Speaker Biographies
Audrey Hopkins - Duke Energy Audrey Hopkins has 33 years’ experience in IT within the utility industry. She started as an internal IT auditor then moved into IT applications leading teams on the customer billing system and security administration before finding a home in the NERC CIP space. Now, she leads a functional team that supports Duke Energy’s NERC CIP identity and access management application. She is the Product Owner for that application and helped develop it under the Agile/ Scrum methodology at Duke. She represented Duke as the SME for CIP-004 R4 and R5 during their most recent audit of that standard. She holds a master’s degree in Cyber Security and a bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems from the University of South Florida. She is a certified CISA, CIA, PMP, Scrum Product Owner and Scrum Master. She has two grown children and while she waits for grandchildren she dotes on her two dogs, Bella and Clyde who are “60% Chihuahua and 12 other things”. In her spare time, she likes to read, knit, cook, do crosswords and RV.
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