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SPEAKERS

Glenn Zorpette is executive editor of
IEEE Spectrum magazine. His interests include chipmaking, vehicles, nuclear and
national-security technologies, audio electronics, DIY, war-zone reconstruction,
technology applications in the developing
world, and digital imaging.
His reporting for Spectrum has taken
him to Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, the
South Pole, Kwajalein Atoll, South Africa, and an underwater
habitat in the Caribbean. He has won a National Magazine
Award for Reporting, been a finalist in the same category, and
has won a Grand Neal Award, among other honors. A Fellow of
the IEEE, he holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
from Brown University.

Ken McIntyre has 25 years of experience
in the power industry and energy sector as
a grid operator, planner and design engineer,
consultant, regulator, and executive. He has
been in roles that foster the development of
others while serving the community. He is
executive director at the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) where
one of his roles is executive sponsor for MISO's " Operations of the Future. " This effort will prioritize investments that develop the people, processes, and tools required to operate the grid and market reliably and securely amidst the anticipated
rapid adoption of technologies, changing generation mix and other
industry changes. McIntyre was vice president and director of Standards and Compliance at the North American Electric Reliability
Corporation (NERC) where he was an industry leader for the Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) heading up the core program
responsibilities of NERC in standards, compliance and registration,
and oversight of the seven NERC regional entities.

Mary Reidy has over 30 years of management experience in all aspects of the
electric utility business. In her current role,
she leads a program that supports a jurisdictional team using advanced data analysis
and key performance success factors. In addition, she is the cofounder of an annual
Engineering Expo that provides continuing education credits for professional engineers wishing to maintain their licenses. She holds separate masters degrees in engineering and business; a doctorate from the
Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, OH; and a Professional Engineer's License
(NY).

Jonathan Chew is a creative producer for
Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI), working on inclusive strategies, making sure the
Disney Parks and their stories are diverse
and culturally relevant to today's global audience. He studied Electrical Engineering
at UCLA with a computer science specialization and biomedical focus. He worked at
several leading companies in different industries like Amgen and Raytheon and has held positions such as
ride controls engineer, project coordinator, and program manager
of the Blue Sky Innovation Studio at WDI. He worked on several
exciting projects like Cars Land, Shanghai Disneyland, and the
new Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge. He writes time-travel sci-fi stories
with his wife and is a life coach and mentor for IEEE. Chew has
also enjoyed speaking across the globe. He hopes to inspire you
to create a more " Positopian " world, to rise in this coming year,
and to help you realize your potential to build a big, beautiful
tomorrow.

Kent Dicks is an award-winning serial
entrepreneur and thought leader in the
mobile and digital health space. He was a
pioneer in the evolving mHealth field with
his previous company, MedApps, which
helped drive development of lower-cost,
cloud-connected health solutions and provided the industry with alternatives to enable a proactive healthcare model. His desire
to broaden accessibility to remote healthcare solutions led to the
creation of Life365, Inc., of which he is the chief executive officer
and founder. Life365 has developed a highly scalable digital health
platform that integrates and aligns devices, software systems, apps,
and services with patient populations to drive the best user engagement, promoting greater adoption and adherence, which results in better patient outcomes while reducing healthcare costs.
A three-time recipient of Arizona Business Magazine's annual AZ
Business Leaders, Dicks has been recognized for his contribution
to innovation in telehealth and expanding access to healthcare.

Pradeep Ray is the director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University
of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Joint Institute, China. He leads the multidisciplinary (engineering, healthcare, business and
entrepreneurship, and social sciences) initiative Technology Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development. He was founder/director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on
eHealth at the University of New South Wales-Australia, where he
is an Honorary Professor in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine. He cofounded the Yunus Social Business Centre
in UNSW-Australia and led the WHO Research on the Assessment
of e-Health for Health Care Delivery. Ray also led a number of
international initiatives, such as the ITU-D/IEEE Mobile eHealth
Initiative for Developing Countries and the Global Longitudinal
Study on the Assessment of mHealth. He has been an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer on eHealth since 2014, founded and chaired the
IEEE eHealth Technical Committee, and founded IEEE Healthcom.

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