Pravina Raghavan serves as the Director of the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Since 1988, MEP’s industry experts have worked side by side with their partners in the public and private sectors to strengthen communities and U.S. manufacturing. Ms. Raghavan has more than 20 years of …
Olivier Vatel is Senior Advisor to IBM Artificial Intelligence Hardware center in Albany NY, USA working through strategic partnership with commercial and governmental agencies across US, Japan and Europe semiconductor ecosystem. Before joining IBM, Olivier Vatel joined SCREEN Semiconductor Solutions in July 2014 as Vice chairman for Technology of the US subsidiary at the time …
Alex Oscilowski serves as president of TEL Technology Center America (TTCA), TEL’s largest research and development center outside Japan. The company’s primary mission is to engage with global customers, partners, and higher education to enhance research and development of semiconductor production equipment and manufacturing processes. Mr. Oscilowski joined TEL in 2008, bringing with him nearly …
Everton H. Henriques is the NY MEP Solutions Director at FuzeHub. His focus is helping the manufacturing community, general industry, start-ups, local colleges, and universities to advance innovation, technology and cybersecurity. He is a co-founder and vice president of the former Panasonic Plasma Display Laboratory of America, Inc. (formerly Plasmaco, Inc.). In 1999 Plasmaco made …
Shambhu Upadhyaya is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo where he also directs the National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense, designated by NSA and DHS. His research interests are cyber threat modeling, detection, and mitigation of attacks. He has authored over 300 articles in refereed journals and …
Catherine Forrest is the Founder and CEO of Secwins, a pre-seed stage startup that aids businesses in performance optimization by providing them with a consolidated view and analysis of their data through digital twinning. Catherine and her co-founder Abdullah Naimzadeh are recent graduates of the Griffiss Institute HUSTLE Defense Accelerator program. LinkedIn | Company Website
Paul has been on the Albany Nanotech complex since 2011 providing program administration for various high profile consortiums, including the Global 450mm Consortium (G450C) and the NY Power Electronics Manufacturing Consortium (NY PEMC). From 2017 to June 2020, Paul was the Operations Manager over all programs on the Albany Nanotech site run through Research Foundation …
Michael Sieffert, who goes by “Seef”, is a Chief Engineer at Assured Information Security where he has worked since 2003. At AIS he has contributed to and lead small teams of engineers developing advanced capabilities that increase the DoD’s ability to maintain a secure network posture and to understand threats posed by adversaries. One of …
Executive with diverse public and private sector experience and noteworthy achievements in business recruitment and retention, business development, renewable energy development, regional analysis, strategic planning, public affairs, project management, issues management, corporate communications and community relations. Recognized leader in regional economic development initiatives. LinkedIn
Artemas is a ceramic materials and process engineer in the undersea warfare business of the defense industry. He works with advanced materials and develops processes to implement solutions to naval problems. He manages a vertically integrated pilot plant to test new materials and devices, for which he is responsible to acquire all new materials and …
