UT Energy Week 2016

Opening Remarks: President Gregory Fenves (11:00 – 11:30)

Keynote Speaker and Lunch: Christopher Smithe (11:30 – 1:30)

Panel: Electric Power Reform (1:30 – 2:45)

Panel: The Role of Natural Gas (3: 15 – 4:30)

Program Summary: Challenges and Opportunities (4:30 – 5:00)

CleanTX Signature Event: Cleantech Across the Rio Grande (5:30 – 8:00)

Storage, Renewables, and Grid Management (9:00 – 10:15)

Water Initiatives in Texas: Energy, Technology, and Policy (10:30 – 11:45)

Lunch and Keynote Speakers: Russell Gold and Seamus McGraw (12:00 – 1:15)

The Science of Fracking (1:30 – 2:45)

Regulatory Responses to Fracking (3:00 – 4:15)

Powering the Cities of the Future (4:30 – 5:45)

Reception with Energy Thought Summit (5:45 – 7:00)

Food for Thought: Energy-Food Nexus (9:00 – 10:15)

De-Carbonizing the Grid (10:30 – 11:45)

Lunch and UT Energy Poll Presentation (12:00 – 1:15)

Financing Electrons (1:30 – 2:45)

Menace or Miracle? Rethinking Nuclear Waste (3:00 – 4:15)

Poster & Startup Competition Happy Hour Cosponsored by YPE (4:15 – 6:15)

Award Presentations for Poster and Startup Competitions (6:15 – 6:45)

Perpetuating the Boom? Advancements in Operations and Technology (9:00 – 10:15)

Financing Hydrocarbons (10:30 – 11:45)

Lunch and Keynote Speaker: Jonathan Lewis, Halliburton (12:00 – 1:15)

Energy and Geopolitics (1:30 – 2:45)

Oil & Gas Limbo: How Low Can Price Go? (3:00 – 4:15)

Keynote Speaker: Helge Hove Haldorsen, “E&P 2.0” (4:15 – 5:30)

Reception Hosted by Texas Exes (5:30 – 7:00)