OELS 2025

SEPTEMBER 23-25, 2025 | HONOLULU, HI


   Key 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

Brandon C. Cockrell

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Energy and Sustainability Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment, U.S. Army

Mike von Fahnestock

Senior Program Manager, S&T Office, INDOPACOM

Joel Fox

SOF Systems Branch Chief, SOCOM

Andrew Ginter

VP of Industrial Security, Waterfall Security

Eric Griesenbrock

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

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

Dan Gunter

Founder and CEO, Insane Cyber

Jordan Henry

Director of Cybersecurity Research Center, NREL

Senator Mazie Hirono (invited video remarks)

U.S. Senator, State of Hawai’I

Lt. Governor Sylvia Luke

Lieutenant Governor, State of Hawaiʻi

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

Brian Shipley

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

Bob Sholtis

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

Matthew “Ziggy” Sigstad

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

Robert (Bob) Stevenson

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

Tim Tetrault

Partnerships Development Manager - Defense Sector, National Renewable Energy Lab

Timothy A. Walton

Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

Tim Watkins

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