Agenda
Note: In progress and subject to change -- additional speakers TBA. If interested in speaking, please see the Call for Speakers.
Theme: Navigating change, uncertainty and threats to energy and beyond: Safeguarding critical infrastructure from cyber-physical attacks
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
8:00 - 9:00 am
Welcome Continental Breakfast & Coffee
9:00 - 9:30 am
Opening Keynote Address
9:30 - 10:45 am
Addressing the Culture Chasm Between CISO and Ops: Who is in Charge of OT Cybersecurity?
- Chair: Joe Weiss, Managing Partner, Applied Control Solutions, LLC
- Panelists TBA
10:45 - 11:15 am
Networking Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:30 pm
Cybersecurity for Operational Technology
- Chair: Brian Burnett, Director of Cybersecurity, Business Information and Technology Services,
North Carolina's Electric Cooperatives
- Emma Stewart, Director, Center for Securing Digital Energy Technology, Idaho National Laboratory
- Additional Panelists TBA
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Lunch Break
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TRACK A
1:30 - 3:00 pm
Applications of Critical Infrastructures Systems Security
- Chair: Ramesh Reddi, Chief Technology Officer, CybsecBCML, Inc
- Panelists TBA
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TRACK B
1:30 - 2:00 pm
From Ramnit to Chaya_003: Hunting for Modern OT/ICS Threats
- Sai Molige, Senior Manager of Threat Hunting, Forescout Technologies
2:00 - 2:30 pm
Why VLANs Are a Poor Network Segmentation Solution in Industrial ICS/SCADA Environments
- Florian Doumenc, CEO, Trout Software
2:30 - 3:00 pm
Enhancing Infrastructure Operations: The Role of Cybersecurity in the Digital Transformation Journey
- Eduardo Giancristofaro, Business Development Director - OT, SSH Communications Security
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3:00 - 3:30 pm
Networking Coffee Break
3:30 - 5:00 pm
Next-Generation Cybersecurity Standards
- Chair: Julian Durand, Chief Security Officer and Senior Vice President, Intertrust
- Panelists TBA
5:00 - 6:30 pm
Networking Reception
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
8:00 - 9:00 am
Welcome Coffee and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 am
Cyber Risk Assessment and Development for Distributed Energy Resources
- Chair: Tom Tansy, CEO, DER Security Corp, and Chairman, SunSpec Alliance
- Panelists TBA
10:30 - 11:00 am
Networking Coffee Break
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
IT/OT Convergence: Cyber-Informed Engineering and Engineering-Informed Threats
- Chair: Dr. Chee-Wooi Ten, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Director, Center for Cyber-Physical Systems, Michigan Tech
- Tobias Whitney, President and CEO, Cumulys
- Ruchi Rajasekhar, Principal Advisor, Strategic Innovations, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO)
- Carter Manucy, Director, Cybersecurity, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)
- Additional panelist TBA
12:15 - 1:15 pm
Lunch Break
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Resisting the Weaponization of the Energy Network
- Dr. Taesik Kim, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri
- Patrick Miller, CEO, Ampyx Cyber
- Additional panelists TBA
2:30 - 2:45 pm
Coffee Break
2:45 - 4:00 pm
Risk Management Business Case
- Sanju Abraham, Chief Technology Officer, kWh Analytics
- K. Dixon Wright, President, SRC Digital Insurance Services
- Additional panelists TBA
4:00 - 4:15 pm
Concluding Comments