A National Town Meeting on demand response + smart grid

Speakers:

Preliminary list of 2013 National Town Meeting speakers announced

 

As the forum in the U.S. for all things demand response and smart grid, the National Town Meeting on Demand Response and Smart Grid™ features speakers who take the measure of the state of the industry, indicate what’s to come in the year ahead, and report on best practices and projects in the field.

Each year we try hard to put together a diverse group of speakers for the National Town Meeting, including some from “outside the box.”

Take a look at our preliminary list of speakers below. And stay tuned…many more speakers to come!

 

2013 Speakers

    • Jon Wellinghoff
      Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
    • Jonathan Powers
      Federal Environmental Executive, White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)
    • Donna Nelson
      Chairman, Public Utilities Commission of Texas (PUCT)
    • Catherine Sandoval
      Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
    • Craig Ivey
      President, Con Edison
    • Doyle N. Beneby
      CEO, CPS Energy
    • Blake Young
      President and CEO, Comverge
    • Richard Mora
      President and CEO, Landis+Gyr
    • Matt Rogers
      Founder and VP of Engineering, Nest
    • David Brewster
      President and Co-Founder, EnerNOC
    • Sheri Givens
      Public Counsel, Texas Office of Public Utility Counsel
    • Larsh Johnson
      Founder and CTO, eMeter, a Siemens Business
    • Gary Fromer
      Senior Vice President Energy Management Programs, Constellation
    • David Owens
      Executive Vice President, Edison Electric Institute
    • Paul Grod
      President, Rodan Energy Solutions
    • Ron Dizy
      President and CEO, ENBALA
    • Steve George
      CEO, Freeman, Sullivan & Co
    • Peter Scarpelli
      Vice President and Global Director – Energy and Sustainability, CBRE
    • Robert Ethier
      Vice President of Market Developments, ISO-New England
    • Mike Carlson
      General Manager for Software Solutions, GE Digital Energy
    • Jason Wilson
      Senior Vice President Business Management, On-Ramp Wireless
    • Paul De Martini
      Managing Director, Newport Consulting Group
    • Steve Cowell
      Chairman and CEO, Conservation Services Group
    • Niraj Bharghava
      CEO, Energate
    • Jun Shimada
      CEO, ThinkEco
    • Merrill Smith
      Program Manager, Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability, U.S. Department of Energy
    • Susan Norris
      Senior Manager – Pricing Products, Pacific Gas & Electric
    • Mike Farrell
      Director Customer Programs, Oklahoma Gas & Electric
    • Tim Roughan
      Director of Energy and Environmental Policy, National Grid
    • Lupe Jiminez
      Senior Project Manager, SMUD
    • Randy Pratt
      Manager of Government Relations, Vermont Electric Cooperative
    • Risa Baron
      External Affairs Outreach Manager, San Diego Gas & Electric
    • Eric Lightner
      Director, Smart Grid Task Force, U.S. Department of Energy
    • Barbara Leary
      Sr. Director, Marketing & Communication, Florida Power & Light
    • Ron Kurtz
      Director for Sustainable and Renewable Energy, Dimplex
    • Stuart Schare
      Director, Navigant Energy Practice
    • Rita Moran
      VP Customer Service, National Grid
    • Larry Oliva
      Director, Tariff Programs & Services, Southern California Edison
    • Rick Voytas
      Manager-Energy Efficiency and Demand Response, Ameren
    • Butch Massey
      Director – Demand Side Pricing, Tennessee Valley Authority
    • Howard Smith
      Manager, Resource Planning and Operations, Alabama Power
    • Eugenie Birch
      Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education, Chair of the Graduate Group in City Planning, University of Pennsylvania
    • David Sun
      Chief Scientist, Alstom Grid
    • Ahmad Faruqui
      Principal, The Brattle Group
    • Chris King
      Chief Regulatory Officer, eMeter
    • Craig Boice
      President, Boice Dunham Group
    • Pete Cappers
      Principle Scientific Engineering Associate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • Tony Abate
      Project Manager for Demand Side Resources, NYSERDA
    • Lisa Magnuson
      Senior Director of Marketing & Brand Programs, Silver Spring Networks
    • Steve Bishop
      Portfolio Lead, IDEO
    • Susan Covino
      Senior Consultant, Market Strategy, PJM Interconnection
    • Judith Schwartz
      President, To the Point

 


2012 Speakers

  • Dorothy Robyn
    Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations & Environment, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
  • Nick Sinai
    Senior Policy Advisor, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
  • Eric Lightner
    Director, Federal Smart Grid Task Force, Department of Energy (DOE)
  • Orjiakor Isiogu
    Commissioner, Michigan Public Service Commission
  • Ward Lenz
    Executive Director, North Carolina State Energy Office
  • Thierry Godart
    President, Smart Grid Division – North America, Siemens
  • Blake Young
    CEO, Comverge
  • Mary Doswell
    Senior Vice President – Alternative Energy Solutions, Dominion Resources
  • Steve Nadel
    President, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)
  • Jules Polenetsky
    President, Future of Privacy Forum
  • Ron Dizy
    CEO, ENBALA
  • Stu Bresler
    VP Market Operations, PJM
  • Kellie Donnelly
    Republican Deputy Chief Counsel, U.S. Senate Energy Committee
  • Rick Voytas
    Manager, Energy Efficiency and Demand Response, Ameren
  • Tim Roughan
    Director of Distributed Resources, National Grid
  • Paul Miles
    Manager of Marketing Technical Services, PECO
  • Sharon Bauer
    Director Demand Response Programs, Progress Energy
  • Ted Reguly
    Director of Customer Programs and Assistance, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E)
  • Larry Oliva
    Director, Tariff Programs & Services, Southern California Edison (SCE)
  • Jeremy Donnell
    Manager – Demand Response Measurement and Evaluation, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E)
  • Howard Smith
    Resource Planning Manager, Southern Company
  • Mike Barber
    Demand Response Adviser, MISO
  • Henry Yoshimura
    Director, Demand Resource Strategy, ISO-New England
  • Butch Massey
    Director – Demand Side Pricing, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
  • Colin Smart
    Section Manager for Demand Response, Consolidated Edison (ConEd)
  • Erik Ellis
    Manager, Resource Program Planning, Arizona Public Service (APS)
  • Susan Covino
    Senior Consultant, Market Strategy Development, PJM
  • Mary Beth Tighe
    Senior Technical and Policy Advisor to the Chairman, FERC
  • Jim Gallagher
    Senior Manager, NYISO
  • Tom Stathos
    Director-Customer Programs & Services, PPL Electric Utilities
  • Paul Wattles
    Senior Analyst, Market Design, ERCOT
  • Mike Farrell
    Director Customer Programs, Oklahoma Gas & Electric (OG&E)
  • Brian Hanrahan
    Director, In-Home Technologies and Electric Vehicles, Florida Power & Light
  • Casey Bisard
    Economist, NV Energy
  • Jay Demarest
    Customer Relations and Programs Director, Pepco
  • Lupe Strickland
    Senior Project Manager, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)
  • Christine Wright
    Senior Policy Analyst, Texas PSC
  • Randy Pratt
    Manager of Government Relations, Vermont Electric Cooperative
  • Mark Podorsky
    Manager of SmartConnect Business Design, Southern California Edison (SCE)
  • Nik Schruder
    Evaluation Manager, Conservation, Ontario Power Authority
  • Katie Pruder-Scruggs
    Smart Grid Outreach Coordinator, Bonneville Power Administration
  • Bruce Hamer
    Smart Grid Program Manager, Burbank Water & Power
  • Andrew Horstman
    Manager of Load Response, Wabash Valley Power
  • John Radgowski
    Director Product Development and Customer Solutions, Dominion Voltage
  • Paul Steffes
    CEO, Steffes Corporation
  • Alex Kinnier
    SVP of Devices and Real-Time Services, Opower
  • Louis Szablya
    Vice President of Marketing and Utility Solutions, Energate
  • Rich Peterson
    Director of Growth Operations in the New Business Solution Group, Best Buy
  • Katie Tweed
    Senior Writer, Greentech Media
  • David Wollman
    Deputy Director, Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems Program Office, NIST
  • Chris King
    Chief Strategy Officer, eMeter, a Siemens Business
  • Clinton Davis
    Director, Product Strategy – Smart Grid, Ventyx
  • John Steinberg
    EVP of Business Development & Co-Founder, EcoFactor
  • Swapnil Shah
    CEO & Co-Founder, First Fuel
  • Dave Elve
    Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, PayGo Electric
  • Dan Violette
    Managing Partner, Navigant Consulting
  • Steve George
    CEO, Freeman, Sullivan, & Co.
  • Ahmad Faruqui
    Managing Partner, The Brattle Group
  • Brad Davids
    Vice President, Utility Solutions, EnerNOC
  • Todd Greenwalt
    VP of Engineering, Powerit Solutions
  • Aine Denari
    Director of Strategy, Ingersoll-Rand
  • Peter Klauer
    Smart Grid Solutions Manager, California ISO
  • Tom Tiernan
    Senior Reporter, Platts
  • Christopher Joyce
    Senior Reporter, National Public Radio
  • Chuck McDermott
    Managing Partner, RockPort Capital
  • Elgie Holstein
    Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
  • Mei Shibata
    Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, ThinkEco
  • Clyde Melton
    Performance Analysis Engineer, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)
  • Ann Perreault
    Global Product Director, Cooper Power Systems
  • Paul Alvarez
    President, Wired Group
  • Judith Schwartz
    President, To the Point
  • Mike Alexander
    Manager – DSM Measurement and Evaluation, PG&E
  • David Steele
    Sr. Director, Smart Energy Practice, JD Power and Associates
  • Priya Sreedharan
    Senior Consultant, Energy and Environmental Economics (E3)
  • Jessica Spanier
    Senior Research Analyst, CNT Energy
  • Karen Zelmar
    Director – Pricing Products, PG&E
  • Eric Woychik
    Executive Consultant, Itron
  • Nate Gilbraith
    Research Assistant, Clarkson University
  • Matt Wakefield
    Senior Program Manager, EPRI
  • Mimi Goldberg
    Senior Vice President, KEMA
  • Susan Norris
    Senior Manager – Pricing Producs, PG&E
  • Patty Durand
    Executive Director, SGCC
  • Tim Woolf
    Vice President, Synapse Energy Economics
  • Chuck Goldman
    Department Head and Staff Scientist, Energy Analysis Dept., Lawrence Berkley National Labs (LBL)

 

This video showcases some of the great speakers and panelists from the 2011 Town Meeting.


2011 Speakers

  • Mark Udall
    U.S. Senate, Senator (D-CO)
  • Jon Wellinghoff
    FERC, Chairman
  • Patricia Hoffman
    DOE, Assistant Secretary, Electricity
  • Cheryl LaFleur
    FERC, Commissioner
  • Joe Rigby
    Pepco Holdings, Inc., President and CEO
  • Blake Young
    Comverge, CEO
  • Ron Dizy
    ENBALA, CEO
  • Tim Enwall
    Tendril, Founder and CIO
  • Steve Cowell
    Conservation Services Group, CEO
  • Wayne Gardner
    Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission, Commissioner
  • Tammy McLeod
    Arizona Public Service, VP and Chief Customer Officer
  • Rick Morgan
    DC Public Service Commission, Commissioner
  • Donna Nelson
    Texas PUC, Commissioner
  • Eric Dresselhuys
    Silver Spring Networks, Executive Vice President
  • Sharon Bauer
    Progress Energy, Director Demand Response Programs
  • Teri Berliner
    American Electric Power, Director, Consumer Programs
  • Kevin Huyler
    Senate Cmte on Energy and Natural Resoures, Legal Counsel
  • Amy Boyce
    USGBC, Manager, LEED
  • Tom Catania
    Whirlpool, VP, Government Relations
  • Jim Greer
    Oncor, Senior VP – Asset Management and Engineering
  • Wayne Harbaugh
    Baltimore Gas & Electric, Vice President
  • Patrick Dawson
    U.S. General Services Administration, Energy Manager
  • Seth Kiner
    Southern California Edison, Director, Customer Experience and Marketing
  • Chris Villarreal
    California PUC, Smart Grid Lead
  • Val Jensen
    Commonwealth Edison, Vice President
  • Butch Massey
    Tennessee Valley Authority, General Manager – Demand Response
  • Malcolm Woolf
    Maryland Energy Administration, Director
  • Bill Massey
    COMPETE Coalition, General Counsel
  • Steve McCarty
    Pacific Gas & Electric, Director Demand Response
  • Diane Regas
    Environmental Defense Fund, Associate VP Programs
  • Nick Sinai
    White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Senior Advisor
  • Colin Smart
    ConEd, Section Manager, Demand Response
  • David Daer
    Salt River Project, Principal Financial Analyst
  • Gregg Paulson
    City of Manassas, Deputy Director of Electric Utilities
  • Scott Baker
    PJM Interconnection, Business Solutions Engineer
  • Barbara Blatter
    Family and Consumer Sciences FCCLA Adviser, Granville Middle School
  • Ted Reguly
    San Diego Gas & Electric, Director Customer Programs
  • Stephanie Chen
    Greenlining Institute, Senior Legal Counsel
  • Cheri Warren
    National Grid, VP Asset Management
  • Ken Corum
    Northwest Power and Conservation Council, Senior Economist
  • Laurence Daniels
    DC Office of the People’s Counsel, Assistant People’s Counsel
  • Ahmed Faruqui
    The Brattle Group, Principal
  • Charles Dickerson
    Pepco, Vice President, Customer Care
  • Steve George
    Freeman Sullivan & Co., Principal Consultant
  • Howard Smith
    Southern Company, Manager of Resource Planning and Load Management
  • Barry Haaser
    OpenADR Alliance, Managing Director
  • Chip O’Donnell
    Siemens, Director, Smart Consumption
  • Chris Thomas
    Illinois CUB, Senior Policy Analyst
  • Bill Harmon
    Reliant, VP of Residential Segment Marketing
  • Clayton Hasty
    Shaw Diversified Services Inc., Plant Manager
  • Peter Honebein
    Do It Yourself Customers, Principal
  • Mike Jacobs
    Xtreme Power, Director of Regulatory Affairs and Market Policy
  • Harjeet Johal
    GE Global Research, Electrical Engineer
  • Peter Millburg
    Ameren, Managing Supervisor
  • Christina Haslund
    Itron, Senior Product Manager
  • Paul Alvarez
    Metavu, Principal and Practice Leader
  • Chris King
    eMeter, Chief Strategy Officer
  • Herbert Harris Jr.
    DC Citizens Utility Board, Chairman
  • Jeff Lund
    Echelon, Vice President, Business Development
  • Steve Sunderhauf
    Pepco, Manager of Customer Programs
  • Kyle McNamara
    Verizon, Managing Principal – Global Energy & Utilities Practice
  • Kenny Mercado
    CenterPoint Energy, Senior Vice President
  • John Holt
    IBEW Local 1900, President and Business Manager
  • Harvey Michaels
    MIT, Lecturer and Research Director
  • Bill Provencher
    Navigant Energy Practice, Associate Director
  • Joe Eberly
    U.S. General Services Administration, Energy & Sustainability Program Analyst
  • Patti Harper-Slaboszewicz
    Bass/A CSC Company, Project Manager
  • Craig Miller
    NRECA, Project Manager
  • Kevin Wood
    Southern California Edison, Manager Large Customer Programs
  • Judith Schwartz
    To the Point, Principal
  • May Wu
    Integral Analytics, Manager Market Research
  • Kris Coracini
    Environmental Defense Fund, Energy Policy Specialist
  • John Love
    NYSERDA, Senior Project Manager
  • Eugene Smithart
    Trane, Director of Systems and Solutions
  • Andy Trump
    Black & Veatch, Executive Consultant
  • Bob Valair
    Staples, Inc., Director of Energy and Environmental Management

 

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