Speakers
Dag Adamson
LifeSpan Technology - CEO
Tamar Adler
Simon & Schuster - Author
Brentan Alexander
energyfolks
- Founder
Steve Amos
Green Ribbon Schools - Exec Dir
Samata Angel
Red Carpet Green Dress
- Global Campaign Dir
Kyle Armbrester
Glenelg Partners - President
Lucia Athens
City of Austin - CSO
Danielle Azoulay
- Consultant
Sarah Backhouse
Future360 - Founder
Kari Banta
Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter - Transportation Assoc
Zach Baumer
City of Austin - Climate Program Mgr
Rob Bectel
US Department Of Energy - Chief Technology Officer/Sr. Policy Advisor
Andrew Behar
As You Sow - CEO
Graceann Bennett
Ogilvy & Mather - Managing Partner, Dir of Strategic Planning
David Blackmon
FTI Consulting - Managing Director
Steven Boyd
US Department Of Energy - Technology Dev Mgr
Alex Bozmoski
Energy & Enterprise Initiative - Dir of Strategy and Operations
Jean Brittingham
SmartGirls Way - Founder/CEO
Anna Brones
EcoSalon - Mktg Mgr and Food Editor
Thomas Brookes
European Strategy Centre - Director
Mose Buchele
KUT Radio 90.5 FM - Sr Reporter
Karl Buermeyer
USDA Forest Service - Supervisory Forester
Peter Byck
Carbon Nation - Dir/Producer
Marla Camp
Edible Austin - Publisher
Rosalind Campion
British Embassy - Counsellor for Global Issues
Don Carr
Environmental Working Group - Senior Communications and Policy Advisor
David Carter
Arent Fox LLP - Attorney
Loncito Cartwright
Twin Oaks Heritage Pork/Lonsito's Lamb - Rancher
Marco Castro
Bus Roots - Artist/Designer
Dan Cherian
NIKE - General Manager of Sustainable Business & Innovation
Helen Clarkson
Forum for the Future - Dir, Forum for the Future, US
Kirk Coburn
SURGE Accelerator - Co-founder & Managing Dir
Jo Confino
The Guardian - Executive Editor
Maia Corbitt
State Of Texas Alliance For Recycling - Exec Dir
Sonya Coté
The Hillside Farmacy - Exec Chef
Philippe Cousteau
Azure Worldwide - Co-Founder
Elena Craft
Environmental Defense Fund - Health Scientist
Trevor Crain
UW EcoCAR 2 - Controls Team Lead
Terence Critchlow
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Chief Scientist
Jennifer Cutbill
DIALOG - Intern Architect
Ernest Davis
Rice University - Mgr, Business Dev & Licensing
Robert Day
Black Coral Capital
Penny De Los Santos
Penny De Los Santos - Photographer
Jace Deloney
Invodo - Digital Content Coord
Michel Di Capua
Bloomberg New Energy Finance - Head of US Analysis
Senator Byron Dorgan
Arent Fox LLP - Sr Policy Advisor
Aly Dossa
Osha Liang LLP - Partner
Jonny Dubowsky
Rock N' Renew - Exec Dir
Cary Dupuy
Texas Comptroller - Natural Resource Policy Advisor
Tabrez Ebrahim
NuMat Technologies Inc - Co-Founder
Matt Eggers
Sunrun Inc - VP Ops
Juliet Eilperin
demonfishbook.com - National Environmental Reporter, The Washington Post
Stacy Eller
BG Group - Dir, North America Market Fundamentals
Michael Ellis
GreenOrder - Principal
Michelle Erickson
Erickson Strategies - Principal
Edgar Farrera
Circuit of The Americas/US F1 Grand Prix - Dir of Sustainability
Mike Findley
Department Of Government - Asst Professor
Maria Finn
- Author, "The Whole Fish"
Gloria Flora
Sustainable Obtainable Solutions - Exec Dir
Erin Flynn
New Farm Institute - Co-Founder
Glenn Foore
Springdale Farm - Farmer
Ben Foster
Opower - VP, Prod Mgmt & User Experience
Bryan Fox
Drink Water - Creative Dir
Stephen Fox
Drink Water - Managing Partner
Eric Corey Freed
organicARCHITECT - Founding Principal
Chris Garvin
Terrapin Bright Green - Partner
Maria Elena Giner
BECC - GM
Tom Goddette
EcoCAR
Rob Goodspeed
MIT - PhD Researcher
Dave Graham
Greenstart - Partner
Hannah Granade
Advantix Systems - President
Dr. Alan Greene
DrGreene - Founder/CEO
Kitty Greenwald
The Wall Street Journal - Writer
Katherine Gregor
City of Austin - Office of Sustainability, Comm
Amado Guloy
Osha Liang LLP - Patent Engineer
Marce Gutiérrez
Azul - Founder/Exec Dir
Fred Haberman
Haberman - Co-Founder & CEO
Michael Hall
Texas Monthly - Writer
Josh Handy
Method - VP Industrial Design & Innovation
Lisa Handy
Environmental Investigation Agency - Sr Policy Advisor
Travis Hardy
LEAP Foundation - Creative and Operational Architech
Lee Ann Head
Shelton Group - VP Research
Christopher Helman
Forbes - Associate Editor
Yianice Hernandez
Enterprise Community Partners Inc - Deputy Director, Green Communities
Sabrina Hersi Issa
Be Bold Media - Digital Dir
Clive Hess
CompuCycle - Pres
Andrea Heydlauff
Panthera - VP
Craig Hobar
LEAP Foundation - Founder & Medical Dir
Sarah Hodgdon
Sierra Club - Director of Conservation
Dr. Deanna M. Hoelscher
Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living - Dir., Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living | Professor in Health Promotion
Chris Holcomb
Pecan Street Inc - Data Scientist
Benjamin Holland
Rocky Mountain Institute - Mgr
Michael Holland
PowerFin Partners
Lance Hosey
RTKL - CSO
Cornelia Hoskin
Farm Aid/HOMEGROWN.org - HOMEGROWN Shepherdess
Joshua Houdek
Sierra Club - Land Use & Transportation Program Mgr
Matt Howard
City of Milwaukee - Environmental Sustainability Dir
George Huff
Opal - CEO
Laura Huffman
The Nature Conservancy - Texas State Dir
Chris Hughes
Broken Arrow Ranch - Owner
Andy Igrejas
Safer Chemicals Healthy Families - National Campaign Director
Clark Jernigan
Austin Ventures - Venture Partner
Brenton Johnson
Johnson's Backyard Garden - Owner
David Jurca
Kent State University Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative - Sr Urban Designer
Ian Kalin
US Department Of Energy - Director, Energy Data Initiative
JD Kemp
CropCircle Kitchen and Organic Renaissance Food Exchange - Founder and President
Danny Kim
Lit Motors - Founder/Pres/CTO
Kim Knowlton
NRDC - Sr Scientist
Jeff Kolesky
Opower - Chief Software Architect
Deborah Koons Garcia
Lily Films - Filmmaker
Robin Krieglstein
Badgeville - Senior Producer
Mike Krusee
Congress for The New Urbanism
Riggs Kubiak
Honest Buildings Inc - CEO
Benjamin Lack
Opower - Digital Mktg Mgr
Osprey Orielle Lake
Women's Earth & Climate - Pres
Jason Lally
PlaceMatters - Director of the Decision Lab
Clay Langdon
McGarrah Jessee - Strategic Director
Michael Lanza
Backpacker Magazine/TheBigOutside.com - Writer and Editor
Anna Lappé
Small Planet Institute - Author
Warren Lasher
Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) - Director of System Planning
Matthew Laudon
CTSI-TechConnect
Gary Lawrence
AECOM - Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer
Lee Leffingwell
City of Austin - Mayor
Mike Legatt
ERCOT - Principal Human Factors Engineer
Susan Leibrock
Sustainable Food Center - Community Relations Director
Annie Leonard
The Story of Stuff Project - Co-Dir
Terry Levy
ARCOA - VP Sales
Lewis Lucke
Unlimited Power Solutions LLC - Chairman
Robert Ludke
H+K Strategies - Senior Vice President
Dhiraj Malkani
RockPort Capital - Partner
Linda Mandolini
Eden Housing - President
Lakshmi Mandyam
ARM - Dir Enterprise Segment
Michael Mann
Earth System Science Center - Professor
Jason Mark
Earth Island Journal/Alemany Farm - Editor and Farmer
George Marshall
Climate Outreach Information Network - Founder
Cheryl Martin
Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy ARPA-E - Deputy Dir for Commercialization
Sam Maslin
The University of Texas McCombs School of Business - MBA Student
Tom Mason
Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody PC - Attorney
Esther Maughan Mclachlan
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe - GM, Sustainability Comm
Blair McCarry
Perkins+Will - Principal
Judith McGeary
Farm & Ranch Freedom Alliance - Exec Dir
Timothy McGee
Biomimicry 3.8 - Biologist
Bill McKibben
350.Org - Co-Founder
Erin Meezan
Interface Inc - VP, Sustainability
Paul D Miller (aka DJ Spooky)
DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid - Artist
Marita Mirzatuny
Environmental Defense Fund - Energy Coord
David Misky
Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee - Asst Exec Dir
Tim Mohin
AMD - Director of Corporate Responsibility
Clarisse Molad
Colorado State University Global Campus - Asst Professor
Jim Motavalli
Car Talk/Mother Nature Network - blogger
Mark Mykleby
New America Foundation - Sr Fellow
Paul Navratil
Texas Advanced Computing Center - Mgr, Scalable Visualization Technologies
Greg Neichin
Cleantech Group - Exec VP
Jeff Nesbit
Climate Nexus - Executive Director
Matthew Nordan
Venrock - VP
Ted Nordhaus
Breakthrough Institute - Chairman
John Norquist
Congress for The New Urbanism - Pres
Tim Nuthall
European Climate Foundation - Media Mgr
Summer Rayne Oakes
Summer Rayne Oakes LLC & Source4style - Founder
Amanda Oborne
FoodHub - Dir
Aaron Ogle
OpenPlans - Software Developer
Constance Okollet
Climate Wise Women - Founding Member
Dr. Karen Ostlund
National Science Teachers Association - President
Calla Ostrander
SF Environment - Climate Action Coordinator
Rolando Pablos
Public Utility Commission of Texas - Commissioner
Terence Parker
SolarBridge Technologies - Applications Engineering Manager
Kavita Parmar
IOU Project
- Founder
James Parr
Opal - Innovation Dir
Patrice "Pete" Parsons
ICLEI - Director of External Relations
George Peridas
NRDC - Scientist, Climate Center; Deputy Dir, Science Center
Brett Perlman
Vector Advisors
Stephanie Perrone
The University of Texas at Austin - Building Energy Resource Steward
Mashari Perry
GMMB World Economic Forum - VP, Global Shaper
Tuan Pham
PowerFin Partners
Tom Philpott
Mother Jones - Food & ag writer
Danielle Pieranunzi
Sustainable Sites Initiative - Director
Ramona Pierson
Pierson Labs - CEO
Cara Pike
Climate Access - Founder & Dir
Tink Pinkard
- Hunting and Fishing Guide
Jeffrey Plank
University of Virginia - Vice President for Research
Maranda Pleasant
ORIGIN Magazine - Editor-In-Chief
Brook Porter
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers - Partner
Rodrigo Prudencio
Nth Power - Partner
Erin Quinn
Austin Monthly - Editor-in-Chief
Peter Rafle
Spitfire Strategies - VP
Rahul Raj
Walmart - Dir of Sustainability+Merchandising Innovation
Riddhi Ray
USC Energy club - VP-Thought Leadership
Charlie Redden
Taylor Guitars - Supply Chain Mgr
Bill Reed
Regenesis - Partner
Martin Reed
I Love Blue Sea - Founder
Josh Rhodes
Webber Energy Group - Graduate Research Assistant
Sister Elizabeth Riebschlaeger, ccvi
Congregation Of The Sisters Of Charity Of The Incarnate Word - n/a
Kelly Rigg
Global Campaign for Climate Action
- Exec Dir
Nick Roberts
Atkins - Strategy Dir
Maria Rodale
Rodale Inc - Chairman & CEO
John Rooks
The SOAP Group - Pres
Susan Roothaan
A Nurtured World Inc - Exec Dir
Juan Rovalo
TOA - Principal
Ronda Rutledge
Sustainable Food Center
Emily Sadigh
Alameda County Sustainability - Sustainability Project Mgr and TogetherGreen Fellow
Gianluca Salvatori
Progetto Manifattura - CEO
Julie Sammons
Bay Area Biomimicry Network - Dir
Crystal Sanders
Fish Revolution - Founder & Sustainable Seafood Advisor
Andrew Sansom
River Systems Institute - Exec Dir
Kelli Scheid
Arent Fox LLP - Attorney
Jennifer Schmitt
University of Minnesota - Postdoctoral Researcher
Astrid Scholz
Ecotrust - Exec VP
Lois Schonberger
Solar Network Solutions - CEO and Founder
Erin Schrode
Teens Turning Green - Co-Founder
Larry Schweiger
National Wildlife Federation - Pres & CEO
Shannon Service
- Journalist
Sarah Severn
NIKE - Dir, Stakeholder Mobilization
Jigar Shah
Jigar Shah Consulting
Andrew Shapiro
Greenorder/Broadscale Group - Founder
Suzanne Shaw
Union Of Concerned Scientists - Dir of Comm
Nicole Shore
Zero to Sixty Communications - Principal
Aman Singh
CSRwire - Editorial Dir
Austin Smith
Drink Water - Founder
Andrew Snowhite
Azure Worldwide - Co-Founder
Laura Spanjian
City of Houston - Dir, Office of Sustainability
Keith Sparks
Clean Line Energy Partners LLC - Dir of Dev
David Spence
The University of Texas McCombs School of Business - Associate Professor
Josh Stack
CLARE Advising LLC/Northeast Natural Homes Inc - Counselor at Law
Jay Stanka
HumaniTV - Co-Founder
Vincent Stanley
Patagonia - VP/Mktg
Scott Steen
American Forests - CEO
James Steffes
Green Mountain Energy Company - President and CEO
David Stephens
Grameen Foundation USA - Advisor to Professor Yunus
Jacob Sterling
Maersk Line - Head of Environment and Corporate Social Responsibility
Susan Stevens
Practically Green - Founder and CEO
Jake Stewart
City of Austin Sustainable Urban Agriculture - Program Dir
Tom Stitt
Staxxon - Mktg Dir
Jerry James Stone
Discovery Channel - Writer/Social Media Editor
Scott Storment
Green Hub Advisors - Principal
Bryan Stubbs
The Oberlin Project - Managing Dir
Dorjee Sun
Carbon Conservation - CEO
Soll Sussman
S cubed Studio - Managing Dir
Cindy Svestka
General Motors - Engineering Group Manager
Matt Tankersley
HumaniTV - CEO
Justin Tatum
TWMF - Exec Dir
Josh Tickell
Green Planet
Jessy Tolkan
Jessy Tolkan Strategies - Pres
Diana Tomback
Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation - Dir
Rob Tompkins
Silicon Valley Bank - Dir, Analytics
Eric Toone
Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy ARPA-E - Principal Deputy Dir
Vincent Torres
Austin ISD Board of Trustees - VP, Board of Trustees
Maxine Trump
The Musicwood Documentary - Dir
Antony Turner
Carbon Visuals - CEO
Matthew Van Dusen
Group SJR - Editor
Rick Van Schoik
North American Center for Transborder Studies - Director
Paula Vaughan
Perkins+Will - Co-dir Sustainable Design Initiative
Gib Veconi
Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council - Treasurer
Dominic Vergine
ARM
Tom Vincent
LBJ School of Public Affairs
Gail Vittori
Center For Maximum Potential Building Systems - Co-Director
Bryan Walsh
Time Magazine - Sr Editor
Caleb Waugh
MIT Energy Club - PhD Candidate
Kate Weaver
Robert S. Strauss Center For International Security & Law - Distinguished Scholar
Michael Webber
The University of Texas at Austin - Assoc Professor
Jonathan Wichmann
Maersk Line - Head of Social Media
Lorie Wigle
Intel - Eco-Tech GM
Clint Wilder
Clean Edge Inc - Sr Editor
Howard Williams
Construction Specialties Inc - VP/GM
Darcy Winslow
Academy For Systemic Change - Managing Partner
David Wolfe
EDF - Texas Regional Wildlife Dir
Andrew Wyly
Andrew Wyly Film Co - Author/Filmmaker
Will Wynn
- Former Mayor
Rick Yang
New Enterprise Associates Inc - Sr Assoc
Shannon Yee
BERC University of California Berkeley - VP of Partnerships
Matthew Yeomans
Custom Communication - Director
Zia Yusuf
Streetline - CEO
Kathy Zarsky
Holos - Dir
Ory Zik
Energy Points - CEO