2024 | SHORT AND LONG: BUILDING THE RIGHT PORTFOLIO FOR THE ENERGY TRANSITION

The CEO & Managing Partner of Engine Ventures. She serves as a Board Member of multiple of The Engine Ventures’ portfolio companies, including Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Boston Metal. A seasoned investor and tech executive, Rae has invested in about 100 companies - including Pillpack and Flywire - served as an advisor to hundreds of founders, and co-founded the Equity Summit.

The James and Katherine Lau Distinguished Professor of Sustainability at the University of California, Berkeley. Kammen was the First Chief Technical Specialist for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency at the World Bank. He has served as a contributing or coordinating lead author on various reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1999, including the 2007 IPCC that shared the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Global General Manager of Intel’s Energy Center of Excellence. Bates leads efforts to apply next-generation computing to optimize distributed energy loads. For more than 30 years, he has worked at the leading edge of new concepts and business models in distributed energy, and the intersection of traditional energy and technology. He has collaborated with global utility, energy, and technology leaders to drive forward economically viable and sustainable energy models.

The Kyocera Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. Professor Chiang is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, a recipient of the World Economic Forum's Pioneer Award, and a member of The Times 100 Climate list. He has co-founded multiple companies in the energy and climate space, including Form Energy and Sublime Systems.

Chief Commercialization Officer for the Department of Energy. She also heads the Office of Technology Transitions, driving private sector adoption of clean energy technologies across DOE, National Laboratories, and other facilities nationwide. With two decades of experience spanning academia, Fortune 1000 companies, and startups, she specializes in bridging technology and business growth in diverse industries.

Co-founder and Co-CEO of Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP), led private equity platforms for 20 years, investing over $3B in technology-driven real assets. Formerly, he headed investments for Alphabet’s urban innovation platform and founded Nereus, an Asia-focused alternative energy infrastructure fund. Prior to Nereus, Jonathan worked at the D. E. Shaw group where he built private equity team across venture capital, growth equity, and structured finance.

Justina Gallegos serves as the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), leading a new Industrial Innovation division. Core to the Biden-Harris Administration’s economic agenda is an ambitious industrial strategy to rebuild U.S. manufacturing and re-shore supply chains, achieve the nation’s net-zero greenhouse gas goals, create place-based ecosystems that support high-quality jobs, and bolster national security. Gallegos leads efforts focused on advancing innovative technologies and strengthening critical industrial bases.

Vice President of Technical Strategy, Association of Edison Illuminating Companies. At AEIC, Elizabeth leads strategic initiatives in electric energy innovation and operational excellence. Previously, she served as Director of Advanced Grid Systems + Grid Modernization at Duquesne Light Company (DLC), driving organizational change to establish DLC as a digitally forward utility. Her expertise in fostering collaborations with stakeholders at all levels was instrumental in driving advanced grid solutions and envisioning the future of the power grid.

Sally Kornbluth is MIT's 18th president. Since she joined MIT in January 2023, President Kornbluth has fostered bold thinking – from solutions to dramatically accelerate progress against climate change, to helping ensure the power of AI is harnessed for good, to forging daring new links between engineering and life science.