2016 Conference Agenda

Eight Annual Yale Alumni in Energy Conference

April 14

10:30AM 

Shuttle to West Campus Conference Center from Omni Hotel

11:00AM 

Tour of West Campus Energy Research Center led by Gary Brudvig, Director of the Yale Energy Sciences Institute, and the Benjamin Silliman Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biophysics and Biochemistry.  Lunch on West Campus will be available in the West Campus Dining Room. The shuttle will return participants to the Omni afterward.

6:30PM

Informal cocktails and dinner at Olea Restaurant, 39 High Street, New Haven (Pre-registration required)

April 15

7:45AM

Shuttle to West Campus Conference Center from Omni Hotel

8:00AM

Coffee and pastries at West Campus Confernece Center

8:30AM

Welcome & Introductions:  Barbara Tyran ‘79 MBA, Conference Chair

8:35AM

Opening Remarks

Gary Brudvig, Director of the Yale Energy Sciences Institute

Benjamin Silliman, Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biophysics and Biochemistry

Serena Su ‘16 MBA, Event Chair, SOM Energy Club

8:45AM

Opening Keynote

Thomas Kuhn ‘68, President, Edison Electric Institute

9:15AM

Electricity Operations

Elliot Mainzer ‘98 MBA ‘98 MES, CEO Bonneville Power Administration

Warren Lasher ‘87, Director of System Planning, Electricity Reliability Council of Texas

10:00AM

Morning Break

10:20AM

Electric Utilities - Where do we go?  Technologies, Regulation, Clean Power Plan

Barbara Tyran ‘79 MBA, Director, Government & External Relations, Electric Power Research Institute

Russell Frisby ‘75 LAW, Partner, Stinson Leonard Street, Washington, DC

Doug Smith ‘86 JD, Van Ness Feldman LLP, Washington, DC

11:30AM

New Technology Development & Applications

Mothusi Pahl ‘07, Alphabet Energy

Walter Schindler ‘73 ‘77 PhD, CEO, Sail Capital

Joe Munisteri ‘52, CEO, MJB Water Corporation

12:30PM

Lunch

1:30PM

Dee Seigel ‘06, MBA, Associate Chief Sustainability Officer

2:00PM

Markets in Crude Oil and Natural Gas; Managing the New Price

Howard Gruenspecht ‘74, PhD, Deputy Administrator, Energy Information Administration

James Levy ‘99, Managing Director, Warburg Pincus, LLC

3:00PM

Afternoon Break

3:20PM

Climate and Energy Perceptions

Anthony Leiserowitz, Director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication

4:00PM

Energy Security

Jeffrey Katz ‘89 PhD, Chief Technology Officer Energy and Utilities Industry, IBM

Richard Kidd ‘93 MPPM, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Energy and Sustainability

5:30PM

Closing Remarks and Reception