Steven Kifer

CandleScience

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Bio:

Steven is a self taught, solo LabVIEW developer with 4 years experience of playing around with LabVIEW and 3 years of taking it seriously. He works as the Facilities Engineering Manager for an ecommerce company. Over the years, Steven managed to tactfully position himself primarily as a LabVIEW programmer, but not on the programming team. He focuses predominately on liquid dispensing by weight, but also has done powder dispensing, parts counting, and recently some warehouse logistics projects.

2026 Featured Presenters

Tony Vento

Emerson/National Instruments

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Bio:

At NI, Tony was the first LabVIEW AE for LabVIEW 1.0 in1986, as well as the first Field Sales Engineer. He started direct operations in Europe, then Japan and soon became the VP of Worldwide AEs. Tony served the Executive Leadership Team under Dr. Truchard for Customer Feedback and Worldwide Partners until 2019. He worked with worldwide partners for 5 years, still working with LabVIEW, then formally rejoined NI (Emerson T&M) as Senior Director for Broad-Based Business, which includes merging best practices from the past and present.

Will Schoettler

Choose Movement Consulting

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Bio:

Will is a CLA, CLED, CTD, CPI, LabVIEW Champion, Leader of the Minneapolis LabVIEW User Group, and Managing Director of Choose Movement Consulting. He has been working with LabVIEW for the last 18 years and has served industries across the board from medical device to windows & doors to small batch electronics and aerospace. His passion is to demonstrate that applying choose-movement.org to business results in better success for employees, clients, and businesses alike.

2026 Presenters

  • Quentin "Q" Alldredge

    Choose Movement Consulting

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  • Daniel Coons

    TSC

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  • Andy Corbato

    DMC, Inc.

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  • Chris Davis

    Amentum, Engineering & Technology, Advanced Solutions

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  • Elijah Kerry

    Emerson/NI

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  • Norm Kirchner

    Emerson/NI

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  • Sarah Morales

    SRAM

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  • Darren Nattinger

    Emerson/NI

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  • Eric Stach

    Duke University

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  • Sarah Zalusky

    JKI

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  • Nancy Henson

    Henson Consulting

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  • Craig Bedward

    S5 Solutions

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  • Tony Kuiper

    S5 Solutions

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