Final Agenda

SPEER Summit • Monday, April 13, 2015
Day 1
8:30am to
9:30am
9:30am
9:45am
10:00am
to
10:45am
10:45am
to
11:30am
Registration and Breakfast
Grand Ballrom:
Welcome
SPEER Highlights
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kathleen Hogan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency,
U.S. Department of Energy
Recommendations of the SPEER Commission on Texas Energy Efficiency Policy
The Honorable Margaret Keliher; The Honorable Will Wynn; Kenneth Mercado, SVP, CenterPoint
Energy; Ned Ross, VP, Direct Energy; Garrett Boone, Co-Founder, Container Store
11:30am
to
12:30pm
Networking Lunch - Sponsored by:
Grand Ballroom:
Introductory Plenary Panel
12:30pm
to 1:15pm
1:30 pm
to
2:30 pm
Ian Hughes, Bayer
Material Science
Preston Trail:
Energy Codes:
Challenges and
Opportunities
David Low,
Architecture 2030
John Hall, Environmental
Defense Fund
Lark Lee, TetraTech,
the State of Texas
EM&V Contractor
Breakout Sessions
Bent Tree:
Mesquite II:
Mesquite I:
Voluntary Challenges:
Status of Utility
Efficiency as an Emissions
2030 District, Better
Efficiency Programs in
Reduction Strategy
Buildings, and more
the Region
Break
Grand Ballrom:
Introductory Plenary Panel
3:00pm
to 3:45pm
Sam Gunderson,
City of Fort Worth
Matt Golden, Investor
Confidence Project
Lynn Crawford,
Affiliated Engineers
Michael Quinn, Oncor
Breakout Sessions
4:00 pm
to
5:00 pm
5:00 pm
to 6:00pm
Preston Trail:
Local Government
Initiatives to
Accelerate Energy
Mesquite II:
Bent Tree:
Mesquite I:
Utility of the Future:
Financing Commerical Critical Infrastructure and
Integrating EE, DR, DG
Retrofits
CHP
and Storage
Networking Reception - Sponsored by:
SPEER Summit • Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Day 2
SPEER Member Meeting
(Members Only)
8:00am
to 9:30am
9:00am
to
10:00 am
Networking Breakfast - Sponsored by:
Grand Ballrom:
Keynote:
Hunter Lovins, President of Natural Capitalism Solutions
10:00am
to
11:00am
Grand Ballroom:
Introductory Plenary Panel
11:00am
to
11:45am
Christopher Lubeck,
OSRAM Sylvania
Colin Bishopp,
Renewable Funding
Cade Burks,
Mission: Data
David Walters, Walters
Power, former Governor
of Oklahoma
Breakout Sessions
Mesquite I:
Preston Trail:
Bent Tree:
Mesquite II:
Creating a Smart Energy
Lighting: Has the
Financing Residential
Distributed Energy
12:00pm
Roadmap: Using Data to
Market Transformed?
Retrofits
Resources
to 1:00pm
Drive Efficiency
Lunch with Guest Speaker:
1:00pm to
The Future of Smart Technology: What Consumers Want.
2:30pm
Tom Kerber, Director, Research, Home Controls & Energy - Parks Associates