Wednesday, February 17

Energy & Society

9:00 – 10:15 AM

Panel: Food for Thought: Energy-food Nexus

Moderator: Rajeev Patel, Research Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, UT Austin

Ty Vaughn, Monsanto
Michael Webber, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Deputy Director of the Energy Institute, UT Austin

10:30 – 11:45 AM

Panel: Water Initiatives in Texas: Energy, Technology, and Policy

Moderator: Jim Malewitz, Energy Reporter, Texas Tribune

Charles Porter, Professor, St. Edward’s University
Brewster McCracken, Pecan Street, Inc. • Click to view PDF slides
Darrell Peckham, Peckham P.G., LLC • Click to view PDF slides
Bridget Scanlon, Bureau of Economic Geology, UT Austin • Click to view PDF slides

12:00 – 1:15 PM

Lunch and Keynote Speakers

Russell Gold, UT Energy Journalism Fellow and Journalist at the Wall Street Journal

Seamus McGraw, Author of The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone

1:30 – 2:45 PM

The Science of Fracking

Moderator: David Spence, Professor, School of Law and McCombs School of Business, UT Austin

Rob Jackson, Professor, School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University • Click to view PDF slides
Cliff Frohlich, Associate Director, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, UT Austin • Click to view PDF slides
David T. Allen, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering, UT Austin • Click to view PDF slides

3:00 – 4:15 PM

Regulatory Responses to Fracking

Moderator: Melinda Taylor, Executive Director, KBH Center for Energy, Law & Business, UT Austin

Scott Anderson, Senior Policy Director, US Climate and Energy Program, Environmental Defense Fund
Mike Smith, Executive Director, Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission
Matt Lepore, Director of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Colorado Department of Natural Resources • Click to view PDF slides
John Smelko, Environmental and Regulatory Compliance Manager, North Region, Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation • Click to view PDF slides

4:30 – 5:45 PM

Panel: Powering the Cities of the Future

Moderator: Petra Liedl, School of Architecture, UT Austin • Click to view PDF slides

Bert Haskell, Pecan Street Inc.
Josh Rhodes, Postdoctoral Fellow, Energy Institute, UT Austin • Click to view PDF slides
Roger Duncan, Research Fellow, Energy Institute, UT Austin • Click to view PDF slides

5:45 – 7:00 PM

Reception at Clive Bar on Rainey Street

Sponsored by Zpryme and Energy Thought Summit 2016