5th Energy Storage Summit USA 2023 | Solar Media Limited | 28 March 2023 | Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol, 701 E 11th St, Austin, TX 78701, USA

We will gather industry leaders across the sector to discuss a range of vital topics including the most lucrative states for storage and what the best route to market strategy is for your storage asset, changes needed in policy and infrastructure, as well as the effects of the supply crisis, disruptive technologies and much more.

Who should attend:
This Summit is designed for C-Level, Senior management, Project managers, consultants and key industry stakeholders from across the entire Energy Storage eco-system:
- Aggregators
- Developers
- Energy Buyers
- Financiers & Investors
- Government & regulatory Bodies
- Grind & DNOs
- IPPs & EPCS
- Lawyer & Consultants
- Start-Ups
- System Integrators & Manufacturers
- Technology & Software Companies
- Utilities

2023 Speakers

Jeremy Goertz
CEO, SunGrid

Andy Berke
Administrator, Rural Utilities Service, US Department of Agriculture

Mihir Mehta
Senior Vice President - Investments & Project Finance, Soltage LLC

Carl Fleming
Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery

Caitlin Smith
Senior Director - Regulatory, External Affairs and ESG, Jupiter Power

Marwan Alaydi
Senior Director, Energy Storage & Analytics, Swift Current Energy

Tiffany Wang
Research Analyst, Clean Energy Technology, S&P Global

Jerry Polacek
President, Energy Transition Solutions, Aggreko

Marcela Mulholland
LDES Engagement Lead, Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED), Department of Energy

Kevin Lynn
Director, Grid Modernization, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office, Department of Energy

Dana Sands
CEO, Energy Infrastructure Partners

Will McNamara
Senior Policy Analyst, Energy Storage, Sandia National Laboratories

Luigi Ciavarella
Vice President, Head of Utility-Scale Clean Energy Development (US Central Region), RWE Renewables

Dede Subakti
Vice President, System Operations, California ISO

Daniel Burke
Head of Asset Performance, Gore Street Capital

Rahul Ganesan
Director of Engineering, Aypa Power

Gene Settoon
Director of Investments, Eolian Energy

Erika Bierschbach
Vice President, Energy Market Operations & Resource Planning, Austin Energy

Mallory Clites
Batteries & Critical Materials Supply Chain Manager, Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC), US Department of Energy

Aubrey Johnson
Vice President, System Planning & Competitive Transmission, Midcontinent Independent System Operator

Quentin Draper-Scrimshire
CEO & Founder, Modo

Ben Irons
Co-Founder & Director, Habitat Energy

Bud Collins
Vice President & General Manager, ESS Division, American Battery Solutions

Anadi Jauhari
Partner, Emerging Energy & Environment Investment Group LLC

Joe Crespo
CEO & Founder, Concurrent LLC

Eric Pogue
Partner, Mayer Brown

Eric Barr
Vice President, Business Development – Environmental Finance, US Bank

Kelly Frey
Global Head of Digital Commercial Services, Fluence

Luca Roccia
Vice President, Americas, NHOA Energy

Billy Kahler
Technical Director, Energy Security Agency

Nick Warner
Principal Co-Founder, Energy Safety Response Group LLC

Eric Heintz
Managing Director, Renewable Energy Finance, M&T Bank

Robert Johnson
Vice President, Strategic Projects, Power Factors

Balki Iyer
Chief Commercial Officer, e-Zinc

Michael Kendzierski
Senior Business Development Manager - Energy Storage, Wärtsilä

Michael Koller
Head of BESS, Envision Digital

James Naviaux
Director of Global Partnerships & Commercial Strategy, ESS, Inc.

Mike Kirschner
Managing Director, US Market, Habitat Energy

Peter O’Brien
Sales Director, West Region, Fluence

Chris Groves
Program Manager - Hardware Engineering, Wärtsilä

Julia Souder
Executive Director, Long Duration Energy Storage Council

Helen Kou
Senior Associate, Energy Storage, BloombergNEF

Audrey Copeland
Head of Development, Mission Clean Energy

Joe Ferrari
Vice President, Sales - Americas, Energy Dome

Darrell Furlong
Director of Product Management & Hardware, Wärtsilä

Frances Cook
Vice President, Procurement, esVolta

Anna Siefken
Senior Advisor, Office of Technology Transitions, Department of Energy

Emerson Reiter
Senior Director, Energy Storage, Pivot Energy

Tremor Temchin
Senior Vice President, Head of Canada, Convergent Energy + Power

Judy McElroy
CEO, Fractal Energy Storage Consultants

Daniel Crotzer
CEO, Fractal EMS

Ted Lomond
President, North Atlantic

Alex Bates
Senior Member of Technical Staff, Power Sources Technology Group, Sandia National Laboratories

Andrew Keenan
Senior Investment Officer, Invest Canada

Nathan Picarsic
Co-Founder, Horizon Advisory

Philippe de la Fortelle
Chief Revenue Officer, PowerUp

Ivan Regueira
Sales Director, Powin

Mike Alter
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Stem, Inc

Dr. Taylor Kelly
Technical Leader, Energy Storage & Distributed Generation, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Christopher Allen
Director, Energy Hub Developments

Nasreddine Guerfala
Vice President, Solutions, SunGrid

John Fernandes
Senior Consultant – Emerging Technologies, Customized Energy Solutions

Vibhu Kaushik
Global Head of Utilities and Energy Storage, Prologis

Daniel Lynch
Partner, Akin Gump

Nick Dazzo
Managing Director, Trading, Spearmint Energy

Kenneth Ragsdale
Market Design & Development, Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)

Sara Kayal
Global Head of Integrated PV Solutions, Lightsource bp

Mike DeSocio
Director, Market Design, New York Independent System Operator

Jacob Steubing
Vice President, Renewable Power, GridStor

Shalene Watanabe-O’Toole
Operations Manager, Distributed Energy Resources, Center for Sustainable Energy (CSE)

Gigio Sakota
Senior Director, Energy Markets, Avantus

Li Xu
Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, LXI Capital

Angus Cole
Managing Director, Clairvest

David Miller
Vice President, Business Development, Gridmatic

Jeff Zwijack
Associate Director, Energy Storage, Clean Energy Associates

Dr. Kai-Philipp Kairies
CEO & Co-Founder, ACCURE Battery Intelligence GmbH

Matthew Wapples
Global Head of Customer Growth, Krakenflex

Eric Latulipe
Senior Mechanical Engineer, EVLO

Mark Kanjorski
Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Ampt, LLC

Michael Conway
Senior Director of Business Development, Energy Storage, New Leaf Energy

Vinod Siberry
Technology Manager - Energy Storage, US Department of Energy

Conor McKenna
Partner & Senior Managing Director, CohnReznick Capital

Chris Hoy
Vice President, Business Development, SunGrid

Ken Webre
Chief Operating Officer, SunGrid

Yayoi Sekine
Head of Energy Storage, BloombergNEF

Santosh Raikar
Managing Partner, Head of Renewables, Silverpeak

Erick Ford
President, New Jersey Energy Coalition

Vipul Devluk
Director, Investment Origination, Leyline Renewable Capital

Andrew Bernstein
Founder & Managing Director, Kearsarge Energy

Ross Kiddie
North America General Manager, Altelium

Andrew Meserve
Senior Director, Business Development, EOS Energy Enterprises

Michael Carlin
Global BESS Market Manager, IEP Technologies

Justin Rangooni
Executive Director, Energy Storage Canada

Casey Keller
Founding Partner, Caerus Commodities

Jin Noh
Policy Director, California Energy Storage Alliance

Raafe Khan
Director, Energy Storage, Pine Gate Renewables

Michael Enger
Director, Energy Market Operations, Austin Energy

Ingrida Soldatova
Senior Vice President, Prudential Financial

William Mao
Chief Commercial Officer, Eos Energy Enterprises

Joel Turkheimer
Vice President, Market Operations, Key Capture Energy

Walter Cuculic
Senior Vice President, Renewable Energy, Bank 34

2023 Sponsors and Partners

HOST SPONSOR:
• SunGrid

DIAMOND SPONSOR:
• Modo Energy

PLATINUM SPONSOR:
• Wartsila

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Envision Digital
• EOS

SILVER SPONSOR:
• Gridmatic

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Energy Dome
• Fluence
• Fractal Energy Storage Consultants
• Fractal EMS
• Habitat Energy
• IEP Technologies Hoerbiger Safety Solutions
• Kraken Flex
• NHOA Energy
• S.T.I.F Société Tôlerie Industrielle Française

SUPPORTING SPONSORS:
• Accure Battery Intelligence
• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld
• Altelium
• American Battery Solutions
• Ampt
• Clean Energy Associates
• Customize Energy Solutions
• ESS INC
• EVLO
• e-Zinc
• McDermott Will & Emery
• Power Factors
• PowerUp
• Power Factors
• Powin
• Stem

EDITORIAL PARTNERS:
• Current±
• Energy Storage News

PARTNERS:
• Advanced Energy United
• American Solar Energy Society
• BloombergNEF
• CIO Review
• Devdiscourse
• Energy Tech Review
• Energy Update
• Global Solar Council
• Lium
• Mercom Capital Group