IEEE Dinner and Learn: Critical Infrastructure Security (Guest Speaker)
Please join us at Marketplace Grill in Springdale Arkansas for a Dinner and Learn event with our visiting guest lecturer Phil Clark.
Phil Clark is the Director of Corporate Security for Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation (AECC).
Dinner will be provided free for IEEE Student Members.
IEEE Members and guest are welcome to join for $15 per person.
The title for the talk is:
Critical Infrastructure Security: Concerns Trends, and the Future of Critical Infrastructure Security
This will be buffet style in a private dinning room.
Buffet Menu:
Beef Medallions (New York Strip) and Grilled Chicken Medallions (Half with Chicken Cajun Seasoning).
For the Sides, we will have Salad, Loaded Mashed Potatoes, and Mac & Cheese.
Dessert will be a your choice of: Fresh Baked Cookies, NY Style Cheesecake, Chocolate Chunk Cake, Cobbler Seasonal.
Ice Tea Service is also included.
*Note: Please contact cfarnell@uark.edu if you have dietary restrictions, we will try to accommodate.
MarketPlace Grill
1636 S 48th St #5880, Springdale, AR 72762
https://maps.app.goo.gl/6EqWXQtHoRV21sRX8
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- Starts 18 February 2026 06:00 AM UTC
- Ends 28 February 2026 11:00 PM UTC
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Phil of Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation (AECC)
Critical Infrastructure Security
This talk will focus on the concerns, trends, and the future of critical infrastructure cyber security.
Biography:
Phil Clark
Director – Corporate Security
Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation (AECC)
As AECC’s Director of Corporate Security, Phil is directly involved in improving and protecting the reliability of systems controlling AECC’s portion of the Bulk Electric System. Phil applies many years’ experience in information technology, operational technology, cyber and physical security to improve security processes, systems and security controls protecting the AECC corporate enterprise and plant infrastructure.
He’s spent the last twenty years implementing and managing cyber and physical security for information and operational technology environments at electric generation and transmission organizations in the public and private sectors.
Phil is a founding member of the DOE/INL OT Defender Fellowship. He is Chairman of the SPP Security Advisory Group, Chairman of the SERC Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee – Physical Security Subcommittee (CIPC-PSS), a member of the Forge Institute Governance Advisory Board, and a respected member of other national security organizations.
When not fighting evil, Phil enjoys spending time with his family and the great outdoors.