Stanford-CEC Energy Innovation Summit Agenda

Stanford-CEC Energy Innovation Summit
January 29, 2024
Agenda

09:00am - 09:30am	Opening Remarks
	Roland Horne, Interim Director, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University
	Arun Majumdar, Dean, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University
	David Hochschild, Chair, California Energy Commission
09:30am - 10:30am	Plenary Session : Pathway to Net-Zero (Electrification and Reliability)
	Panel Moderator: David Hochschild
	Sally Benson , Professor of Energy Science & Engineering , Stanford University
	Jason Glickman, Executive Vice President, Engineering, Planning, and Strategy, Pacific Gas & Electric Company
	Nancy Pfund, Founder and Managing Partner, DBL Partners
	Steven Powell, President and CEO, Southern California Edison
10:30am - 11:15am	Policy Outlook Discussion
	Moderator: Arun Majumdar, Dean, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford
	Josh Becker, Senator, 13th District, State of California
	Henry Stern, Senator, 27th District, State of California
11:15am - 11:30am	Break
11:30am - 12:30pm	Breakout Sessions
	I. Transportation
	Panel Moderator: Marco Pavone, Associate Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Stanford University
	Susan Handy, Professor, Environmental Science & Policy, U.C. Davis
	Ram Rajagopal, Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
	Anand Gopal, Executive Director of Policy Research, Energy Innovation
	2. Buildings
	Panel Moderator: Merrian Borgeson, Director, California Policy, Climate & Clean Energy Program, Natural Resources Defense Council
	Jacques de Chalendar, Adjunct Faculty, Energy Science & Engineering, Stanford University
	Teddy Kisch, Senior Fellow, Decarbonization Strategy, Energy Solutions
	Ram Narayanamurthy, Deputy Director, Building Technology Office, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
	Mary Ann Piette, Associate Laboratory Director: Energy Technologies Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
	3. Industrial Decarbonization
	Panel Moderator: Steve Eglash , Director of the Applied Energy Division and Interim Chief Research Officer, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
	Claus Ekman, Energy Attache, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
	Leora Dresselhaus-Marais, Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Stanford University
	Avi Shultz, Director, Industrial Efficiency & Decarbonization Office, U.S. Department of Energy
12:30pm - 2:00pm	Lunch & Discussion: Clean and Equitable Energy Transition: Regulations and Implementation
	Moderator: Arun Majumdar, Dean, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University
	Eddie Ahn, Executive Director, Brightline Defense
	Alice Busching Reynolds, President, California Public Utilities Commission
	Liane Randolph, Chair, California Air Resources Board
2:00pm - 3:00pm	Plenary Session : Battery Manufacturing and Supply Chain
	Moderator: Yi Cui, Faculty Director, Sustainability Accelerator, Stanford University
	Rod Colwell, CEO, Controlled Thermal Resources Holdings, Inc.
	Chirranjeevi Gopal, Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, Mitra Chem
	Prabhakar Venkatraman, CTO, Sparkz
	Richard Wang, Founder & CEO, Cuberg
3:00pm - 4:00pm	Plenary Session: Catalyzing Innovation via Data
	Moderator: Andrew McAllister, Commissioner, California Energy Commission
	Maximilian Auffhammer, Professor of International Sustainable Development, and Associate Dean in the Division of Social Sciences, U.C.-Berkeley
	Apoorv Bhargava, CEO and Co-founder, WeaveGrid
	R.V. Guha, Founder and Lead, DataCommons.org; Fellow and VP, Google
	Amber Mahone, Managing Partner, E3
	Mallory Nobles, Associate Director, Data Science & Social Systems, Stanford University
4:00pm - 4:10pm	Closing Remarks
	David Hochschild, Chair, California Energy Commission
	Roland Horne, Interim Director, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University
4:10pm -5:00pm	Networking Reception & Poster Session: Evening reception including Stanford student research posters
5:00pm - 6:00pm	CEC Student Information Session