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NOW 2025 Speakers

Speakers & Panelists

Sven Bader

Technical Consultant

Orano Federal Services

Glen Balch

Director

University of Tennessee Medical Center Cancer Institue

Rita Baranwal

Chief Nuclear Officer

Radiant

Former Assistant Secretary, Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy

Brandon Blamer

Vice President of  Fuel Engineering

TRISO-X

 

Ed Blandford

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder

Kairos Power

Tracy Boatner

President & CEO

East Tennessee Economic Council

Greg Boerschig

Vice President, Clinch River Project

Tennessee Valley Authority

Tony Boser

Vice President, Mission Engineering

CNS - Y-12 National Security Complex

Randy Boyd

President

University of Tennessee System

Brown, Patrick

Patrick Brown

Senior Vice President

Centrus Energy

Paul Cantonwine

National Technical Director and Distinguished R&D Staff Member, Used Fuel & Nuclear Material Disposition

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Ben Carmichael

Business Development Manager

Southern Nuclear

Livia Casali

Assistant Professor Zinkle Faculty Fellow

University of Tennessee Department of Nuclear Engineering

Viktor Chikan

Chief Technology Officer

LIS Technologies

Wade Creswell

County Executive

Roane County

Holly Cross

CTE Director

Oak Ridge Schools

Evan Cummings

Director, Business Development

Kairos Power

Sandra Davern

Section Head, Radioisotope Research and Development

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Ryan DeHoff

Director, Manufacturing Demonstration Facility

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Adam DeMella

Founder

AMM Strategies

J.D. Dowell

Vice President

Fluor Nuclear Power

Christina England

Senior Attorney, Nuclear Law

U.S. Department of Energy

Congressman Chuck Fleischmann

U.S. Representative (TN-03)

 

Terry Frank

Mayor

Anderson County, Tennessee

 

Brenda Garcia-Diaz

Program Manager, Fusion Energy

Savannah River National Laboratory

Brandon Gibson

Chief Operating Officer

State of Tennessee

Kenneth Givens

Engineering Director 

BWX Technologies

Michelle Goodson

Director, ORAU STEM Accelerator

ORAU

 

Hash Hashemian

President and CEO

Analysis and Measurement Services

American Nuclear Society President

Morris Hassler

Owner-Nuclear Subject Matter Expert

M&M Technical Services

Mary Helen Hitson

Y-12 Field Office Manager

National Nuclear Security Administration

Joe Hoagland

Director of Special Initiatives

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Ben Holtzman

Director of New Nuclear

Nuclear Energy Institute

 

Glenn Jacobs

Mayor

Knox County

Moe Khaleel

Associate Laboratory Director National Security Sciences

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Loris Kim

Operations & Commissioning Manager

Project IKE-Orano USA

Seth Kirshenberg

Executive Director

Energy Communities Alliance

 

Lance Lacroix

Vice President of Nuclear Services

Navarro 

Trey Lauderdale

Founder and CEO

Atomic Canyon 

 

Mike Magill

Mike Magill

President

Oak Ridge Corridor Development Corporation

 

Megan Martin

Strategic Human Resources Partner

Type One Energy

Randy McNally

Lt. Governor & Speaker of the Senate

Tennessee Legislature

Matt Miles

Sr. Vice President Marketing and External Affairs

Type One Energy

Michael Miller

Vice President - Global Engineering & Component Services

Westinghouse Electric Company

Eli Moll

Chief Operating Officer

SHINE Technologies

 

Bob Morris

President and Founding Principal

Robert Morris Consulting

Chair

ETEC Nuclear Working Group

Don Moul

CEO and Chief Executive Officer

 

Tennessee Valley Authority

Brooke Morrison

Founder and CEO

Solestiss

 

Matt Mullins

Director of Marketing

American Museum of Science & Energy (AMSE)

Paul Murray

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and High-Level Waste Disposition

U.S. Department of Energy

Erik Olds

Manager, Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management

U.S. Department of Energy

 

Jeffrey Olson

Vice President, Business Development & Finance

Kairos Power

 

Charles Oppenheimer

CEO and Founder

Oppenheimer Project and Oppenheimer Energy Ventures

 

 

 

Ryan Overton

Executive Vice President

Navarro

 

Jean-Luc Palayer

CEO and President

Orano USA

 

Cortney Piper

President

Piper Communications

Chair, ETEC Board of Directors

Mark Rauckhorst

Retired Former Executive Vice President, Vogtle 3&4 

Southern Company

 

Everett Redmond

Senior Director of Federal Affairs

Oklo

 

Ken Rueter

President and CEO

United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR)

Rebecca Salvadore

Director, Organization Performance and Regulatory

Constellation Energy

Vice-Chair of GROW Oversight Committee, U.S. Women In Nuclear

 

 

David W. Salyers

Commissioner

Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation

Barry Scott

CEO

PETNET Solutions, a Siemens Healthineers Company

Guinevere Shaw

Fusion Energy Technology Strategist

 Rutherford Energy Ventures

 

Charles Sims

Distinguished Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, TVA; & Director of the Center for Energy, Transportation, and Environmental Policy, Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs

University of Tennessee

 

Daniel Smith

Business Manager

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)

 

Stephen Streiffer

Director

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Jay Surina

Managing Director

Pelican Energy Partners

Balendra Sutharshan

Deputy for Operations

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

 

Vincent Thomas

Global Marketing Team Leader

Westinghouse Electric Company

 

Georgia Tourassi

Associate Laboratory Director, Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Flora Tydings

Chancellor

Tennessee Board of Regents

Bibake Uppal

Head of Kyoto Fusioneering America

 Kyoto Fusioneering America

Mickey Wade

Associate Laboratory Director, Fusion and Fission Energy and Science Directorate

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jennifer Wheeler

Vice President, Regulatory Affairs

X-energy & TRISO-X

Martin Williamson

Senior Director of Global Security and Strategic Partnerships

Consolidated Nuclear Security

Brian Wirth

Department Head and UTK-ORNL Governor’s Chair Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

 

Andrew Worrall

Director, Nuclear Energy Programs, ORNL;

Deputy Director, GAIN; UK Country Coordinator, Office of Nuclear Energy, DOE

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Ken Yager

Senator

Tennessee Legislature

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