Leveraging over 20 years of electric company experience, David Batz brings significant industry knowledge in understanding and applying appropriate security solutions to address emerging threats and issues. In addition, he brings a decade of energy regulatory compliance as well as physical and cyber security policy experience and engagement with multiple federal agencies, including the Department of Energy (DoE), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). David has been with the Edison Electric Institute for over 12 years and has played a central role in developing new programs that aid the EEI membership, and more broadly, has been instrumental in the development and expansion of an industry-wide program called Cyber Mutual Assistance. He is a member of InfraGard and serves on the SANS Institute Advisory Board. He has authored various articles and presented at numerous events domestically and internationally on securing critical infrastructure, industrial systems as well as security baseline and standards topics for prominent industry associations including NIST, the National Academies of Sciences, United States Energy Association and the World Economic Forum to name a few.