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Program

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Monday, June 5, 2023
1:00pm-8:00pmREGISTRATION | Riverbed Foyer
1:00pm-5:00pmEXHIBIT SET-UP | Riverbed Ballroom B-D
6:00pm-8:00pmWELCOME DINNER, NETWORKING & EXHIBIT HALL OPENING | Riverbed Ballroom B-D
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
8:00am-4:15pmREGISTRATION | Riverbed Foyer
8:30am-11:00amGENERAL 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-11:30amBREAK | Riverbed Ballroom B-D
11:30am-12:45pmGENERAL SESSION CONT... | Meadow CD

The Department of Energy’s View of Semantic Modeling and the Haystack/Brick/223P RelationshipDr. 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-2:15pmLUNCH & EXHIBITS | Riverbed Ballroom B-D
2:15pm-3:45pmTRACK 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-4:15pmBREAK | Riverbed Ballroom B-D
4:15pm-5:45pmTRACK 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-8:30pmDINNER, NETWORKING & EXHIBITS | Riverbed Ballroom B-D
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
8:00am-1:30pmREGISTRATION | Riverbed Foyer
8:30am-9:30amGENERAL 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-10:00amBREAK | Riverbed Ballroom B-D
10:00am-11:30amPITCHFEST | 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-1:00pmLUNCH & EXHIBITS | Riverbed Ballroom B-D
1:00pm-2:30pmTRACK 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-3:00pmBREAK | Riverbed Foyer
3:00pm-4:30pmTRACK 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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