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MONDAY 13 APRIL 2015
DAY 1
11:00
Registration and lunch
12:50
13:00
Summit welcome
Soft Power: Politics, consumers and the evolution of the clean energy & climate debate
A group of leading commentators will discuss how energy realities and narratives are evolving
Jay Faison, Managing Partner, ClearPath Foundation
Andy Hoffman, Director, ERB Institute
Joan MacNaughton, Chair, World Energy Trilemma, World Energy Council
Moderated by: Seb Henbest, Head of Europe, MIddle East and Africa, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
13:35
CEO Fireside Chat
13:55
Global Keynote
Al Gore, Former US Vice President
14:15
14:45
BREAK
CEO Fireside Chat
15:05
BNEF Analyst briefing
Introducing the Summit tracks & key themes
15:30
Global Plenary: Technology-energy nexus
Hot technology & investment trends in Connected Home, Grid, PowerGen and Vehicles and in relationships between VCs and corporate development
Gina Domanig, Managing Partner, Emerald Technology Ventures
Dr. Robie Samanta Roy, Vice President, Technology and Innovation, Lockheed Martin
Raphael Schoentgen, CTO, GDF Suez
Nobuo Tanaka, Global Associate for Energy Security and Sustainability, Institute of Energy Economics, Japan
Moderated by: Thomas Rowlands Rees, Senior Analyst, Energy Smart Technologies, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
16:30
Firestarter: Innovation in Transport
16:45
New Energy Pioneers Award 2015
2015 New Energy Pioneers and award presentations
18:00
EVENING ACTIVITY: OPENING NIGHT COCKTAIL RECEPTION
Day 1 close
TUESDAY 14 APRIL 2015
DAY 2
08:00
The Future of Power Generation 1
The Future of Power Generation 2
The Future of the Grid
The Future of the Connected Home
The Future of Transportation
Breakfast Session 1
Analyst briefing: Power generation
Breakfast Session 2
Analyst briefing: Power generation
Breakfast Session 3
Analyst briefing: Grid
Breakfast Session 4
Analyst briefing: Connected Home
Breakfast Session 5
Analyst briefing: Transportation
PLENARY SESSION
09:00
Summit Partner opening remarks
09:00
Global Industry Keynote: State of the industry
Michael Liebreich, Chairman of the Advisory Board, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
10:00
Global Keynote:
Honorable Dr Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Deputy Secretary of Energy, United States Department of Energy
10:10
Global Plenary: Political perspectives
Leading policy makers give their perspective on key issues in the industry and how the changing political landscape will affect them
Senator Judd Gregg, Co-Chair, Nuclear Matters
Sarah Ladislaw, Director of the Energy Program, Centre for Strategic and International Studies
Moderated by: Ethan Zindler, Head of Americas, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
11:00
11:30
BREAK
Global Keynote
Minister Greg Rickford, Minister of Natural Resources, Canada
11:45
CEO & Regulator Plenary: Utilities and a new regulatory compact
The new face of electricity (decentralisation, flexibility, market design and the evolution of regulation)
Badar Khan, President and CEO, Direct Energy
Michael Picker, President, California Public Utilities Commission
Jon Wellinghoff, Partner, Stoel Rives
Chair Audrey Zibelman, Commissioner, New York Public Service Commission
Moderated by: Jonas Rooze, Head of European Power and Carbon, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
01:00
14:15
Networking Lunch 1
Power generation
Networking Lunch 2
Power generation
Networking Lunch 3
Grid
Networking Lunch 4
Connected home
Networking Lunch 5
Transportation
Afternoon Session 1
Knock-on effects of renewables on power markets
Angelina Galiteva, Member of the Board of Governors,
CAISO
Benjamin Pratt, Managing Director, E.ON Global
Commodities North America
Kris Ruud, Senior Manager, Resource Integration &
Regional Operations Engineering, Miso Energy
Matthew Suhr, Director of Fundamental Analysis,
Calpine
Afternoon Session 2
What keeps resource planners up at night?
Sergej Mahnovski
Brian Megali, Constellation
Khalil Shalabi, VP, Energy Market Operations & Resource
Planning, Austin Energy
Fong Wan, Senior Vice President, Energy Procurement,
PG&E
Afternoon Session 3
Grid technologies and regulation: Evolution or
intelligent design?
Stephen Callahan, VP Global Strategy Solutions, Energy &
Utilities, IBM
Eric Dresselhuys, EVP, Global Developmet and
Marketing, Silver Spring Networks
Gil Quiniones, President and CEO, New York Power
Authority
Afternoon Session 4
Connected home technologies: Where to from here?
Kyle Jones Baker, Greentech Capital Advisors
Ben Bixby, General Manager, Energy Services, Nest
Chris Black, CTO and COO, Tendrill
Afternoon Session 5
Future of Urban Mobility: Drivers of optionality
Dorothy Chan, Senior Manager, MTR Corporation
Eric McCarthy, VP Government Relations & General Counsel,
Proterra
Dave Packard, Senior Director, Utility Solutions, Chargepoint
Professor Lucius Riccio, Lecturer in Discipline, School of
International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Afternoon Session 6
Building unsubsidised renewables
Jim Hughes, CEO, First Solar
Minister Maximo Pacheco, Minister of Energy, Chile
Paddy Padmanathan, Chairman and CEO, ACWA Power
Dr Eddie O'Connor, Co-Founder and Chief Executive,
Mainstream Renewable Power
Frans van den Heuvel, CFO, Solarcentury
Afternoon Session 7
The Future of Nuclear Energy: Challenges and
Opportunities
Tom Blees, President, Science Council of Global Initiatives
Senator Judd Gregg, Co-Chair, Nuclear Matters
Mark Marano, President and CEO, Westinghouse
Gary Mignogna, President and CEO, Areva North America
Afternoon Session 8
Grid yoga: Using flexibility and microgrids to improve
reliability
Mikael Backman, Market Development Director,
Wartsila
Maxine Ghavi, Group SVP, Program Director, Microgrids,
ABB
Laurent Schmitt, VP Strategy and Innovation, Alstom
Paul Wyman, General Manager, Smart Grid Solutions,
Lockheed Martin
Afternoon Session 9
Re-imagining the utility role in residential solar
Ted Dow, Chief Investment Officer, Clean Energy Finance
Corp
Evan Dube, Surun
Cris Eugster, Group Executive Vice President, Chief
Generation and Strategy Officer, CPS Energy
Jeff Guldner, APS
Julia Hamm, President and CEO, Solar Electric Power
Association
Afternoon Session 10
OEM perspectives on fuel choices
Frank Bio, Director of Special Vehicle & Alternative Fuels,
Volvo
Rebecca Boudreaux, President, Oberon Fuels
Ignaas Caryn, Director Corporate Venturing and Biofuels,
KLM
Wahid Nawabi, SVP and GM, Energy Efficienct Systems,
AeroEnvironment
Chelsea Sexton, Industry Advisor
15:00
15:15
16:00
16:30
16:45
BREAK
Executive Sitdown: Future of Transportation
Global Keynote
17:00
Global Plenary: Company strategy in a time of change
Amy Ericson, President (US), Alstom
Ralph Izzo, Chairman and CEO, PSEG
Francesco Venturini, CEO, Enel Green Power
Moderated by: Albert Cheung, Head of Product Management, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
17:00
Summit Partner closing remarks
18:00
PRE-DINNER DRINKS RECEPTION
20:00
EVENING ACTIVITY: THEMED DINNERS
20:00
22:00
Themed dinner
Themed dinner
Themed dinner
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Day 2 close
Draft agenda: subject to change
WEDNESDAY 15 APRIL 2015
DAY 3
The Future of Power Generation 1
08:00 Breakfast Session 1
Gasification of North American Power
Janet Coy, VP, Natural Gas Marketing, Enbridge
Marie Jordan, Senior Vice President, Gas Construction
and Operations, National Grid
Jonathan Mir, Head of North American Power &
Utilities, Lazard
Mike Schwartz, Black and Veatch
The Future of Power Generation 2
Breakfast Session 2
Solar supply chain
Raghu Belur, Co-CTO, Enphase
Boris Schubert, Vice President, ET Solar
Teresa Tan, CFO, Trina Solar
Howard Wenger, President, Business Units, SunPower
The Future of Grid
Breakfast Session 3
Storage Economics: Grid and Evs
Jeff Gates, Director of Sales & Field Operations, Alevo
Steve LeVine, Author, The Powerhouse
Roger Lin, Director, Marketing, NEC Energy Solutions
The Future of the Connected Home
09:00
Summit opening keynote
09:15
CEO & Investor Plenary: Powergen financing & yieldcos
Investment opportunities & dynamics in power generation
Mike Garland, CEO, Pattern
David Giordano, Managing Director, North American Renewable Power Group, BlackRock
Shaun Kingsbury, CEO, UK Green Investment Bank
Jeff McDermott, Managing Partner, Greentech Capital
Moderated by: Josh Steiner, Head of Industry Verticals, Bloomberg
Movement to breakout sessions
10:00
10:15 Morning Session 1
Mexico's electricity sector in transition
Miguel Angel Alonso, General Director, Acciona Mexico
Leonardo Beltran, Deputy Secretary for Planning and
Energy Transition, Mexico
Manuel Gomez, Vice President, Sustainability, Walmart
Roger Gonzalez Lau, Director, CEMEX Energia
Morning Session 2
More expensive tax equity? Financing projects in 2016
Ted Brandt, CEO, Marathon Capital
Brad Buss, CFO, SolarCity
Pete Keel, CFO, North America Utility Scale and Global
Wind Business, SunEdison
Conor McKenna, Managing Director, CohnReznick
Morning Session 3
End-user solar, storage & grid "defection"
Cory Byzewski, VP & GM, Direct Energy Solar
John Carrington, CEO, Stem
Katherine Hamilton, Founder, 38 North Solutions
Kenneth Munson, President and CEO, Sunverge Energy
Morning session 7
TBC
Morning session 8
TBC
The Future of Transportation
Breakfast Session 4
Breakfast Session 5
Changing approaches to demand side management
Join session 3
Steve Hambric, Vice President, Strategic Sales and
Operations, Comverge
Scott Henneberry, VP Smart Grid Energy, Schneider Electric
Suedeen Kelly, Partner, Akin Gump
Richard Caperton, Director of Policy and Partnerships,
Opower
Morning Session 4
Who will "own" the connected home?
Scott Boose, President, Direct Energy Services
Seth Frader-Thompson, President, Energy Hub
Joe Jankosky, Director, Intelligent Home New Verticals,
Time Warner Cable
Dr Christopher McLachlan, Head of RWE Retail Strategy,
Essent
Morning Session 5
Technology workshop
Tim Cesarek, Senior VP, Business Development, Enerkem
Dr Yoshimi Okada, Principal Researcher (Engineering),
Chiyoda Corp
Thomas Videbaek, Novozymes
Robert Wimmer, Director, Energy and Environmental
Research Group, Toyota Motor North America
Morning session 9
Evolution of the utility business model
Richard Kauffman, Chair, Energy Policy and Finance SubCabinet, NYSERDA
Neil Pennington, npopwer
Ron Schoff, Senior Program Manager, Technology
Innovation, EPRI
Morning session 10
Connected cars and autodrive
Cliff Fietzek, Manager Connected eMobility, BMW North
America
Annie Lien, Autonomous Driving & Advanced Driver
Assistance Systems Expert
Michael Hurwitz, Director, Energy, Technology &
International , Dept of Transport
Josh Switkes, Founder and CEO, Pelton Technology
Movement to breakout sessions
11:00
11:15 Morning Session 6
Emerging frontiers in clean energy and energy access
Charles Feinstein, Energy and Extractives Global
Practice Director, World Bank
Julia Kraetke, Private Sector Development Adviser
(DESA), Climate and Environment Department, DFID
Lynn Tabernacki, Managing Director Renewable Energy
and Sustainable Development, OPIC
12:00
NETWORKING LUNCH kindly sponsored by Zayed
13:00
Road to Paris: Firestarter
Ambassador François Delattre, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations
13:10
Road to Paris: Policy maker panel
Senior policy makers and experts discuss range of possible outcomes
Minister Pierre Arcand, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Quebec
Connie Hedegaard, Former EU Climate Change Commissioner
Nancy Sutley, Chief Sustainability and Economic Development Officer, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Moderated by: Ethan Zindler, Head of Americas, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
13:50
Road to Paris: ClimateScope
Emerging markets efforts to prepare for clean energy
14:00
BREAK
BUSINESS RESPONSE
Business Response: Expert insight on the Greening of Asia
The business case for solving Asia's environmental emergency
Business Response: Green bonds
Clean energy and energy efficiency are accessing the debt capital markets in new ways and in greater volumes through labelled green bonds, convertible bonds, ABS and other structures. Panelists will discuss the range of opportunities for a sector
entering the mainstream.
Suzanne Buchta, Managing Director and Head of Green Bonds America, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Jeff Eckel, President and CEO, Hannon Armstrong
Kyung-Ah Park, Head of Environmental Markets Group, Goldman Sachs
Peter Sweatman, Chief Executive, Climate Strategy Partners
Moderated by: Lenora Suki, Head of Sustainable Finance Product Strategy, Bloomberg
ROAD TO PARIS
14:30
14:45
15:30
Business Response: Finance for Resilience (FiRe)
Reporting back from 2014, voting for 2015 FiRe winners
16:50
Summit Chairman’s closing remarks & thanks
17:00
SUMMIT CLOSE
Draft agenda: subject to change