2013 Speakers
Ralph Alexander
Managing Director
Riverstone
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Shai Agassi
Founder
Better Place
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Jeff Bingaman
Former U.S. Senator
New Mexico
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Mike Carr
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
U.S. Department of Energy
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Ahmad Chatila
Chief Executive Officer
MEMC
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James A. Hughes
Chief Executive Officer
First Solar
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Dr. Arun Majumdar
Director, Energy Initiatives
Google.org
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John McDonald
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Chevron
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Ernie Moniz
Director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
MIT Department of Physics
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Donald Paul
Executive Director
Energy Institute at the University of Southern California.
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Dickon Pinner
Global Cleantech Practice Leader
McKinsey & Company
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Lyndon Rive
Co-Founder and CEO
SolarCity
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David Sandalow
Under Secretary of Energy (Acting) & Assistant Secretary for Policy & International Affairs
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David Schramm
President & Chief Executive Officer
Maxwell Technologies, Inc.
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Tom Siebel
Chairman and CEO
C3 Energy
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JB Straubel
Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer
Tesla Motors
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Lior Suchard
Supernatural Entertainer and Mentalist
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Vienna Teng
Special Musical Guest
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Past High-Level Speakers
Michael Allman
President and CEO
Southern California Gas Company
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Ray Anderson
Author,
Confessions of a Radical Industrialist and Chairman, Interface
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Janine Benyus
Author, Biomimicry
Co-Founder
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Rob Bernard
Chief Environmental Strategist,
Microsoft
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Gregory H. Boyce
Chairman and CEO
Peabody Energy
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Ralph Cavanagh
Co-Director
NRDC Energy Program
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Peter Darbee
Chairman, CEO and President
PG&E Corporation
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Ira Ehrenpreis
General Partner
Technology Partners
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Christine Ervin
Former President and CEO
USGBC
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Dan Esty
Connecticut Energy and Environment Commissioner and Green to Gold Coauthor
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Reyad Fezzani
Chief Executive Officer
BP Solar
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Dana Flanders
President
Chevron Technology Ventures
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Christopher Flavin
President
Worldwatch Institute
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Denis Giorno
Vice President of new ventures for the Gas & Power Division of Total S.A.
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Ray Gogel
President and COO,
Current and former chief architect of Xcel Energy’s SmartGridCity™
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Stuart Hart
Professor of Management at Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management and Author, numerous books and articles
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John Hofmeister
Former President, Shell Oil Company
Founder and CEO, Citizens for Affordable Energy, Inc.
Author, Why We Hate The Oil Companies
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Reed Hundt
Co-Chair,
Coalition for the Green Bank,
Former head of U.S. FCC, &
Author In China’s Shadow
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Matt Kistler
Senior Vice President, Sustainability
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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Dr. Steven Koonin
Chief Scientist
BP
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Scott Lang
Chairman, President, and CEO
Silver Spring Networks
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Jon Lauckner
GM Vice President and President
General Motors Ventures, LLC
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Andrew Littlefair
President & CEO
Clean Energy Fuels
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Amory Lovins
Cofounder, Chairman, and
Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute
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Hunter Lovins
Climate Innovator:
President and Founder – Natural Capitalism Solutions
Coauthor – Climate Capitalism
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Dr. Arun Majumdar
Director, Energy Initiatives
Google.org
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Elon Musk
Chairman, Product Architect, and CEO
Tesla Motors
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Rick Needham
Director, Energy & Sustainability, Google
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Larry O’Donnell
President and Chief Operating Officer
Waste Management, Inc.
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Donald Paul
Executive Director
Energy Institute at the University of Southern California.
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T. Boone Pickens
Founder and chairman
BP Capital Management
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John Podesta
CEO, Center for American Progress and former Chief of Staff to President Clinton
“Federal Clean-Energy Policy: An Insider’s View”
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Anne R. Pramaggiore
President and COO
Exelon’s ComEd
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Vikram Rao
Former CTO, Halliburton and current Executive Director of RTEC
(Research Triangle Energy Consortium)
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Dan Reicher
Executive Director
Steyer-Taylor Center on Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford University
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William K. Reilly
CEO, Aqua International Partners
Chairman of the World Wildfire Fund
Former U.S. EPA Administrator
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Bill Richardsson
Governor New Mexico
Former U.S. Secretary of Energy
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T.J. Rodgers
Founder and CEO
Cypress Semiconductors
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Jim Rogers
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Duke Energy
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Matt Rogers
Senior Advisor,
DOE
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Arthur R. Rosenfeld
Commissioner
California Energy Commission
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Peter Schwartz
Co-Founder and Chairman
GBN
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Andrew Shapiro
Founder and President
Green Order
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Jonathan Silver
Executive Director
U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program
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Bill Ritter
Former Governor of Colorado and Director, Center for the New Energy Economy
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Matthew R. Simmons
Chairman
Simmons & Company
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Nancy Skinner
U.S. Director
The Climate Group
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Thomas F. Steyer
Co-Senior Managing Member
Farallon Capital Management
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Terry Tamminen
Cullman Senior Fellow, New America Foundation And Former Secretary
Cal EPA
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Malcolm Unsworth
President and CEO
Itron Inc.
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Mark L. Vachon
Vice President, GE ecomagination
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Marc Verbruggen
President and Chief Executive Officer
NatureWorks LLC
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David Vieau
President and CEO,
A123 Systems
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Kevin Walsh
Managing Director, Renewable Energy
GE Energy Financial Services
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Jon Wellinghoff
Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
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Tom Werner
Chief Executive Officer, SunPower Corporation
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Daniel Yergin
Author
The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World
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2012 Speakers