Speaker List

Senior Environmental Resource Manager, Water Strategy, Hydro Licensing and Lake Services
Duke Energy Corporation

Chief Executive Officer
Mazdak International Inc.

U.S. Project Engineer
European Marine Energy Centre

Electric Transportation Project Coordinator
Georgia Power Company

Principal Fisheries Biologist
Alden Research Laboratory, Inc.

Chair, Board of Directors, National Hydropower Association (NHA), and Chief Operating Officer
Rye Development

Director, Sales and Marketing
Voith Hydro, Inc.

Civil Discipline Lead
McMillen Jacobs Associates

Manager, Power Systems and Markets Research Group; Lab Relationship Manager, Renewable Power Group
Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy (virtual participation)

Senior Hydro Specialist
Syblon Reid (pre-recorded video interview)

Senior Engineer/Dam Safety & Surveillance Supervisor, Hydro Services
Southern Company (parent company of Georgia Power and Alabama Power)

Senior Associate
Kearns & West

Co-Chair, NHA CEO Council
Chief Executive Officer, FirstLight Power

Senior Electrical Engineer
L & S Electric, Inc.

Senior Executive Project Engineer
Knight Piesold and Co.

Lead of HydroWIRES Initiative
U.S. Department of Energy (pre-recorded video presentation)

Director, NC Reneawble Ocean Energy Program
Coastal Studies Institute, North Carolina State University

CEO
Consultants With Energy, LLC

Project Manager, Hydropower and Hydraulic Structures
Black & Veatch

Energy Analysis Engineer
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), U.S. Department of Energy (pre-recorded video presentation)

Vice President of Generation and Compression Operations
Consumers Energy Company (CMS Energy)

Design and Planning Engineering Group Supervisor, Grand Coulee Office
Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Department of the Interior (Participating Virtually)

Founder and CEO
Whooshh Innovations Inc.

Senior Technical Leader, Digital Worker and Generation O&M Support
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Undergraduate Student, Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland

Manager of Generation Planning and Development
Southern Company (parent company of Georgia Power and Alabama Power)

Cybersecurity Analyst
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), U.S. Department of Energy (virtual participation)

Senior Construction Manager
Gannett Fleming, Inc.

Operations Superintendent, Niagara
New York Power Authority (NYPA)

Environmental Biologist, Division of Hydropower Compliance, Office of Energy Projects
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

Training Program Manager, Nashville District
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Executive Director
Hydropower Foundation

Manager of Technical Services
National Hydropower Association (NHA)

Director, Hydro Operations
Northwestern Energy

Chief Technical Advisor
North American Electric Reliability Corporation

CEO
Nautilus Data Technologies

Chief Strategy Officer
Littoral Power Systems, Inc.

Vice President Sales
Whooshh Innovations Inc.

Laboratory Fellow
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), U.S. Department of Energy (pre-recorded video presentation)

Associate Director, North Carolina Renewable Ocean Energy Program
Coastal Studies Institute, North Carolina State University (pre-recorded video presentation)

Senior Land Management Specialist
Georgia Power Company

General Manager, Regional Services
Duke Energy Corporation

Project Manager, Human Resources Diversity and Inclusion
Alabama Power Company

Vice President
McMillen Jacobs Associates

Marketing Manager
Columbia Industrial Products, Inc. (CIP Composites)

Principal Public Safety Specialist, Power Generation
Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E)

Senior Program Director
ClearPath

Electrical Team Lead, Generation Equipment Section, Hydroelectric Design Center
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Security Solutions Program Manager
Emerson

Hydro Licensing and Compliance Engineer
Duke Energy Corporation

Commissioning Specialist
GE Renewable Energy

Director, Business Development
New York Power Authority (NYPA)

Public Affairs Specialist, Portland District
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (pre-recorded video presentation)

Co-Chair, NHA Marine Energy Council
Vice President, SMI, Inc. (Strategic Marketing Innovations)

Vice President, National Business Class Lead
HDR

Electric Transportation Manager
Georgia Power Company

Director of Hydro Operations
Mesa Associates, Inc.

Principal Consultant
Kleinschmidt

Senior Hydro Electrical Project Engineer
Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E)

Operations Manager, West and South
Central Rivers Power

Senior Associate, National Practice Leader for Dam Safety and Risk
Schnabel Engineering

Plant Manager, Rocky Mountain Hydroelectric Plant
Oglethorpe Power Corporation

Member of the Governing Board
Global Women's Network for the Energy Transition (GWNET)

Mechanical Engineer, Hydroelectrical Design Center (HDC)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

President and Chief Executive Officer
Missouri River Energy Services

Founder and CEO
Current Hydro, LLC

Vice President Carolinas Regulated Renewables, Fossil Hydro Operations
Duke Energy Corporation

President
Mavel Americas

Regulatory and Licensing Consultant, Kleinschmidt Associates
Co Vice Chair, Future Leaders of Waterpower (FLOW)

Vice President - Sales and Marketing USA
ANDRITZ HYDRO Corp.

Principal Civil Engineer
Chelan County Public Utility District

Vice President, Business Development and Asset Management
Eagle Creek Renewable Energy

Chief Executive Officer
Rye Development

Vice President, Sales and Marketing
National Electric Coil

General Manager, Hydro
Southern Company

Regional Design Manager, Hydroelectric Design Center
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Senior Consultant, Geospatial and Asset Management Solutions
POWER Engineers, Inc.

Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
New York Power Authority (NYPA)

President and CEO
American Rivers

Postdoctoral Researcher
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), U.S. Department of Energy (pre-recorded video presentation)

Regional Engineer, Atlanta Regional Office
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

Business Development Manager
Thompson | HCMS

Chief Executive Officer
Voith Hydro, Inc.

Ph.D. Student
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Business Development (Past President, HCMS)
Thompson | HCMS

Statewide FERC Coordinator
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Program Director
National Energy Education Development (NEED) Project

Mechanical Engineer, Hydroelectrical Design Center (HDC)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Principal Technical Leader, Cyber Security, Generaton
EPRI

Chief Dam Safety Engineer
Central Rivers Power

Vice President
Strategic Marketing Innovations, Inc. (SMI)

Chief Executive Officer
Tidal Energy Corp.

CyTroniQ Co., Ltd.

CEO
C-Power (Columbia Power Technologies, Inc.)

Senior Legal And Regulatory Analyst, Strategic Energy Analysis Center
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), U.S. Department of Energy (pre-recorded video presentation)

Vice President, Energy Resource Management
New York Power Authority (NYPA)

Senior Vice President
HDR

Senior Director, Technology, Strategy and Policy
GE Energy Consulting

Director, Generation Asset Strategy and Hydro Licensing
Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E)

Communications Associate
JSG Communications

Sales Territory Manager
L & S Electric, Inc.

President and Chief Executive Officer
Worthington Products, Inc.

Program Director
Hydropower Foundation

Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
GE Renewable Energy

Director of Market Development and Business Affairs
Whooshh Innovations

Chair, NHA's Markets Committee
Lead Energy Market Advisor, New York Power Authority

Dam Safety & Surveillance Supervisor, Hydro Services
Southern Company (parent company of Georgia Power and Alabama Power)

Director, Hydroelectric Design Center (HDC)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Senior Principal Power & Dams, Business Center Quality & Risk Manager
Stantec

Technical Contractor
National Hydropower Association

Executive Director
Northwest RiverPartners

Senior Vice President, Renewable Energy Services
HDR

Founder and CEO
NERG Solutions

Executive Director of Hydro Operations and Chief Dam Safety Engineer
Consumers Energy Company (CMS Energy)

Marketing/Business Development Director
Mesa Associates, Inc.

Chief Executive Officer
Emrgy, Inc.

Chair, 2021 Henwood Award Committee, National Hydropower Association (NHA), and Senior Manager, External Affairs and Communications
Grant County Public Utility District

Founder
Moxi on the Rocks

Senior Sales Manager, Southeast USA, and Regional Service Director, Southeast USA
GE Renewable Energy

Partner
Topsolvers LLC

Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development and Chief Strategy Officer
New York Power Authority (NYPA)

Vice President
Kleinschmidt

Graduate Student
University of New Hampshire

Vice President, Operations
C-Power (Columbia Power Technologies, Inc.)

Fisheries Biologist
Georgia Power Company

Executive Vice President, Executive Managing Director Americas, Water Business
Black & Veatch

Business Development - HydroForecast
UpstreamTech

Hydropower Practice Lead
Alden Research Laboratory, Inc.

Chief, Turbomachinery Section, Hydroelectric Design Center
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Director of Operations
Kaukauna Utilities

Senior Sales Leader
GE Renewable Energy

Chair, Hydropower Technical Committee
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

Aquatic Ecologist, Environmental Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), U.S. Department of Energy (pre-recorded video presentation)

FERC Hydropower Licensing & Compliance Manager
Mead & Hunt, Inc.

National Hydropower Program Manager
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Operations Project Manager, Lake Sidney Lanier
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Stanford University

Vice President of Project Management
Rye Development

Undergraduate Student, Civil Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Corporate President and Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and Business Development
American Hydro

CEO
NuSTREEM

Chief Growth Officer
Kleinschmidt

Principal Investigator, Cybersecurity
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), U.S. Department of Energy (pre-recorded video presentation)

PhD Student, Energy Science and Engineering
University of Tennessee

Principal Scientist -Machine Learning
GE Research

Principal Consultant, Kleinschmidt Associates
Chair, Women in Hydropower Mentorship Program

Vice President of Market Strategies and Regulatory Affairs
National Hydropower Association (NHA)

Co-Founder and CEO
Natel Energy, Inc.

CEO, President, Lead Designer
Hydrokinetic Energy Corp.

Dams Deputy Business Line Director
Black & Veatch

President, U.S. Society on Dams (USSD), and Principal/Senior Vice President
Schnabel Engineering

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), U.S. Department of Energy (virtual participation)

Senior Project Manager/Principal Consultant
Rye Development

Water Power Program Manager
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), U.S. Department of Energy (participating virtually)

President, Sapere Consulting, Inc.;
Executive Director, Hydropower Research Institute (HRI)

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
U.S. Department of Energy (participating virtually)

Executive Director
Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO)

UAS Pilot II Aerial Services
Southern Company (parent company of Georgia Power and Alabama Power)

Senior Generator Electrical Engineer
Black & Veatch

Professor, Educational Foundations, Leadership & Aviation
Oklahoma State University

Senior Director, Origination and Structuring
New York Power Authority (NYPA)

Vice President of Project Development
Rye Development

Principal
Gomez and Sullivan Engineers, DPC

Senior Principal Engineer - Structures
GE Research

Senior Marketing Communications Manager
Voith Hydro, Inc.

Principal Engineer, Generation Design
Consumers Energy Company (CMS Energy)

Principal Engineer -- Robotics & Autonomous Systems
GE Research

Director of Marketing
IPS Integrated Power Services

Business Development Coordinator
Thompson | HCMS

UAS Pilot and Training Coordinator
Southern Company

Director of Engineering
Eagle Creek Renewable Energy

Chair, NHA's Pumped Storage Development Council
Vice President, Operations, FirstLight Power

Manager, Hydro East; Formerly Superintendent Maintenance
Duke Energy Corporation

PhD Student
North Carolina A&T State University

Senior Director, Hydro Operations and Maintenance
Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E)

Center for Water Resources
RTI International

Executive Director
Northwest Hydroelectric Association (NWHA)

Principal, Licensing and Regulatory Lead
Stantec

Chief Operating Officer
Grant County Public Utility District

Senior Manager, Hydro Licensing
Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E)

Digitalization/Industry4.0/IIoT Solutions Expert for Digital Hydro in the Americas
Voith Hydro, Inc.

Senior Mechanical Engineer
Natel Energy, Inc.

Principal Investigator for PSH Valuation Tool
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), U.S. Department of Energy (virtual participation)

PhD Student, Energy Science and Engineering
University of Tennessee

Hydropower Program Manager, Water Power Technologies Office (EERE)
U.S. Department of Energy (participating virtually)

Associate Professor
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Partner
Climate Adaptive Infrastructure Fund

Chief Executive Officer
Georgia Power Company

Senior Vice President, Power Operations
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

President and CEO
National Hydropower Association (NHA)

Western Field Service Manager
Thompson | HCMS

Founder and Managing Partner
Hull Street Energy

Hydro Engineering Manager
Chelan County Public Utility District

Field Supervisor
American Hydro

Senior Vice President, Innovation and Partnerships
Eagle Creek Renewable Energy