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Program

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Monday, June 5, 2023
1:00pm-8:00pm	REGISTRATION \| Riverbed Foyer
1:00pm-5:00pm	EXHIBIT SET-UP \| Riverbed Ballroom B-D
6:00pm-8:00pm	WELCOME DINNER, NETWORKING & EXHIBIT HALL OPENING \| Riverbed Ballroom B-D
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
8:00am-4:15pm	REGISTRATION \| Riverbed Foyer
8:30am-11:00am	GENERAL SESSION \| Meadow CD Haystack Connect: Where We’ve Been & Where We’re Headed Welcome – Marc Petock, Executive Secretary, Project Haystack Haystack Recap/Business & Technical Updates – Alex Rohweder, Co-Executive Director, Project Haystack What’s Next for Project Haystack/Vision for the Future – Richard McElhinney, Nick Gayeski, and Alex Rohweder, Co-Executive Directors, Project Haystack Working Groups Update – Nick Gayeski, Co-Executive Director, Project Haystack Project Benefit Overview & Update – Roger Quesnel, Executive Board Member, Project Haystack Xeto - Templates and Validation for Haystack – Brian Frank, Technical Lead, Project Haystack, and Jason Briggs, President & CEO, Controlworks
11:00am-11:30am	BREAK \| Riverbed Ballroom B-D
11:30am-12:45pm	GENERAL SESSION CONT... \| Meadow CD The Department of Energy’s View of Semantic Modeling and the Haystack/Brick/223P Relationship – Dr. Amir Roth, Building Energy Modeling (BEM) Technology Manager and Control Platforms Technology Manager, Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, Department of Energy (DOE) Haystack, More Than Tagging and Semantic Data Modeling Open Discussion – Led by Marc Petock, Vice President, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, Lynxspring, with Brian Oswald, Sr. Managing Director, CBRE\|ESI; and Scott Muench, Vice President of Customer Experience, J2 Innovations
12:45pm-2:15pm	LUNCH & EXHIBITS \| Riverbed Ballroom B-D
2:15pm-3:45pm	TRACK 1 - Session 1 \| Meadow C Haystack in Practice – The End-User Perspective & Real-World Applications – Moderator Richard McElhinney, Co-Executive Director, Project Haystack Managing an IoT System, Haystack Compliance and Efficient Data Retention – Paul Grinberg, System Architect, and Corbyn Knotts, System Engineer, Daikin Applied Ontologies and IDLs – Andy Frank, Principal, Novant What Does it Take to be Really an "Independent" Data Layer? – Jason Koh, Chief Data Scientist, Mapped	TRACK 2 - Session 1 \| Meadow D The Technical Track – Moderator Roger Quesnel, Executive Board Member, Project Haystack Xeto: Technical Deep Dive – Brian Frank, Technical Lead, Project Haystack Open-Source Tool for Haystack Model Validation and Harmonization with RDF-based Schemas – Avijit Saha, Ph.D., Research Engineer, Building Energy Science Group, Building Technologies and Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Gabe Fierro, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Colorado School of Mines / National Renewable Energy Laboratory
3:45pm-4:15pm	BREAK \| Riverbed Ballroom B-D
4:15pm-5:45pm	TRACK 1 - Session 2 \| Meadow C Haystack in Practice – The End-User Perspective & Real-World Applications – Moderator Richard McElhinney, Co-Executive Director, Project Haystack Haystack 4 Tag Dictionary in Niagara – Stephen Holicky, Director of Product Management, & Eric Anderson, Software Engineer, Tridium Transforming Building Operations – Jessica Granderson, Staff Scientist, Interim Division Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Current State of What PD is Seeing Around the Adoption of Tagging and How Owners and Operators Can Help to Drive Its Application – Aaron Brondum, Vice President of Customer Success, Prescriptive Data	TRACK 2 - Session 2 \| Meadow D The Technical Track – Moderator Nick Gayeski, Co-Executive Director, Project Haystack Introducing Systems from Haystack Labs – Michael Melillo, Software Engineer, Albireo Energy Haystack Labs WG Update: Portfolio & Attributes – Annie Dehghani, Senior Building Systems Application Engineer, Buildings IOT Open Source Update: Haystack Core, Haystack Lib, RDF – Gareth Johnson, Chief Software Architect, J2 Innovations Haxall as an Integration Solution – Chris Malavisi, Integration Engineer - National Lead, Airmaster
6:30pm-8:30pm	DINNER, NETWORKING & EXHIBITS \| Riverbed Ballroom B-D
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
8:00am-1:30pm	REGISTRATION \| Riverbed Foyer
8:30am-9:30am	GENERAL SESSION \| Meadow CD Moderator Roger Quesnel, Executive Board Member, Project Haystack Welcome Back – Richard McElhinney, Nick Gayeski, and Alex Rohweder, Co-Executive Directors, Project Haystack OEMs and Haystack – Moderator Marc Petock, Vice President, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, Lynxspring, with panelists Patrick Coffey, Chief Technology Officer, WideSky; Christian Conte, Global Head of Automation Engineering Service, Siemens; Alex Rohweder, CEO, J2 Innovations; Erik Stark, BMS Application Engineer, Johnson Controls; and Steve Fey, President, iSMA CONTROLLI
9:30am-10:00am	BREAK \| Riverbed Ballroom B-D
10:00am-11:30am	PITCHFEST \| Meadow CD Moderators Richard McElhinney, Nick Gayeski, and Alex Rohweder, Co-Executive Directors, Project Haystack KNX: Smart Home & Building Solutions – Claudia Rodríguez, Key Account Manager, KNX Building System's Journey to Cloud Native – Anto Budiardjo, CEO Padi, Inc. Easy Engineering with Auto-Tagging in Johnson Controls Facility Explorer Appliance – Erik Stark, BMS Application Engineer, Johnson Controls StackHub – Package Management Made Easy! – Steve Eynon, Operations Manager, StackHub The Power of Haystack for Cloud Integrations – Scott Muench, Vice President of Customer Experience, J2 Innovations Lynxspring E2E – Parker Shute, Software Developer, Lynxspring Master Project Haystack Tagging with Haystack Essentials – Emma Eynon, CEO & Founder, Fantom Factory Embedded Devices in the Haystack World by iSMA CONTROLLI – Pawel Szarmanski, Solution Product Manager, iSMA CONTROLLI Niagara Cloud Suite and Niagara Data Service – Stephen Holicky, Director of Product Management, Tridium
11:30am-1:00pm	LUNCH & EXHIBITS \| Riverbed Ballroom B-D
1:00pm-2:30pm	TRACK 1 - Session 3 \| Meadow C Haystack in Practice – The End-User Perspective & Real-World Applications – Moderator Alex Rohweder, Co-Executive Director, Project Haystack How KNX is Using Haystack to Describe Building Semantics – André Hänel, Systems & Tools, KNX Association Using Haystack API as the Pathway to Improve Smarter Buildings – Jamie Lee, Product Manager Desigo Optic, Siemens Site Manager: Manage Sites Easily & Consistently Using a Haystack Model Repository – Matt Blount, Director, Strategic Projects, and Nick Prill, Software Engineer, 75F	TRACK 2 - Session 3 \| Meadow D The Technical Track – Moderator Richard McElhinney, Co-Executive Director, Project Haystack Introducing the Grafana Haystack Plugin – Jay Herron, Head of Cloud Software, PassiveLogic Exporting Haystack tags using SparkplugB and MQTT, Plus the Latest on nHaystack – Richard McElhinney, Vice President of Technology, and Kyle Hofer, Team Lead: Niagara Applications, Conserve It Progress Update from the EV Charging Working Group (#982) – Stephen Frank, Instrumentation & Controls Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2:30pm-3:00pm	BREAK \| Riverbed Foyer
3:00pm-4:30pm	TRACK 1 - Session 4 \| Meadow C Haystack in Practice – The End-User Perspective & Real-World Applications – Moderator Scott Muench, Executive Board Member, Project Haystack Portfolio Benchmarking with Utility Invoices: Streamlining Decision-Making using Haystack – Bianca Alexander, Product Portfolio Manager, WideSky Using Haystack to Increase Operational Efficiencies in Mechanical Contracting – Joseph Bohm, CEO, Dual Fuel Corp. Specifying Haystack for City Planning: A Success Story – Jeremy Wolfe, VP Sales Americas, J2 Innovations	TRACK 2 - Session 4 \| Meadow D The Technical Track – Moderator Nick Gayeski, Co-Executive Director, Project Haystack Hayloft: A Tagged Digital Twin Repository for Plug-and-Play Building Models – Shilpa Basappa, Senior Director of Product Engineering, 75F Advancing Integrated Automation Design: Haystack Enabled Interoperability – Matthew Turk, Associate, Newcomb & Boyd Haystack in Sustainability and ESG – Adam Wallen, CEO, Ziva Tech Solutions, and Craig Stevenson, President, AUROS Group

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