Energy Innovation Summit

Schedule

June 12

DAY 1 - By Air

June 13

DAY 2 - By Land

June 14

DAY 3 - By Sea

DAY 1 - June 12

Energy Innovation - By Air

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Opening Ceremony  

Address by Gabe Klein, Executive Director, Joint Office of Energy and Transportation for the United States

10:20 AM - 11:30 AM | The Future of Clean Energy Aviation, Part 1 - Propulsion

◦ Sustainable Aviation Fuel: Challenges of scaling SAF production, including agricultural land use, manufacturing capacity and R&D behind fuel development. Special guest: Veridos CEO Oliver Fetzer. Viridos produces algae oil, refined into low-carbon transportation fuels
◦ Electric & Hydrogen Based Aviation: While the focus on decarbonizing the aviation sector centers around sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), electricity and hydrogen promise alternative zero-emission solutions.  
◦ How The State of California is making way for changes in Aviation technologies.
Hear from the Airlines, from the DOE and from David Hochschild, chair of the California Energy Commission.  

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Networking 

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch Break 

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | The Future of Clean Energy Aviation, Part Two: Investment 

A Panel moderated by Henk Both of Anzu Partners
 “Areas We’re Investing In and Why.” With Ryan Chou (JetBlue Ventures), Abhiram Kannan (Bidra Innovation Ventures), and David Needell (Fine Structure Ventures) 

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | The Future of Clean Energy Aviation, Part Three: Innovating Companies 

Panel Discussion: Industry Leaders detail Aerial Innovation. More Efficient Jets with guests from Jet Zero. Aerial Ridesharing with guests from Joby and from Wisk. Flying cars from Alef

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Networking 

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM | Breakout Session 

Panel on Green Hydrogen with industry leaders and the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) 

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Climate Justice Benefits 

Introducing young activists and how they are participating in climate change solutions. Communities most devastated by climate change are overwhelmingly those with poor people of color. Further, those who will inherit our changing climate are the young. In partnership with the SERC (Student Environmental Resource Center) at UC Berkeley, and with Global Shapers, a World Economic Forum initiative.

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | How to Cool Down a City Low Carbon Urban Design

Panel convened by Jason Kelly Johnson, Co-Founder and Lead Artist at Futureforms. Jason has produced a range of award-winning projects exploring the intersections of design with advanced fabrication technologies, robotics, responsive building systems and public space.  This panel includes Virginia San Fratello, Chair of the Department of Design, San Jose State University; Willett Moss, a Founding Partner of CMG Landscape Architecture; Kristen DiStefano, Assoc. Director of the San Francisco office for Atelier 10.

Speakers & Panelists

Gabe Klein - Executive Director, Joint Office of Energy and Transportation for the United States

David Hochschild - chair of the California EnergyCommission.

Henk Both - Director of Investments at Anzu Partners

Ryan Chou - Director of Investments with JetBlue Ventures (JBV)

David Needell - PhD , is a Senior Associate with FineStructure Ventures (FCV)

Abhiram Kannan - Assoc. for Energy Transition and Climate Tech investments, Bidra Innovation Ventures.

Jason Kelly Johnson - Co-founder of FutureForm, and faculty at California College of the Arts

Virginia San Fratello - Chair of the Department of Design at San Jose State University

Willett Moss - Founding Partner of CMG Landscape Architecture in San Francisco

Kristen DiStefano - Associate Director of the SF office for Atelier Ten

Leadership from Jet Zero, Joby, from Wisk and from Alef

SERC (Student Environmental Resource Board, U.C. Berkeley

Global Shapers, an initiative of the World Economic Forum

Gia Vacin Deputy Director at California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz)

Speakers Bio

DAY 2 - June 13

Energy Innovation - By Land

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clean Energy Investment. Funding

Capital Intensive Projects Panel led by Scott Wu, Executive Director of IBank.  
Speakers: Brian DePonte, Sr. Vice President of Innovative Markets for KEF Clean Energy; Zach Solomon, Co-Head of Public Finance, leading Morgan Stanley’s investment banking franchise; Andrew Mack, Senior Vice President, Development, Strategy and Permitting for Brightline West, the high-speed rail project linking Las Vegas and Southern California. 

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch Break 

1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | Innovating Companies - Rail Transit, Long Haul Trucking, Electric Fleets

Getting Prescriptive, Accelerating Progress with Neha Palmer, CEO of TeraWatt Infrastructure (SF).
What’s ahead, with Adam Gromis, global lead on sustainability, electrification and environmental impact for Uber.

 
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Reinventing Power Distribution

California’s Power Grid Kurt Johnson of The Climate Center
With special guests David Hochschild, Chair of the California Energy Commission;
Leuwam Tesfai, Deputy Executive Director of the PUC; Mark Rothleder, Sr. Vice President and CEO, California Independent System Operator (CAISO) 

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Zero Emission Vehicles

America’s love affair with the automobile has a new dimension. We welcome perspective from Darnell Grisby, Commissioner at the California Transportation Commission, Gabe Klein, Exec. Director, Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, and also Director of Clean Energy Transportation for PG&E, Lydia Krefta. 
Olya Anguelov from Next Era Mobility discusses trends and customer adoption they are seeing.
Also: pairing EV charging infrastructure with renewables and energy storage.
Dr. Ghazal Izadi, Chief Operating Officer at XGS Energy, provides a look at upstream clean energy sources.

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Next Generation Nuclear

There is little debate that part of our energy mix needs to be nuclear if we’re to power our planet and also decarbonize it.
This symposium, moderated by esteemed guest Leslie Dewan, reveals a path to decarbonization impeded by politics more than practicalities. This panel includes Chris Lohse, Innovation and Technology Manager for GAIN, the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear, formed by the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy.
Also: Jeffrey Bohn, Senior Advisor to Anthropocene Institute. 

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | Energy Frontiers
(breakout session)

 Entrepreneurs developing frontier technologies show their work and take questions.
Moderated by Sean Hoge, Founder and CEO, Starship Ventures.
Ben Nowack, CEO of Reflect Orbital, and Isaac Baumstark, Founder of Poseidon, an aerospace company building highly innovative ground effect vehicles. 

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | The Heat Beneath Our Feet: Harnessing Geothermal Energy (breakout session)

Dr. Bryant Jones (Moderator): Executive Director at Geothermal Rising;
Ben Serrurier, Government Affairs & Policy at Fervo; Jesper Jolma, Investment Manager at Baseload Capital;
Simon Webbison, VP of Exploration and Resource Management at Ormat Technologies;
Dr. Ghazal Izadi, Chief Operating Officer at XGS Energy;
Ajit Menon, VP Geothermal and Energy Transition at Baker Hughes;
Amelia Letvin, State and Local Government Community Engagement Manager at Geothermal Rising

Speakers & Panelists

Scott Wu, Executive Director of IBank.

Brian DePonte, Sr. Vice President of Innovative Markets for KEF Clean Energy

Zach Solomon, Co-Head of Public Finance, leading Morgan Stanley's investment banking franchise

Andrew Mack, Senior Vice President, Development, Strategy and Permitting for Brightline West

Neha Palmer, CEO of TeraWatt Infrastructure (SF)

Adam Gromis, global lead on sustainability, electrification and environmental impact for Uber

Kurt Johnson of The Climate Center

David Hochschild, Chair of the California Energy Commission

Leuwam Tesfai, Deputy Executive Director of the PUC

Mark Rothleder, Sr. Vice President and CEO, California Independent System Operator (CAISO)

Darnell Grisby, Commissioner at the California Transportation Commission

Gabe Klein, Exec. Director, Joint Office of Energy and Transportation

Gia Vacin Deputy Director at California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz)

Lydia Krefta, Director of Clean Energy Transportation for PG&E

Dr. Ghazal Izadi, Chief Operating Officer at XGS Energy

Leslie Dewan, former CEO of Transatomic Power

Chris Lose, Innovation and Technology Manager for GAIN

Jeffrey Bohn, Senior Advisor to Anthropocene Institute

Sean Hoge, Founder and CEO, Starship Ventures

Isaac Baumstark, Founder of Poseidon

Dr. Bryant Jones, Executive Director at Geothermal Rising

Ben Serrurier, Government Affairs & Policy at Fervo

Jesper Jolma, Investment Manager at Baseload Capital

Simon Webbison, VP of Exploration and Resource Management at Ormat Technologies

Ajit Menon, VP Geothermal and Energy Transition at Baker Hughes

Amelia Levin, State and Local Government Community Engagement Manager at Geothermal Rising

Speakers Bio

DAY 3 - June 14

Energy Innovation - By Sea

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Clean Energy Investment, Round 3

Darren Wolfberg of Triangle Digital leads a panel: 
◦ Sustainability-linked lending  
◦ Operationalizing TCFD for institutional markets (Climate-related Financial Disclosures) 
◦ Carbon credits and their inevitability (The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism) 
◦ Preparing for Climate Bills and their impact with Martijn Dekker, co-founder of Aurivos, CEO of ZeroSix. Also: Todd Olson, CSO of dClimate

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Carbon sequestration: Natural Systems as an Emerging Market

With Andreas Merkl, Co-founder of Centigrade, an open-data platform focused on liquid, fair, and efficient carbon markets, and Tracey Osborne, Founder of the Climate Justice Standard, a certification for high-quality, community-led climate and biodiversity projects.

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Breakout Session

Revolution in the Maritime Industry, International Perspective. Panel with David Tyler, Co-founder of Artemis Technologies and panelists TBA

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch Break

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Renewables ◦ Solar and Wind

Perspective and predictions from U.S. industry leaders

◦ Ocean Energy with CalWave Power Technologies Co-Founder and CEO Marcus Lehman

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | TBA

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | TBA

4:00 - 5:30 | Ferries and Maritime transport By Sea

With Seamus Murphy of the WETA, on a visionary overhaul of San Francisco’s public transit passenger ferry service, In contrast to Int’l panel this morning, the focus here is on California & the West Coast.
 
◦ Batteries: Leading the Charge: How evolving battery technology means big changes for Ferries and Maritime transport.  
◦ A Cleaner and Greener Maritime Industry : Perspective from David Tyler, Co-Founder & Commercial Director of Artemis, and Amogy Director of Maritime Business Development, Anastasija Kuprijanova