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Plenary Address

• The Texas Central High Speed Train — Accelerating the Texas Economy
  Alan Greer, PE, Program Director, Texas Central [biography]

Keynote Address

• Arlington on the Move! An Engineering Perspective of Major Projects [presentation available]
  Jeff Williams, PE, President, Graham Associates, Inc. and Mayor, City of Arlington [biography]

Internet of Things

Track Chair: Ed Hightower
Co-Chair: Brent Rager

• Smart Cities – Strategies and Initiatives for Implementing Society 5.0 [presentation available]
  Matthew Bailey, Global Practice Lead – Smart Cities, Arrow Electronics [biography]
• Bell’s Way Forward | On-Demand Mobility [presentation available]
  Mike McNair, Innovation Manager, Bell Flight [biography]
• Mesh Networking and IoT Use Cases for Ilumi MeshTek, Bluetooth 5.0, Beacons [presentation available]
  Michael Bigbee, CEO and President, ilumi Solutions, Inc. [biography]
• Overcoming Connectivity Challenges to Support Smart Agriculture and Rural IoT Applications [presentation available]
  Pete DeNagy, President / Co-Founder, Internet of Things America, LLC [biography]
• IoT, Low Power Wide Area Networks, LTE-M and NB-IoT – IoT Wireless Solutions [presentation available]
  Ed Hightower, IoT and Low Power WAN Technologist, Consultant at IoT and Beyond [biography]

Software and Systems Engineering

Track Chair: Pascale Rondot
Co-Chair: Michelle Maddox

• Advanced Problems in Systems Engineering [presentation available]
  Jeff Cohen, 321 Gang [biography]
• Self Driving Cars: Are We On the Right Road? [presentation available]
  John H. Robb, University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) [biography]
• A Glimpse into Tomorrow’s Flight Control Systems and Quantum Inspirations to New Approaches [presentation available]
  Chris Elliott, Tech Fellow, Lockheed Martin [biography]
• Cognitive and Context Aware Security [presentation available]
  Suku Nair, Director, AT&T Center for Visualization at SMU [biography]
• Affordability Does Not Tell You What You Get For Your Money [presentation available]
  Teresa McCarthy, Lockheed Martin [biography]

Developing and Deploying Secure Systems

Track Chair: Phillip Todd
Co-Chair: Princy Mehta

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Sustainable Blockchain Technology [presentation available]
  Darren McCarley, Lockheed Martin [biography]
  Ben Amaba and Abbey Hagin, IBM
• Keyless Signature Infrastructure for Secure Systems Engineering [presentation available]
  Brian McFarland, Guardtime Federal, LLC [biography]
• Threat Hunting with Splunk
  Richard Voninsk, Splunk, Inc. [biography]
• Using Discovery Analytics in Computer Security Analysis
  Terrance Goggin, Deloitte [biography]
• Risk Management Framework, Applying an IT Centric Process to Real-Time Embedded Systems [presentation available]
  Margee Herring and Jermone Edge, Lockheed Martin [biography]

Power and Energy

Track Chair: Yu Meng
Co Chair: Charles Douglas

• Big Data Analytics for Renewable Energy Grid Integration [presentation available]
  Jie Zhang, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) [biography]
• How Advanced Analytics is Impacting Engineering @ Oncor [presentation available]
  Hagen Haentsch, Director of West Operation Center, Oncor [biography]
• Energy Storage in Power Grids [presentation available]
  Bill Muston, Manager of Research and Development, Oncor [biography]
• Generation Reliability and Safety [presentation available]
  Shiuan-Hau Eric Rau and Asher Choudhary, Shermco Industries, Inc. [biography]
• ERCOT Nodal Market [presentation available]
  Feiran Huang, Senior Transmission Trader, Luminant [biography]

Computational Intelligence

Track Chair: Brandon Safford
Co-Chair: Ed Safford

• Beating the Turing Test
  Lauren Kunze, CEO, Pandorabots, Inc. [biography]
• Semantic Mapping Based on Vision
  Justin Hart, University of Texas at Austin, RoboCup [biography]
• Intelligent Agents [presentation available]
  Ed Safford, IEEE, Lockheed Martin (Retired) [biography]
• The Mystery of Quantum Teleportation [presentation available]
  Oscar Garcia, Founding Dean of the College of Engineering, Center for Information and Cyber Security (CICS) at University of North Texas (UNT) [biography]
• Explainable AI Legal Ramifications
  Robert Kantner, Jones Day Law Firm, Board of Directors of Tech Titans [biography]

Biotechnologies

Chair: Iok-Hou Pang
Co-Chairs:Michail Kastellorizios, Hongli Wu, Don Osbourne

• Ligandomics: A Revolutionary Approach for Drug Discovery
  Iok-Hou Pang, UNT Health Science Center [biography]
• Metabolic Health Screening using Compact NMR
  Ina Mishra, UNT Health Science Center [biography]
• Novel Ex-Vivo Translaminar Autonomous System to study effects of Intraocular and Intracranial pressure differential on central nervous system neurons
  Tasneem Sharma, UNT Health Science Center [biography]
• Applications of carbon nanomaterials in biological imaging and drug delivery
  Anton Naumov, Texas Christian University (TCU) [biography]
• Using Grapes as a Magic Bullet to Fight Against Free Radicals in the Eye: Application to Cataract Prevention
  Hongli Wu, UNT Health Science Center [biography]

Engineering/Financial Planning

Chair: Tyler Davis/Timothy Watts
Co-Chair: Rohde & Schwarz

• Putting Your Retirement Plan to Work
  William Swoboda, Edward Jones [biography]
• Insurance Strategies
  Alysia Bell, Merrill Lynch
• Estate Planning Strategies
  Gary Haynes, The Wynne Law Firm
• Finally Perfecting Network Security [presentation available]
  Daryl Adams, Spirent [biography]
• Market Update
  Tyler Davis, Merrill Lynch