AGENDA
All events in White Auditorium at the Kellogg Global Hub unless otherwise noted
Breakfast
8:30AM
Opening Remarks
9:00AM
Climate Change: What's at Stake?
Meghan Busse - Kellogg School of Management
9:10am
Andrew Flanagan '04 MBA - RWE Clean Energy, LLC
Shashank Sane '11 MBA - Invenergy
Mauricio Angulo '03 MBA - ExxonMobil Product Solutions
Darpan Kapadia '00 MBA - LS Power (Moderator)
9:40am
Coffee Break
10:30AM
Navigating Sustainability and Profitability with a Chief Sustainability Officer
Bea Perez - The Coca-Cola Company
Meghan Busse - Kellogg School of Management (Moderator)
10:40am
Coffee Break
11:20AM
Breakout 1: The Road to Decarbonizing the Transportation Sector (Room 1420/1430)
Dr. BJ Johnson - ClearFlame Engine Technologies
Yann Kulp - NextEra Mobility
Erica Tsypin - Rivian
William Hotchkiss - General Motors Energy
Brian Collie '03 MBA - Boston Consulting Group (Moderator)
Breakout 2: Exploring the Carbon Capture and Removal Frontier (Room 1130)
Shannon Smith '99 MBA - Chestnut Carbon
Jared Friedman - Climeworks
David Tatum - Chevron New Energies
Soham Dalal - gener8tor (Moderator)
Breakout 3: Financing the Climate Revolution (Room 1110)
Jorge Rodriguez '97 MBA - Marathon Capital
Joel Spenadel '94 MBA - JP Morgan
Mariyam Zhumadil '17 MBA - International Finance Corporation
AJ Gatesman '15 JD - Sheppard Mullin (Moderator)
11:30am
12:30PM
Incentivizing Decarbonization: The Role of Government Policy
Sourav Bhowmick '12, '19 MBA - U.S. Department of the Treasury
Jasmine Davenport - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Julius Goldberg-Lewis - U.S. Department of Energy
David Besanko - Kellogg School of Management (Moderator)
1:30PM
Coffee Break
2:15PM
Breakout 1: Seeds of Change: Cultivating a Sustainable Future in Food and Agriculture (White Auditorium)
Nate Gorence - Impossible Foods
Audre Kapacinksas - S2G Ventures
Sonali Lamba '12 MBA - The Soil Inventory Project
Dr. David Finegold - Golub Capital, Torregreen USA (Moderator)
Breakout 2: Emerging Climate Tech for a Greener Tomorrow (Room 1110)
Dr. Kurt (Chip) Breitenkamp - NanoGraf
Adam Rauwerdink - Boston Metal
Evan Cummings - Kairos Power
Brian Tolliver - Paula M. Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy (Moderator)
Breakout 3: Harnessing the Power of AI in the Energy Transition (Room 1130)
Patrick Raab - Google X
Sarah Millar - Renew Home
Abhimanyu Dhariwal - Uplight (formerly AutoGrid)
Ryan Jeffery - gener8tor (Moderator)
2:30Pm
Coffee Break
3:30PM
Protecting our Planet: Maintaining Biodiversity and Community Resilience
Meera Bhat - The Nature Conservancy
Rachel Fleishman '98 MBA - BSR – Business for Social Responsibility
Megan Kashner '03 MBA - Kellogg School of Management (Moderator)
3:45PM
Closing Remarks
4:30PM
Networking Happy Hour