Scaling Fusion Energy – Industry & Investor Perspectives: NYC Climate Week 2024 | Fusion Industry Association | 23 September 2024 | 520 Madison Avenue, 10th Floor, 10022, New York, NY, USA

Join and hear from leading investors and fusion startups on the status of the fusion energy industry, investment driving acceleration, and insight into scaling. We invite you to join us as we discuss a clean energy future powered by fusion.

2024 Speakers

MODERATORS:

Charles Boakye
Energy Transition Strategist, Jefferies

David Dolezal
Global Head of Energy Transition Investment Banking, Jefferies

SPEAKERS:

Andrew Holland
Chief Executive Officer, Fusion Industry Association

Aniket Shah
Managing Director, Global Head of Sustainability and Transition Strategy, Jefferies

Benj Conway
Chief Executive Officer, Zap Energy

Sam Bursten
Principal, Energy Impact Partners

Brian Berzin
Chief Executive Officer, Thea

Charlie Baynes-Reid
Chief Financial Officer, Type One Energy

Jim McNiel
Chief Growth Officer, TAE Technologies

Kate Kelly
Chief of Staff, Avalanche Energy

Laurens Speelman
Principal, RMI

Megan Wilson
Chief Strategy Officer, General Fusion

Phil Larochelle
Partner, Breakthrough Energy Ventures

Rick Needham
Chief Commercial Officer, Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Abanti Sankaranarayanan
EVP – Group Public Affairs, Mahindra Group

Abby Davidson
Managing Director, ENGIE

Adam Lake
Head of Engagement, North America, Climate Group

Ali Zaidi
Assistant to the President and National Climate Advisor, The White House

Ambroise Fayolle
Vice President, European Investment Bank

Ana Toni
National Secretary of Climate Change of Brazil

Andreas Schierenbeck
CEO, Hitachi Energy

Andrés Gluski
President and CEO, The AES Corporation

Andrew Kuper
Founder and CEO, LeapFrog Investments

Andrew Mayock
Federal Chief Sustainability Officer, Council on Environmental Quality

Anesa "Nes" Parker
Principal, Deloitte

Annie Heaton
Chief Executive Officer, ResponsibleSteel

Annika Hedberg
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Annika Olme
Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Technology Department, SKF Group

Basani Ndindani
Director: Environmental Policy, Planning & Coordination, Gauteng Department of Environment

Ben Jealous
Executive Director, Sierra Club

Benoit Bazin
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Saint-Gobain

Governor Bill Ritter
President and Chair of the Board, Climate Group

Blair Swedeen
Global Head of Net Zero and Sustainability, Meta Platforms, Inc.

U.S. Senator Brian Schatz
U.S. Senator (D-Hawai‘i), U.S. Senate

Carol Browner
Senior Of Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP

Professor Celeste Saulo
Secretary General, WMO

Christiana Figueres
Founding Partner, Global Optimism

Christopher Creed
Chief Investment Officer, Department of Energy Loan Programs Office

Christopher Wellise
VP of Sustainability, Equinix

Clarabeth Concaret
Co-Founder, Fabricure

Crystal Decuir
Chief Nursing Officer, SWLA Center for Health Services

David Nicholson
Chief Climate Officer, Mercy Corps

Diep Nguyen-Van Houtte
Senior Manager, Innovation and Business Development, International Finance Corporation

Eleni Myrivili
Global Chief Heat Officer, UN Habitat and Arsht-Rock

Dr. Elizabeth Gray
CEO, National Audubon Society

Ellen Jackowski
Chief Sustainability Officer, Mastercard

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger
Executive Director, Indigenous Climate Action

Ethan Zindler
Climate Counselor to the Secretary, United States Department of Treasury

Eugenia Kargbo
Chief Heat Officer & Senior Heat Strategist Africa, Freetown City Council/Climate Resilience for All

Dr. Eva Riesenhuber
Global Head of Sustainability, Siemens

Ezgi Barcenas
Chief Sustainability Officer, L'Oréal Groupe

Gayle Schueller
SVP and Chief Sustainability Officer, 3M Company

Geoff Tuff
Principal | Sustainability and Climate Leader for Energy, Resources & Industrials | U.S. Hydrogen Practice Leader

Gillian Martin
Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero and Energy, Scottish Government

Gina Coplon-Newfield
Managing Director, Sunstone Strategies

Ginger Zee
Chief Meteorologist and Chief Climate Correspondent, ABC News

Gregory Carli
Global Advisory Leader — Sustainability, Resilience & ESG, GHD

Hamid Maher
Managing Director & Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group

Helen Davis
Senior Vice President & Head of North America Operations, Kraft Heinz

Helen Walter-Terrinoni
Director - Global Climate Policy, Trane Technologies

Henry Fovargue
Vice President, Sustainability, Sysco

The Right Honourable Dame Jacinda Ardern
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand

Jaclyn Whittal
Senior Meteorologist & Climate Change Journalist, The Weather Network

Jason Bell
Executive Managing Director, ENGIE Impact

Governor Jay Inslee
Governor of Washington

Jaycee Pribulsky
CSO, Nike

Jeff Marootian
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, US Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Jes Munk Hansen
CEO, ROCKWOOL

Jeremy McQueen
Artistic Director, The Black Iris Project

Jessica Anderen
CEO, IKEA Foundation

Jessica Synkoski
Head of Sustainability, Sodexo North America

Jo Tyndall
Director, OECD Environment Directorate, OECD

Johanna C. Jobin
Global Head of Environment and Sustainability, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited

John Colas
Partner and Vice Chairman, Financial Services Americas Global Leader, Climate & Sustainability, Oliver Wyman

John DeAngelis
Head of Clean Technology Innovation, Meta

John Hoekstra
SVP, Global Sustainability, Prologis

John Podesta
Senior Advisor to the President, International Climate Policy, The White House

Jorge Moreira da Silva
Under-Secretary General & Executive Director, United Nations Office for Project Services - UNOPS

Joscha Rosenbusch
Head of Interim Secretariat of the Climate Club / OECD, Climate Club / OECD

Josh Henretig
Managing Director, RMI

Kahori Miyake
Co-chair, JCLP

Kal Allam
VP & GM - Environment Business Division, Hitachi

Kamal Kishore
Assistant Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Karen Fang
Managing Director, Global Head of Sustainable Finance, Bank of America

Kate Brandt
Chief Sustainability Officer, Google

Kathi Walker
Director of Global Sustainability Strategies, GM

Governor Kim Tae-heum
Governor of South Chungcheong Province

Kitty van der Heijden
Deputy Executive Director, Partnerships, UNICEF

Kristin Hughes
Global Head of Sustainability, Diageo

Kristin Stoller
Editorial Director, Fortune

Laura Trevelyan
Journalist and philanthropist, Trevelyan Grenada Reparations Fund

Leslie Biddle
Deputy Under Secretary, Department of Commercialization and Finance at the U.S. Department of Energy

Liane Randolph
Chair, California Air Resources Board

Lola Adedokun
Executive Director, Aspen Global Innovators Group, Aspen Institute

Lorena Dellagiovanna
SVP and Executive Officer, Chief Sustainability Officer and CHRO, Hitachi, Ltd.

Louise Proud
Vice President, Safety & Environmental Operations, Pfizer

Luc Triangle
General Secretary, ITUC

Luke Petherbridge
CEO, Link Logistics

Makhtar Diop
Managing Director, International Finance Corporation

Marc-Simon Schaar
CFO, Outokumpu Corporation

Marcelo Mena
Chief Executive Officer, Global Methane Hub

Maria Gallucci
Senior Reporter, Canary Media

Maria Marshall
UNICEF Youth Advocate, UNICEF

Maria Mendiluce
CEO, We Mean Business Coalition

Maria Persson-Gulda
Chief Technology Officer, Stegra (formerly H2 Green Steel)

Maria Pia De Caro
EVP Integrated Operations & Sustainability, Pernod Ricard

Maria Susana Muhamad Gonzalez
Minister, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development

Mark Davis
CEO, Capterio

Mark Patel
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Mary de Wysocki
SVP and Chief Sustainability Officer, Cisco

Mateus Simões de Almeida
Vice Governor of State of Minas Gerais

Matt Helgeson
Head of Sustainability, Siemens USA

Governor Mauricio Kuri González
Governor of Queretaro

Melanie Chow Li
VP, Mission and Sustainability, Danone North America

Melanie Larkins
Director of Global Sustainability, LinkedIn

Melissa Schoeb
Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Nokia

Mercedes Lissette McKinley
Director, The Silver Beat

The Honorable Meredith Berger
Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Energy, Installations, and Environment) and Chief Sustainability Officer, Department of Navy

Michael Simmelsgaard
Group Chief Operating Officer, Ramboll Group

Michele Walsh
Executive Vice President and Chief Philanthropy Officer, UNICEF USA

Miguel Sossa
Vice President & Americas Sustainability GTM Lead, Capgemini

Mike Hayes
Global Head of Climate Change, Decarbonization and Nature KPMG ESG & Global Head of Renewables, KPMG International

Mike Peirce
Executive Director of Systems Change, Climate Group

Miranda Gardiner
Executive Director, iMasons Climate Accord

Nancy Mahon
Chief Sustainability Officer, The Estée Lauder Companies

Nathaniel Matthews-Trigg
Associate Director of Climate and Disaster Resilience, Americares

Neeti Jain
Strategic Partnerships Advisor, NYC Mayor's Office of Food Policy

Nicolas Clerget
Global Director Net Zero, Heineken International B.V

Nigar Arpadarai
UN Climate Change High-Level Champion, COP29 Azerbaijan

Nitesh Banga
President and CEO, GlobalLogic

Hon. Oden Ewa
Commissioner for Special Duties and Inter-governmental Relations, Ministry of Special Duties, Government of Cross River State

Ollie Wilson
Head of RE100 and Energy Operations, Climate Group

Pam Cheng
EVP, Global Operations & IT and Chief Sustainability Officer, AstraZeneca

Pamela Morgan
UN Committee Chair, Zonta International

Parneet Pal
Physician-educator and Founder, Systematically Well

The Right Honourable Patricia Scotland
Commonwealth Secretary-General

Paulette Frank
Chief Sustainability Officer, Johnson & Johnson

Pedro J. Pizarro
President and Chief Executive Officer, Edison International

Pemy Gasela
Chief Director: International Climate Change Relations and Reporting, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment

Pete Rose
Senior Director, Hydro-Quebec Energy Services

The Honourable Philip E. Davis
Prime Minister of the Bahamas

Preeti Srivastav
Group Head of Sustainability, Asahi

Priscilla Sims-Brown
President and CEO, Amalgamated Bank

Rachmat Kaimuddin
Deputy Coordinating Minister of Maritime Affairs and Investments in Infrastructure and Transportation, Coordinating Ministry for Maritime & Investment Affairs

Rafael Ulloa
Deputy Publisher, Tiempo Company / El Tiempo Latino - El Planeta

Rahul Shendure
CEO, CarbonBuilt, Inc.

Rajesh Swaminathan
Partner, Khosla Ventures

Ramon Mendez Galain
Executive Director, Asociacion Ivy

Rebecca Fisher
Director, Drive Electric Program, ClimateWorks Foundation

Rebecca Hayes Jacobs
Wellcome Curatorial Fellow, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Renata Koch Alvarenga
Founder and Executive Director, EmpoderaClima

Reuven Carlyle
Founder & EVP, Earth Finance

Administrator Robin Carnahan
US General Services Administration

Rosana Rodrigues dos Santos
Executive Director, E+ Energy Transition Institute

The Honourable Ryan Pinder
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs for the Commonwealth of The Bahamas

Sandra Paquette
Local Procurement Advisor, Institute of Tourism and Hospitality of Quebec

Sara Neff
Co-Director, TheNewConcrete

Sarah Kapnick
Chief Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Serena McIlwain
Secretary, Maryland Department of the Environment

Sergio Mujica
Secretary-General, International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Shana Gallagher
Net Zero Engagement Manager, British Standards Institution

Shannon Yee
Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Sheila Rohra
Chief Executive Officer, Hitachi Vantara

Sherry Madera
CEO, CDP

Sonia Dunlop
CEO, Global Solar Council

Sonia Guajajara
Minister of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil

Stefanie Friedhoff
Professor of the Practice, Director, Information Futures Lab, Brown University School of Public Health

Stephanie Abrams
Meteorologist, The Weather Channel

Steve Capanna
Director of Technology Policy, Department of Energy

Subhagata Mukherjee
VP Sustainability, Nokia

Suzanne DiBianca
EVP and Chief Impact Officer, Salesforce

Tara Hemmer
Chief Sustainability Officer, Waste Management

Tim Lenton
Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science, University of Exeter

Tina M. Tarquinio
VP, Product Management, IBM Z and LinuxONE, IBM Infrastructure

Tom Peterson
President and CEO, Center for Climate Strategies

Tove Larsson
General Partner, Norrsken VC

Trigya Singh
Senior Coordinator Corporate Sourcing, Global Renewables Alliance

Tzeporah Berman
Chair, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

Ulrike Decoene
Group Chief Communication, Brand and Sustainability Officer, AXA

Vanessa Butani
Head of Global Sustainability, Volvo Cars

Dr. Vatsal Bhatt
VP, LEED for Communities, US Green Building Council

Victor J Dzau
President and CEO, National Academy of Medicine

Vinay Shandal
Managing Director and Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group

Dr. Vlada Stamenkovic
Senior Director, Space Resources, Blue Origin

Will Jackson-Moore
Global Sustainability Leader, PwC UK

Wilson Ricks
Macro-Energy Systems Researcher, Princeton University

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
Mayor of Freetown, Freetown City Council