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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