Agenda - Eleventh Annual Yale Alumni in Energy Conference

6:30 PM

Dinner at Elm City Social, 266 College Street, New Haven (Pre-registration required).  

7:15 AM & 7:30 AM

Shuttle to New Haven Lawn Club (193 Whitney Ave) from The Blake Hotel (9 High Street)

7:30 AM   

Continental Breakfast at New Haven Lawn Club

8:30 AM  

Welcome & Introduction

• Ed Hirs ‘79, ‘79 MA, ‘81 MBA- BDO Fellow Natural Resources

8:45 AM

Energy Transformation

• Muqsit Ashraf ‘99 MBA- Senior Managing Director Global Energy, Accenture

9:30 AM

Environmental Management & Utilities

• Nancy Brockway ‘07 ‘11 JD - Principal, NBrockway & Associates, NARUC Energy Resources and Enviromental Committee
• Miles Farmer ‘07 ‘11 JD, NRDC

10:15 AM

Break

10:30 AM

Increased M & A in Electric Utilities 

• Scott Hempling ‘78 

11:15 AM

Financing Energy Development-Technology to Power Plants

• Mohammed J. Alam ‘96 MPPM- CFO, Seventus
• Dana Sands ‘83
• Walter Schindler ‘73- CEO, Transformation LLC

12:15 PM

Lunch at the New Haven Lawn Club

Applying Al to Grid Management

• Jeffrey Katz ‘89 PhD- Chief Technology Officer, Energy and Utilities industry, IBM

1:30 PM

International Climate Policy

• William D. Nordhaus ‘63 - Sterling Professor of Economics, Professor School of Forestry & Enviromental Science

2:30 PM

Break

2:45 PM

​​Environmental Social Governance “ESG” In Oil & Gas Investing

• Diana Glassman ‘88

3:15 PM

Oil & Gas Development in a Changing World

• Randy Nelson ‘85- Sanguine Gas Exploration
• Ore Owodunni ‘97- ConocoPhillips 
• Karl Pettersen ‘97- Societe Generale 

4:15 PM

Energy Trading Update 

• Telia Weisman ‘08 MBA - Vice President, CMEGoup 

4:45 PM

Innovative Carbon Reduction

Update on Carbon Reduction Via Agriculture 

• Howard Newman ‘69, ‘69 MBA- Trustee, Salk Institute/ CEO, Pine Brook Road Partners

De-Carbonization in Industry

• Jason Patrick ‘00 MEM- Managing Director, Real Options International

5:30 PM