion Agency Meet and Greet, Expo Hall
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Resilience Week Poster Sessions, Expo Hall
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Resilience Week: Understanding the Infrastructure Bill and Other Congressional Funding
Making sense of the $1.7+ Trillion of congressional funding made available through the Infrastructure Bill, Inflation Reduction Act, Semiconductor Chip Act, and now Biden's student loan forgiveness efforts to help deploy the people, technologies, processes and standards needed to harden US Critical Infrastructure.
Paul Docette, Vice President of Government Relations and Public Policy, Battelle Energy Alliance
Carl Kime, Principal, Innovative Federal Strategies
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Resilience Week: Distributed Energy Resources in a Resilient Community
Chair: David Walter, Technology Manager, U.S. Department of Energy, Solar Energy Technologies Office
Sohom Datta, Power Systems Researcher, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Fei Ding, Senior Research Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom C
Security Innovation Challenge I
The Security Innovation Challenge - sponsored by the Homeland Security Technology Consortium and powered by TechConnect, a division of ATI - features a $25K prize pool and open innovation pitches in the area of identity management.
Chair: Jonathan Jakischa, Senior Manager: Open Innovation Programs – TechConnect Ventures, TechConnect Division, ATI
Admiral David Simpson, Former Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, Federal Communications Commission
9:26 AM
Phen.ai,
Canfield Consulting Group LLC d/b/a Canfield CyberDefense Group, Maryland
9:42 AM
Digi-ID,
DigiByte Alliance, Wyoming
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom D
Readiness Innovation Challenge I
Join the nation's largest Readiness Innovation Acceleration and Prize program, a $50K Prize Pool representing TechConnect's 25 years of engaging in modeling and simulation development.
Ross Roley, Energy Innovation, Battelle, in support of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
Ebad Jahangir, Associate Director, Technology Planning and Integration / Business Development, Raytheon Technologies
9:42 AM
VxSIM,
Dynamic Dimension Technologies, Maryland
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlight: Medical, Biotech & Biodefense
The Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlights are designed to accelerate private-sector and defense-sourced technology solutions aligned with warfighter and national security problem-sets.
Chair: Emma Mooney, Outreach and Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI
Mike Stebbins, Vice President, ATI; Executive Director: CWMD (Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction) Consortium and MCDC (Medical CBRN Defense Consortium), CWMD and MCDC
9:06 AM
An Improved Robotic Electrophysiology Platform for Arrhythmia Ablation, UNandUP
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlight: Energy and AI/Data/Cyber
The Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlights are designed to accelerate private-sector and defense-sourced technology solutions aligned with warfighter and national security problem-sets.
Chair: Emma Mooney, Outreach and Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI
Scott Swanson, Deputy Director, Agile Operational Technology, APEX Program
Jonathan Hampton, Supplier Innovation Lead, Raytheon Missiles & Defense (RMD) Strategic Sourcing Organization
11:30 AM - 12:40 PM
Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlight: Energy, AI/Data/Cyber, Biomedical
The Defense TechConnect Innovation Spotlights are designed to accelerate private-sector and defense-sourced technology solutions aligned with warfighter and national security problem-sets.
Chair: Emma Mooney, Outreach and Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI
Scott Swanson, Deputy Director, Agile Operational Technology, APEX Program
Terrell Reid, Corporate Program Manager, Supplier Diversity, Northrop Grumman Corporation
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Resilience Week: Investor Appetite for Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Investments
This panel serves as a collaborative call for participants to test emerging technologies and security solutions, as well as workforce development activities.
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Resilience Week: Cybersecurity State Awareness Tools and Methods for Energy Systems
This special session aims to present the conceptual understanding of cybersecurity stateawareness (CSA), quantify its development through analytical methods and tools, and explore market pathways to integrate into the commercialization and industry adoption. This session will consist of invited talks, presentations, and panel discussions from national labs and an industry member to highlight the ongoing research and development (R&D) efforts and future direction of works that will enhance the security and resilience of energy systems.
Chair: Vivek Singh, Researcher IV-Cyber Security & Resilience, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Craig Rieger, Chief Control Systems Research Engineer and a Directorate Fellow, Idaho National Laboratory
Zoe Dormuth, Cybersecurity Research Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Steve McElwee, Chief Information Security Officer, PJM Interconnection
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom C
Security Innovation Challenge II
The Security Innovation Challenge - sponsored by the Homeland Security Technology Consortium and powered by TechConnect, a division of ATI - features a $25K prize pool and open innovation pitches in the area of identity management.
Chair: Jonathan Jakischa, Senior Manager: Open Innovation Programs – TechConnect Ventures, TechConnect Division, ATI
Admiral David Simpson, Former Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, Federal Communications Commission
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom D
Readiness Innovation Challenge II
Join the nation's largest Readiness Innovation Acceleration and Prize program, a $50K Prize Pool representing TechConnect's 25 years of engaging in modeling and simulation development.
Ross Roley, Energy Innovation, Battelle, in support of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
Ebad Jahangir, Associate Director, Technology Planning and Integration / Business Development, Raytheon Technologies
Al Emondi, Consultant (formerly with DARPA), ATI
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom C
Security Innovation Challenge III and Prize Announcement
The Security Innovation Challenge - sponsored by the Homeland Security Technology Consortium and powered by TechConnect, a division of ATI - features a $25K prize pool and open innovation pitches in the area of identity management.
Chair: Jonathan Jakischa, Senior Manager: Open Innovation Programs – TechConnect Ventures, TechConnect Division, ATI
Admiral David Simpson, Former Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, Federal Communications Commission
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
Woodrow Wilson Ballroom D
Readiness Innovation Challenge III and Prize Announcement
Join the nation's largest Readiness Innovation Acceleration and Prize program, a $50K Prize Pool representing TechConnect's 25 years of engaging in modeling and simulation development.
Ross Roley, Energy Innovation, Battelle, in support of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
Ebad Jahangir, Associate Director, Technology Planning and Integration / Business Development, Raytheon Technologies
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Resilience Week: Public/Private Call to Action: Collaboration in Test & Evaluation of Technologies
This panel discussion focuses on the investor community's appetite for OT cyber investments.
Bill Kiser, Executive Vice President for Science and Technology, Indiana Innovation Institute
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Resilience Week: Cybersecurity Workforce Development: NRECA Keep/Grow Initiative
The NRECA Threat Analysis Center (TAC) is the new Cooperative Operational Technology (OT) cybersecurity threat analysis and sharing platform, designed to improve the speed, coordination, and effectiveness of Co-op threat response. The TAC is designed to be both a tool and a community, enabling collaboration and assistance among cybersecurity professionals at NRECA, Co-ops, and the wider intelligence community. This vision is dependent on establishing a network of cybersecurity professionals across the Co-op space. Therefore, as part of the TAC program, NRECA will launch the Grow /Keep Initiative, a workforce development initiative to address many of the challenges Co-ops face in hiring and retaining cybersecurity professionals. As small, rural organizations, many Co-ops struggle to compete in the cybersecurity personnel marketplace. As electric utilities with expanding use of DER and IoT devices, Co-ops also require personnel who understand the critical infrastructure they serve and the associated risks of being compromised. Such “unicorns” are rare and expensive. TheGrow/Keep Initiative will address these challenges by using the collective Co-op strength to compete in the marketplace while also growing cybersecurity expertise from the local Co-op communities. The resulting skilled and expansive network of professionals will act as a semi-shared resource, so every Co-op has the resources they need to resist and recover from threats.
Chair: Emma Stewart, Chief Scientist, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)
Ryan Newlon, Principal, Cybersecurity Solutions, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)
Jim Steel, Information System Administrator, Sumter EMC
12:45 PM
End of Conference