Sparking conversations that matter.
The brightest minds discussing the world’s critical energy and sustainability challenges.
Tuesday, November 10th
Main Session | Room 222, Live Stream in Room 225 |
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7:15 – 8:00 am | Registration Breakfast & Solutions Zone The Georgia Tech Global Learning Center – Level 2 |
8:00 – 8:10 am | Welcome Erik Becker – VP, Sales, Urjanet |
8:10 – 8:55 am | Software Can Transform Energy Strategies — But Will It Happen? David Metcalfe – CEO, Verdantix |
8:55 – 9:15 am | Urjanet – What’s New? Sanjoy Malik – CEO, Urjanet |
9:15 – 9:35 am | Morning Break & Solutions Zone |
9:35 – 10:05 am | Panel: An Inside Perspective on Energy Management within the Cable Industry Huiet Joseph – Senior Manager, Sustainability and Engineering, Cox Enterprises Allison Richards – Senior Energy Analyst, Time Warner Cable Rene Spee – Senior Energy Consultant, Coppervale Daniel Howard – Fellow & Former CTO, Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers Moderated by Tim Porter – Director, OEM / Channel Sales, Urjanet |
10:05 – 10:35 am | Using Innovation and Technology to Transform the Future of Waste Felix Faulhaber – VP, Business Intelligence, Rubicon Global |
10:35 – 10:50 am | Morning Break & Solutions Zone |
10:50 – 11:20 am | Urjanet Product Roadmap Mike Pridemore – VP, Product Development, Urjanet Klaar De Schepper – Director of Data Management, Bright Power Veronica Thomas – Data Manager, Bright Power Colby Thames – SVP, Technology, Choice Energy Services |
11:20 am – 12:20 pm | Flash Presentations Priscilla Koeckeritz – President & CEO, EnergyPrint Paul Kelly – VP, Energy Information Services, AvidXchange Mike Fraser – VP of Development, Global Sustainability Services, Schneider Electric Efrain Quiros – VP, Partnerships & Operations, cr360 Nick Hayes – Commercial Director, Waterscan Anthony DuPreez – Chief Technology Officer, BidEnergy Robb Stanek – Regional Sales Director, Powerhouse Dynamics |
12:20 pm – 1:20 pm | Networking Lunch & Solutions Zone The Georgia Tech Hotel Dining Room |
Sustainability Breakout Session – Part 1 | Room 222 |
1:20 – 2:00 pm | Panel: Alternative Energy and Sustainability Innovations Asim Hussain – VP, Marketing and Customer Experience, Bloom Energy Jamie Porges – COO, Radiance Solar Jeff Leaders – Founder, Soneter Moderated by John Failla – Founder & Editorial Director, Smart Energy Decisions |
2:00 – 2:35 pm | Simplifying Sustainability Through Gamification Paul Shahriari – Founder & CEO, ecomedes |
2:35 – 2:55 pm | Afternoon Break & Solutions Zone |
Sustainability Breakout Session – Part 2 | Room 225 |
2:55 – 3:30 pm | Driving for Sustainability Ed Rogers – Senior Director of Global Sustainability, UPS |
3:30 – 4:05 pm | The Investor’s Perspective of Sustainability Chris Hagler – Southeast Practice Leader, Climate Change and Sustainability Service, Ernst & Young |
4:05 – 4:25 pm | Afternoon Break & Solutions Zone |
Energy Management and Procurement Breakout Session – Part 1 | Room 225 |
1:20 – 2:00 pm | The Interconnectedness of Global Power Markets and Implications for Corporations Tim Leigh – Global Lead Product and Service Development, Accenture |
2:00 – 2:35 pm | Energy Management Passes the Point of No Return Marlene Motyka – U.S. Alternative Energy Leader and Principal, Deloitte |
2:35 – 2:55 pm | Afternoon Break & Solutions Zone |
Energy Management and Procurement Breakout Session – Part 2 | Room 222 |
2:55 – 3:30 pm | Panel: Managing Energy and Carbon Emissions for an Unpredictable Future Mike Whitlatch – VP, Global Energy and Procurement, UPS Jay Zoellner – Managing Director, Industrial Solutions, EnerNOC Zach Shelin – Senior Analyst, The Cadmus Group working on behalf of EPA’s ENERGY STAR Carlos Pacheco – Global Energy Manager, Coca-Cola Moderated by Marlene Motyka – U.S. Alternative Energy Leader and Principal, Deloitte |
3:30 – 4:05 pm | What’s the Advantage of Energy Intelligence? John Spirtos – Executive Director, New Business Creation, GE Ventures |
4:05 – 4:25 pm | Afternoon Break & Solutions Zone |
Main Session | Room 222 |
4:25 – 4:55 pm | Architecting the Future of Energy and Sustainability Jana Schmidt – President & CEO, Ecova |
4:55 – 5:10 pm | Closing Remarks Erik Becker – VP, Sales, Urjanet |
The Spence | |
5:30 – 8:00 pm | After party @ The Spence |
Presentation Abstracts
Software Can Transform Energy Strategies – But Will It Happen?
David Metcalfe – CEO, Verdantix
In the last 10 years, new regulations and market forces have resulted in a wide range of innovations in energy equipment and systems. The rise of more complex energy systems necessitates more sophisticated management tools. And that’s why software is a more critical part of the energy system than it was in 2005. Software has the potential to transform not just energy systems but also energy strategies. But absent pressures for investment will it happen in the next 5 years? Or will CFOs only have the vision to invest in a limited number of special cases due to a lack of potential value creation? This speech will explore the current state of energy management software and sketch out future scenarios.
Driving for Sustainability
Ed Rogers – Senior Director of Global Sustainability, UPS
Learn how sustainable companies such as UPS achieve a balance among social responsibility, environmental stewardship, and economic performance. This presentation will discuss how UPS is leveraging alternative fuels and advanced technologies to better manage its “carbon footprint” while serving the needs of customers and the global community it serves through intelligent logistics networks.
The Investor Perspective on Sustainability
Chris Hagler – Southeast Practice Leader, Climate Change and Sustainability Service, Ernst & Young
All organizations have multiple stakeholders. For many, the investor stakeholder is one of the most important stakeholders. What are the trends for investors related to sustainability? Are they voting with their dollars? What information do they care about? How do they get their information? This presentation will discuss the most current trends as well as recent findings from a global institutional investor survey recently completed by EY.
Using Innovation and Technology to Transform the Future of Waste
Phil Rodoni – Chief Technology Officer, Rubicon Global
Phil Rodoni – Chief Technology Officer, Rubicon Global, will discuss how technology is helping businesses reduce waste and recycling costs and work towards zero waste. Through an Uber-like sharing economy model, customer and service provider incentives are aligned, distribution is improved, and costs are ultimately reduced. Technological innovations in the waste and recycling sector have the potential to revolutionize the way consumers view waste and the way haulers and recyclers do business.
Simplifying Sustainability through Gamification
Paul Shahriari – Founder & CEO, ecomedes
Current market challenges are making it difficult to implement sustainability into the built environment.
Several key improvements in the workflow of how high performance products/solutions are found, evaluated and presented to decision makers could dramatically grow adoption. We will discuss how simplicity can overcome the complexity of the challenges.
A review of some lessons we have learned from other industry decision making tools will provide a framework to discuss how we can make sustainable decision making easier. We will conclude by sharing some visions for how the next generation of decision makers might perform complex sustainability analysis.
The Interconnectedness of Global Power Markets and Implications for Corporations
Tim Leigh – Global Lead Product and Service Development, Accenture
World physical markets (and supply chains) for the past fifty years have increasingly become more integrated. The rise of financial investors, big analytics and environmental correctness are changing the models for international energy risk management. These forces are driving strategy and risk management in global commodities, not just energy, but all commodities. The EU market is leading the charge with the US not far behind. Global Corporations, if unprepared, or worse unaware, of the implications for regional price instability or market scripting will be at a severe disadvantage. This presentation will lay out how global financial influences will continue to liberalize world electricity markets and influence energy prices worldwide for the next decade.
What’s the Advantage of Energy Intelligence?
John Spirtos – Executive Director, New Business Creation, GE Ventures
In the quest to gather volumes of energy data, taking advantage of that data, beyond energy savings, may become the next great frontier. John will discuss the energy data value chain, from simple site optimization to intelligent building design and marketing.
Energy Management Passes the Point of No Return
Marlene Motyka – U.S. Alternative Energy Leader and Principal, Deloitte
Deloitte, with strategy and market research firm Harrison Group, a YouGov Company, has completed its fifth annual nationwide Resources Study (the “2015 Study” or “Study”) to provide insights that can be useful in helping energy companies and businesses make energy-related investment and business decisions. The study aims to answer questions such as:
- What actions are US businesses and consumers taking and expecting to take to manage their energy usage?
- What do they know about the energy marketplace?
- What motivates them to adopt new practices and invest in new technologies?
- How mature are their approaches to managing energy efficiency?
The 2015 Study illuminates the changing mindset of businesses and consumers concerning how they think about energy management, what matters to them, and the steps they might take to accomplish their objectives. This year, both groups appear to have adopted the view that reverting to previous behaviors is no longer a favorable option.
Architecting the Future of Energy and Sustainability
Jana Schmidt – President & CEO, Ecova
There are a number of forces at work in the energy industry – forces of global energy price fluctuation, regulatory mandates, zero net energy and waste buildings, big data and the internet of things, changing utility business models and evolving customer expectations.
These are complicated forces and challenges and in many ways we are at a turning point – the easier changes have been made: companies have gotten smarter about energy consumption, and utilities have had success with energy efficiency programs.
These forces at work call for new ways of working. At Ecova we are building our future to help our clients solve these challenges. We have a unique position as a company that can harness the power of unparalleled data and combine it with unique insight into what global leaders are doing.
Ecova is inventing a future that will provide our clients with the data, insight and action to drive powerful results.