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Arkansas Economic Development Commission Manufacturing Solutions (AEDC-MS) was established in 1995 and is a program of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission. AEDC-MS is an affiliate of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP).

OMEP is a team of individuals located across Oregon who share a common mission of bringing results to Oregon's manufacturers. Our staff have distinguished themselves in all aspects of manufacturing from the shop floor to the board room, spanning the full spectrum of industry sectors. As business leaders and colleagues, we care deeply about supporting the passionate and hard-working manufacturing community of Oregon.

As a trusted advisor, our primary Mission is To help improve and grow manufacturing in Vermont and strengthen the global competitiveness of the state's smaller manufacturers." This is accomplished by leveraging private and public partnerships and by providing hands-on implementation assistance, consulting, training and coaching. VMEC is the MEP Center in Vermont.

The INNOVATE Hawaii Program, an MEP Center, assists small to mid-sized local businesses create best and innovative practices at an affordable cost.

Enterprise Minnesota, a MEP Center, is an ISO 9001:2008 certified consulting organization that helps manufacturing companies become operationally efficient and well positioned to grow profitably. Our team - who live and work throughout the state - provides services that help clients save time and energy, improve productivity, increase sales, improve profits, as well as create and retain jobs.

Through our statewide network of manufacturing extension agents and applications engineers, we work strategically to create wealth and grow our state's economy. The organization serves as the primary resource, advocate and voice for manufacturing in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance is the go-to source for assessing needs and finding solutions available through public and private resources.

Davina Pruitt-Mentle serves as the Lead for Academic Engagement of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) at NIST. Prior to joining NICE, she was a senior researcher and policy analyst for Educational Technology Policy, Research and Outreach, served as a principal investigator for the National Cyberwatch Center, and held a faculty position within the College of Education at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has spent more than 20 years conducting research on student and educator cyber awareness and developing programs to help increase the cybersecurity workforce pipeline. She is a life-long equestrian and competes nationally along with her daughter. When not showing horses, she enjoys attending University of Maryland basketball games with her husband so they have an excuse to visit both her kids.

Kat is the program manager for the Cybersecurity, Privacy and AI Program. Before joining NIST, Kat worked in the private sector leading organizations in the development and execution of their ICT strategies.

Michael Kaiser is the Executive Director of the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA). Mr. Kaiser joined the NCSA  in 2008. As NCSA’s chief executive, Mr. Kaiser engages diverse constituencies—business, government and other nonprofit organizations—in NCSA’s broad public education and outreach efforts to promote a safer, more secure and more trusted Internet. Mr. Kaiser leads NCSA in several major awareness initiatives, including National Cyber Security Awareness Month (October), Data Privacy Day (Jan. 28) and STOP. THINK. CONNECT., the global online safety awareness and education campaign. NCSA builds efforts through public-private partnerships that address cybersecurity and privacy issues for a wide array of target audiences, including individuals, families and the education and business communities. In 2009, Mr. Kaiser was named one of SC Magazine’s information security luminaries.

Tim is a computer engineer with the NIST Intelligent Systems Division. His research focuses on cybersecurity for the manufacturing sector, especially its impact on industrial control systems and robotics. In his spare time, Tim likes to design and build his own fighting robots and battle other robots with them at competitions throughout the U.S.