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Riley Smith

Job Title: 
Policy Advisor, Global Gas and LNG
Organization: 
American Petroleum Institute

Riley Smith joined the API’s Market Development Group as the Policy Advisor for Global Gas & LNG in March 2020. In this role he leads the Market Development Committee's Global Gas & LNG Workgroup and serves as the point person at API for global natural gas and LNG issues. Riley is responsible for assessing how existing and emerging regulatory regimes in priority countries and regions could affect market access for U.S. LNG, as well as devising advocacy strategies to address these regulatory bottlenecks.

Prior to joining API, he was the Director for Mainland Southeast Asia, ASEAN, and Energy at the US-ASEAN Business Council from August 2018 to February 2020. As a Director, he managed teams in Washington, DC; Bangkok, Thailand; Hanoi, Vietnam; Jakarta, Indonesia; and Yangon, Myanmar in planning and executing business advocacy and revenue-generating programs for more than 160 member companies. Riley first joined the Council in 2016 as a Manager covering energy, the Philippines, and Singapore.

Before joining the Council, Riley was a Senior Intelligence Analyst at iJET International, which was a global risk advisory firm based in Annapolis, Maryland. As a member of iJET’s Executive Decision Support (XDS) division from 2013 to 2015, he served as a dedicated analyst for one of the Big Four auditing firms and a Fortune Global 500 pharmaceutical company, providing analysis on how political, economic and security developments could affect the firms’ business operations around the world. Prior to that, Riley worked in the World Bank’s Global Watch Office, where he helped coordinate communications between country offices and the World Bank’s headquarters during crises, including natural disasters, coups and terrorist attacks.

Riley has an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He also holds an M.S. and a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently pursuing an MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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A Deep-Dive into American Petroleum Institute Standards for the LNG Industry

November 18th, 2020
The webinar will build on the American Petroleum Institute (API) and United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) September 30th webinar, conducted through AGP, on how standards play an integral role in attracting project investment, protecting workers and the environment, and reducing regulatory complexity for governments. API will first give a high-level overview of the potential market for liquified natural gas in the Indo-Pacific region, touching on economic and emissions reductions benefits that generally result from fuel switching to natural gas. API will then provide a technical deep dive into six of its mostly widely used liquified natural gas standards - standards that are directly relevant to the Indo-Pacific region’s burgeoning gas market.

Coleman Mehta

Job Title: 
Senior Director, U.S. Policy
Organization: 
Palo Alto Networks

Coleman Mehta serves as Senior Director, U.S. Policy, at Palo Alto Networks. In this role, he is responsible for the company’s engagement on public policy issues such as cybersecurity and data privacy, IT modernization, cloud computing, high-skilled immigration, and more.

Coleman previously worked as a career civilian U.S. government official at the White House National Security Council, serving as Director for Legislative Affairs. He led the NSC's legislative strategy on cybersecurity and technology issues – including encryption policy and data privacy – plus other homeland security, intelligence, and foreign policy issues. Prior to his tenure at the White House, Coleman worked at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, leading the Department’s negotiations with Congress on several high-profile cybersecurity bills, including the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, Federal Information Security Modernization Act, and National Cybersecurity Protection Act.

A security fellow of the Truman National Security Project and former Presidential Management Fellow, Coleman was named a 2018 “Tech Titan” by Washingtonian magazine. He holds degrees from North Carolina State University, the University of Virginia, and Bard College at Simon’s Rock.

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Speaker

Increasing Shale Oil Recovery And C02 Storage With Cyclic C02 Enhanced Oil Recovery

September 1st, 2020
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Michael Mylrea

Job Title: 
Director, Cybersecurity R&D for Operational Technology
Organization: 
GE Research

Dr. Michael Mylrea is the Director of Cybersecurity for Operational Technology at GE Research, where he focuses on developing next generation AI/ML driven security solutions and products for Operational Technology (IIoT, ICS, IoT). He has +18 years’ experience leading cybersecurity, energy, technology and national security efforts.  Prior to GE, he launched and led various tech start-ups and held senior positions in industry and government (PNNL, U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense, Deloitte, US Cyber Consequences Unit and Harvard Berkman Center. He holds +10 cybersecurity and technology patents and has led cybersecurity product and R&D efforts for various large industry and government organizations. Michael has helped influence various technology standards, working groups and regulations through active participation in The Group of Seven (G7), National Security Council, National Science Foundation, National Academy of Science, IEEE Blockchain Energy, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and various advisory & board positions (Tenable, Washington IoT Council, Rocky Mountain, University of Maryland’s Center for Accelerated Real-Time Analytics (CARTA).

Michael is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in the Department of Computer Science and Electric Engineering and a Senior Fellow at George Washington University’s (GWU) Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection. He completed his Doctorate as an NSA/NSF CyberCorps Fellow at GWU focused on Cybersecurity Resilience, completed an MA at Tufts University focused on Cybersecurity, while cross enrolled at Harvard Kennedy School, MS cybersecurity coursework at Western Governors University and two undergraduate degrees at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He completed various cybersecurity certifications and courses via SANS Institute, Harvard and MIT Sloan’s Executive Education programs.

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Otis Alexander

Job Title: 
Principal Cyber Security Engineer
Organization: 
MITRE

Otis Alexander is a Principal Cyber Security Engineer at MITRE and has worked in the areas of security engineering and research, analytic development, and adversary modeling and emulation. Otis is a co-creator of ATT&CK for ICS and has been leading the project since its inception. He also leads an effort to bring MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations to ICS security vendors providing anomaly and threat detection solutions. He advocates for network and host visibility in operational technology environments to increase the situational awareness of defenders. Otis holds a BS and MS in Computer Science and Systems from the University of Washington.

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Geothermal Industrial Park Series: Oserian Two Lakes Industrial Park Case Study

November 17th, 2020

In this webinar, Neil Hellings of Oserian will present a case study of Two Lakes Industrial Park, covering topics such as direct use geothermal, obstacles for establishing industrial parks, and solutions to create economically viable industrial parks.

Cybersecurity and Digitalization Industry Panel: Energy Sector Cyber Threats, Intrusion Detection & Testing

November 18th, 2020

The 15-part Cybersecurity and Digitalization webinar series was launched in June 2020 to educate utilities on cyber standards, trends, and best practices. The series reached over 4,200 participants from 70 utilities in 68 different countries.

Following the success of the webinar series, USEA and USAID will host industry panels with leading cybersecurity experts. The panelists will present trends in cyber-attacks to global power sector stakeholders and discuss the latest innovative tools and technologies.

Neil Hellings

Job Title: 
Managing Director
Organization: 
Oserian Development Company Limited

Neil is a highly motivated leader, experienced in re-structuring organisations and formulating well thought out strategies of business process re-engineering that have restored operational and financial performance to large scale operations in East & West Africa and the Middle East.

The Managing Director of Oserian for the past six years, Neil is mindful of the need to constantly review both the threats and evolving opportunities faced by a business and has built upon Oserian’s longstanding investments in geothermal power generation and pioneering direct use of geothermal. The opportunities identified have seen the expansion of direct use of geothermal in support of an industrial scale cut flower farm – independently assessed and recognized as the best in the world in 2019.

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Key Elements of Trusted Collaboration and Information Sharing

November 2nd, 2020

This is the fourteenth in the series of USAID webinars on Digitalization and Cybersecurity in the Energy Sector hosted by E3.

An Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) is an industry-specific organization that gathers and shares information on cyber threats to critical infrastructure. ISACs also facilitate the sharing of data between public and private sector groups.

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