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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 |