Carl W. Bentzel

Past Commissioner
Federal Maritime Commission

CAPT Peter J. Bergeron

U. S. Coast Guard (Ret)
Senior Director, Public Safety & Security
Canaveral Port Authority

Brian P. Brammeier

Chief Executive Officer
Opscura

Jerold Brito

Program Associate
The Electrification Coalition

Rich Byrnes

Chief Infrastructure Officer
Port Houston

Mathieu Charbonneau

Vice-Président,
Général Manager Transport Division
Airudi

Kenneth Christopher, D.P.A

Professor and Academic Director
National University

Kevin M. Clement

Executive Director
Port of the Future Conference
BTI Institute, University of Houston

Kirstin Collins

Operations Support Team Lead
Greensea IQ

David Cummins

Executive Director, President and CEO Blue Sky Maritime Coalition

April Danos

Vice President
OD Grant Solutions, LLC

Jeffrey DeCoux

Chairman
Autonomy Institute

Dr. Joe Direnzo III

Director of Research Partnerships
U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center

John Donovan

Vice President of Energy and Defense Solutions
FuelTrax

Geoff Douglass

CEO and Co-Founder
Mythos AI

Mark Dubina

Vice President, Security
Port Tampa Bay

Robert R. Dubois

Director
Lamar University

Dr. Mo Ehsani

President/CEO
QuakeWrap, Inc.

Jaret Fattori

Director, Climate and Environment
BMT

Dominique Follico

Senior Manager of Drayage Truck Incentives
CALSTART

Matt Fuhrman

Founder and CEO
Core Group Resources

Jason Gasparik

Business Development
Moffatt & Nichol

Meg Gentle

Executive Director
HIF Global

Léon Gommans

Co-Founder and CEO
Teqplay

Julio R. Gonzalez

Supervisory Protective Security Advisor- Gulf of Mexico U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Sean Griffin

CEO and Co-Founder
Disaster Technologies, Inc.
(Disaster Tech)

Donovan Guin

Public Transportation Industry Lead
IBM

David Gully

Regional Sales Manager
Taylor Machine Works, Inc.

Natascha A. Gutermuth

Lead Program Manager
Biometrics Program Office
U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Jeremy Hansen

Protective Security Advisor
Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency
Department of Homeland Security

Robert Hawn

Vice President, Maritime Affairs
WGMA

Brian P. Hill

Director, Western Gulf Gateway U.S. Maritime Administration Dept. of Transportation

Jan Behrendt Ibsø

Group Market Director
Renewables and Green Fuels
COWI

Charlie Jenkins

Executive Director
Port Houston

Geir-Eilif Kalhagen

Director of Maritime Texas Dept. of Transportation

Gurban Karimbayli

ESG Advisor
Baku International Sea Trade Port
Port of Baku

Darrell Keach

Business Systems Manager
Port of Corpus Christi

Stephen Kelly

President of Sales and Business Development
Carver Companies

Robert Kessler

Product Manager, Marine Terminal Operations
MIS Marine

Margaret A. Kidd

Program Director/Instructional Associate Professor, Supply Chain & Logistics University of Houston

Vesa Koivumaa

Head of Growth
Wartsila Voyage

Amine Lamdaouar

Senior Manager
Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP

Karl Lander

Environmental Services Director
Subsea Solutions LLC

Vincent Lee

Principal
Arup

Charlotte Lemos

Sustainability Consultant
Guidehouse

Brooks Lobingier

Director, Information Technology
Port of Corpus Christi

Starr Long

Executive Producer
The Acceleration Agency

Janine M. Mansour

Head of Key Accounts
Port of New Orleans

Ed McNamara

CEO
Armada Risk Partners

Mitch Merriam

Vice President, Borders and Maritime Security
K2 Consulting

Stephen Metruck

Executive Director
Port of Seattle

Darious Moore

Delivery Program Executive
IBM Cybersecurity Services

John O’Keefe

Vice President of Business Development
Waterson Terminal Services

Megan O’Leary

Director of Operations
Blue Sky Maritime Coalition

Bola Oyebamiji

Managing Director/CEO,
National Inland Waterways Authority
Federal Republic of Kenya

Juan Carlos Paz Cárdenas

Chairman of the Board of Directors
The National Port Authority – Peru

John Piletich

Telecom and Technology Specialist
Deloitte Consulting LLP

Sean Plankey

Cybersecurity Leader

Suzanne Plezia

Chief Harbor Engineer
Port of Long Beach

Marco Poisler

Chief Operating Officer – Global Energy & Capital Projects UTC Overseas, Inc.

Spencer Pope

Product Manager / Manager of Grant Acquisitions
Taylor Machine Works, Inc.

Col. Randall Pugh, USMC (ret.)

Vice Provost, Warfare Studies
Director, Naval Warfare Studies Institute
Naval Postgraduate School

Jean-Paul Rodrigue, PhD

Author and Professor
Department of Maritime Business Administration
Texas A&M – Galveston

Juan Ignacio Rodriguez

Head of Institutional Communications Division
Port Authority of Puerto Quequen

Hady Salloum, PhD

Professor
University of Houston

Rohit Saxena

Director, Facility Planning
Planning

Dr. Marcel Schaefer

Senior Program Coordinator
Fraunhofer USA Alliance

Michael P. Scherer

Chief Technology Officer
Chance Maritime Technologies

Rakshay Shah

Carbon Program Manager, Marine Sector
Shell

Daan Spikker

Head of Product
Teqplay

Linda Sternheimer

Vice President, Senior Vice President Urban Planning and Engagement
Port of Cleveland

Joel Thigpen

General Manager,
Marine New Build Sales
Wärtsilä

Shelby Thomas

CEO
Tidal Sails US

Dr. Phil Thompson

Head of Simulations and Training Services
BMT

Jim Towers

Principal In Charge
Elliott Bay Design Group

Arnie Tyler

President
MerLion Advisory Group

David Tyler

Co-Founder and Director
Artemis Technologies

Michael Vanderbeek

Maritime and Coastal Planning Lead (MV)
GHD

Elliott Vera

Americas Technology Project Manager
Shell Shipping and Maritime

David Walker

Vice President
ABS

Kirk Waltz

Director, Business Development – Clean Energy
American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)

Stephanie Warren

Assistant Director, Information Security
Port of Seattle

Shawn Whiteside

Senior Vice President of Commercial Practice
OneZero Solutions

Chris Wolski

Founder and CEO
Applied Security Convergence
(ASC)

Kathleen Yurchesyn

Vice President
Operations and Corporate Development
Novaporte

Dan Yuska

Director
Office of Environment and Innovation
U.S. Maritime Administration

Tony Zhong

Chief Information Security Officer
Port of Los Angeles