2017 Agenda with Presentations

2017 AGENDA with Presentations

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September 6, 2017

7:00 am    Registration and Breakfast Opens

8:00 am    Conference Welcome

• David Blee – U.S. Nuclear Infrastructure Council (USNIC)
• Bob Morris – East Tennessee Economic Council (Chair, Nuclear Working Group)

8:15 am   Keynote

• Thomas Zacharia, Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

8:45 am   NIC Introduction and Nuclear Power Generation Outlook
Current and Future Nuclear Power Generation/Supplier Landscape

• Vince Gilbert – USNIC Manufacturing & Supply Chain Working Group

9:15 am   What Nuclear Reactor Companies Need (Vince Gilbert, NIC-Moderator)

• Scott Bailey – VP Supply Chain, NuScale Power & Alternate Presentation
• Jess Gehin – CASL Director, ORNL

9:45 am    Required Certifications, Capabilities and Resources – Panel (David Garcia, AMMI-Moderator)
NQA-1 Certification Program and “N” Stamp Certifications:

• John Bendo – Manager for Nuclear Energy Business, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) –Slides Only

Recommended Certifications for Non-Safety Components:

• David Garcia – CEO, American Mergers & Manufacturing International (AMMI)

Quality Assurance, Audits, and Inspection:

• Rob Seipel – QA Auditor, TVA

10:30 am   Break

10:45 am   Becoming an Approved Vendor (Vince Gilbert, NIC-Moderator)

• Utility Perspective: Bill Fry, Strategic Sourcing Staff, Duke Energy
• Architect Engineering Perspective: Teo Grochowski, AECOM

11:15 am    Speed Matching – Session One
Conference attendees give three-minute elevator speeches on company capabilities, components they could provide, including advanced manufacturing interests.

11:30 am   Breaking into the Nuclear Power Plant Supply Chain (Vince Gilbert, NIC-Moderator)
Steps for Successfully Entering the Nuclear Marketplace

• Allen Davidson, Director of Sales and Marketing, Curtiss-Wright Nuclear
• Gard Clark, Operations Manager, Energy and Environment, Teledyne Brown Engineering
• Hash Hashemian, President and CEO, AMS Corporation

12:15 pm    Lunch

1:30 pm    Building a Regional Supply Chain Cluster  (Vince Gilbert, NIC-Moderator)
Discussing: Economic Development Resources and Processes; Economic Impact of a Localized Supply Chain; Prospects for Advanced Manufacturing; and, Prospects for Sub-Module Manufacturing.

• Dwaine Raper, Solutions Consultant Team Leader, UT Center for Industrial Services
• Adam Murray, Senior Target Market Specialist, TVA
• Bill Peter, Director, Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF), ORNL

2:15 pm   Workforce Development – Panel (Keith Fogleman, Entergy-Moderator)

• Keith Fogleman, VP Human Resources, Entergy
• Sherri Buchanan, Senior Project Manager, SMR, TVA
• Howard Hall, Director, Nuclear Security, University of Tennessee
• Chris Whaley, President, Roane State Community College
• Jim Vosburg, Director, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), ORAU

3:15 pm    Speed Matching – Session Two

3:45 pm   Break

4:00 pm   Export Opportunities and Controls – US DOC                                                   

• Stephen Burdick, Partner, Morgan Lewis

 4:25 pm   New Business Venture                                

• Carmen Bigles, President and CEO, Coquí Radio Pharmaceuticals Corp.

4:45 pm   Speed Matching – Session Three

5:00 pm   Wrap up and End of Day 1  – Jim Campbell

5:15-7:00 pm   Reception

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September 7, 2017

7:00 am   Breakfast Opens

8:00 am   Advanced Reactors Overview                                                 

• Steven Freel, CEO, Studsvik Scandpower

8:30 am   Advanced Reactor Development (Dan Ingersoll, NuScale Power-Moderator)

• Pete Pappano, VP, Fuel Production, X-Energy
• Joe Kowalczyk, Nuclear Research Engineer, Southern Company
• Ken Aupperle, High Bridge Associates, GE Prism Multi-Purpose Reactor
• Andy Worrall, Deputy Director, GAIN program, ORNL
• Larry Cutlip, VP Manufacturing, Centrus Energy

9:35 am   SMR Powered Micro Grid (Dan Stout, TVA-Moderator)

• Dan Ingersoll, Director, Office of Research Collaborations, NuScale Power – Enhancing the Reliability of Electricity Supply with SMRs
• Sherrell Greene, President, Advanced Technology Insights – rNPPs Resilient Nuclear Power Plants… Enhancing the Value Proposition of Nuclear Energy
• David Barr, Director of Federal Projects, Burns and McDonnell – Building a Micro Grid
• Dan Stout, Senior Manager, SMR, TVA – Solving Two Problems with One Solution

10:20 am    Center for Advanced Nuclear Manufacturing (Vince Gilbert, NIC-Moderator)

• Tom Miller, Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. DOE –Slides Only
• Chris Martoglio, COO, Blue Burro, NIC M&SC Working Group – Slides Only
• Rob Akans, Senior Director of Metalworking Technologies, Concurrent Technologies Corporation
• Scott Bailey, Vice President of Supply Chain, NuScale Power

10:50 am    Break

11:00 am    What Comes Next for Energy? (Eric Abelquist, ORAU-Moderator)

• Dan Stout, Senior Manager, SMR, TVA
• Hash Hashemian, President and CEO, Analysis and Measurement Services Corporation (AMS)
• Travis Howerton, Senior Director of Transformation, Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS)

11:45 am    Lunch

12:30-4:30 pm    Tours

• Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN
• ORNL’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF), Knoxville, TN
• Y-12 National Security Complex & Centrus Energy, Oak Ridge, TN