Keynote speakers
Conference Keynote Speakers
John G. Voeller
Mr. Voeller serves as Senior Vice President, Federal Services Division for Black & Veatch in Overland Park, Kansas. Voeller is a member of the corporate management team and is responsible for visioning strategic technology directions. In October 2003, he took a year off to accept an ASME Fellowship in the Office of Science and Technology Policy for the executive office of the President and has been asked to continue this work under contract through the ASME ITI, LLC for clients such as DHS, OSTP, DARPA and several Washington firms. He is the principal architect of POWRTRAK, the automated engineering system of Black & Veatch that was used to build over 500 power facilities around the world. Voeller also serves as CEO and president of Data Discovery, Inc., which sells his recursive, search technology; CEO and president of General Integration Corp., specializing in highly collaborative environments; and CEO and president of Nuhands Corp., a firm specializing in products for aiding senior citizens and the handicapped. Voeller has been the technical leader of the Chemical, Biological, Radiological Technology Alliance (CBRTA), working on advanced technology to deal with terrorist threats with 13 companies including Honeywell, 3M, Motorola, Lucent, General Dynamics, Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, Veridian, Cargill, Becton Dickinson, Syracuse Research Corp. and RAE. He has received many awards and recognitions, including the CIO Enterprise Value Award for 1997 from CIO magazine; the Award of Excellence from Engineering News Record magazine for 1998, “Their Highest Honor For Most Significant Individual Achievement In the Construction Industry”; the Ed Forrest Award For Highest Achievement in Engineering Automation for 2000; and the CIO Premier 100 Award as one of the top 100 CIOs in the US for 2000. Voeller holds a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and is a registered professional engineer in the states of Kansas and Michigan and is a recipient of the 2009 James B. Porter, Jr. Award for Technology Leadership in the Engineering and Construction Industry.
Dr. Marcelo Masera
Dr. Masera currently serves as the Head of Unit Energy Security for Institute for Energy at the Joint Research Center (JRC) for the European Commission in Petten, The Netherlands. Dr. Masera possesses background in electronics and electrical engineering, with 25 years of professional experience in the field. He has been a scientific officer of the European Commission at the JRC since November 2000 in charge of the Security of Critical Networked Infrastructures group in the Institute for the Security and Protection of the Citizen. His interests are on the assessment and governance of complex socio-technical systems, and specifically those related to information and communication technologies, and energy networks. He was a visiting scientist at the JRC from 1990-1992 and 1997-1998. During these periods, Dr. Masera participated in the organization of the European Dependability Initiative, related to the Information Society Technologies R&D program of the European Commission, and participated in several international projects. Dr. Masera has also been an independent consultant in the field of dependability of information systems (1992-1997), mainly supporting R&D activities and taking part in national and international projects.