Schedule Details

12 · 13 · 14 June, 2024

SE Community Center
1550 Evans Avenue, San Francisco

Day 1: By Air

  • 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM: Opening Ceremony: an address by Gabe Klein, Executive Director, Joint Office of Energy and Transportation for the United States

  • 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM Panel: The Future of Clean Energy Aviation, Part One: Propulsion

    • Sustainable Aviation Fuel: Challenges of scaling SAF production, including agricultural land use, manufacturing capacity and R&D behind fuel development.

    • Electric & Hydrogen Based Aviation: While the focus on decarbonizing the aviation sector centers around sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), electricity and hydrogen promise alternative zero-emission solutions.

      • We hear from the Airlines, from the DOE and from David Hochschild, chair of the California Energy Commission. How The State of California is making way for changes in Aviation technologies

  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Networking

  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch Break

  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM The Future of Clean Energy Aviation, Part Two: Investment

    • A Panel moderated by Henk Both of Anzu Partners

      • “Areas We’re Investing In and Why.” Focus on Aviation, including Ryan Chou (JetBlue Ventures), Abhiram Kannan (Bidra Innovation Ventures), and David Needell (Fine Structure Ventures)

  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM. The Future of Clean Energy Aviation, Part Three: Innovating Companies

    • Panel Discussion: Industry Leaders detail Aerial Innovation

      • Aerial Ridesharing with guests from Joby

      • More Efficient Jets with guests from Jet Zero

  • Networking Break, 30 min’s

  • 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM Breakout Session // A Panel on Green Hydrogen with industry leaders and the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz)

  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM: Climate Justice Benefits

    • Communities most devastated by climate change are overwhelmingly those with poor people of color. Further, those who will inherit our changing climate are the young. This panel introduces young activists and how they are participating in climate change solutions.

  • 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM: How to Cool Down a City. Low Carbon Urban Design. A Panel convened by Jason Kelly Johnson, Co-Founder and Lead Artist at Futureforms, Jason has produced a range of award-winning projects exploring the intersections of design with advanced fabrication technologies, robotics, responsive building systems and public space. This panel includes Virginia San Fratello, Chair of the Department of Design, San Jose State University; Willett Moss, a Founding Partner of CMG Landscape Architecture; Kristen DiStefano, Assoc. Director of the San Francisco office for Atelier 10.

Day 2: By Land

  • 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Scott Wu, Executive Director of IBank, leads a panel: Clean Energy Investment. Funding Capital Intensive Projects. Speakers: Brian DePonte is Sr. Vice President of Innovative Markets for KEF Clean Energy; Zach Solomon is Co-Head of Public Finance, leading Morgan Stanley’s investment banking franchise.  Andrew Mack is Senior Vice President, Development, Strategy and Permitting for Brightline West, the high-speed rail project linking Las Vegas and Southern California.

  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch Break

  • 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM: “By Land” cont’d: Innovating Companies

    • Rail Transit, Long Haul Trucking, Electric Fleets: Getting Prescriptive, Accelerating Progress with Neha Palmer, CEO of TeraWatt Infrastructure (SF), Olya Anguelov, Head of Product at NextEra Mobility

    • Ride-hailing Services: What’s ahead, with Adam Gromis, global lead on sustainability, electrification and environmental impact for Uber.

  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Reinventing Power Distribution: California’s Power Grid

  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Zero Emission Vehicles: America’s Love Affair With the Automobile Has a New Dimension

    • We welcome perspective from Darnell Grisby, Commissioner at the California Transportation Commission, Gabe Klein, Exec. Director, Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, and also Director of Clean Energy Transportation for PG&E, Lydia Krefta.

    • Olya Anguelov from Next Era Mobility discusses trends and customer adoption they are seeing. Also: pairing EV charging infrastructure with renewables and energy storage. Dr. Ghazal Izadi, Chief Operating Officer at XGS Energy, provides a look at upstream clean energy sources.

  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Next Generation Nuclear

    • There is little debate that part of our energy mix needs to be nuclear if we’re to power our planet and also decarbonize it. This symposium, moderated by esteemed guest Leslie Dewan, reveals a path to decarbonization impeded by politics more than practicalities. This panel includes Chris Lohse, Innovation and Technology Manager for GAIN, the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear, formed by the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy. Also: Jeffrey Bohn, Senior Advisor to Anthropocene Institute.

  • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM: Energy Frontiers (breakout session)

    • Entrepreneurs developing frontier technologies show their work and take questions. Moderated by Sean Hoge, Founder and CEO, Starship Ventures. Ben Nowack, CEO of Reflect Orbital, and Isaac Baumstark, Founder of Poseidon, an aerospace company building highly innovative ground effect vehicles.

  • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM: The Heat Beneath Our Feet: Harnessing Geothermal Energy (breakout session)

    • Dr. Bryant Jones (Moderator): Executive Director at Geothermal Rising; Ben Serrurier, Government Affairs & Policy at Fervo; Jesper Jolma, Investment Manager at Baseload Capital; Simon Webbison, VP of Exploration and Resource Management at Ormat Technologies; Dr. Ghazal Izadi, Chief Operating Officer at XGS Energy; Ajit Menon, VP Geothermal and Energy Transition at Baker Hughes; Amelia Letvin, State and Local Government Community Engagement Manager at Geothermal Rising

Day 3: By Sea

  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Clean Energy Investment, Round Three, Darren Wolfberg of Triangle Digital leads a panel:

    • Sustainability-linked lending

    • Operationalizing TCFD for institutional markets (Climate-related Financial Disclosures)

    • Carbon credits and their inevitability (The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism)

    • Preparing for Climate Bills and their impact

    • with Martijn Dekker, co-founder of Aurivos, CEO of ZeroSix. Aso: Todd Olson, CSO of dClimate

  • 11:00 AM - Noon

    • Carbon sequestration: Natural Systems as an Emerging Market, with Andreas Merkl, Co-founder of Centigrade, an open-data platform focused on liquid, fair, and efficient carbon markets

  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Breakout Session // Revolution in the Maritime Industry: International Perspective

  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch Break

  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Renewables

    • It’s been an action-packed year for Solar and Wind. Perspective and predictions from U.S. industry leaders

    • Ocean Energy with CalWave Power Technologies Co-Founder and CEO Marcus Lehman

  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Keynote Speaker Bill McKibben

  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Meet and Greet with Bill McKibben

  • 4:00 - 5:30 By Sea with Seamus Murphy of the WETA, on a visionary overhaul of San Francisco’s public transit passenger ferry service, In contrast to Int’l panel this morning, the focus here is on California & the West Coast.

    • Batteries: Leading the Charge: How evolving battery technology means big changes for Ferries and Maritime transport.

    • A Cleaner and Greener Maritime Industry : Perspective from David Tyler, Co-Founder & Commercial Director of Artemis, and Amogy Director of Maritime Business Development, Anastasija Kuprijanova

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