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

Christopher Grisafe

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy (DASN(Energy)), U.S. Navy

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

Jennifer Rocha

Strategic Partnerships, TechConnect Division, ATI

   Speakers   


CAPT John Beattie

Deputy Fleet Civil Engineer, U.S. Pacific Fleet, USN, U.S. Navy

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

Kyle Degener

Power and Energy Systems Deputy Division Manager, Special Warfare and Expeditionary Systems Department, Naval Surface Warfare Center – Crane Division

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

Dave Halla

Senior Program Manager National Security / Enterprise Assurance, Battelle

Jordan Henry

Director of Cybersecurity Research Center, NREL

Grant Kamins

Partner, The Meridian Group

Bernice Kiyo Kissinger

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

Jorge Lacoste

Group Manager III - Cyber Threat Analysis Group, NREL

Walter (Wally) Ludwig

Chief of Staff, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations and Environment, U.S. Navy

Michael Mazzocco

President and CEO, Alytic

Kevin Mish

Senior Program Manager, Abbott On Call

Emma Mooney

Outreach and Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI

Emily Pence

Engineer, Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, U.S. Navy

John Peterson (Col USMC (Ret.))

Assistant to the Director of Operational-Energy Innovation, OUSD A&S

Sharleene Rigali

Industrial Base Supply Chain Project Manager, NSWC Crane, Power & Energy Division, U.S. Navy

Ross Roley

Cyber Innovation Lead, Battelle

Brenda Roush

EMC2 Program Manager, Special Warfare and Expeditionary Systems Department, Naval Surface Warfare Center – Crane Division, U.S. Navy

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 Sholtis (invited)

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

Mary Ann Swendsen

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

Ed Tavares

Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, HECO

Tim Tetrault

Partnerships Development Manager - Defense Sector, National Renewable Energy Lab

Greg Valentine

SVP Solutions Engineering, Industrial Defender

Tim Watkins

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

Julie Weinstein

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

Dr. Lesley Wilhelm

Action Officer - Wargaming, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (RDT&E), U.S. Navy

Principal Engineer, Enterprise Assurance Division, Battelle

S&T Discovery Cycle – Lead Engineer, USSOCOM


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