Date
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Location
Schedule
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
Catherine Morehouse
Utility Dive, Reporter
Neil Bradshaw
Sungrow, Key Accounts
Eren Ergin
Honeywell, General Manager – Renewables & Distributed Assets
Jacqueline DeRosa
Ameresco, Vice President - Energy Storage Systems
Breakout Session: Energy Storage 101: Survey of Storage Technologies
Ben Kaun
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Program Manager, Energy Storage & Distributed Generation
Julian Boggs
U.S. Energy Storage Association, State Policy Director
Jeremy Twitchell
PNNL, Senior Energy Analyst
Breakout Session: Securing the Storage Supply Chain
Danny Lu
Powin, Senior Vice President
Logan Goldie-Scot
BloombergNEF, Head of Clean Power Research
Paul Wormser
Clean Energy Associates (CEA), Vice President - Technology
Elizabeth Crouse
K&L Gates LLP, Practice Group Coordinator - Power
Featured Session: Power Pairing: Hybridizing Resources with Storage
Frank Jakob
Black & Veatch, Technology Manager - Energy Storage
Mike Bowman
GE, CTO, Renewable Hybrids
Jeff St. John
Canary Media
Breakout Session: Energy Storage 201: Survey of Energy Storage Policies
Lisa Jacobson
Business Council for Sustainable Energy, President
John Fernandes
Customized Energy Solutions, Senior Consultant – Emerging Technologies
Benjamin Inskeep
EQ Research, Principal Energy Policy Analyst
Julian Spector
Canary Media
Breakout Session: Opportunities in Electrification for Decarbonization
Dr. Laura Nelson
Green Hydrogen Coalition, Executive Director
Judith Judson
National Grid, Vice President, Head of U.S. Strategy
Dr. Lola Infante
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Senior Advisor, External Relations & Strategic Initiatives
Mert Geveci
Malta, Principal Controls Engineer
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
Greg Wetstone
American Council On Renewable Energy, President and CEO
Dr. Karen Wayland
GridWise Alliance, Chief Executive Officer
Featured Session: The Nearing Horizon for Longer Duration Storage
Andy Colthorpe
Energy Storage News, Editor
Jason Handley
Duke Energy, Director of Emerging Technology
Javier Cavada
Highview
Balki Iyer
Eos, Chief Commercial Officer
Breakout Session: End of Life but Not End of Story: Recycling Battery Energy Storage Systems
Ganesh Bala
Renewance Inc., VP Sales
Menka Sethi
American Battery Technology Company, Chief Operating Officer
Marc Chupka
U.S. Energy Storage Association, Vice President, Research and Programs
Davion Hill
Momentum Energy Storage Partners, Partner & Co-founder
Breakout Session: The Next Billion Dollar Storage Market
Brad Klein
Environmental Law & Policy Center, Senior Attorney
Jeremy McDiarmid
NECEC, Vice President, Policy & Government Affairs
Julian Boggs
U.S. Energy Storage Association, State Policy Director
Harry Godfrey
Advanced Energy Economy, Director
Featured Session: Storage is Software: Optimize It
Dan Finn-Foley
Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, Head of Energy Storage
Colleen Lueken
Fluence, Lead Data Scientist
Breakout Session: Financing Spectacular Storage Growth
Deanne Barrow
Norton Rose Fulbright, Senior Associate
Yayoi Sekine
BloombergNEF, Head of Decentralized Energy
Thom Byrne
CleanCapital, CEO & Co-founder
Michael Ott
BlackRock, Director, Renewable Infrastructure
Breakout Session: Storage Rides Herd: Opportunities and Challenges to Aggregation
Michael Grasso
Sunnova, EVP & Chief Marketing Officer
Marie Fontenot
East Bay Community Energy (EBCE), Senior Director of Power Resources
Arthur "Bud" Vos
Enbala, President and CEO
Caitlin Marquis
Advanced Energy Economy, Director