CERAWeek 2026
Stanford at CERAWeek 2026
March 23-27 | Houston, TX
Stanford energy experts will speak in Executive, Agora, NextGen, and Innovators Row sessions. Details in table below.
Stanford @CERAWeek
Mon Mar 23 | Tue Mar 24 | Wed Mar 25 | Thu Mar 26 | Fri Mar 27
Sessions are being added daily. Return here for updates.
| Date | Time | Location | Session | Stanford Speaker | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, March 23 | 10:30am- 11:00am | Agora - New Energies Hub | Revolutionizing Energy Storage: The Next Generation of Battery Tech | Will Chueh | |
| 11:00am- 12:15pm | NextGen Colloquium | Rethinking Industrial-Academic Collaboration: The Urgent Need for Innovation | Will Chueh | by- invitation | |
| 2:00pm - 3:00pm | NextGen Colloquium | Permits, Policy, & Capital: Clearing the bottlenecks to power AI reliability | Liang Min | by- invitation | |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm | Agora - Pod | Earthflow AI I From Months to Minutes: How AI is Reshaping Subsurface Decision Making | GeGe Wen | ||
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm | NextGen Amphitheater | Unleashing Investment: Collaborative Solutions for Energy Innovation | Will Chueh, Adm. James Ellis, Adrian Yao | ||
| Tuesday, March 24 | 8:30am - 9:10am | Agora - Studio | Business Models for Long-duration Energy Storage | Adrian Yao | |
| 9:30am - 11:00am | NextGen Colloquium | Reliability, Sustainability, and Trust: A Collective Energy Roadmap for the AI Era | Arun Majumdar, Liang Min, Will Chueh | by- invitation | |
| 2:00pm - 3:15pm | NextGen - Colloquium | Pollution Reductions at Lower Cost: Emissions Markets as a Tool for Emerging Economies | Marc Roston | by- invitation | |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Agora - Carbon Hub | Resilient Innovation: Energy Technology Amid Policy Turbulence | Arun Majumdar | ||
| 5:30pm - 7:30pm | Off-Site | Stanford Energy Reception | Stanford | ||
| Wednesday, March 25 | 7:25am - 8:30am | Executive Conference - Strategic Dialogue & Breakfast | Evolution of India's Energy Mix | Naomi Boness | |
| 9:00am - 5:00pm | NextGen - Nexus Ballroom | Innovators Row Showcase | Stanford Faculty, Staff, and Students | ||
| 9:00am - 11:00am | NextGen - Nexus Ballroom | Innovators Row Showcase: Process Intensification & Domestic Graphite Production Via Autothermal Methane Pyrolysis | Henry Moise | ||
| 9:30am - 10:00am | Agora - Pod | The Power of Grand Challenges | Ryan Chin | ||
| 11:00am - 1:00pm | NextGen - Nexus Ballroom | Innovators Row Showcase: MVDC Transmission, SSTs, and Batteries for AI Data Centers | Jane (Zhengjie) Yang | ||
| 11:30am - 1:00pm | Agora - New Energies Hub | What's New in Solar Technology? | Arun Majumdar | ||
| 2:25pm - 3:15pm | Executive Conference - Strategic Roundtable | Is AI Accelerating Energy Technology Development? | Arun Majumdar | ||
| 1:00pm - 3:00pm | NextGen - Nexus Ballroom | Innovators Row Showcase: Incident Analysis of CO2 Pipeline Failures: Patterns, Detection, and Risks | Sarah Saltzer | ||
| 3:00pm - 5:00pm | NextGen - Nexus Ballroom | Innovators Row Showcase: Turning Seawater into Green Hydrogen with Bipolar Membrane Electrolyzers | Daniela Marin | ||
| 3:30pm - 4:10pm | NextGen Nexus | Voices of Innovation | Andy Karsner | ||
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm | Agora - Carbon Hub | Gas and CCS: A Competitive Solution to Meet Power Generation Growth? | Sarah Saltzer | ||
| Thursday, March 26 | 7:15am - 8:20am | Executive Conference - Strategic Dialogue & Breakfast | War in the Middle East: US Policy, Strategy, and Implications | Adm. James Ellis | |
| 11:00am - 11:30am | Agora - AI Hub | AI for Grid Optimization: From demand forecasting to asset management | Liang Min | ||
| 1:00pm - 1:30pm | Agora - New Energies Hub | Integrating Low‑Carbon Fuels into Power System Operations | Naomi Boness | ||
| 1:30pm - 2:15pm | Agora - Lyceum 2 | Carbon Markets: From Theory to Practice | Marc Roston | ||
| 2:00pm - 2:30pm | Agora - NextGen Amphitheater | Harnessing Talent and Innovation for the Dual Challenge | Naomi Boness | ||
| Friday, March 27 | 8:40am - 9:20am | Executive Conference - Plenary | Game-Changing Technologies | Sally Benson, Andy Karsner |
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Other Stanford activities taking place in Houston during the week
| Date | Time | Location | Program | Stanford Speaker | Request an Invitation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, March 23 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm | EY Downtown Houston | Hydrogen Trade Flows Roundtable | Co-hosted by Stanford Center for Fuels of the Future | |
| Tuesday, March 24 | 7:30am - 10:00am | Greenberg Traurig, LLP | AEIN Panel Update on Model Contract Development: Continued Development of the Global Low-Carbon Hydrogen & Ammonia Ecosystem | Naomi Boness |
About the Precourt Institute for Energy
To help realize the vision of sustainable, affordable, secure energy for all, Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy develops the creativity, collaboration, learning, and leadership needed for the global energy transformation. As part of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, the Precourt Institute plays a key role in connecting the Doerr School with Stanford’s six other schools for interdisciplinary research and education, as well as for external engagement.
The Precourt Institute and its initiatives, centers, and programs fund energy research across campus with the potential to overcome major barriers to the energy transition. In education, the institute sponsors several student courses and an interdisciplinary postdoctoral program, and it supports Stanford students interested in energy broadly. Precourt Institute programs help translate Stanford energy research for deployment in the world and engage our researchers with other energy sector stakeholders.