Susan Nash

 Susan Nash has more than 20 years of experience launching and managing successful programs that support energy and economic development and innovation in local and global contexts, along with developing educational programs that develop skill sets and knowledge bases for agile, creative, and resilient individuals. She has developed programs to connect funding and commercialization sources with new services and technologies. To do so, she has utilized digital platforms for live and archived content for educational, networking, and market-building purposes.

Her shared vision is a world where individuals can have access to clean, affordable energy to provide safe and healthy homes for their loved ones and community members. In such a world, concrete and measurable changes are made to protect, preserve, and restore the environment and all those living in it. In that vision, we eradicate energy poverty in the world, and build stronger, safer networks for access to safe energy.

After COVID-19 and economic shocks, it has been important to redouble efforts to be creative in finding ways to help individuals pivot to emerging opportunities, to equip themselves with new knowledge and technology, and to find new ways to forge productive and lasting contacts. This means new kinds of hybrid online events, more interactive and collaborative training, an ecosystem-based approach to workplaces, and proactive and inclusive networking.

Recent initiatives: digitalization in industry using machine learning and cloud-based data management; supply chain, energy industry workshops; drone / UAS technologies, analytics / sensors, technology showcases, "U-Pitch Technology Showcase" (innovative ideas / technologies / opportunities meet potential customers, users, and sources of finance).

Online / hybrid education: Collaborations with many distributed virtual teams to create podcasts, educational videos, audio, ebooks (writing, elearning success, research), learning objects. Platforms include Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Buzz, D2L, Google Classroom and others. Tools include Articulate, Captivate, NDesign, Softchalk, BigBlueButton, Trello, Basecamp, in addition to all the standard Microsoft and Google tools and platforms.

Interests: New technology and economic development, supply chain and ideas for community and economic development, creativity & innovation, leadership, apocalyptic narratives (and their use / misuse), innovative literature, Spanish/Russian literature(s)), art & humanities, history and philosophy of science.