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GridWeek 2012 Speakers

Abraham Escudero
Deputy Manager of Operational Units
Comisión Federal de Electricidad
Al Hefner
NIST
Allen Freifeld
SVP, External Affairs
Viridity Energy
Andy Zetlan
Vice President
Aclara
Anjan Bose
Regents Professor
Washington State University
Anto Budiardjo
President & CEO
Clasma Events Inc.
Aseem Kapur
Department Manager Smart Grid Implementation Group
Con Edison
Ayesha Sabouba
Manager - Generation Connections
Hydro One
Barry Haaser
President
Lakeview Group
Becky Harrison
CEO
GridWise Alliance
Bob Lockhart
Senior Research Analyst
Pike Research - a Part of Navigant
Bracken Hendricks
Senior Fellow
Center for American Progress
Brendan Owens
VP of LEED Technical Development
U.S. Green Building Council
Brian Markwalter
SVP Research and Standards
Consumer Electronics Association
Bruce Hamilton
President
Smart Grid Network
Bud Vos
COO
Simple Energy
Carl Besaw
Project Manager
Southern California Edison
Carl Imhoff
Manager
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Carlos Pascual
Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs
U.S. State Department
Charles Dickerson
VP, Customer Care
Pepco Holdings, Inc.
Charlotte Skidmore
Director, Energy & Environmental Policy
Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers
Chellury (Ram) Sastry
Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC
Chris Hickman
CEO & President
Innovari, Inc.
Chris Knudsen
CTO
AutoGrid Systems Inc
Christopher Root
SVP of Network Strategy
National Grid
Craig Miller
Senior Program Manager
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)
Dan Ton
Program Manager
U.S. Department of Energy
Dan Waddle
Senior Vice President
NRECA International
Darren Highfill
Founder & Managing Partner
SCE - UtiliSec
David DuCharme
Vice President
Capgemini
David Kathan
Senior Economist
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
David Milenthal
Chairman
Milenthal-DelGrosso
David Oberholzer
Director, Smart Grid Products
Earth Networks
David Owens
Executive Vice President, Business Operations
Edison Electric Institute
David Scott
Energy Sector Security Manager
Accenture
David Wollman
Manager, Smart Grid Standard and Research
NIST
Donny Helm
Director - Technology, Strategy and Architecture
Oncor Electric Delivery
Doug Houseman
VP Technology and Innovation
EnerNex
Doug Kim
Director, Advanced Technology
Southern California Edison
Ed Beroset
Director of Technology and Standards
Elster Solutions, LLC
Efrain Gonzalez
Cyber Security Architect
Southen California Edison
Erfan Ibrahim
Founder & CEO
The Bit Bazaar LLC
Eric Dresselhuys
EVP GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
Silver Spring Networks
Eric Johnson
Director, External Affairs
ISO New England
Eric Lightner
Director, Federal Smart Grid Task Force
Department of Energy
Erich Gunther
Chief Technology Officer
EnerNex
Erik Gilbert
Director
Navigant Consulting
Evan Gaddis
President & CEO
NEMA
Gail Allen
Sr. Manager, Customer Solutions
KCP&L
George Arnold
National Coordinator for Smart Grid Interoperability
NIST
George Bjelovuk
Managing Director - Enterprise Technology
AEP
Glenn Haddox
Director, IT Cybersecurity & Compliance
Southern California Edison
Guruduth Banavar
VP & CTO, Global Public Sector
IBM
Harry Forbes
Senior Analyst
ARC Advisory Group
Heather Sanders
Director of Smart Grid Technologies and Strategy
California ISO
Heiko Staubitz
Senior Manager Renewable Energies & Resources
Germany Trade and Invest
Immaculate Antony
Principal Consultant
Enzen Global Solutions Pvt Ltd
Irina Volkova
Professor, Faculty of Management
National Research University Higher School of Economics
Jamie Fine
Economist, Energy and Climate Programs
Environmental Defense Fund
Jamie Wimberly
CEO
Distributed Energy Financial Group LLC
Jay Caspary
Senior Policy Advisor
DOE
Jee-Sik Park
National Standard Coordinator for Smart Grid
KATS
Jerry Jackson
Leader and Research Director
Smart Grid Research Consortium
Jim Parks
Program Manager
Sacramento Municipal Utility District
Jim Pauley
Sr VP, External Affairs and Government Relations
Schneider Electric
Johanna Partin
Director, Global City Programs
C40
John Norris
Commissioner
FERC
John Verdi
Director of Privacy Initiatives
NTIA National Telecommunications & Information Administration
Jörg Lohr
Senior Manager Sales International
RWE Effizienz GmbH
Jose Salazar
Senior Project Manager
Southern California Edison
Joseph Goffman
Senior Counsel to the Assistant Administrator of Air and Radiation
Environmental Protection Agency
Jules Polonetsky
Director and Co-chair
Future of Privacy Forum
Karen Lefkowitz
Vice President, Business Transformation
Pepco Holdings
Larry Bekkedahl
Deputy Senior Vice President
Bonneville Power Administration
Laurence Daniels
Assistant People’s Counsel
DC Office of the People's Counsel
Lawrence Oliva
Director, Tariff Programs & Services
Southern California Edison
Lee Hall
Smart Grid Program Manager
Bonneville Power Administration
Lee Krevat
Director - Smart Grid
San Diego Gas & Electric
Lisa Kaiser
Director, Control Systems Strategic Planning
Department of Homeland Security
Louis Wilder
Senior Consultant
EnerNex
Ludwig Karg
Head of E-Energy Ancillary Research
B.A.U.M. Consult GmbH
Mark Duvall
Director, Electric Transportation
Electric Power Research Institute
Mark McGranaghan
Director, Smart Grid and Distribution Research
EPRI
Martin Rosenberg
Editor-In-Chief
EnergyBiz
Mary Doswell
Senior Vice President
Dominion
Matt Dinsmore
Director, Practice Lead - Energy
Altman Vilandrie & Company
Matt Wakefield
Sr Program Manager, Smart Grid
Electric Power Research Institute
Matthew Light
ES-C2M2 Project Manager
U.S. Department of Energy
Maureen Harris
Commissioner
NYS Public Service Commission
Michael Donohue
Executive Vice President Sales
Utilidata
Michael Glass
Director, Demand Side Systems
PG&E
Michael Hallett
Strategic Plans and Policy Staff Officer
NATO
Michael Kormos
Senior Vice President, Operations
PJM Interconnection
Michael Montoya
Director of Grid Advancement
Southern California Edison (SCE)
Mickey McManus
President & CEO
MAYA Design, Inc.
Mike Ahmadi
COO
GraniteKey LLC
Mike Coop
Founder and Managing Director
ThinkSmartGrid
Mike Oldak
VP and General Counsel
UTC (Utilities Telecom Council)
Mike Rowand
Director, Advanced Customer Technologies
Duke Energy
Nancy Ryan
Executive Director
California Public Utilities Commission
Nick Sinai
Senior Advisor to the CTO, Innovation Entrepreneurship
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Noel Schulz
IEEE PES President & Associate Dean of Research & Graduate Programs
Kansas State University
Onder Kazazoglu
CEO
MEDAS
Pat Hoffman
Assistant Secretary
U.S. Department of Energy
Patrick Charles
Smart Grid Customer Solutions Manager
SDG&E
Patrick Ryan
Executive Director
IEEE PES
Patty Durand
Executive Director
Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative
Paul De Martini
Managing Director
Newport Consulting Group LLC
Paul Molitor
Transition Manager
SGIP 2.0, Inc.
Peter Valberg
Environmental Consultant
Gradient
Rahul Walawalkar
Vice President
Customized Energy Solutions
Raiford Smith
Director – Smart Grid Emerging Technology
Duke Energy
Ralph Martinez
Director
University of Texas El Paso
Ramón León
R&D Projects Coordinator
XM S.A. E.S.P.
Reji Kumar
President
India Smart Grid Forum
Rick Morgan
Consultant
Rish Ghatikar
Program Manager
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Robin Carey
CoFounder and CEO
Social Media Today LLC
Ron Bilodeau
Project Manager Demand Response
NV Energy
Ron Melton
Administrator, GridWise Architecture Council / Director, Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration
Battelle / Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Russell Conklin
Policy Analyst
U.S. Department of Energy
Sandy K. Aivaliotis
Senior Vice President, Operations, Technology and Business Development
Nexans
Simon Rolland
Secretary General
Alliance for Rural Electrification
Sivaraj Shyam Sunder
Director, Engineering Laboratory
Naitonal Institute of Standards and Technology
Steve Corneli
SVP Policy and Strategy
NRG
Steven Minnihan
Senior Analyst
Lux Research Inc
Steven W Pullins
President
Horizon Energy Group
Stewart Ramsay
CEO
Smart Wire Grid, Inc
Suedeen Kelly
Partner
Patton Boggs LLP
Sunil Cherian
Founder & CEO
Spirae, Inc.
Susan Tierney
Managing Principal
Analysis Group
Takeshi Maeno
Representative
New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)
Tatsuya Shinkawa
Chief Representative
NEDO
Terry Mohn
CEO
General MicroGrids, Inc
Terry Oliver
Chief Technology Innovation Officer
Bonneville Power Administration
Thomas Kuhn
President
Edison Electric Institute
Thomas H. Graham
President Pepco Region
Pepco
Tim Roxey
Chief Cyber Security Officer
NERC
Timothy Edgar
Co-founder
Leafully
Warwick Stirling
Senior Director of Energy
Whirlpool Corporation
Will Odell
Smart Grid Program Manager
Snohomish County PUD
Xiomara Creque-Bromberg
Regional Director-Americas/Eastern Europe
Export Import Bank of the United States
Yoav Lurie
CEO & Founder
Simple Energy