Steve Lysenko is a Senior Engineer at the NC Clean Energy Technology Center which is part of the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. He currently performs energy efficiency audits as well as technical and financial assessments for renewable energy systems such as solar PV, solar PV with battery storage, wind power, geothermal, anaerobic digestion, microgrids, and more with the overall goal of reducing the nation’s carbon footprint. Steve graduated from Iowa State University with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree co-majoring in mechanical engineering and biorenewable resources and technology. He has been a registered professional engineer since 2012, currently holding active licenses in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. He has over 15 years of engineering experience working in the power generation, utilities, and renewable energy fields.

Dave is a seasoned veteran with around 30 years of experience in the geospatial industry. Currently serving as the Chief Product Officer at UNC Asheville's NEMAC, and gets excited to architect innovative software solutions that meet the needs of NEMAC's partners.

Dave's values align with the openness, transparency, and freedom associated with the philosophy of open-source projects and civic tech. Dave always seeks to foster a dynamic environment where ideas flourish and boundaries are pushed.

Outside of work, Dave enjoys exploring the Mountains of Western North Carolina with his family—an awesome wife, two wonderful children, and a spirited lab mix.

Workshop Lead, Judge, Technical Advisor (Durham) 

Marc Baumbach is a co-founder and engineering leader of a tech startup, Seguno Software that helps Shopify merchants execute on marketing campaigns.

Workshop Lead (Morganton), Technical Advisor (Durham, Morganton), Judge

Michael is currently the Director, Asset Engineering, a business and information technology executive in IBM’s Consulting division. He leads an extraordinarily talented team of several hundred professionals who build, enhance and maintain IBM Consulting’s differentiated software Assets leveraging AI solutions across multiple business domains. These Assets represent the best of IBM Consulting’s intellectual property, co-created with clients, scaled from cutting edge IBM Research innovation and accelerated from recent IBM Consulting acquisitions.

Workshop Lead, Technical Advisor (Durham)

Dr. White is the founder of OpenPlains Inc. whose mission is to democratize geospatial modeling in flood resilience planning. His research focuses on participatory geospatial modeling and open source software engineering. He received his Ph.D. from NC State University in Geospatial Analytics and serves as a research software engineer and lecturer for the Center for Geospatial Analytics.

Workshop Lead (Durham)

Veronica Andreo holds a PhD in Biology and an MSc in Remote Sensing and GIS Applications. She is part of the GRASS Dev Team, and serves as PSC chair since 2021. She is currently working at the Center for Geospatial Analytics, NC State University, within an NSF grant aimed at bolstering and broadening the software ecosystem of GRASS GIS.

Workshop Lead (Durham)

Balaji SrinivasanI enables enterprises WW to understand how they can use Intel CPU and GPU technologies to solve business problems with long standing AI ML, DL analytics, both NLP and CV. He also championed the effort to use LLMs including RAG, multi-modal to accelerate business operations and customer engagement. HeI meets with the CxO and data scientist audience at large and small enterprises. AI is ridiculously fun!

Technical Advisor (Durham)

Through his role, Michael Owoc is responsible for building online services that power video game accounts, server management, matchmaking, e-commerce, etc.

Workshop Lead (Virtual)

Riley Martine works in developer experience–internal tooling and jack-of-all-trades type work. Her team maintains and develops our internal developer platform, interviews and assists teams to increase their productivity, and sometimes helps out with CICD/DevOps type work.

Workshop Lead (Durham)

Geoffrey Fylak develops and maintains the CI/CD pipeline for the SAS Viya 4 platform.

Technical Advisor (Durham)

Andi Hariyono provides technical support within the company he works for. He has a background in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Web Development. He designs fiber optics wide area networks, develops monitoring and support systems, and assists the network operation center. His clients include school districts, local governments and health care providers in North Carolina.

Judge

Christa Beerel is responsible for the data analysis of and data management for systems. 

Judge

Danny Siegle is a biologist by training with work experience in genomics, machine learning and software development.

Workshop Lead (Durham)

Dylan Brisco is a performance and scale testing engineer working for IBM Cloud. 

Judge

Scott Morrison leads several teams whose mission is to promptly identify, investigate, and drive the resolution of incidents that impact customer experience with our live products and services.  This involves close collaboration with teams in production, business, and IT, and the ability to speak to and understand all those various audiences and their respective priorities.

Technical Advisor (Durham)

Vrinda Desai is a Computer Science student in her final year at UNC Chapel Hill. She has spent the last three years serving as an undergraduate teaching assistant for an introductory Python programming course for two different professors. As the head TA for this course, she assists in curriculum design, creating the exercises, exams, and projects for the course. Every semester, Vrinda works with over 600 students offering conceptual tutoring, assignment help, and communicating with personal student cohorts. 

Technical Advisor (Durham)

Vashek creates landscape, environmental, and geospatial computer models. Additionally, he develops and maintains an open-source data analytics tool GRASS GIS.

Logistics: March 2nd @11:00am - 12:00pm

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Logistics: March 2nd @1:00pm - 2:00pm

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Logistics: March 2nd @3:00pm - 4:00pm

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Logistics: March 3rd @11:00am - 12:00pm

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Logistics: March 3rd @1:00pm - 2:00pm

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Logistics: March 3rd @2:00pm - 3:00pm

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