Jennifer is in her 3rd year of the PhD program at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. She completed her undergraduate work at University of Wyoming, after which she worked in environmental and process engineering in the Denver area for several years. Jennifer is a licensed PE in the state of South Dakota. She is married with 4 children.Read more

Jerry Forest has four decades of experience in manufacturing and process safety, with a mission to save lives, protect the environment, and preserve jobs by preventing process safety incidents. His 20 years of manufacturing experience include isocyanates, hydrazine propellants, and other technologies. He currently serves as a Process Safety Improvement Consultant at Jerry Forest, LLC, a company dedicated to reducing the severity and number of process safety incidents at manufacturing sites. Forest is also an adjunct lecturer in chemical engineering process safety at Louisiana State Univ. (...Read more

Jimmy Faria obtained his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering at the University Antonio Jose de Sucre in Barquisimeto, Venezuela in 2008.  His thesis was focused on the design and evaluation of polymeric resins for recovery of heavy metals from aqueous environments. In 2008 he joined the PhD program at the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He is working with Dr. Resasco in the development of different strategies for the upgrading of biofuels in emulsions stabilized by catalytically active nanohybrids particles.Read more

Joel Weldon is one of the most highly respected and sought-after speakers in North America, and has been an Idea Consultant and Speech Coach to many of the world's leading organizations and businesses for over three decades.
Joel is the only speaker to have earned all four of the highest honors in the speaking profession -- induction into the Speakers Hall of Fame, the coveted Communication & Leadership Award, The Golden Gavel, "for his profound impact on corporate America" and, in 2006, he was named "Legend of the Speaking Profession." As a former construction worker who...Read more

John currently serves as the Technology Manager for Carbon Sequestration in the Office of Coal Power Research and Development at the National Energy Technology Laboratory. John is responsible for managing a portfolio of applied research and development projects on geologic storage, CO2 utilization, and pre-combustion capture. He has over 15 years of experience working on environmental compliance and technology development for the energy industry and Department of Defense. John is a registered Professional Engineer and Project Management Professional. He received his B.S. in Civil...Read more

John T. Perez received his BS in chemical engineering from Rice University. He worked as a process engineer for Rohm & Haas for 4.5 years before joining Berwanger. Mr. Perez focused on the pressure relief analysis business for Berwanger, first as a process engineer and then as the business development manager. In 2004, he started up Celerity3 Engineering, which provided process engineering and process safety solutions. He sold C3 to Lloyd's Register in 2008. After staying with LR for 2 years, John Perez left in November of 2010 to start Cognascents. Cognascents is a business...Read more

Jost O.L. Wendt is Presidential Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Utah. Previously he was Head of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA. Jost obtained his Ph.D. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD., and his B.Sc. in the same subject from the University of Glasgow in Scotland. The author of over 100 peer reviewed papers and over 250 presentations, Jost is internationally recognized for his wide-ranging research on reduction of emissions from combustion...Read more

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Kara Byrne is the Global GE Oil & Gas Applications Engineer and Commercial Manager for the Turboexpander Product Line. During her time at GE she has worked in the Inquiry-to-Order Team on Turboexpanders, Centrifugal Compressors, and Oil Free Screw products. Prior to GE, she was a Design Engineer and Lean-Six Sigma Black Belt in the power generation / propulsion diesel engine industry at Fairbanks Morse Engine. Kara earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Read more

Karen Study is Director of Personal Safety and Industrial Hygiene Expertise at The Dow Chemical Company. She has an extensive process safety background with special expertise in Quantitative Risk Assessment and dispersion modeling.

Karen holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas and is a licensed...Read more