UT Energy Week 2021
Energy Transition: Agents of Change, Changing Agents
Tuesday, April 13
10:15 – 10:30 — Welcome and Intro
Varun Rai, University of Texas at Austin
10:30 – 11:30 — Panel 1: Energy Transition: Past, Present, and Future
- Carey King, UT Austin (Moderator)
- Sanya Carley, Indiana University – Slides
- Aldo Flores-Quiroga, UT Austin – Slides
- Benjamin Sovacool, University of Sussex – Slides
11:30 – 12:30 — Panel 2: Technology Pathways: Fork in the Road?
- Benjamin Leibowicz, UT Austin (Moderator)
- Vivian Loftness, Carnegie Mellon – Slides
- Vijay Swarup, ExxonMobil – Slides
- Ryan Wiser, Lawrence Berkeley Lab – Slides
1:00 – 2:00 — Panel 3: Sustaining the Transition: A New Social Contract
- David Spence, UT Austin (Moderator)
- Clark Miller, ASU – Slides
- Jennie Stephens, Northeastern – Slides
- Bill Weihl, Climate Voice – Slides
2:00 – 3:00 — Panel 4: Community Transitions: Enabling a Deep Change
- Steven Pedigo (Moderator)
- Mijin Cha, Occidental College
- Dana Harmon, Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute
- Julia Haggerty, Montana State University
5:00 – 7:30 — Student Research Competition
Interdisciplinary competition featuring novel energy technology research, policy innovation, and economic solutions.
Wednesday, April 14
9:30 – 11:00 — Panel 1: Getting There: Energy Leadership in Unprecedented Times
- Richard Chuchla, UT Austin (Moderator)
- Jeff Makarewicz, Toyota – Slides
- Ajay Mehta, Shell – Slides
- Raiford Smith, Google – Slides
12:00 – 1:00 — Panel 2: Funding the Transition: How Not to Break the Bank
- Erik Funkhouser, UT Austin (Moderator)
- David Bodek, S&P Global
- Barbara Burger, Chevron
- Jonathan Silver, Guggenheim Securities
- Susan Tierney, Analysis Group
1:00 – 2:00 — Panel 3: Philanthropy in Energy Transition: The Visible Hand?
- David Springer, UT Austin (Moderator)
- Ashvin Dayal, Rockefeller Foundation – Slides
- Danielle Deane-Ryan, Libra Foundation
- Marilu Hastings, Mitchell Foundation
- Evan Michelson, Sloan Foundation