Meet Our Speakers

Speakers

Simay Akar Koehler

Founder and CEO of AKEC

Connor Hunt

Substation Design Engineer at Ameren

Daniel Smith

Lead Avionics Engineer at Hermeus

Mariel Borowitz

Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology

Tom Coughlin

President of Coughlin Associates, Inc.

Matt Francis

President and CEO of Ozark Integrated Circuits, Inc.

LaRhonda Julien

Inspection Performance Specialist at Georgia Transmission Corporation

Matthew Weirich

Patent Agent at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

Nate Gostin

System Integration Physicist in IonQ’s Quantum Networking, Sensing, and Security Division

David Bart

President of David Bart & Associates LLC

Barry C. Tilton

Technical Lead and Chief Engineer US Federal Agency

Ryan Bales

Principal Research Engineer in the Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Lab at GTRI

John M. Cioffi

American Electrical Engineer, educator and inventor

Victor B. Lawrence

Visionary Telecommunications Pioneer

Sean Bentley

2025 IEEE-HKN President

Christian Winingar

Distribution Modernization at Burns & McDonnell

Katie Brinker

Senior Nondestructive Evaluation Engineer at Pratt & Whitney

Cyn Sikora

IEEE Communications Society Industry
Outreach & Technical Activities Director

Melody Richardson

STEM Coordinator for MOVE
International