2019 Speakers

Tom Alrich NERC-CIP Consultant, Founder Tom Alrich, LLC [ultimate_icons][single_icon icon="Defaults-linkedin" icon_size="32" icon_margin="5" icon_color="#006699" icon_link="url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Ftom-alrich-6314055%2F||target:%20_blank|"][/ultimate_icons] Tom Alrich is a well-known consultant and blogger about cyber risk management and the NERC CIP cybersecurity standards for the electric power industry. Tom has consulted on cybersecurity and CIP compliance since 2008, working previously for Honeywell and Deloitte. Tom has [...]

Richard (Dick) Brooks Senior Consultant and Co-founder Reliable Energy Analytics LLC [ultimate_icons][single_icon icon="Defaults-linkedin" icon_size="32" icon_margin="5" icon_color="#006699" icon_link="url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Frichard-brooks-8078241%2F|||"][/ultimate_icons] Richard “Dick” Brooks is a Professional Software Architect with over 30 years of software engineering accomplishments, primarily serving the Energy industry. He has been a member of the IEEE and ACM for over 30 years. He currently serves [...]

Eric Byres, P.Eng, ISA Fellow CEO aDolus Inc. former CTO of Belden Inc. and CTO of Tofino Security Inc. [ultimate_icons][single_icon icon="Defaults-linkedin" icon_size="32" icon_margin="5" icon_color="#006699" icon_link="url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fericbyres%2F||target:%20_blank|"][single_icon icon="Defaults-twitter" icon_size="32" icon_margin="5" icon_color="#006699" icon_link="url:https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FICS_Secure||target:%20_blank|"][/ultimate_icons] Eric Byres is one of the world’s leading experts in industrial control system (ICS) and IIoT cybersecurity. He invented the Tofino Security technology – the [...]

Sam Chanoski Director of Threat Intelligence Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC) North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) [ultimate_icons][single_icon icon="Defaults-linkedin" icon_size="32" icon_margin="5" icon_color="#006699" icon_link="url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fsdchanoski%2F||target:%20_blank|"][/ultimate_icons] Sam Chanoski is the Electricity ISAC’s Director of Threat Intelligence, where he works with government and private sector organizations to share and analyze threat intelligence in the context of the [...]

Katherine Davis, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas A&M University (TAMU) [ultimate_icons][single_icon icon="Defaults-linkedin" icon_size="32" icon_margin="5" icon_color="#006699" icon_link="url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fkatherine-rogers-davis-62393628%2F||target:%20_blank|"][/ultimate_icons] Katherine Davis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University (TAMU), previously a Research Scientist with the Information Trust Institute at the University of Illinois at [...]

Marc DeNaire Chief Technology Officer & Cofounder DeNexus, Inc. [ultimate_icons][single_icon icon="Defaults-twitter" icon_size="32" icon_margin="5" icon_color="#006699" icon_link="url:https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fmxd61||target:%20_blank|"][single_icon icon="Defaults-linkedin" icon_size="32" icon_margin="5" icon_color="#006699" icon_link="url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fmarc-denarie-312a8871%2F||target:%20_blank|"][/ultimate_icons] A long time veteran of the Public and Federal utility energy sectors, Marc has over three decades of experience in executive management, technical leadership, and power operations management. Marc is well known throughout the Western [...]

Sajjad Fekriasl, PhD Technical Manager ABB [ultimate_icons][single_icon icon="Defaults-linkedin" icon_size="32" icon_margin="5" icon_color="#006699" icon_link="url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fsajjad-fekriasl%2F||target:%20_blank|"][/ultimate_icons] Sajjad Fekriasl received his PhD degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal (2006) and B.S.(Hons) and M.S.(Hons) degrees in electrical engineering (1995, 1997). He has held a number of technical leadership positions in the field of electrical [...]

James Formea Engineering Manager Control Systems & Technology Power Systems Division, Eaton [ultimate_icons][single_icon icon="Defaults-linkedin" icon_size="32" icon_margin="5" icon_color="#006699" icon_link="url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fjamesformea%2F||target:%20_blank|"][/ultimate_icons] James Formea joined Cooper Power Systems in 2007, and held various positions in marketing and engineering before moving into his current role as Engineering Manager – Controls Systems & Technology in Eaton’s Power Systems Division. In this [...]

Santiago Grijalva, PhD Southern Company Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Director of the Advanced Computational Electricity Systems (ACES) Laboratory Georgia Institute of Technology [ultimate_icons][single_icon icon="Defaults-linkedin" icon_size="32" icon_margin="5" icon_color="#006699" icon_link="url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fsantiago-grijalva-556b8216%2F||target:%20_blank|"][/ultimate_icons] Santiago Grijalva is the Southern Company Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Advanced Computational Electricity Systems (ACES) Laboratory at [...]

Amanda L. Joyce Group Leader Strategic Cybersecurity Analysis and Research (SCAR) Argonne National Laboratory [ultimate_icons][single_icon icon="Defaults-linkedin" icon_size="32" icon_margin="5" icon_color="#006699"][/ultimate_icons] Amanda Joyce has worked as a subject matter expert in cybersecurity since 2011. At Argonne National Laboratory, she currently is the Group Leader for the Strategic Cybersecurity Analysis and Research Group that seeks to assess, prevent, [...]

Hadis Karimipour, PhD, PE Assistant Professor School of Engineering University of Guelph [ultimate_icons][single_icon icon="Defaults-linkedin" icon_size="32" icon_margin="5" icon_color="#006699" icon_link="url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fhadis-karimipour-ph-d-p-eng-84624b40%2F||target:%20_blank|"][/ultimate_icons] Dr. Hadis Karimipour is the director of SCPS Lab and an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph. Her research mainly focuses on intelligent AI-based monitoring and security analysis of critical infrastructure [...]

Steven A. Kunsman Director of Product Management and Applications ABB Power Grids Grid Automation, North America Steve joined ABB Inc. in 1984 and has over 33 years of experience in substation automation, protection and control. He presently is leads the ABB North American Grid Automation technical team for Automation and Communications. Steve graduated from Lafayette [...]

Gonda Lamberink Cybersecurity Senior Business Development Manager UL [ultimate_icons][single_icon icon="Defaults-linkedin" icon_size="32" icon_margin="5" icon_color="#006699" icon_link="url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fgonda-lamberink-30317710%2F||target:%20_blank|"][/ultimate_icons] Gonda is an experienced business development manager in UL’s Identity Management & Security division. Gonda focuses on cybersecurity for IoT market segments globally including smart home, smart building and Industry 4.0. Gonda is driving thought-leadership, identifying business opportunities and building capabilities [...]

Madhav Manjrekar, PhD Associate Professor, UNC Charlotte Assistant Director of EPIC Dr. Madhav Manjrekar, SMIEEE, is an Associate Professor at the UNC Charlotte and also serves as an Assistant Director of EPIC center. Named as an e4 Carolinas Emerging Leader in Energy in 2015, He has led technology and innovation teams in the areas of [...]

A P Meliopoulos, PhD Professor Georgia Power Distinguished Professor Georgia Institute of Technology Professor Meliopoulos was born in Katerini, Greece. He attended the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, where he earned the Diploma in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering in 1972. He then attended Georgia Tech where he earned his MSEE (1974) and Ph.D. (1976) [...]

Brian Romansky Chief Innovation Officer Owl Cyber Defense Brian Romansky has over 25 years' experience in security technology and innovation in automotive security, payment systems, healthcare and logistics. He is currently Chief Technology Officer at Owl Cyber Defense, focused on shaping and executing the company's growth strategy through advanced technology development and entry into new [...]

Danish Saleem DER Cybersecurity Standards Lead Cyber-Physical Energy Systems Security Group National Renewable Energy Laboratory [ultimate_icons][single_icon icon="Defaults-linkedin" icon_size="32" icon_margin="5" icon_color="#006699" icon_link="url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fdanish-saleem-66448155%2F||target:%20_blank|"][/ultimate_icons] Danish Saleem is the DER Cybersecurity Standards Lead in the Cyber-Physical Systems Security Group in National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) where he works with the public and private sector to identify security requirements at [...]

Christopher Sistrunk, PE Principal Consultant Mandiant (a FireEye Company) Christopher Sistrunk is a Principal Consultant at Mandiant (a FireEye company) focusing on ICS and critical infrastructure. Before Mandiant, he was a Senior Electrical Enginer with Entergy for 12 years, 10 of which were involved with the Transmission and Distribution SCADA systems where he was a [...]

Nathan Wallace, PhD, CSSA Co-Founder, Director of Cyber Operations Cybirical Nathan has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, B.S. in Physics, a M.S. in Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Cyberspace from Louisiana Tech University. He started his career as an Intern with Entergy’s Relay Settings and Configuration group. He then joined a small utility as [...]

Tobias Whitney Technical Executive in Cyber Security for the Electric Sector Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) formerly Senior Manager of Critical Infrastructure Protection North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) [ultimate_icons][single_icon icon="Defaults-linkedin" icon_size="32" icon_margin="5" icon_color="#006699" icon_link="url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Ftobias-whitney-9479aa9b%2F||target:%20_blank|"][/ultimate_icons] Tobias Whitney is a Technical Executive in P183. He has over 20 years of experience in cyber security and regulatory [...]

Andrew West Regional Technical Director SUBNET Solutions [ultimate_icons][single_icon icon="Defaults-linkedin" icon_size="32" icon_margin="5" icon_color="#006699" icon_link="url:http%3A%2F%2Flinkedin.com%2Fin%2Fandrewcwest||target:%20_blank|"][/ultimate_icons] Andrew West is an electrical engineer who has spent over 35 years working with SCADA system software. He has worked for utilities, equipment vendors, integrators, training organizations and consulting firms. He has been active in SCADA standards development since 1996, currently chairs [...]