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Welcome Coeur d'Alene Tech Conference & Expo Speakers

Get to Know Them

Joseph Dung
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Principal

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Managing Partner at Applied Control Solutions, LLC Emeritus Managing Director ISA99 ICS Cyber Security Pioneer, Keynote Speaker Process Automation Hall of Fame

President & Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder at Catalyst Energy Services

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Luciano Tarricone

“The Last Innovation Master of Intel Corporation” | Senior Instructor of Innovation OpEx | “He Who Disrupts, Wins Moore & More than the Other Guy” -- “All Failure is a Failure to Learn”

​Sustained Lunar Dev SME & Orbital Robotics SME with DOD, MDA, NASA experience. Founder & Curator of the Artemis Sustained Lunar Development & AI in space Robotics groups on LinkedIn . Co-Founder COO Orbital Robotics

Full Professor at University of Salento, Lecce, Italy. IEEE Fellow, IEEE MTTS Europe/Middle East/Africa Coordinator, Fellow of Asia-Pacific AI Association, Fellow of Industry Academy in the Int. AI Industry Alliance

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Mike Brisbois, PE
Janislley Oliveira

Interconnection, transmission, and congestion analysis expert and a strategic leader focused on renewables and large loads

Pederales Electric Cooperative

Electrical Design Engineer
Microgrid Consortium

Program Lead

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R&D Team Lead  IEEE YP Brazil Chair ESW Specialist SIDIA - Samsung Electronics 

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Rishi Kant Thakur
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​Operations Planning Engineer at CAISO| Power System Engineer | NERC Certified Reliability Coordinator | Fulbright Alumni

Senior Electrical Design Engineer

(EV Charging)
TSG Group

Electrical Engineer | Transmission Analysis and Federal Regulation | Power Engineer @ Xcel Energy | Industry Advocacy

Xcel Energy

Jessie Lewis
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Chris Weer, G.I.T.

Relational Support Grounded in Evolutionary Biology

Chief Executive Officer at Qualterra Inc. Board Member

Geologist in Training with Environmental Monitoring & FCA Experience
City of Vancouver WA
Apex

Hadir Elsayed
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Michael Bogonovich

​Engineering & Technology for Impact | Nuclear Energy | UN General Assembly Speaker

Vice President - Business Development, Engineered Solutions

Relevant Industrial, LLC

Principle Program Manager Vehicles

Trimet

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Nirmal Paudel, PhD
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Zero Emissions Northwest

President

Consultant | Electromagnetics | R&D | Multiphysics Simulation | FEA | Product Design | COMSOL | ANSYS

Setting the groundwork for construction project excellence.

Verdex Construction

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Saxon Sobolewski
Bryce Yonker

​Associate Professor, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.

Human Resources Office Assistant UW Medicine

Founder & Developer of Sage AI Migraine Companion

Executive Director, Grid Forward; various advanced energy and grid technology endeavors

Grid Forward

Cliff Weasner
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Geothermal Geoscientist SME | Public Speaker | Micro-investor | Podcast Host | Thermal Thursdays | Energy Market Voice

BatirWeGo Holdings

Seasoned Business Executive with over 40 years of experience in arenas from Venture start-ups to Industry leaders in the DIB. Expertise in Cyber, Narco-terrorism, Expeditionary/Emergency Ops, Contracting and the FAR.

Driving Growth in Energy & Climate Tech | Fractional CPO/CSO | $1B+ P&L | 3X Global Expansion | Scaling Data Centers, EV Infra & Grid (Switchgear, Relays, Microgrids, Batteries) | Board Director & Lecturer

Apex Specialist

 Solimar Cárdenas
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Maura Schreier-Fleming

M.A. Electrical Engineer| IPMA Project Manager| IEEE WIE R9 Member | IEEE PES Member | Regulated Electricity Markets | Storage Systems

Chief Cyber / Quantum / Cognitive Information Services Architect

Sales Training, Sales Consultant-Increase Sales |Speaker|Author-Real-World Selling|MondayMorningSalesTips

Best@Selling

Farrokh Aminifar
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Mike Elbert

Principal Advisor

Quanta Technology

Lineworker Apprenticeship Craft Instructor Apprenticeship Nightschool Instructor Journeyman Lineman Lineman Technical Trainer

Seattle City Light

Engineer

Autoliv

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Surendar Ramamoorthy
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Nirupama Prakash Kumar

​Business Development Leader & Change Agent > Improve performance — partnerships, strategy, sales, key accounts, relationship management, pricing. > Add value — EH&S, Facilities Development, Agile, Lean, Six Sigma.

Advancing Human Upliftment with Clean, Limitless Fusion Power | 3x Founder | 2x Exits | Investor | Game Theorist

Policy Implementation
SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Tiruchirappalli

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Ajmal Shah

“AI Tech Innovator Driving Sustainability: Fusing , Solar Energy, Data and Environmental Solutions” CEO @ Supernova | CleanTech and Renewables

IEEE Life Fellow and Fellow of AIMBE, IAMBE, and IUPESM, 
globally leadership in biomedical engineering, public health, IT and national security. 

Design at Nutanix 

Prev. at VMware, Postman

NID

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Jennifer Dunaway
Shahid Jamil
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Director of Safety and Occupational Health
NAVFAC

Electrical Safety Specialist 

Electrical Safety Services, LLC

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President & CEO

CPS Energy

President
BURMAN Engineering

President, Lighting Systems Designer at Salinas Lighting Consult, Inc.

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SDVOSB | SBA 8(a) certified

STARS III | GSA Schedule IT 70 

SOC-as-a-Service

Strategic Leader in Data Management & Analytics

Principal
Silent Running

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Umair Saleem
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Patent Attorney | Partner @ Seed IP | AI | Electronics | Semiconductors

Seed IP Law Group

​IT Support & Networking Professional | CCNA Certified | Electrical Engineer

Chief Technology Officer at HP Federal

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