Speakers
Keynote Address: Jim Robo
Chairman and CEO of NextEra Energy
Mr. Robo leads NextEra Energy, the largest wind and solar renewable energy generation company in the world and parent company to Florida Power & Light, one of the largest rate-regulated utilities in the U.S.
Keynote Address: Belgacem Chariag
President of Global Operations at Baker Hughes Incorporated
Mr. Chariag leads the company’s global operations organization, responsible for world-class operational performance, exceptional service and sales execution, and delivering strong operating profits.
Keynote Address: Sonny Wu
Chairman of GSR Capital, Co-founder of GSR Ventures
Mr. Wu focuses on investments in the new materials and new energy sectors, and is dedicated to supporting domestic Chinese start-ups and scaling mature technologies in China.
October 8, 2016
Agenda & Logistics
#HBSenergy2016
Kassia Yanosek
Partner, McKinsey & Company, and Founder of Tana Energy Capital
Oleg Mikhailov
Partner and Managing Director, Energy Practice, BCG
Jarett Carson
Managing Director, EnerTech Capital
Kate Richard
Founder and CEO, Warwick Energy Group
Jens Nielsen
CEO of World Climate Ltd.
Bill Lese
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Braemar Energy Ventures
Peter Harding
CEO of Kelvin Inc.
Alex Robart
Managing Director and Co-Founder, Unconventional Capital
Duval Yaeger
Vice President of Product Marketing, Redline Communications
Richard Vietor
Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Rohit Modi
Chief Executive of the Solar Division at Suzlon
James Bowen
Director of Vertex Energia Mexico
Daniel Snow
Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Mark Pastrone
Vice President of Business Development, SemaConnect
John Di Donato
Vice President of Wind Development, NextEra Energy
Blaine Collison
Managing Director, Altenex
Russell Tencer
Founder and CEO of United Wind
Hyder Kazimi
Partner, McKinsey & Company
Eric Liaw
Managing Director, Blackstone Energy
Gerrit Nicholas
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Orion Energy Partners
Roger Huang
Principal, Natural Resources, CPP Investment Board
Charles Leykum
Founder and Managing Partner, CSL Capital
Shaun Finnie
Senior Managing Director and Head of Oil & Gas Acquisition & Divestiture Advisory Business, Evercore Partners
Flavio da Silveira Pinheiro
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, InterEnergy Partners
Tanuj Deora
Chief Strategy Officer of the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA)
Tim Larrison
Chief Financial Officer of Green Charge Networks
Vijay Singh
Executive Director of Business Development for Energy Storage, NextEra Energy
Colleen Calhoun
Director of Business Development and Partnerships, GE Current
Lance Brasher
Partner and Global Head of Energy & Infrastructure at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Daniel Hullah
Managing Director, GE Ventures
Eva Lerner-Lam
Director of Eastern U.S. Business for BYD Motors, Inc.
Shannon Miller
CEO, EtaGen
Joseph R. Mitchell
President and CEO of UQM Technologies
Patrick Hurley
Chief Technology Officer at A123 Systems
Rachel Jiang
Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Environmental and Power Markets Analyst
Paul Gaynor
Co-Founder and CEO of Longroad Energy Partners; Former CEO of First Wind
Libby Wayman
Global Director of Ecomagination at GE
Mitchell Goldstein
VP Finance and CFO, Nuclear Fleet at NextEra Energy
Ben Sampson
Director at GE Ventures
Tibor Toth
Managing Director of Investments, MassCEC
Greg Wasserman
Partner, Generation Investment Management
Henrik Holland
Venture Principal, Shell Technology Ventures
Keith Martin
Partner, Chadbourne & Parke LLP
PJ Lee
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Everstream Capital
Bryan Garcia
President and CEO, Connecticut Green Bank
Jeffrey Berman
Managing Director, BlackRock
David Geenberg
Managing Director & Co-Head of North American Investment team, SVP Global
Jim Lawnin
Lead Energy Partner, IBM
Tom Murley
Chairman and Senior Advisor, Hg Capital Renewable Power Partners' Funds
Robert Brooks
Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, Jones Energy
Chris Leary
Senior Vice President, Orion Energy Partners
Raquel Bierzwinsky
Partner, Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Jed Bailey
Managing Partner, Energy Narrative
Paul Afonso
Co-Practice Leader of Energy, Utilities and Environmental Group, Brown Ruddick LLP
Will Vega-Brown
Co-Founder & CTO, Tagup
Mike Phillips
Co-Founder & CEO, Sense
Les Fritzemeier
CEO of Tessolar
Itai Zlotnik
Co-Founder, ClimaCell
Eamon Carrig
Co-Founder & CEO, Autonomous Marine Systems
Dipka Bhambhani
Director of Communications, United States Energy Association
Panels
Energy Finance
The perennial question for long-term energy investments remains: is it bankable? In oil and gas, new private equity players are changing their typical fund structures to make bets on productive energy assets while energy giants with strong capital positions have their M&A departments hard at work. For renewable and clean energy assets, project finance continues to grow as their underlying projects become more scalable and cost-effective while new projects such as energy storage and alternative financing techniques challenge the typical model.
Innovations in Renewable Energy Finance
Private Equity Seizing New Energy Opportunities
Dealmaking in the Downturn
Innovation
Software and high-tech innovations have descended upon the energy sector, driving down costs and enabling new business models. Growth in energy storage throughout this year creates opportunities for energy management software that responds to customers' and utilities' needs. Innovation in solar continues to drive down both the hardware costs and the 'soft,' non-hardware costs. The low oil price environment has encouraged some companies to identify how they can improve efficiency and reduce their cost profile using high-tech solutions that lower the costs of production.
Energy Storage Driving Grid Optimization
The Promise and Challenges of International Renewables Development
Digital Oil Field: Innovating for a Low-Price Environment
Policy & Trends
The 2015 Paris Climate Conference set ambitious targets and created incentives for countries to prevent deleterious effects on the environment. We'll examine the effects of COP21 over the last year and determine how its mandates will impact the energy industry. We'll also look closely at changes in the transportation sector including the increased adoption of electric vehicles planting seeds that may grow to change how our entire world moves.
