emPOWER19 AGENDA
Colorbloq - 435 Brannan St #110, San Francisco, CA 94107
8:00am Registration + Coffee
8:45am Welcome Remarks + Rules of the Game
Hannah Bouscher-Gage: emPOWER19 Conference Chair
9:00am Panel: How Far We’ve Come + the Road Ahead
Danny Kennedy: Founder and CEO, New Energy Nexus
Audrey Lee: Vice President of Energy Services, Sunrun
Shayle Kann: Managing Director, Energy Impact Partners + Co-host, The Interchange Show
Liz Ramsay Dalton: Executive Director, Clean Energy Leadership Institute, Moderator
9:45am CELI 2019 Fellows Business Pitches
Helen Picot: ClimateWorks Foundation
Craig Schiller: Rocky Mountain Institute
10:00am Keynote: Building a Circular Economy
Kate Brandt: Chief Sustainability Officer, Google
10:15am Exercise: Mapping the Challenge
Becca Ward: Senior Director, Clean Energy Leadership Institute
10:50am CELI Fellow Ted Talk
Leah Louis-Prescott: Pacific Gas and Electric
11:00am Panel: Challenges to Deep Decarbonization
Bruce Nilles: Managing Director, Rocky Mountain Institute
Stacy Noblet: Senior Director for Transportation, ICF
Arian Aghajanzadeh: Head of Sustainable Agriculture, Vinsight
Jessie Stolark: Policy Advisor, Third Way
Taylor McNair: Program Manager, GridLab, Moderator
11:30am Deep Dive Breakouts: Decarbonization by Sector
The Built Environment: Bruce Nilles, Nate Kinsey
The Transportation Sector: Stacy Noblet, Zoheb Davar
The Industrial Sector: Jessie Stolark, Rachel Kriegsman
Agriculture and Water: Arian Aghajanzadeh, Dieter Smiley
Power Sector - Grid 101: Taylor McNair, Andrew Battaglia
12:15pm Networking Lunch: Food Trucks by Off the Grid
1:10pm CELI Fellow Ted Talk
Matthew Monroe: Office of Naval Research
1:20pm Panel: Bridging the Gap to Equitable Decarbonization
Marilyn Waite: Program Officer, Hewlett Foundation
Demond Drummer: Executive Director, New Consensus
Stephanie Chen: Energy Equity Director, The Greenlining Institute
JB Tengco: West Coast Director, Blue Green Alliance
Hannah Bouscher-Gage: emPOWER19 Conference Chair, Moderator
2:00pm Breakout Sessions: Equitable Decarbonization
Equitable Electrification: Stephanie Chen
Designing Policies for a Clean Energy Economy: Demond Drummer
Financing our Clean Energy Future: Marilyn Waite, Goksenin Ozturkeri
Cultivating a Clean Energy Workforce: JB Tengco, Bob Keefe, Becca Ward
Energy Resilience: Liz Ramsay Dalton, Mishal Thadani, Jack Boger
3:00pm Snack Break
3:15pm Exercise: Regionally Mapping A Green New Future
4:15pm CELI emPOWER19 Awards Ceremony
Recognizing the leaders who are driving the transition to an equitable, resilient, decarbonized future.
4:35pm LIVE Podcast Taping: Watt it Takes | Green Tech Media
Christine Ho: Founder and CEO, Imprint Energy
Emily Kirsch: Founder and CEO, Powerhouse
5:30pm Closing Remarks
5:40pm Career Building Happy Hour
Sponsored by Akin Gump
6:30pm emPOWER19 Conference Concludes
7:00pm The #CELISZN After-Party and Fundraiser Begins
* Geographic diversity also taken into selection consideration
