Speakers
2013 Speakers
2012 Speakers
Michael Allman
Corporate Innovator:
President and CEO
Southern California Gas Company
Rob Bernard
Chief Environmental Strategist,
Microsoft
Ira Ehrenpreis
General Partner
Technology Partners
Dan Esty
Connecticut Energy and Environment Commissioner and Green to Gold Coauthor
Denis Giorno
Vice President of new ventures for the Gas & Power Division of Total S.A.
Kevin Genieser
Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
Stuart Hart
Professor of Management at Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management and Author, numerous books and articles
Michael Horwitz
Senior Clean Technology Research Analyst, Baird
Professor Daniel Kammen
Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Russ Landon
Managing Director, Clean Technology Practice, Keybanc
Hunter Lovins
Climate Innovator:
President and Founder – Natural Capitalism Solutions
Coauthor – Climate Capitalism
Dr. Arun Majumdar
Research Innovator:
Director,
ARPA-E
Rick Needham
Director, Energy & Sustainability, Google
Ron Pernick
Managing Director
Clean Edge, Inc. and Co-Author, The Clean Tech Revolution
Nancy Pfund
Nancy E. Pfund, Founder and Managing Partner of DBL Investors
Bill Ritter
Former Governor of Colorado and Director, Center for the New Energy Economy
J. Radford Small
Managing Director in the Natural Resources Group in the Investment Banking Division, Goldman Sachs
Vienna Teng
Special Musical Guest
Mark L. Vachon
Vice President, GE ecomagination
Jon Wellinghoff
Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Tom Werner
Chief Executive Officer, SunPower Corporation
Lorie Wigle
Eco-Technology General Manager, Intel Corporation
President, Climate Savers Computing Initiative
Clint Wilder
Clean Edge Senior Editor
Jonathan Wolfson
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Solazyme
Daniel Yergin
Author
The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World
2011 Speakers
Jeff Adams
Managing Director
Goldman Sachs
Adam E. Bergman
Director
Clean-Tech Investment Banking
Deutsche Bank Securities
Ralph Cavanagh
Co-Director
NRDC Energy Program
Ira Ehrenpreis
General Partner
Technology Partners
John Hofmeister
Former President, Shell Oil Company
Founder and CEO, Citizens for Affordable Energy, Inc.
Author, Why We Hate The Oil Companies
Russ Landon
Managing Director, Clean Technology Practice, Keybanc
Jon Lauckner
GM Vice President and President
General Motors Ventures, LLC
Andrew Littlefair
President & CEO
Clean Energy Fuels
Elon Musk
Chairman, Product Architect, and CEO
Tesla Motors
Ron Pernick
Managing Director
Clean Edge, Inc. and Co-Author, The Clean Tech Revolution
Warner Phillips
Co-Founder
Lemnis and President Lighting USA
Carl Pope
Chairman
Sierra Club
Vikram Rao
Former CTO, Halliburton and current Executive Director of RTEC
(Research Triangle Energy Consortium)
Dan Reicher
Executive Director
Steyer-Taylor Center on Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford University
T.J. Rodgers
Founder and CEO
Cypress Semiconductors
Peter Schwartz
Co-Founder and Chairman
GBN
Andrew Shapiro
Founder and President
Green Order
Jonathan Silver
Executive Director
U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program
Thomas F. Steyer
Co-Senior Managing Member
Farallon Capital Management
Erik Straser
General Partner
Mohr Davidow Ventures
Tom Tiller
CEO
Abound Solar
Malcolm Unsworth
President and CEO
Itron Inc.
Gary D. Vollen
Managing Director
Investment Banking, Robert W. Baird & Co.
John Woolard
CEO, Brightsource
Cathy Zoi
Acting Under Secretary for Energy and the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, US Department of Energy
2010 Speakers
Jeff Adams
Managing Director,
Goldman Sachs
Ray Anderson
Author,
Confessions of a Radical Industrialist and Chairman, Interface
Rob Bernard
Chief Environmental Strategist,
Microsoft
Ralph Cavanagh
Co-Director, Energy Program
Natural Resources Defense Council
Ray Gogel
President and COO,
Current and former chief architect of Xcel Energy’s SmartGridCity™
Skip Grow
Managing Director
Lazard Freres & Co.
Reed Hundt
Co-Chair,
Coalition for the Green Bank,
Former head of U.S. FCC, &
Author In China’s Shadow
Scott E. Jacobs
Manager
Clean-Tech Practice, McKinsey & Company
Guido Jouret
Chief Technology Officer
Emerging Technologies Group, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Scott Lang
Chairman, President, and CEO
Silver Spring Networks
Jeffrey Lipton
Managing Director
Jefferies & Company, Inc.
Amanda Little
Environmental Journalist &
Author Power Trip
Amory Lovins
Cofounder, Chairman, and
Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute
Anne R. Pramaggiore
President and COO
Exelon’s ComEd
Matt Rogers
Senior Advisor,
DOE
Peter Schwartz
Co-Founder and Chairman
Global Business Network
Partner, Monitor Group
Craig Venter
CEO
Synthetic Genomics
Best known for sequencing the human genome
David Vieau
President and CEO,
A123 Systems
Gary D. Vollen
Managing Director,
Robert W. Baird & Co.
Judith B. Warrick
Senior Advisor
Morgan Stanley