Speakers

Dave Roberts is a senior executive in the renewable energy industry with over 20 years of senior leadership experience spanning development, operations, and services. He is currently Chief Business Development Officer at Power Factors. Power Factors is the leading renewable energy operational and analytic SaaS utilized by many top-tier owners and operators of large renewable energy fleets. Prior to his role at Power Factors, Mr. Roberts was the founder and CEO of a startup: SenseOps, Inc. SenseOps was founded to develop edge-based software IIoT solutions connecting distributed renewable energy assets leveraging IoT hardware and pervasive connectivity. Prior to Power Factors and SenseOps, he spent 12 years at OSIsoft in various executive roles. As Global VP for Business Development, Mr. Roberts managed OSIsoft’s vertical industries, including Power, T&D, Oil & Gas, Metals & Mining, Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, and other process industries. He was also the Industry Principle for Renewable Power Generation. Prior to OSIsoft, he worked for wind power developer, owner, and operator, SeaWest WindPower. As the VP Project Development for SeaWest, he was responsible for the development of hundreds of MWs of wind farms in the western US. During this period, SeaWest started-up and owned Prasentia, LLC. Mr. Roberts served as President of Prasentia, defining product and service strategies, launching the business, and conducting commercial transactions with end-use customers. Prasentia’s main business was the development and implementation of Real-time Wind Farm Management Systems, including Wind Farm SCADA systems and Management/Enterprise Level systems.