Opening keynote: Federal politics on the cusp of major climate policy
Phil Sharp
Resources for the Future
Phil Sharp, former member of Congress and president emeritus of Resources for the Future, will discuss the Green New Deal, a proposed U.S. legislative package that aims to address climate change and economic inequality. For now, the GND is a pair of resolutions in the House and the Senate, but GND leaders hope to pass multiple pieces of detailed legislation in the House in 2020, each with more specificity.
Oxford-style debate, (audience votes on the debate winners):
Should California continue to build its high-speed rail system?
Debate at noon PT will stream live here:
Lenny Mendonca
California High Speed Rail Authority
Dan Richard
California High Speed Rail Authority
Dan Schnur
Institute of Governmental Studies, UC-Berkeley
Steve Westly
California State Controller (former); The Westly Group
Jeff Byron
Band of Angels
Opening keynote: Federal politics on the cusp of major climate policy
Kate Gordon
Gov. Newsom's Office of Planning & Research
Kate Gordon, director of the California Governor's Office of Planning & Research, will discuss how the state is moving from ambitious goals to direct action on climate change. In particular, Kate will focus on two areas that are top-of-mind for the Newsom administration: catastrophic wildfires, and the intersection of housing and transportation systems.
TED-style talks by energy startup founders
Adrian Albert
Terrafuse
Cara Beasley
Aligned Carbon
Cody Finke
Brimstone
Jill Fuss
CinderBio
Pedram Mokrian
Stanford
Matt Price
Cyclotron Road
Revolution in personal transportation: AVs, EVs, mobility as a service
Austin Brown
UC-Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment & the Economy
Regina Clewlow
Populus.ai
Sara Rafalson
EVgo
Mark Platshon
Icebreaker Ventures
Wildfires and electricity systems: risks, costs, finance and policy options
Margaret Peloso
Vinson & Elkins
Michael Wara
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
James Sweeney
Stanford
Innovations in achieving corporate clean energy goals
Mary Curtiss
HP
Urvi Parekh
Facebook
Natasha Tuck
VMWare
Marianna Grossman
Minerva Ventures
Managing the grid with increased renewables: Technologies and solutions
Haresh Kamath
EPRI
Mark Martinez
Southern California Edison
Gabriel D. Taylor
California Energy Commission
Mary Ann Piette
Berkeley Lab
PG&E’s bankruptcy and its implications
Ralph Cavanagh
NRDC
Mike Florio
CPUC (former); Florio Consulting
Frank Lindh
CPUC (former); practicing attorney
Gary Ackerman
Western Power Trading Forum
Mitigating climate change: New technologies and processes
Sally Benson
Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford
Matteo Cargnello
Chemical Engineering Dept., Stanford
Steven Chu
Physics Dept. and School of Medicine, Stanford
Barbara Heydorn
SVES Planning Committee
New energy programs coming to a community choice aggregator near you
Girish Balachandran
Silicon Valley Clean Energy
Lori Mitchell
City of San Jose
Jan Pepper
Peninsula Clean Energy
Jeff Byron
Band of Angels
Conversations: Small Group, Informal Round-Table Discussions
Phil Sharp
National Energy Policy
Margaret Peloso
Wildfires and Electricity
Austin Brown
Personal Transportation
Natasha Tuck
Corporation Transformations
Marianna Grossman
Corporation Transformations
Dan Richard
California High Speed Rail
Photos from SVES 2018
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Henry Ahem of Shell talks with participants in sponsor showcase during networking break.
Band of Angels’ Jeff Byron kicks off the lunchtime debate.
The World Economic Forum’s Cheryl Martin delivers SVES 2018’s keynote.
Gemi Jose Gonzalez Lopez participates in the Conversation for Action on NAFTA.
100% employee-owned construction company Swinerton’s booth in the sponsor showcase
SVES 2018 planning committee members
Feasible’s Andrew Hsieh talks with audience member after the founders’ panel.
Marcela Ochoa of The Nature Conservancy at session on community choice energy. (Credit all photos: Steve Castillo)
Conversation for Action on the future of energy technology
Byron Benjamin of Boeing and Vince Romanin, co-founder of Treau
Speaker Andras Boross of Stem chats with a participant during the reception.
Cheryl Martin and participant Qing Tian of the California Energy Commission
Nearly full house for the parallel session on microgrids
MicroByre co-founder Sarah Richardson gives her TED-style talk.
IoT tools for efficient and cybersecure buildings discussant, Ravi Jadhav of Cisco
Hermann Tribukait of Mexico Energy R&D Funds and Barbara Heydorn of SRI International
The founders answer audience questions after their individual TED-style talks.
Conversation for Action on community choice aggregation
Stanford’s John Weyant and energy resources engineering masters’ student Holger Teichgraeber
Consuls General Gonzalez Lopez of Mexico and Sarkar of Canada discuss NAFTA renegotiations.
The debate’s “con” team: Stanford GSB’s Michael Ostrovsky and Deloitte’s Brian Goncher
Stanford Woods for the Environment's director Chris Field during "unscripted" close.
Silicon Valley Power’s Erica Jue and Arielle Romero during a networking break
Beth Vaughan, V. John White and Jan Pepper in parallel session on community choice energy
