Dr. Kara Kockelman, Professor & William J. Murray Jr. Fellow, Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

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Randy Foutch, Chairman and CEO, Laredo Petroleum

Ryan Wiser, Staff Scientist and Deputy Group Leader in the Electricity Markets and Policy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Richard Lester, Japan Steel Industry Professor and Head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT

Jim Davis, President, Chevron Energy Solutions

Bob Metcalfe, Professor of Innovation and Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

• Josh Rhodes, Webber Energy Group, “Data-Driven Results from the Pecan Street Smart Grid Demonstration Project”
• Robert Fares, Mechanical Engineering, “Towards a Distributed Grid: A Quantitative Assessment of Community Energy Storage for Islanding”
• Steve Bourne, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, “Thermal Storage and the Building Side of Smartgrid”

John McDonald, Director, Technical Strategy & Policy Development, GE Energy Management – Digital Energy

Varun Rai, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Mechanical Engineering, UT Austin

John Hays, Adjunct Professor of Energy Law at the UT School of Law and Partner at Hays & Owens LLP