2025 Agenda
Thursday, March 27
1:30 PM
Welcome
3:15 PM
Break
“Global Carbon Trajectories: The Keeling Curve Today”
1:45 PM
Ralph Keeling, Professor, Climate Sciences, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
“Balancing Competing Constituencies in Decarbonization”
2:30 PM
Eric Blank, Chairman, Colorado Public Utilities Commission
“The Progress of the Energy Transition in Asia”
3:30 PM
Grant Hauber, Energy Finance Advisor, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA)
“The Momentum of the Energy Transition in the U.S.”
Clint Wilder, Editor at Large, Clean Edge, and author of The Clean Tech Revolution
“Stability in the Middle East/North Africa”
4:30 PM
Ethan Chorin, Founder/Director, Perim
Reception
5:00 PM
Dinner
“National Security and the Global Threat Landscape”
Asha Rangappa, Assistant Dean and Senior Lecturer, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs
6:00 PM
Friday, March 28
8:15 AM
Continental Breakfast
10:00 AM
Break
11:45 AM
Lunch
3:00 PM
Break
“The End of Magical Thinking? Climate, Energy, and Markets"
Karl Pettersen, Founder, Pettersen Analytics L.L.C.
"Revisiting the new energies investment thesis"
Matthew Adkins, New Energies
Panel Chair: Kristina Wyatt, CSO, Persefoni
8:45 AM
“SMRs and Applications for Nuclear Power”
10:15 AM
Christina (Tina) Back, Vice President, General Atomics
“Making Non-Fossil Fuels & Chemicals”
11:00 AM
Lea Winter, Assistant Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Winter Lab at Yale
“The Oilpatch Is Nothing Like Landman”
12:45 PM
Trip Long, General Partner, Muirfield Exploration, Ltd.
Julie Zimmerman, Vice Provost for Planetary Solutions, Yale University
1:30 PM
“Planetary Solutions at Yale”
“Carbon Targets”
2:00 PM
William Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University
“How Smart Can The Grid Be”
3:15 PM
Jeff Katz, Chief Technology Officer, Energy and Utilities Industry, IBM (retired)
SOM Students Energy Fin Startups
Conference Close
4:00 PM