2017 | BALANCE OF POWER: ENABLING THE NEXT ENERGY PARADIGM
As the largest student-led energy conference in the US, the MIT Energy Conference has become a premier event to connect professionals, policymakers, academics, and students in the energy industry.
More changes have occurred in the global energy sector in the past decade than in the 100 years prior. In its 12th edition, the MIT Energy Conference explores changes in production and conversion, transmission and storage, and consumption with a focus on enabling the next energy paradigm.
We will bring together leaders and visionaries from industry, government, the scientific community, and the private sector that are looking at the whole value chain in a holistic way, and can speak about and debate the development of these complex changes, which are redefining the future of energy worldwide.
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Saturday, March 4th, 2017
Keynote Speakers
“The Changing Energy Paradigm – Indian Perspective”
Dharmendra Pradhan – Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Indian Government
“The Role of Academic Institutions in Shaping the Future of Energy”
Maria Zuber - E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and Vice President for Research, MIT
“Electricity Generation: Today and Tomorrow”
Ralph Izzo – CEO, PSEG
“Opportunity. Uncertainty. Risk.”
Sun Xiansheng – Secretary General, International Energy Forum
"The Energy Transition: Driving Innovation in Capital Intensive Energy-Science and –Engineering"
Dirk Smit - VP Exploration Technology, Shell
Opening Remarks
Friday March 3
Robert C. Armstrong - Director, MIT Energy Initiative
Saturday March 4
Martha Broad - Executive Director, MIT Energy Initiative
Panelists
Alicia Barton - Counsel at Foley Hoag LLP, MA
Allan Alter – Senior Research Fellow, Accenture
Andre Ramirez - Principal Advisor, Southern California Edison
Andy Haun - CTO of Microgrids Business, Schneider Electric
Barbara Kates-Garnick - Professor in Practice, The Fletcher School Tufts
Belen Linares - Global R&D&Innovation Director, ACCIONA Energy
Ben Miller - Director of Threat Operations, Dragos
Brian Gemmel - VP Strategy and Performance, National Grid
Caitlin Durkovich - Director, Toffler Associates
Carol Lee Rawn - Director of Transportation Program, Ceres
Charles Forsberg - Principal Research Scientist, MIT
Charles Freese - Executive Director, Fuel Cells, GM
Chet Lyons - Director, Energy Group & Canadian Solar
Christopher Barron - District Commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Chukwueloka Umeh – Executive Director, NestOil Limited
Dana Guernsey - Director of Corporate Development, Ambri
Daniel Hullah - Managing Director, GE Ventures
Donald Hoffman – CEO, Excel Services
Ian Wright - Partner, Deloitte Consulting
Jacob Susman – VP Head of Origination, EDF Renewable Energy
Jack Spencer - Vice President, The Heritage Foundation
Joanna Messing - Executive Director, Growald Family Fund
Joseph Lassiter - Senior Fellow, Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management
Judith Judson – Commissioner, MA DoER
Julia Coff - Director of Client Solutions, EnergySavvy
Kunle Adeyemo – GM, Chevron Nigeria Limited
Lawrence Jones – VP International Programs, EEI
Lourdes Melgar - Former Deputy Secretary of Energy for Hydrocarbons, Mexico
Madhav Acharya - Technology-to-Market Advisor, Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency
Mak Joshi – Director IoT and Digital Transformation, Schneider Electric
Mark Johnson - Micro Grid Innovator, Schneider Electric
Mike Berlinski – Director of Emerging Technologies, CES
Mike Stanley - CEO, Transit X
Mike Tamor - Henry Ford Technical Fellow, Energy System Sustainability at Ford Motor Company
Nicholas Ashford - Professor of Technology and Policy, MIT
Paul Sheng – Senior Partner and Head of Global GEM Practice, McKinsey & Company
Robert Trinnear – Managing Director, The Energy Authority
Sarah Stotz - Director of Marketing, GE Power Systems
Seth Grae - President and CEO, Lightbridge
Sharon Chou- Data Scientist, FirstFuel Software
Shawn Murphy – Former Center Director, Shell TechWorks
Terence Sobolewski – CCO, National Grid
Thomas Brostrøm – General Manager at North America, DONG Energy Wind Power U.S.
Tibor Toth - Managing Director of Investments, MassCEC
Tim Echols – Commissioner, Georgia PSC
Tim Healy – CEO and Chairman, EnerNOC
Tim Lukes - CEO, Unison Energy
Twarath Sutabutr – Director-General, Energy Policy and Planning Office
Moderators
Gary Farha - CEO, Customer First Renewables
Henry Lee – Lecturer, HKS
Harvey Michaels - Lecturer, MIT Sloan
Ignacio Perez-Arriaga - Professor, MIT
Jed Bailey - Founder and Managing Director, Energy Narratives
Jessika Trancik - Professor, MIT
Jorge Calzada - Director of Core Processes, Advanced Data & Analytics, National Grid
Judy Chang - Director, Brattle Group
Ravi Manghani - Energy Storage Director, GTM Research
Robert Armstrong - Director, MITEI
Scott Burger - MIT PhD Candidate & PRIME Technology Investment Advisor
Scott Zimmermann - Attorney, Energy & Infrastructure Finance, WSGR