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Exploring the Next Generation

of the Technology Revolution PART II

An interactive CEO Roundtable Forum with industry leaders from aerospace, defense, energy, finance,

healthcare, legal, life sciences, public safety, international and political arenas to promote the sharing of

perspectives and thoughts on industry trends that are shaping economic development in California and

beyond…

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2017 The Omni Hotel, Los Angeles, CA

Share in collective conversations about the convergence of human evolution with technology and how it will impact the next era of innovation.

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11:30a.m.–Noon

Registration and Networking

Noon–2:00p.m. Luncheon | Snapshot Briefings & Fireside Conversations

S P E C I A L T H A N K S T O O U R S U P P O R T E R S

KARISH & BJORGUM, PC THE O’NEILL COMPANY P2S ENGINEERING SAN DIEGO GAS & ELECTRIC® SKYLINE ORANGE COUNTY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY TALON COMPANIES

ACE DIVERSIFIED, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, COLUMBUS TECHNOLOGIES, KIMBERLY C. COVEY CPA, FOOD DEFENSE LEAGUE TECHNOLOGIES, LEONARD HERNANDEZ, JR., LOS ANGELES AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, MILKEN INSTITUTE, MOUNTAIN TIME MEDIA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BUSINESS ECONOMICS, LOS ANGELES

CHAPTER, OPTICS INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, POMONA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, SADDLEBACK COLLEGE

AEROVIRONMENT, INC ALVAKA NETWORKS AK CONSTRUCTORS, INC, THE BOEING COMPANY CMTC FORTE DESIGNS JET PROPULSION LABORATORY

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Forum Founders Master of Ceremonies

BILLY ROBBINS Karish & Bjorgum, PC Co-founder of Technolink

Executive Session

“THE CROSSROADS OF ECONOMICS,

INNOVATION AND THE WORKFORCE”

TERRY O’NEILL JAMES WATSON The O’Neill Company California Manufacturing

Technology Consulting moderated by

Executive Session Moderator

DR. FRANK QUIAMBAO Safe Communities Institute

Price School of Public Policy

University of Southern California

Snapshot Briefings

BILL FISHER Secure Strategies A Talon Company

“How Technology is Disrupting

Campus Security”

TOM SODERSTROM Jet Propulsion Laboratory

“JPL: Creating the Future Through

Innovative Usage of Data

Technology”

DAVID EADS Pasadena Tournament of the Roses

“Bringing an Historic 130-year-old Organization

into the Next Generation of Technology”

FEYZI FATEHI Corent Technology, Inc.

“Democratizing SaaS”

Forum Conductor

Forte Designs

Co-founder of Technolink

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Fireside Conversations

BRYAN CUNNINGHAM BRIAN KEITH

University of California Irvine United States Department of Cyber Security Policy Homeland Security

& Research Institute

“Next Generation of Cyber Security”

WAHID NAWABI Aerovironment

“The Future of Drones and Its Impact on Our Economy”

JEFF REED SoCal Gas / Sempra Utilities

“The Intersection of Energy, Big Data and The Internet of Things”

DONN SILBERMAN Optics Institute of Southern California

“The Next Generation of STEAM-Science-Robotic Education-Apprentice Programs”

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Forum Founders

MasterofCeremoniesBILLY A. ROBBINS is an Intellectual Property Attorney for Karish & Bjorgum, PC, representing

clients in a variety of areas including patents, licensing, transactions, trademarks, copyrights and

unfair competition and trade secrets. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Robbins was with the Los

Angeles office of Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP after merging Robbins, Berlinger and Carson into that

office in 1997. He has worked as an adjunct professor at Southwestern University School of Law. In

addition, he was elected to the College of Fellows of the Institute for Advancement of Engineering.

Mr. Robbins was a Senior Technical Advisor for the People’s Republic of China in its Star Program

regarding Intellectual Property Laws and Technology transfer.

Mr. Robbins is frequently quoted in print and broadcast media outlets on issues dealing with

Intellectual Property Rights and Business Privacy and Protection. He continues his leadership role

as Co-founder and President of the Technolink Association, a trade association celebrating its

twentieth year. Mr. Robbins was recognized by the United States House of Representatives for his

leadership role with the Technolink Association. Mr. Robbins is an active member of the Los

Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Global Initiatives Council. He is also Co-

chair of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society.

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ForumConductorSSUSAN FORTE O’NEILL is Founder and President of Forte Designs. With over two decades of

foundational and trend-centric business experience, Ms. Forte O’Neill incorporates her innovative

tools and solutions to advise forward-thinking leaders on ways to generate economic and human

capital development for the well being of their companies.

Ms. Forte O’Neill is Co-founder of the Technolink Association, a trade association celebrating its

twentieth year. Technolink Association was created to generate economic development in the

greater Southern California Region through “links” to national and international partners.

Ms. Forte O’Neill has been recognized for her endless efforts in strengthening the economic and

scientific cooperation between California and the State of Israel. She has also been cited for her

visionary leadership and community commitment by the United States House of Representatives.

She received special recognition from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for her creation of

Technolink Association and for her dedication to creating life-changing opportunities for at-risk

youths in the area. She has been recently recognized by the United States Department of

Homeland Security for her perseverance and dedicated leadership in developing effective models

for public private partnerships in the greater Southern California region. She serves as a Public

Private Partner for the United States Department of Homeland Security. She has frequently been

quoted in major media outlets as a thought-leader on industry and societal trends. Ms. Forte

O’Neill is also an artist and published author.

www.fortedesigns.net

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Executive Session Contributors

TERRY O’NEILL is Founder and Chairman of The O’Neill Company. Specializing in the engineering

of corporate employee benefit planning, executive benefit planning, and business succession

planning for organizations since 1978, the firm also offers comprehensive financial and wealth

creation planning, estate and retirement planning, and multi-generational estate wealth

conservation for families and individuals. Most recently, Mr. O’Neill founded the Institute for the

Study of Global Economics and Finance (ISGEF). Mr. O’Neill was nominated to be an advisor to

the Federal Open Market Committee, was an advisor to the Small Business Council of America,

was an Associate Member of the Milken Institute and is currently a Member of Roubini Global

Economics. Mr. O’Neill has advised two California Governors on economic and business issues. He

has served on committees that have advised the U. S. Treasury and Congress on numerous

financial topics. He has been a member of many national and international boards in the financial

sector including the International Forum, the Planned Giving Advisory Board at the University of

California, Irvine and the Association for Advanced Life Underwriting.

He is the author of The Life Insurance Kit (1993: Dearborn Financial Publishing), and has written for

numerous publications in the financial industry including Financial Services Week, Employee

Benefit Plan Review and The National Underwriter. Mr. O’Neill has appeared frequently as a guest

on television and radio to discuss the economic ramifications of issues in health care, employee

benefits and retirement planning and was profiled in Leadership Magazine and the Orange County

Register. He speaks regularly on economic and financial topics at national conferences.

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JAMES WATSON is the President and CEO of CMTC. Mr. Watson started with CMTC in 1999 as

Vice President of Business Development and transitioned to the position of Vice President of

Operations in 2001. In his capacity as Vice President of Operations, he was responsible for the day-

to-day operations of CMTC until his appointment as President and CEO in 2011.

Mr. Watson is responsible for crafting the future vision of CMTC, promoting the importance of the

manufacturing sector to State and Federal legislators and expanding the awareness of CMTC’s

capabilities throughout California.

CMTC’s mission is to improve the performance and competitiveness of small and medium-sized

manufacturers (SMMs). SMMs comprise the vast majority of manufacturers in California. There are

more than 29,000 SMMs in CMTC’s service area, of which more than 94% employ less than 100

workers. Mr. Watson oversees the delivery of services to more than 900 SMMs per year. CMTC

offers a broad range of solutions fostering business growth and profitability.

Mr. Watson has extensive experience in developing and leveraging public/private partnerships to

expand both outreach and services to assist SMMs. Key partnerships address areas such as energy

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efficiency, technology transfer, and supply chain development. He is founding member of the

California Network for Manufacturing Innovation (CNMI), a partnership designed to foster

innovation and facilitate the transfer of technologies to small and medium-sized manufacturers.

With over thirty (30) years of management experience in areas of partnership development,

strategic planning, operations management, organizational design, sales and marketing, and

cultural alignment, Mr. Watson brings a wide range of knowledge to his position as President and

CEO. He started his career with Western Airlines advancing to Vice President, Passenger and

Cargo Sales and then was Vice President and General Manager of SuperShuttle International

before moving to Anchor Audio, a manufacturer of portable sound systems, as Vice President of

Sales and General Manager, Europe. Mr. Watson holds a bachelor’s degree in political science

from California State University, Northridge.

www.cmtc.com

Dr. FRANK QUIAMBAO is the Director of the Safe Communities Institute (formerly DCI) in the

Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. Dr. Quiambao served ten

years in homeland security at the state and federal level—first, in the California Emergency

Management Agency (Cal EMA), formerly the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security. In this

capacity, he worked in the area of critical infrastructure protection and the countering of violent

extremism. Dr. Quiambao also developed partnerships with business, educational institutions and

faith-based communities to promote emergency preparedness. More recently he was assigned as

a DHS loaned executive attached to the U.S. Secret Service heading the National Education

Security Initiative.

Before his involvement in homeland security, Dr. Quiambao spent 32 years in higher education. He

has held numerous faculty and administrative positions with the California State University and

Community Colleges. During his career, Dr. Quiambao served as president of two colleges.

While in higher education, he worked extensively with education and training programs for law

enforcement, fire technology and emergency medical services. Dr. Quiambao was appointed by

the State Chancellor to chair the California Community Colleges Homeland Security Task Force

and chaired the curriculum committee for the International Leadership Program in Counter-

Terrorism at USC.

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Snapshot Briefings

DAVID EADS is the new Executive Director / Chief Executive Officer of the Pasadena Tournament

of Roses. David Eads has held senior executive roles at the LA Chamber since 2000. He served

most recently as its executive vice president & chief operating officer. Prior to his current position,

Mr. Eads served as the Chamber’s senior vice president. He also served as interim executive

officer from 2004 to 2006. During this time he directed the integration of the Southern California

Leadership Network into the Chamber family of companies and oversaw expansion of the

Chamber’s education and workforce development division. The Los Angeles Area Chamber of

Commerce is the largest business advocacy organization in the Los Angeles area with nearly 1,700

member companies employing 650,000 people.

www.tournamentofroses.com

FEYZI FATEHI is a technology visionary, inventor, innovator and entrepreneur. As a Silicon Valley

veteran, he is a pioneer in the Cloud space and serves as the CEO of Corent Technology – the

recipient of Outstanding Cloud and SaaS Platform Award and the cover story of Cloud Tech

Insights magazine January 2017 issue, recognizing the top-10 Cloud Solution providers.

Feyzi has studied at Cambridge, Princeton, UT Austin and UCLA and has given talks at Harvard

Business School, Wharton, Stanford, as well as at industry events around the globe. As an avid

supporter of education, he serves as an advisor to the UCLA Anderson School of Management,

UCI Henry Samueli School of Engineering, and Beall Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

www.corenttech.com

BILL FISHER is a partner of Secure Strategies, A Talon Company. Talon Executive Services, Inc.

was founded in 1994 by former United States Secret Service Agent, Ron Williams. Talon Executive

Services is a security industry leader, delivering high-end Executive Protection and Investigation

services throughout the nation and the World. Talon Executive Services include Corporate

Investigations, Threat Assessments, Violence in the Workplace Mitigation and Training,

Background Checks and Due Diligence Investigations both Nationally and Internationally. Mr.

Fisher has spent more than 20 years managing and selling in the electronics industry with

experience throughout Asia and the United States. He has in-depth knowledge of multiple

disciplines within the industry including but not limited to, active and passive electronic

components, printed circuit boards, wire and wire harnesses, plastic injection moulding, sheet

metal fabrication and painting. He has also designed, manufactured and distributed his own line of

Neighborhood Electric Vehicles.

http://talonexec.com/

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TOM SODERSTROM is the IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at the Jet Propulsion

Laboratory (JPL). He leads a collaborative, practical, and hands-on approach with JPL and industry

to investigate and infuse emerging IT technology trends that are relevant to JPL, NASA and

enterprises. Mr. Soderstrom has led remote teams and large scale IT best practices and tools

development and change efforts in small startups, large companies, in international venues, and in

the US Government arena. Mr. Soderstrom is currently working on defining and implementing The

Next IT Decade as it applies to enterprises like JPL. He is consulting with industry and government

leaders on what we can do about key disrupters such as Social Media and Consumerization, Crowd

Sourcing, Mobility, Analytics / Big Dada, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Artificial

Intelligence, and DevOps. In other words: how we will work in the future.

www.jpl.nasa.gov

FiresideConversations

BRYAN CUNNINGHAM is a leading international expert in cyber security, privacy, trade secret

protection, employee monitoring and government surveillance issues, with special expertise in US

and European Union data protection law and compliance.

Mr. Cunningham developed this unique practice through extensive experience in senior US

Government intelligence and law enforcement positions. Most recently, he served as Deputy Legal

Adviser to then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. He also served six years in the Clinton

Administration, as a senior CIA officer and federal prosecutor. He drafted significant portions of

the Homeland Security Act and related legislation, helping to shepherd them through Congress.

He was a principal contributor to the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, worked closely with

the 9/11 Commission and has provided legal advice to Presidents, National Security Advisors, the

National Security Council, and other senior government officials on intelligence, terrorism, cyber

security and other related matters.

Mr. Cunningham is also a frequent media commentator on cyber security, electronic surveillance,

intelligence, and other national security issues, has appeared regularly on CNN, Bloomberg, ABC,

Fox, CNBC, NPR, and PBS, and has been published in numerous national newspapers and

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overseas publications such as London’s Guardian.

Mr. Cunningham was founding vice-chair of the American Bar Association Cyber Security Privacy

Task Force and was awarded the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement for his work on

information issues. More recently, he has served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee

on Biodefense Analysis, the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information

Age, and the Bipartisan Policy Center Cyber Security Task Force. He currently serves as a Senior

Adviser for The Chertoff Group.

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BRIAN L. KEITH serves on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) drone task force and

is a Protective Security Advisor (PSA) for the Los Angeles District which covers the following four

counties; Los Angeles, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara. As a PSA, Mr. Keith

coordinates, facilitates, and performs vulnerability assessments for local critical infrastructures

assets, and acts as a physical and technical security advisor to federal, state, and local law

enforcement agencies. In addition to conducting vulnerability assessments, Mr. Keith supports

homeland security efforts by serving in an advisory and liaison capacity for State Homeland

Security Advisors.

Prior to serving as a PSA, Mr. Keith was appointed as Deputy Director for Critical Infrastructure

Protection (CIP) to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Office of Homeland Security (OHS). As

Deputy Director for CIP, Mr. Keith was responsible for the development of California’s Critical

Infrastructure Protection Program, as well as the implementation of the states first Regional CIP

Assessment Team utilizing the National Guard’s Full Spectrum Integrated Vulnerability Assessment

(FSIVA) Methodology. In addition to overseeing the state’s Regional CIP Assessment Team, Mr.

Keith chaired and served on several DHS working groups to include; the Chemical Vulnerability

Information (CVI) Working Group, the Automated Critical Asset Management (ACAMS) Working

Group, and the State Railroad Safety and Security Task Force. Prior to OHS, Mr. Keith served as a

Preparedness Officer for DHS within the Office for Domestic Preparedness (ODP). Prior to ODP,

Mr. Keith served as a Senior Program Specialist for the California Office of Emergency Services

(OES), formerly the Office of Criminal Justice Planning (OCJP). In these capacities, Mr. Keith

provided technical assistance for planning, organizing, exercising, and training and equipping law

enforcement agencies and emergency mangers located in the high threat urban areas.

Before joining OES, Mr. Keith served as a Body Armor Technician for the U.S. Department of

Justice’s (DOJ) National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC). Prior to

his service at NLECTC, Mr. Keith was employed as a Security Force Officer (SFO) for NASA’s

Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. At Goddard Space Flight Center, Mr. Keith

was responsible for enforcing laws on U.S. Government Property, force protection, and physical

security operations.

Throughout the past 18 years, Mr. Keith has conducted several law enforcement technology

presentations at the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) National Academy in Quantico,

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Virginia, and the New York State Police Union Association. After the events of 9/11/2001, Mr. Keith

has provided homeland security presentations to the Israeli Defense Forces Home Front

Command, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the United Kingdom’s Royal College of

Defense Studies in London.

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WAHID NAWABI is currently President and CEO at AeroVironment (AV). With over 20 years of

experience in diverse industries such as industrials, electronics, and clean technology, Wahid is

responsible for AV’s overall business, growth strategy, operations, and P&L. Prior to this, Mr.

Nawabi was Senior Vice President and COO of the company, where he managed all aspects of

both operating segments of the company. He also managed multiple business process

improvement projects, which led to significant enhancements in operational efficiency. He then

led the integration of engineering, operations, supply chain and quality functional organizations

into a single corporate shared services model across both UAS and EES business segments and all

product lines. Mr. Nawabi joined AV in 2011 as Senior Vice President & General Manager of the

EES segment where he redesigned the segment’s business strategy, launched a number of award

winning, innovative new products and significantly improved its position in the market. As a

former VP of the enterprise business segment at American Power Conversion (acquired by

Schneider Electric), Mr. Nawabi played a key role in growing the business from $50 million to more

than $2.4 billion in revenue, and establishing it as a world leader in power protection. Wahid

earned his bachelor’s degree from The University of Maryland at College Park, in Electrical

Engineering.

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JEFFREY REED is the Director of Business Strategy and Advanced Technology for Southern

California Gas Company. In that capacity he leads a variety of activities aimed at supporting the

development and deployment of sustainable energy solutions. In his current and prior roles Dr.

Reed has led the electric and natural gas RD&D, venture investment, low-emission vehicle and

environmental affairs programs and he is responsible for the company’s long-range technology

forecasting and strategic planning.

Dr. Reed is currently on the Leadership Council of the Los Angeles CleanTech Incubator and is

board president for the California Hydrogen Business Council and a number of other trade

association boards. Prior to joining the Sempra utilities, Dr. Reed was a senior strategy consultant,

Vice President of Marketing and Business Development with ABB Power Generation and held

various prior positions in product design, development and research in the defense industry. He

holds a doctorate in engineering from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in management from

Stanford University.

www.socalgas.com

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DONN SILBERMAN is the Technical Services Manager at Starrett Meteorology. He is a Fellow and

Past President of the Optical Society of Southern California, where he has had active roles for over

25 years in many of the society’s programs. Some of his most notable activities include STEM

educational programs at all levels of our community. He has been involved with Irvine Valley

College’s Laser Electro-optics Technology programs since the early 1990s. In 2003 he founded

and continues to lead all aspects of the Optics Institute of Southern California and in 2009 he

founded the UC Irvine Optical Engineering and Instrument Design programs, where he serves as

the Advisory Committee Chair and is an instructor. Previously, he was with PI (Physik Instrumente)

L.P.; a world leader in the design, manufacture and provider of precision positioning and motion

control systems for industry, research and academia. He maintains a “Focal Point” web site for his

Optics Education Adventures at www.OpticsAge.com.

With his early interests in astronomy, Mr. Silberman received his Bachelor of Science degree in

Engineering Physics (Honors in Physics) from the University of Arizona. In 1994, he received

a Master of Science degree in Technology Management from Pepperdine University.

Mr. Silberman has logged over 35 years of management and technical experience in various optics

based businesses, with a number of patents and publications to his credit. He has an extensive

background in product management, including conceptualizing, research and development,

quality assurance, product manufacturing, marketing and sales. Some of his notable positions

include Senior R&D Optical Engineer for Johnson & Johnson’s IOLAB Corporation in Claremont,

California; Operations Manager, Micro-Optics, for Corning Incorporated’s Advanced Photonics

Technologies group in Garden Grove, California; and Engineering Systems Manager in the RAM

Optical Instruments division of Newport Corporation in Irvine, California. Mr. Silberman was also

responsible for marketing Newport’s Opto-Mechanical product line and introduced color product

photos into the famous Newport catalog.

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A Special Thanks to All of Our

Military & Public Safety Heroes for

Their Honor and Courage in

Defending the Democracy and

Freedom of Our Great Nation…

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Founded in 1995 by Ssusan Forte O’Neill and Billy Robbins, Technolink Association began as a futurist conference to answer a need for a “Silicon Valley cluster” in Southern California with the core mission to expand economic development. Today, members of Technolink Association benefit from a club-like atmosphere that encourages the sharing of ideas and cutting-edge innovations among executives through themed forums and round table discussions.

Our Mission

Technolink Association is a coalition of national and international leaders from the fields of

Aerospace, Academia, Defense, Energy, Life Sciences, Innovation, Public Safety and Policy that

provides a bridge between public and private sectors to develop a virtual high technology

corridor in Southern California.

Our mission as a trade association is to serve as a resource center for emerging and start-up

companies and to enhance development of innovation through public and private partnerships.

The Association's aim is to link the business community with the collective technological

resources of organizations and institutions such as the California Institute of Technology, Jet

Propulsion Laboratory, the University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Irvine,

California State University, Long Beach and Saddleback College.

Throughout the years, the Technolink Association has proudly created “linkages” for many start-

up companies to enhance economic development throughout Southern California and continues

to support a plurality of high technology clusters by serving as a resource base for start-up

companies conceived from the universities and research institutions in the area. The Technolink

Association is a premier example of the positive aspects of government and industry

partnerships.

To learn more, contact:

Ssusan Forte O’Neill

949.443.4026 • info@fortedesigns.net

A SPECIAL THANKS TO: LIZ RIVIERE, DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & SNAPSHOT EDITOR