VX2020 | VerdeXchange Green Marketmakers Conference | 27 January 2020 | The L.A. Grand Hotel Downtown, 333 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90071, USA

VerdeXchange's 13th annual cross-platform California conference,once again, accomplished clean and green tech entrepreneurs, energy & water companies, blue economy mavens, advanced vehicle manufacturers, soft & hardware developers, public policymakers as well as: procurers, innovative financiers, and environmental stewards will gather "under-one-roof" to assess "what's in-market," "what's about to be in-market," and "what's needed" in the global, trillion dollar verde economy.

VX2020 will build on and confirm the central thesis of previous VerdeXchange conferences: California and the Western States are opportunity-rich markets for renewables, sustainable practice, and finance as well as portals to all of North America.

2020 Speakers

James T. Butts
Mayor, Inglewood, CA

Rusty Hicks
Chair, California Democratic Party

Katherine Aguilar Perez
Associate Principal & Los Angeles Cities Leader, Arup

Brian Jordan
Vice President, Tetra Tech

Adel Hagekhalil
Director, Los Angeles Bureau of Street Services

Sara Neff
Senior Vice President, Sustainability, Kilroy Realty Corporation

Michael George
Delta Watermaster, State of California

Jeffrey Kightlinger
General Manager & CEO, Metropolitan Water District

Martin Adams
General Manager & Chief Engineer, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

Traci Minamide
Chief Operating Officer, Los Angeles Sanitation & Environment

Abigale Abel
Affiliate, CityFi

Doane Liu
Executive Director, Los Angeles Department of Convention and Tourism Development

Bob Foster
Board Member, EPCOR Utilities

Felicia Marcus
Fmr Chair, California State Water Resources Control Board

Alex Beavers
Chief Innovation Officer, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium

Minh Le
General Manager, Los Angeles County Internal Services Department

John Withers
Board of Directors Member, Irvine Ranch Water District

Panama Bartholomy
Director, Building Decarbonization Coalition

Zaib Shaikh
Consul General of Canada in Los Angeles, Canadian Consulate in Los Angeles

Mark Gold
Executive Director, Ocean Protection Council

Jules Radcliff
Partner, Radcliff & Saiki LLP

Evan Birenbaum
Managing Partner, Valkyrie Security Group

Julia Balas
Attorney, Morrison Foerster

Jessica Reinhardt
Director, Public Policy, Sunrun

Jake Levine
Associate and Policy Advisor, Covington & Burling LLP

Janice Lin
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Strategen

Philippe P. Huneault
Délégué, Government of Québec

Dennis McGinn
Fmr. U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Senior Advisor and Board Member, Customer First Renewables

Jane Oates
President, WorkingNation

Robin Hughes
President & CEO, Abode Communities

Ben Allen
California State Senator, 26th District

Shari Afshari
Deputy Director, LA County Public Works

Jessie Buckmaster
Sustainability Manager, Hathaway Dinwiddie

Loni Mahanta
Vice President, Public Policy Development, Lyft

Robb Whitaker
General Manager, Water Replenishment District

Ann Rogan
Sr. Advisor - Economic Development, Office of Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs

Logan Goldie-Scot
Head of Clean Power Research, Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Eric Garcetti
Mayor, City of Los Angeles

V. John White
Executive Director, CEERT

Andrew McAllister
Commissioner, California Energy Commission

Alison Brown
President & Founder, Flux Energy Systems

John Sanders
CEO & President, Innovative, Information, and Intelligence Solutions LLC

Eric Corey Freed
Sustainability Disruptor, Morrison Hershfield

John Cruikshank
President & CEO, Sensequake-Okamoto

Gideon Kracov
General Counsel, California Waste and Recycling Association

Jonathan Weisgall
Vice President, Government Relations, Berkshire Hathaway Energy

Dr. Thomas Becker
Vice President Sustainability, Mobility, BMW Group

Dr. Jerry Schubel
President and CEO, Aquarium of the Pacific

Christine Arbogast
Solid Waste Expert, TetraTech

Randall W. Lewis
Executive Vice President, Lewis Group of Companies

Paul Wassgren
Partner, DLA Piper

Stephanie Wiggins
Chief Executive Officer, Metrolink

Katy Young Yaroslavsky
Deputy for the Environment and Arts, Office of Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl

Joseph Cappello
Executive Officer, Iwatani

Benoit Couture
President, Lithion Recycling

Antonio Villaraigosa
Fmr. Mayor, City of Los Angeles

Denny Zane
Executive Director, Move LA

Gerhard Mayer
Principal Architect, GGLO Architects

Matt Horton
Director, Center for Regional Economics & California Center, Milken Institute

Sheba Hafiz
Associate Principal & Water Business Leader, Arup

Julia Attwood
Head of Advanced Materials, BloombergNEF

Carol L. Folt
President, University of Southern California

Tyson Eckerle
Deputy Director of Zero Emission Vehicle Market Development, Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development

Yuval Bar-Zemer
Principal, Linear City Development LLC

Lilly Shoup
Senior Director of Policy and Partnerships, Lyft

Ted Ross
GM & Chief Technology Officer, City of LA, Information Technology Agency

Arnab Pal
Director, Center for Sustainable Energy

Ramsay Stevens
Program Director, NECA Project Development

Jennifer Gress
Chief of the Sustainable Transportation and Communities Division, California Air Resources Board

Liz Crosson
Director of Infrastructure, Office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti

Huub Cox
Water Recycling Implementation Division Manager, LA Sanitation and Environment

Anuj Gupta
Deputy City Manager, City of Santa Monica

Enrique Zaldivar
Director, LA Sanitation & Environment

Steve Sullivan
Former Managing Director, Southern California Edison

Shelley Luce
President & Chief Executive Officer, Heal the Bay

Dr. Anat Zeelim-Hovav
Professor Emeritus in Management Information Systems, Korea University

Timothy McOsker
CEO, AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles

Carley Markovitz
Principal, Nelson\Nygaard

Maryam Brown
President, SoCal Gas

Carter Rubin
Mobility and Climate Advocate, Natural Resources Defense Council

Andrew Lund
Chief Engineer, Product Development Office, Toyota Motor NA

Janna Sidley
General Counsel, Port of Los Angeles

Nick Merridew
Host Cities Global Leader, Arup

Zev Yaroslavsky
Director, Los Angeles Initiative, UCLA Luskin School of Public Policy

Kirsty Jenkinson
Investment Director, CalSTRS

Christian Riber
Business Development Manager, Ramboll

Bill Gross
Founder and CEO, Heliogen

Richard Harasick
Sr. Assistant General Manager, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

McKinley Hlady
Co-Founder & CPO, CanTec Global Building Solutions Inc

Eiji Ohira
Director General, Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Group, Japan New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)

John A. Pérez
Chair, University of California Board of Regents

Gail Goldberg
Boardmember, Metropolitan Water District Board

J. Francois Nion
Executive Vice President, JCDecaux North America

Jake Singh
Software Systems Assurance Department Engineer, Aerospace Corporation

John Onderdonk
Chief Sustainability Officer, California Institute of Technology

Xiaoting Wang
Energy Specialist, BloombergNEF

E. Joaquin Esquivel
Chair, California State Water Resources Control Board

Dr. Joshua Schank
Chief Innovation Officer, LA Metro

Nadine Lee
Chief of Staff, LA Metro

Ted Bardacke
Executive Director, Clean Power Alliance

Baron Wolt
President & Cofounder, Technology Management Professionals

Bill Allen
President and CEO, LAEDC

Dan Carol
Director, Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets

James H. Caldwell, Jr.
Senior Technical Consultant, CEERT

Julia Prochnik
Director of Western Renewable Grid Planning, Natural Resources Defense Council

Dan Lafferty
Deputy Director, Los Angeles County Department of Public Works

Michael Phipps
President & Chief Technology Officer, Collaborative Innovation Partners

Kristen Torres Pawling
Sustainability Program Director, Los Angeles County Chief Sustainability Office

Eliot Abel
Co-Owner / Director of Commercial Sales, Namasté Solar

Rick Cole
City Manager, City of Santa Monica

Marcela Celerio
Consul General, Mexico Secretariat of Foreign Affairs

Jennifer Ganata
Senior Staff Attorney, Communities for a Better Environment

Thomas Small
Councilmember, Culver City City Council

Alisa Kreynes
Chief Development Officer, Solar Skyrise

Delia Ibarra
President,
City of LA Fire Commission

Dan Cohee
Operations Manager,
Morrow Meadows Corporation

Rafael Villegas
Program Manager - Operation NEXT, LADWP

Brian Goldstein
Executive Director, Energy Independence Now

Laura Cortez
Community Organizer, East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Allan Emkin
Managing Principal, Meketa Investment Group

Jennifer Phillips
Senior Scientist on Climate, Governor's Office of Planning & Research

Christopher Cabaldon
Mayor, City of West Sacramento

Warner Chabot
Executive Director, San Francisco Estuary Institute

Heather Rosenberg
Los Angeles Resilience Lead, Arup

Ben Grunat
Executive Director, Product Planning & Strategy, GILLIG LLC

Jon Bonanno
CXO, New Energy Nexus

David Jacot
Director of Efficiency Solutions, LADWP

Renata Simril
President and CEO, LA84 Foundation

Conrad Chase
CEO & Co-founder, Point Load Power

Christiane Waldron
Business Development Director, Kaneka Biopolymers, Kaneka Americas Holding, Inc.

Sean Chigusa
President and Chief Executive Officer, TATSUNO North America, Inc.

Michael Cano
Dep. Executive Officer, Goods Movements/State Policy & Programming, LA Metro

Akira Muto
Consul General, Consulate General of Japan in Los Angeles

Darin Toohey
Professor of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado

Vince Bertoni
Director of Planning, City of Los Angeles

Seth Strongin
Senior Sustainability Consultant, Arup

Ryan Tinus
Senior Director, Engineering and Environmental Sustainability, Hudson Pacific Properties

James Kast
Fuel Cell Business Analyst, Toyota NA

Tom Soto
Founder and Managing Partner, Diverse Communities Impact Fund

Kevin James
President, City of Los Angeles Board of Public Works Commission

Chris Reese
Senior Vice President, Lockton Insurance Brokers

Kerry Cavanaugh
Editoral Writer, Los Angeles Times

Alisa Orduña
Senior Advisor on Homelessness, City of Santa Monica

Yoshihiro Hirata
President and CEO, Innovation Core SEI Inc. (Sumitomo Electric)

Joe Edmiston
Executive Director, Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy

Janea A. Scott
Vice-Chair, California Energy Commission

Daniel Weiss
Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Angeleno Group

Yasuhiro Kasai
Director, Office for Int'l Project Promotion, Infrastructure System & Water Industry, Ministry of Economy Trade & Industry (METI) Japan

Yair Crane
Principal, CTG Consulting

Dr. Gil Crozes
Senior Vice President, Carollo

Carol Zabin
Director, UC Berkeley Labor Center Green Economy Program

Mark Kroeker
Head, Crisis Management, Disney Worldwide

Peter Marx
Former Chief Technology Officer, City of Los Angeles

Bob Stojanovic
Director of Electrical Vehicle Infrastructure, ABB, Inc.

Melani Smith
Senior Director, Transit Oriented Communities, LA Metro

George Kivork
Senior Public Policy Manager, Lyft

David Nahai
Partner, Lewis Brisbois LLP

Kiran Srivastava
Lead Associate, Energy Practice Booz Allen Hamilton

Albert Lee
Director of Investments, Real Assets, University of California (UC) Regents Investment Office

Marc Bédard
President, The Lion Electric Co.

Tyler Laferriere
Associate Economist, Institute for Applied Economics, LAEDC

Veronica Eady
Assistant Executive Officer, California Air Resources Board

Matt Petersen
CEO, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator

Jim Kelly
Director, S&C Electric

Rachel Malarich
City Forest Officer, City of Los Angeles

John Saez
Business Development Lead, Smart City Team NTT Inc., NTT Data

Noah Perch-Ahern
Partner - Environmental Department, Greenberg Glusker

Jason Rondou
Director, Clean Grid LA Strategy, LADWP

Ricardo Lara
Insurance Commissioner of California, California Department of Insurance

Effie Turnbull Sanders
Executive Director, SLATE-Z

Hayato Nakazono
Deputy Manager, Pipeline Division, JFE Engineering

Keith Lilley
Assistant Deputy Director, Los Angeles County Public Works

Charles Wilson
Executive Director and CEO, Southern California Water Coalition

Ben Stapleton
Executive Director, US Green Building Council

Terry O'Day
Chief Operating Officer, In-Charge Energy

Kathleen Brown
Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Jaime Carlson
Senior Advisor, SoftBank Energy

Christian Lafrance
Vice President Sales Marketing, Effenco

Liam Denning
Columnist, Bloomberg

Gary Horvat
Vice President, e-Mobility, Navistar, Inc.

Dr. Andrew Jones
Program Domain Lead, Earth Systems and Society Program, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Marcie Edwards
Boardmember, California Wildfire Safety Advisory Board

Andrea Redford
Chief Business Development Officer, Enerkem

Dr. Yasuhiro Matsui
Project Manager, Research & Development, Yokogawa

Jon Liberzon
Vice President, Tomorrow Water (BKT)

Katie Sloan
Director of eMobility, SCE

Amber Richane
Project Manager, City of Santa Monica Architecture Services

Rafael Spears
Director, Commercial Systems, Aerospace, Corp.

Heather Repenning
Commissioner, Metropolitan Water District Board

Norihiko Saeki
Executive Director, JETRO Los Angeles

Jonathan Levy
Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, EVgo

Michelle Sim
Commercial Development Manager, SoCalGas

Jacob Lipa
CEO, Micropolitan

Stephen Cheung
President, World Trade Center Los Angeles

Sohinaz Sotoudeh
Director of Power Marketing, EDF Renewables North America

Jeff Guido
Director, Special Programs, Planet

Charles Herbertson
Director & City Engineer, Culver City Department of Public Works

Geoff Gunn
Electrical Engineering & Energy Business Leader, Arup

Nancy Sutley
Sr. Asst. General Manager of External & Regulatory Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power

Harlan Kelly
General Manager, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

Philip Recht
Partner, Mayer Brown

Debra Gerod
President, American Institute of Architects, California

Jacquelyn Birdsall
Senior Engineer, Toyota Motor

Gregory Huynh
Operating Agent Manager, LADWP

Miguel Sangalang
Deputy Mayor for Budget & Innovation, City of Los Angeles

Diana Limón
Training Director, Net Zero Plus Electrical Training Institute

Bob Wieckowski
State Senator, California's 10th District, California State Legislature

Lorraine Paskett
Director at Large, California Hydrogen Business Council

Brett Oakleaf
Partnership Manager, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Cynthia Williams
Global Director, Sustainability, Homologation and Compliance, Ford Motor

Coby Skye
Assistant Deputy Director, Los Angeles County Public Works

2020 Sponsors

PLATINUM:
• NEDO
• Edison International
• SoCalGas
• Sempra Energy Utility
• Los Angeles Department of Water & Power
• The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
• Public Works Los Angeles County
• Urban Land Institute Los Angeles

GOLD:
• Jetro
• Sumitomo Electric
• Consulate General of Japan Los Angeles
• Subaru
• Mountains Conservancy
• Canada
• Toyota
• Metro
• Quebec
• Tetra Tech
• Arup
• USC University of Southern California
• BMW

SILVER:
• Streets LA
• environment LA Sanitation
• Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation
• WRD Water Replenishment District of Southern California
• IBEW & NECA

BRONZE:
• New Energy
• OutFront/JCDecaux
• DLA Piper
• World Trade Center Los Angeles
• Bloomberg
• BKT
• Tomorrow Water
• Los Angeles Times
• Center for Sustainable Energy
• Levin & Associates Architects
• APACA
• Mayer Brown
• kosmont companies
• Kaneka Biopolymers