OELS 2025

SEPTEMBER 23-25, 2025 | HONOLULU, HI


   Keynote Speakers   


Senator Mazie Hirono (invited video remarks)

U.S. Senator, State of Hawai’I

Lt. Governor Sylvia Luke

Lieutenant Governor, State of Hawaiʻi

Lt Col Joshua Love

Cyber Mission Assurance Branch Chief, PACAF A634, Hickam Air Force Base (AFB), HI and Warfighting Operations Commications Branch, INDOPACOM J634, Camp Smith Marine Corp Base, HI.

Captain Rex A. Boonyobhas

Commanding Officer, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division

Robert (Bob) Stevenson

Director, Requirements and Resources (J8), U.S. Indo-Pacific Command

Joel Fox

Program Manager, Expeditionary Support, SOCOM

Matthew “Ziggy” Sigstad

Chief, OE Logistics Analysis & Wargaming, DAS Air Force, Operational Energy, Safety & Occupational Health (SAF/IEN)

Timothy A. Walton

Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

   Speakers   


Kawakahi Amina

Energy Innovation Lead, DIU

Cayle Bradley

Technology-to-Market Advisor,, Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E)

Joe Bryan

President, Muswell Orange

James (Jim) Caley (Col., USMC, Ret.)

Director of Operational Energy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Energy,, U.S. Navy

Mike von Fahnestock

Research Leader, J85, Contractor Support, INDOPACOM

Verinda Fike

Regional Director, Indo-Pacific, U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA)

Andrew Ginter

VP of Industrial Security, Waterfall Security

Eric Griesenbrock

Principal Engineer, Air Force Research Laboratory, Future Force Energy and Power Office

Dan Gunter

Founder and CEO, Insane Cyber

Jordan Henry

Director of Cybersecurity Research Center, NREL

Bernice Kiyo Kissinger

Allied Nations Dual-Use Advisor, Pacific International Center for High Technology Research - PICHTR

Michael Mazzocco

President and CEO, Alytic

Emma Mooney

Outreach and Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI

Jennifer Rocha

Strategic Partnerships, TechConnect Division, ATI

Ross Roley

Cyber Innovation Lead, Battelle

Ms. Lisa A Sandy

Chief of the Contracting Office, Department Head (Code 02), NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER, CRANE DIVISION NAVAL SEA SYSTEMS COMMAND

Brian Shipley

SBIR/STTR Commercialization Program Manager, U.S. Navy

Bob Shultis (invited)

Deputy AC/S G39 & G6, U.S. Marine Forces Pacific

Mary Ann Swendsen

Experimentation Integrator, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command J708 PMTEC

Tim Tetrault

Partnerships Development Manager - Defense Sector, National Renewable Energy Lab

Tim Watkins

Global Business Development Manager – Cybersecurity and OT SDN, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories

Command Information Officer (CIO), Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC)