2023 Cornell Energy Connection

Empowering the Energy Transition

 

Join us for this one-day event to engage with professionals and influencers from across the energy landscape on emergent trends and challenges facing the industry! Topics include:

Energy Capital Markets After the “Age of Free Money”

Accelerating the Energy Transition with Advanced Technologies

Agrivoltaics - The Intersection of PV and Agriculture

Critical Minerals - Resourcing the Energy Transition

Open to students, academics and professionals working in the energy industry. The event will take place on November 17th, 2023 at the Cornell Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island, NYC. Final registration deadline is November 13th, 2023. No walk-in registrations accepted.

Location: Verizon Executive Education Center (Getting Here, and F-Train Disruption)

Date: November 17, 2023

Time: 10AM-5PM ET

  • 9:00-10:00AM Registration
    10:00-10:15AM Welcome Remarks
    10:15-10:45AM Keynote Speaker: Sarah Slusser
    10:45-11:45AM Panel: Energy Capital Markets After the “Age of Free Money”
    11:45-1:00PM Networking Lunch
    1:00-2:00PM Panel: Agrivoltaics - The Intersection of PV and Agriculture
    2:00-2:15PM Break
    2:15-3:15PM Panel: Critical Minerals - Resourcing the Energy Transition
    3:15-3:30PM Break
    3:30-4:30PM Panel: Technologies for the Energy Transition
    4:30-4:45PM Closing Remarks

    5:00-6:00PM Informal Networking Hour

  • Mark Betancourt - Lead Planner
    Joan Irianan - Panel Lead
    Shouchun Yu - Panel Lead
    Valeria Nogales - Panel Lead
    Owen Deitcher - Panel Lead
    Scott Tunis - Operations
    Thomas Rabon - Treasurer
    Colby Karel - Panel Assist
    Lauren Swank - Marketing
    Andres Velez - Marketing

    Maddie Watson - Sponsor Lead

 

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Speakers

Keynote: Sarah Slusser

Sarah is the CEO of Cypress Creek Renewables, a solar and storage independent power producer that develops, owns and operates projects across the United States. She is an expert in power markets and an accomplished investor and officer of public and private companies, having led investments of $4 billion across the electric sector.

 

Energy Capital Markets After the “Age of Free Money”

John Tobin-de la puente

Professor of Practice of Corporate Sustainability, Cornell University

Moderator

Jeff weiss ‘79

Co-Founder & Executive Chairman,

Distributed Sun

Nietzsche Rodricks ‘00

Managing Director, Power and Utility Banking

MUFG

Marilyn Ceci

Managing Director, Center for Carbon Transition

JP Morgan

Agrivoltaics - The Intersection of PV and Agriculture

Dan French

Founder & Executive Producer, Brightfield Productions

Moderator

Iain Ward

CEO & Founder

Solar Agricultural Services

Lucy Bullock-Sieger

Vice President of Strategy

Lightstar Renewables

Evan Bixby

VP of Strategy & Analysis

Pine Gate Renewables

Critical Minerals - Resourcing the Energy Transition

Karin E. Olson Hoal

World Family Professor and Principal Cornell University, KOH Consulting

Panel Moderator

Matthew Rosales, P. Geo

Mine Finance & Investments

Manager, Hartree Partners

Bernard E. Hubbard ‘93

Research Geologist

United States Geological Survey

Tomás Villalón Jr.

CTO & Co-Founder

Phoenix Tailings

Accelerating the Energy Transition with Advanced Technologies

Gavin Mosley ‘21

Lobbyist and University Lecturer, Avangrid - Cornell University

Panel Moderator

Carley Dolch

Director of Portfolio Risk Solutions

Ascend Analytics

Joe White

Distributed Generation Ombudsman

Con Edison

Dr Karl Hausker ‘79

Senior Fellow

World Resources Institute

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