Date
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Welcome and Keynote Conversation: The Storage Decade
Jason Burwen
U.S. Energy Storage Association, Interim Chief Executive Officer
Hal Harvey
Energy Innovation, Chief Executive Officer
Featured Session: Resilient Power: Diversifying and Decentralizing with Storage
Neil Bradshaw
Sungrow, Senior Technical Manager
Jacqueline DeRosa
Ameresco, Vice President of Energy Storage
Catherine Morehouse
Utility Dive, Reporter
Vineet Shah
Honeywell, Director, Global Business Development & Strategic Partnerships
Breakout Session: Energy Storage 101: Survey of Storage Technologies
Julian Boggs
U.S. Energy Storage Association, State Policy Director
Ben Kaun
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Program Manager, Energy Storage & Distributed Generation
Jeremy Twitchell
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Senior Energy Analyst
Breakout Session: Securing the Storage Supply Chain
Logan Goldie-Scot
BloombergNEF, Head of Clean Power Research
Elizabeth Crouse
K&L Gates LLP, Practice Group Coordinator - Power
Danny Lu
Powin, Senior Vice President
Featured Session: Power Pairing: Hybridizing Resources with Storage
Evan Bierman
EDF Renewables, Director of Energy Storage Product Management and Renewable Integration
Mike Bowman
GE, CTO, Renewable Hybrids
Frank Jakob
Black & Veatch, Technology Manager - Energy Storage
Jeff St. John
Canary Media, Editor-in-Chief
Breakout Session: Energy Storage 201: Survey of Energy Storage Policies
John Fernandes
Customized Energy Solutions, Senior Consultant – Emerging Technologies
Ben Inskeep
EQ Research, Principal Energy Policy Analyst
Lisa Jacobson
Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE), President
Julian Spector
Canary Media, Editor
Breakout Session: Opportunities in Electrification for Decarbonization
Mert Geveci
Malta Inc., Principal Controls Engineer
Dr. Lola Infante
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Senior Advisor, External Relations & Strategic Initiatives
Judith Judson
National Grid, Head of U.S. Strategy
Dr. Laura Nelson
Green Hydrogen Coalition, Special Advisor
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Keynote Conversation: Signals from the First 100 Days of the New Congress & Administration
Jason Burwen
U.S. Energy Storage Association, Interim Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Karen Wayland
GridWise Alliance, Chief Executive Officer
Greg Wetstone
American Council On Renewable Energy, President and CEO
Featured Session: The Nearing Horizon for Longer Duration Storage
Javier Cavada
Highview, President and CEO
Andy Colthorpe
Energy Storage News, Editor
Jason Handley
Duke Energy, Director of Emerging Technology
Balki Iyer
Eos Energy Enterprises, Chief Commercial Officer
Breakout Session: End of Life but Not End of Story: Recycling Battery Energy Storage Systems
Ganesh Bala
Renewance Inc., VP Sales
Marc Chupka
U.S. Energy Storage Association, Vice President, Research and Programs
Dr. Davion Hill
Momentum Energy Storage Partners, Partner & Co-founder
Menka Sethi
American Battery Technology Company, Chief Operating Officer
Breakout Session: The Next Billion Dollar Storage Market
Julian Boggs
U.S. Energy Storage Association, State Policy Director
Harry Godfrey
Virgina AEE, Director
Brad Klein
Environmental Law & Policy Center, Senior Attorney
Jeremy McDiarmid
NECEC, Vice President, Policy & Government Affairs
Doug Moorehead
Broad Reach Power, Managing Partner & Chief Technology Officer
Featured Session: Storage is Software: Optimize It
Nate Diamond
Doosan GridTech, Manager, Software Engineering
Dan Finn-Foley
Wood Mackenzie, Head of Energy Storage
Dr. Colleen Lueken
Fluence, Lead Data Scientist
Breakout Session: Financing Spectacular Storage Growth
Deanne Barrow
Norton Rose Fulbright, Senior Associate
Thomas Byrne
CleanCapital, CEO & Co-founder
Michael Ott
BlackRock, Director, Renewable Infrastructure
Yayoi Sekine
BloombergNEF, Head of Decentralized Energy
Breakout Session: Storage Rides Herd: Opportunities and Challenges to Aggregation
Marie Fontenot
East Bay Community Energy (EBCE), Senior Director of Power Resources
Michael Grasso
Sunnova, EVP & Chief Marketing Officer
Caitlin Marquis
Advanced Energy Economy, Director
Arthur "Bud" Vos
Enbala, President and CEO