Virtual Conference Agenda
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19 (FED Day)
10:45-11:00 ET
Welcome – Ethan Huffman
11:00-12:30 ET
Resilience Week Welcome – Senator Jim Risch
Plenary Speaker 1 – Craig Rieger, INL/N&HS Directorate Fellow, Foundations of Resilience: Transformation of Cross‐Disciplinary Collaboration in Dialogue
Plenary Speaker 2 – Ron Fisher, Director Infrastructure Assurance and Analysis Division, INL; Director INL Resilience Optimization Center, Building a Resilient Nation
Plenary Speaker 3 – David Woods, Past-President Resilience Engineering Association and The Ohio State University, A look back: Progress in Resilience Engineering; A look forward: Prospects for Outmaneuvering Complexity Penalties
12:30-12:45 ET
Break
12:45-2:15 ET
SESSION 1
TRACK 1: Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy Resilience Thrusts
WETO/SETO/WPTO
Chair
Tim McJunkin, INL
Panelists
David Walter, Solar Energy
Ben Ollis, ORNL
Hill Balliet, Water Power
Abhishek Somani, PNNL
Bret Barker, Wind Energy
Megan Culler, INL
Moderator
Brian Seal, EPRI
TRACK 2: National Efforts to Establish a Secure & Resilient Cybersecurity Supply Chain
Chair
Wayne Austad, INL
Presenters
Howard Grimes, CyManII
Greg Shannon, CyManII
Cheri Caddy, DOE-CESER
Virginia Wright, INL
Allan Friedman, DHS/CISA
TRACK 3: Cyber City: A Platform for
Researching Critical Infrastructure
Resilience
Presenter
Candice Mitchell, US Army Corps of
Engineers
2:15-2:45 ET
Lunch Break
2:45-3:45 ET
SESSION 2
Moderator
Abraham Ellis, Sandia
Panelists
Aaron Ng, DOE ETI Program
Mark Glick, HNEI
Erin Whitney, AECP
Rob Cox, Coastal Studies Institute
TRACK 2: DOD Achieving Resilience for
Control Systems Across Government‐
owned and Commercially‐owned Assets
Moderator
Aleksandra Scalco, US Navy
Panelists
Michael Dransfield, NSA
Daryl Haegley, OSD Policy
Sandra Kline, ASN EIE
Michael Kilcoyne, NAVFAC DCIO/CTWH
Steve Simske, Colorado State University
TRACK 3: The National Cybersecurity
Workforce Development Program: An
Innovative and Scalable Framework to
Expand the Critical Infrastructure Security
Human Capital
Chair
Eman El‐Sheikh, Univ. of West FL
Panelists
Diane M. Janosek, NSA
Eman El‐Sheikh, Univ. of West FL
Dipankar Dasgupta, Univ. of Memphis
Art Conklin, Univ. of Houston
3:45-4:00 ET
Break
4:00-5:00 ET
SESSION 3
TRACK 1: Prognostic sensing and
modeling for resilient management of
extreme events
Chairs
Kris Villez, ORNL; Abraham Ellis, Sandia;
Tim McJunkin, INL
Presenters
Suzanne Groneman, City of Reno NV
Ben Jenkins, Idaho Falls Power
Mohammed Ben-Idris, Univ. of NV
TRACK 2: DoD ‐All Hazards Analysis (AHA)
presented with the Army Cyber Institute
(ACI)
Chair
Tim Klett, INL
Presenter
MAJ Steven Whitham, ACI
TRACK 3: Cybersecurity Workforce
Development for Rural Distribution
Utilities: Challenges and Solutions
Moderators
Abraham Ellis, Sandia
Emma Stewart, NRECA
Panelists
Olga Lavrova, NNMSU
Delaine Orendorff, NRECA
5:00-5:15 ET
Break
5:15-6:15 ET
Research Poster Presentations
*Note: The authors will formally present their posters at the times listed, however they will be available to chat
for the entire hour.
Posters
- 5:15 ‐ Extensive resilience analysis of function models of complex systems, Yann Guillouet, German Aerospace
- 5:20 ‐ Cyber‐Physical Security Assessment and Resilience of a Microgrid Testbed, Theron Beam, BSU
- 5:25 ‐ COVID Response: A Blended Approach to Studying Sanitizer Station Deployment at Clemson University,
Tyler O’Brien, Clemson University - 5:30 ‐ A Co‐Simulation Approach to Modeling Electric Vehicle Impacts on Distribution Feeders During
Resilience Events, Thad Haines, Sandia - 5:35 ‐ Enhancing the Operational Resilience of Advanced Reactors with Digital Twins by Recurrent Neural
Networks, Linyu Lin, INL - 5:40 ‐ Design of Resilient Electric Distribution Systems for Remote Communities: Surgical Load Management
using Smart Meters, Mayank Panwar, NREL - 5:45 ‐ Applying Utility’s Advanced Grid Technologies to Improve Resiliency of a Critical Load, Charlie Vartanian,
PNNL - 5:50 ‐ A Deep‐Defense Approach for Next‐Gen Cyber‐Resilient Inter‐Dependent Critical Infrastructure Systems,
Eman Hammad, Texas AM U ‐ Commerce
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