2010 Agenda

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

7:00 a.m.

Registration Opens

Breakfast with the DRCC
DRCC members will host breakfast tables and facilitate discussion among attendees.

8:00 – 8:30 a.m.

Welcome and Keynote Remarks

Delegate Voting
Attendees will have an opportunity to let their opinion be known on a number of topics and issues in the area of demand response and smart grid.

8:30 – 9:45 a.m

Roundtable #1 – Policymakers Talk Smart Grid Policy
Legislative and regulatory developments are occurring at a rapid pace in Congress and at FERC, DOE, NIST, FCC and the White House.  The States are also active. This session will tell you what you need to know about what is happening now and what is coming down the road.

John Norris
Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Pat Hoffman
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary,
Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, Department of Energy

Paul Centolella
Commissioner, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio

John Jimison
Sr. Counsel, House Energy and Commerce Committee

Nick Sinai
Energy and Environment Director, Federal Communications Commission

9:45 – 10:45 a.m.

Roundtable #2 – The Industry Speaks
This session will focus on how the depth and breadth of the DR and SG space has grown and expanded, and where it may go in the future. Participants will talk about what trends they see and what they see in the future in terms of convergence, new developments, etc.

Michael D. Picchi
Executive Vice President and CFO, Comverge

William Davis
Executive Director, Public Sector Industry & Mobility Application Solutions, AT&T

Paul DeMartini    
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
for Smart Grid, Cisco

Tim Healy
CEO, Chairman, and Co-Founder, EnerNOC

Bob Gilligan
Vice President, Digital Energy, GE

Delegate Voting
Attendees will have an opportunity to let their opinion be known on a number of topics and issues in the area of demand response and smart grid.

10:45 – 11:00 a.m.

Break

11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Roundtable #3 – Views and Predictions
Demand Response and Smart Grid have come a long way in a short time.  This session will focus on the emergence of a new body of demand response and smart grid policy, a smart grid industry and a new world for utilities.    

Jon Wellinghoff
Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Tom King
President, National Grid

Malcolm Unsworth
CEO, Itron

Peter Fox-Penner
Principal and Chairman Emeritus, Brattle Group

Michael Morris
Chairman, President, & CEO, AEP

12:15 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 – 2:45 p.m.

Roundtable #4 – Implementing the National Action Plan
on Demand Response
The National Action Plan will have been sent to Congress the week before the Town Meeting.  This session will start with a review of the Plan and then will focus on the implementation of the Plan in the coming months – with particular emphasis on consumer education and communication.

In addition to hearing from various experts, attendees will have a chance to use the Town Meeting electronic voting system to provide input on which parts of the Plan deserve priority for implementation.  They will also help identify existing resources and efforts that should be tied into the Plan. 

Implementing the Plan – The Consumer
The realization is settling in that a basic tenet of the Smart Grid is to involve the demand side of the equation such that the entire electricity system is optimized.  

The National Action Plan recognizes that customer education and communications will be critical to developing consumer acceptance and participation. 

What do we know about the consumer when it comes to Smart Grid?  What do we need to find out?

What are they telling us? How do we communicate with them?

David Kathan
Office of Energy Policy and Innovation, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Jamie Wimberley
President, EcoAlign

Richard Walker
CEO, Control4

Steve Delp
Chief Operating Officer, Best Buy

Judith Schwartz
President, To the Point

Gary Fromer
CEO, CPower

Seth Kiner
Director, Customer Experience Management
and Marketing, SCE

Derek Kirchener
Principle Analyst, Strategic Marketing, DTE

Mary Healey
President, NASUCA
Consumer Counsel, Connecticut Office
of Consumer Counsel

2:45 – 3:15 p.m. 

Break         

3:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Roundtable #4 (Continued)
                                             
Resumption of Roundtable

Delegate Voting
Attendees will have an opportunity to let their opinion be known on a number of topics and issues.

3:45 – 5:00 p.m.

Roundtable #5 – The Broader View
As Demand Response and Smart Grid grow and expand, the intersection with other energy areas is becoming clearer and firmer.  Also, the growth and expansion is not just a U.S. phenomenon, and in fact the question of who has the lead may be an open one.

Chris King
Chief Strategy Officer, eMeter

Tom Catania
Vice President, Government Relations, Whirlpool

Kevin McDonough
General Manager, Utility Solutions, Honeywell

Bracken Hendricks
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

5:30 – 7:00 p.m.

Reception
One of Washington, DC’s newest and most interesting venues – the Newseum – will once again be the location. 

Thursday, June 24, 2010

7:30 a.m.

Registration Opens

Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 9:30 a.m.

Roundtable Session #6 – The Round-Up
This session will be comprised of a number of brief reports from RTO/ISO representatives and representatives from a diverse group of states on what is new in their world in the areas of demand response and smart grid. This session will give attendees a quick overview of what is happening in these areas across the nation. Here are some of the people who will be reporting:

Henry Yoshimura
Director, Demand Response, ISO-New England

Susan Covino
Director, Demand Response, PJM

Todd Hillman
Executive Director, Market Development & Services, Midwest ISO

Mark Gaines
Director of Demand Response, San Diego Gas & Electric

Emma Bassein
Manager, Smart Grid, NYSERDA

Rick Voytas
Manager, Energy Efficiency and Demand Response, Ameren

Angie Beehler
Senior Director, Energy Regulation/Legislation,
Wal-Mart

9:30 – 10:00 a.m.

Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA)
Chair of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming
Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Energy & Environment Subcommittee

10:00 – 10:15 a.m.

Break

10:15 – 11:15 a.m.

Breakout Sessions

SESSION A – Texas
(Grand Ballroom)
Few places rival Texas as a place where Demand Response and Smart Grid are unfolding in real time.  This session will focus exclusively on what is happening there and what lessons are being learned.

Moderator: Ward Camp
Vice President, Regulatory and Environmental Policy, Landis+Gyr

Brewster McCracken
Executive Director, Pecan Street Project

David Dollihite
Vice President, Home Energy Services, Direct Energy

Christine Wright
Senior Analyst, Competitive Markets Division,
Public Utility Commission of Texas

Mark Carpenter
Chief Information Officer, Oncor

Session B – Technologies and Applications
(East Room)
This session will involve presentations that demonstrate the many different technologies that come into play in the delivery of demand response and smart grid programs and activities – and where technology is headed.

Moderator: Tony Abate
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority

Allen Friefeld
Senior Vice President of External Affairs, Viridity

Arshad Mansoor
Vice President, Power Delivery & Utilization, EPRI

James Dagley
Vice President, Channel Marketing and Strategy, Johnson Controls

Kevin Evans
CEO, EnergyConnect

11:20 a.m. - 12:25 p.m.

Breakout Sessions

Session C –Interoperability
(Grand Ballroom)
This session will focus on two of the hottest policy and business issues for the smart grid. Presentations will be made by some of the acknowledged thought leaders in these areas as well as federal policymakers responsible for putting new policies in place.

Moderator: Michael Jung
Policy Director, Silver Spring Networks

George Arnold
National Coordinator of Electricity Standards, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Erich Gunther
Administrator, Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP)

Tony Giroti
Chairman and CEO, Bridge Energy Group

Session D –Programs and Practices
(East Room)
This session will include presentations on programs concluded or underway and will attempt to convey information that those seeking to embark on DR and Smart Grid activities are looking for.

Moderator: Billy Berny
Manager, Demand Response, AEP

Steve McCarty
Director, Demand Response, PG&E

Howard Smith
Manager, Load Management, Southern Company

John Sterling
Consultant, Smart Grid Programs,
Arizona Public Service

Milton Holloway
President & COO, Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 – 2:30 p.m.

Breakout Sessions

Session E – Customer Behavior and Acceptance
(Grand Ballroom)
While the focus on consumers is ramping up rapidly, it is not starting from scratch.  There have been a lot of pilots and programs and they have yielded important information.  This session will focus on what these efforts have found out and what it will mean for the design and delivery of future efforts.

Moderator: Larry Oliva
Director, Tariff Programs, SCE

Steve George
Principal Consultant, Freeman, Sullivan & Co.

Chuck Goldman
Group Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Sanem Sergici
Senior Associate, Brattle Group

Session F – Electric Vehicles
(East Room)
There appears to be some degree of consensus that the biggest potential “game changer” in the world of demand response, smart grid and the utility sector is electric vehicles. This session will provide a window into what is happening in that space and what it may mean.

Moderator: Tony J. Tewelis
Manager, Smart Grid Programs, Arizona Public Service

Tim Enwall
President, Tendril

Rob Bearman
Director Global Energy Alliances, Better Place

Ralph Masiello
Senior Vice President, Kema

2:35 – 3:00 p.m.  

Closing Session

Town Meeting Review

Release of information and input collected

Next steps on the National Action Plan

DR and Smart Grid Index

[Note on Elevator Pitches – At various points throughout the Town Meeting, Sponsors and Exhibitors will get a chance to make an “elevator pitch” to the audience and tell a little bit about their company.  They will have the time it takes to ride the elevator to the top of the Washington Monument to do so.]