General Session Keynote Speakers Bill Shuster Former U.S. Representative (R-PA) United States Congress Brian E. Hill, MD Co-Founder, CEO HIPnation Carl Wockner International Recording Artist & Entertainer Jon Meacham Presidential Historian & Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author Jonathan Martin Politics Bureau Chief and Senior Political Columnist POLITICO Mark Van Elden President & CEO ACEC Life/Health Trust Peter DeFazio Former U.S. Representative (D-OR) United States Congress Sean McMaster Administrator Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Featured General Session Speakers & Panelists Alyson Watson Board Member ACEC Research Institute Claire L. Rutkowski Vice Chair ACEC Technology Committee Dan Larson Chair Elect 2025-2026 ACEC Daphne Bryant Executive Director ACEC Research Institute Dave Bender Vice President, Political Affairs ACEC Diana O’Lare Senior Director, Market Intelligence ACEC Gary Raba Immediate Past Chair ACEC Gregory Kelly CEO STV, Inc Jessica Baker Daily CEO Halff John Donatelli President of Infrastructure Engineering Kiewit John Henderson CEO HDR, inc. Jordan Baugh Vice President, Water & Environment ACEC Keith Molenaar, Ph.D. Dean, College of Engineering University of Colorado Boulder Linda Bauer Darr President & CEO ACEC Matt Reiffer Vice President and Advocacy Counsel ACEC Michael Morgan Executive Director Sound Transit Mike Orth CEO GFT Nando Gomez Senior Vice President of Energy and External Affairs ACEC Sean Young Director, Head of AEC NVIDIA Steve Hall Executive Vice President | Advocacy ACEC Education & Partner Session Speakers Amanda Molina Associate General Counsel of AI, Cyber & Privacy Booz Allen Hamilton Brian Smalkoski Vice President Kimley-Horn Claire L. Rutkowski Vice Chair ACEC Technology Committee Dan Barnes Managing Director for Selection & Eligibility Millennium Challenge Corporation David Hester Managing Director for Project Development U.S. International Development Finance Corporation Hiro Rodriguez Executive Director, The Advocacy Center U.S. Department of Commerce Holly Marrone Vice President of Human Resources Remington and Vernick Engineers an Ardurra Company J. Nick Otto CTO Kimley-Horn Joe Bates Senior Research Consultant ACEC Research Institute Joseph R. Ragusa Jr, PE Infrastructure Services Department Head Remington & Vernick Engineers Julie Huval, FSMPS, CPSM Owner Marketing Operations Advisor Marilynn Stratton, CPSM Chief Strategy Officer Kier + Wright Micah Callough Technical Director for AEC Esri Molly Foley CMO IMEG Nicola Ianeselli Senior Director, Technology Chen Moore and Associates Randy Landry Chief People Officer T. Baker Smith Russ Wilcox CEO ArtifexAI Sarah Kinard Head Bird The Flamingo Project Satya Marar Research Fellow Mercatus Center at George Mason University Steve Britt General Counsel National Artificial Intelligence Association Supawit Ket-udom Industry Director, Public Health Microsoft Tamika Bass Cybersecurity Director GFT Tera Kaltsas Human Resource Specialist Kimley-Horn Thomas P. Smith Director of Engineering and Construction U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Trishank Hansrajani Consultant Morrissey Goodale Troy Meyer Director of Marketing & Industry Insights Joist AI Verinda Fike Regional Director, Indo-Pacific U.S. Trade and Development Agency
