Emma Stewart
Chief Scientist
NRECA
Emma Stewart, Ph.D. is chief scientist of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) where she works to expand the leadership of NRECA and electric co-ops in the scientific and engineering communities. She leads the Business & Technology Strategies team to further advance research into grid resilience and reliability, transmission and distribution, cybersecurity and more. Dr. Stewart most recently served as Associate Program Leader, Defense Infrastructure, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. She also managed the Grid Integration Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, led the distribution planning, modeling and analysis consulting group at BEW Engineering, a DNV Company, and performed research on hydrogen fuel cells and other hydrogen programs at Sandia National Laboratory. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Master of Engineering degree from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.
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Chief Scientist
NRECA
Robin Berthier
CEO & Co-Founder
Network Perception
Dr Robin Berthier is the co-founder and CEO of Network Perception. He has over 15 years of experience in the design and development of network security technologies. He was part of the University of Illinois research team that originally developed the technology that drives the Network Perception platform. He received his PhD in the field of cybersecurity from the University of Maryland College Park before joining the Information Trust Institute (ITI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as a Research Scientist.
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CEO & Co-Founder
Network Perception
Sharla Artz
Security and Resilience Policy AVP
Xcel Energy
Sharla Artz serves as the Security and Resilience Policy Area Vice President where she works with utilities, government partners, and industry stakeholders to develop policies that enhance the resilience of critical infrastructures. Previously, she served as the Senior Vice President of Government & External Affairs at the Utilities Technology Council, where she focused on bringing attention to cross sector interdependencies in critical infrastructure protection efforts. Ms. Artz was formerly the Director of Government Affairs at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL), where she established close working relationships with government officials, contributed insight for sound policy decision making, and was an advocate on the role of technology in grid resilience. Prior to joining SEL, Ms. Artz was the vice president of legal and government affairs for Genscape, Inc., developing business relationships for the company with federal entities. Ms. Artz was the assistant general counsel for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, serving the 50 state utility commissioners on energy regulatory matters pending before the federal government. After receiving her juris doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, Ms. Artz spent four years on Capitol Hill, working on energy policy for a former member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Ms. Artz has a bachelor’s degree in sociology and psychology from the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband and two children.
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Security and Resilience Policy AVP
Xcel Energy
Andrew Ginter
VP Industrial Security
Waterfall Security Solutions
At Waterfall, Andrew leads a team of experts who work with the world's most secure industrial enterprises. Before Waterfall, Andrew led the development of industrial control system products, of IT/OT middleware products, and of the world's first industrial SIEM at Industrial Defender. Andrew is the author of two textbooks on industrial security and a co-author of the Industrial Internet Consortium Security Framework. He co-hosts the Industrial Security Podcast, is a lecturer at the Industrial Security Institute, and contributes regularly to industrial security standards and best-practice guidance.
https://waterfall-security.com
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VP Industrial Security
Waterfall Security Solutions
Mariam Coladonato
Sr. Cybersecurity Product Specialist
Phoenix Contact
Mariam Coladonato from Phoenix Contact has over 10 years of experience in OT/ICS Cybersecurity with a dedicated focus around industrial networking and defensive controls. She is blue team engineer by experience and heart, her motto is “prevention the gold standard of security, detection and remediation are equally important to overall defense capabilities for any industry”. Mariam is the technical liaison, SME for all things cybersecurity within an industrial, electronic and automation manufacturer. Her day-to-day consists in competition analysis, understanding market needs, providing valuable input to R&D that creates future roadmaps, creating documentations, articles, and security best practices for most of the networking technology available. Additionally, Mariam is the main point of contact for technical support, pre-post sales cybersecurity opportunities and conversations where the needs for basic assessments, secure network design, recommendations and best practices are needed, either by following industry standards like NERC CIP, ISA/IEC62443, NIST 800-82, NIST CSF or internal security policies. The mission and vision statement for industrial cybersecurity is to collaborate with any interested party and be able to implement best solution and remediation strategy that will meet the client's expectations and satisfaction.
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Sr. Cybersecurity Product Specialist
Phoenix Contact
Tobias Whitney
VP of Strategy and Policy
Fortress Information Security
Tobias Whitney is a recognized leader in control systems security solutions with over 20 years of critical infrastructure security experience. For six years, Whitney lead the compliance and standards for NERC's Critical Infrastructure Protection program. Most recently, Whitney spent two years as Technical Executive at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), evaluating risks in supply chain cybersecurity for utilities, developing solutions to address security architecture for utility cloud-based solutions, as well as researching emerging technologies, such as electric vehicle charging and supply chain security.
https://fortressinfosec.com/
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VP of Strategy and Policy
Fortress Information Security
Kylie McClanahan
PhD Student
University of Arkansas
Kylie McClanahan is a doctoral student in the Computer Science and Computer Engineering department at the University of Arkansas and a senior developer for Bastazo, Inc.; she holds a BS in physics and a BS in computer science. Her graduate work centers on the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure, including projects funded by NSF and DOE. Her research explores the automation of vulnerability analysis and remediation, drawing from her knowledge of machine learning and her professional experience with CIP compliance processes.
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PhD Student
University of Arkansas
Ralph Ising
Sales Manager
Cimcor
For 30+ years Ralph has been a trusted adviser to executives across multiple industries worldwide helping them leverage innovative and disruptive technologies to lower costs, mitigate risk, and improve stakeholder value. For the last 3 1/2 years, Ralph has been responsible for direct sales, channel sales, and government sales worldwide for all of Cimcor's Cyber Security & Compliance Products.
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Sales Manager
Cimcor
Dan Strachan
Senior Industry Engagement Lead
CISA and JCDC
Dan Strachan has worked at CISA as a Senior Industry Engagement Lead since July, 2021. Dan’s background includes 16 years as Director of Industrial Relations at the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM). At AFPM, Dan helped start and run the association’s Cybersecurity Committee, which is one of the best voices in Washington on cybersecurity in the Energy sector.
A native of Quincy, Massachusetts, Dan has a BA in Political Science from the University of Central Florida and an MBA from The Johns Hopkins University.
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Senior Industry Engagement Lead
CISA and JCDC
Justin Quevedo
Engineer
Tacoma Power
Justin Quevedo has worked for Tacoma Public Utilities for 20 years supporting operation control systems including Automated Metering and Energy Management Systems. Justin is a key contributor to the development and execution of Tacoma Public Utilities' CIP program in the areas of security configuration and change management.
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Engineer
Tacoma Power
Bill Nelson
Chair
Global Resilience Federation
Bill Nelson is the Chair of the Global Resilience Federation (GRF), a multi-sector non-profit association dedicated to helping ensure the resilience and continuity of organizations against cyber and physical threats, incidents and vulnerabities. GRF is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. At GRF, Nelson has led the growth of information sharing communities within their respective sectors and on a cross-sector basis. This results in faster detection and actionable response and mitigation of those threats. GRF serves many sectors around the world including three communities in the energy sector plus financial services, K12 school districts, manufacturing, law firms, retailers, utilities, operational technology, energy, healthcare, and accounting/consulting firms.
Nelson also formed and now serves on the board of the Operational Technology Information Sharing & Analysis Center (OT-ISAC). OT-ISAC’s mission is to protect global operational technology assets of multiple sectors including maritime, energy, shipping, manufacturing, and others.
https://www.grf.org/
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Chair
Global Resilience Federation
Dr. Jacob Benjamin
Director of Professional Services
Dragos, Inc.
Jacob Benjamin is Director of Professional Services, at the industrial cyber security company Dragos, Inc. Prior to joining Dragos, Dr. Benjamin was a cybersecurity researcher at Idaho National Laboratory and a cybersecurity specialist for Duke Energy. Jacob has substantial cybersecurity experience with operational technology at domestic and international critical infrastructures.
www.dragos.com
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Director of Professional Services
Dragos, Inc.
Nathaniel Evans
Program Lead, Cybersecurity Research
Argonne National Laboratory
Nate Evans is the Cybersecurity Program Lead for Argonne National Laboratory’s Strategic Security Sciences Division. He also serves as a Vector Lead in Cybersecurity for Argonne’s National Security Programs. Prior to joining Argonne, Nate managed cybersecurity and cyber defense activities at several private-sector companies. He is considered a key asset by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the development of a cybersecurity vulnerability assessment for field use, analysis of cybersecurity consequence and threat studies, and leading the pilot cyber-physical regional assessment.
Evans was involved in the development of a patented, R&D 100 award winning operational instance of moving target defense (MTD), and has worked in a variety of other cybersecurity research areas, including transportation, satellite communications, social engineering, workforce development and offensive cybersecurity. He has taught computer networking and cybersecurity issues to students in Senegal, Africa, through the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Next Einstein Initiative and is an adjunct professor at University of Chicago and Moraine Valley Community College. He also led the development of DOE’s CyberForce Competition™, drawing college students from across the Nation, in the defense of realistic attacks on simulated critical infrastructure.
Dr. Evans received a B.S. in Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering with a specialty in Cybersecurity from Iowa State University.
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Program Lead, Cybersecurity Research
Argonne National Laboratory
Dennis Skarr
IT Security Instructor
Everett Community College
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IT Security Instructor
Everett Community College
Manuel Vazquez
Critical Infrastructure Security Researcher
Idaho National Laboratory – Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resiliency
Previous EnergySec 2021 presenter, Manuel Vazquez graduated with a B.S in Information Systems and Technology with a minor in Computer Science from California State University, San Bernardino in 2020. He has since worked with Idaho National Laboratory finding ways that can help protect critical infrastructure through research in machine learning, securing software and analyzing binaries. Manuel has experience conducting test on systems that have an impact on our daily lives. This includes scanning and enumerating networks, devices, services and generating STIX 2 (Structured Threat Information Expression)/JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) bundles that can depict information that make it easy for security experts to understand.
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Critical Infrastructure Security Researcher
Idaho National Laboratory – Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resiliency
Jessica Boersma
K-12 Cybersecurity Educational Development
Argonne National Laboratory
Ms. Jessica Boersma received her bachelor’s of science degree from St. Xavier University in 2009. She has held positions working in a special education classroom as well as in elementary education. For the past eight years, she has been teaching 2nd grade at Maya Angelou Elementary in Harvey, IL and has received her Special Education endorsement from Governors State University. She currently supports K-12 cybersecurity educational development for Argonne National Laboratory and co-owns her own K-12 cybersecurity education company.
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K-12 Cybersecurity Educational Development
Argonne National Laboratory
Manuel Maestas
Software Analyst
Idaho National Laboratory – Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience
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Software Analyst
Idaho National Laboratory – Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience
Steve Parker
President
EnergySec
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President
EnergySec
Nick Weber
Managing Partner
Archer
Nicholas (Nick) Weber is a seasoned security leader who has been in military and security leadership roles since 2002. He is a Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) professional who has held a Top Secret/Secret Compartmentalized Information (TS/SCI) Clearance. He has served in physical and cyber security management roles at Grant Public Utility District, Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC), the US Department of Homeland Security, and the US Army. He has been recognized for his leadership with accolades such as the Security Systems News 20 Under 40 award and the Bronze Star Medal.
Mr. Weber enjoys nonprofit leadership, including his current tenure as Vice President of the University of Idaho Alumni Association Board of Directors. He currently chairs ASIS International’s Utilities Security Community Steering Committee and is a member of the ASIS International CSO Center. He has completed terms on the DHS the Dams Sector Coordinating Council, as Vice Chair of the WECC Physical Security Working Group, and Athletic Director of the Salt Lake City Chapter of Team Red, White, and Blue, a nonprofit dedicated to connecting veterans to their community through physical and social activity.
Mr. Weber has used his diverse experiences, education, training, and coalition-building skills to develop unique solutions to even the most daunting problems. He has a proven track record of success from small companies to complex international and multi-agency projects.
https://archerint.com/staff/nick-weber/
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Managing Partner
Archer
Wally Magda
Senior Standards Instructor & Advisor
WallyDotBiz LLC
Wally Magda brings his passion and energy to the Summit as an internationally recognized security expert for Industrial Control Systems (ICS). His deep security experience spans military nuclear missile command and control systems, intelligence agencies, enterprise security and industrial control systems. Wally’s involvement with the NERC CIP standards goes back to the Urgent Action Cyber Security standards of 2003. As a former WECC NERC CIP auditor he has performed over 100 NERC CIP on and off site audits in the roles of Audit Team Lead and team member. He started out in the utility business from the ground up as an Instrumentation, Control and Electrical Tech. He then progressed to managing ICS as a process control engineer. Seeing the need for experienced security professionals to assist Information, Operations and Physical Technology business units, he stepped into the enterprise level security realm. Wally is an active member of the NERC Supply Chain Working Group and Security Integration and Technology Enablement Subcommittee. He holds several professional certifications including ISA Certified Automation Professional (CAP), SANS GIAC Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP), ASIS Physical Security Professional (PSP), ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).
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Senior Standards Instructor & Advisor
WallyDotBiz LLC
Karl Perman
Director, Board of Directors
EnergySec
Mr. Perman has held security leadership positions in the energy sector including Exelon Corporation and Southern California Edison. Karl developed a security practice during his service as the first Director of Security for the North American Transmission Forum. He served in law enforcement roles at the municipal and federal levels prior to entering the private sector. He also served in military intelligence and military police units in the U. S. Army Reserves.cMr. Perman has a Master’s Degree in Public Safety Administration from Lewis University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Law and Government from Eastern Michigan University.
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Director, Board of Directors
EnergySec
