VX2025 Speakers
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Kenko Sone
Consul General, Consulate General of Japan in Los Angeles
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Wade Crowfoot
Secretary, California Natural Resources Agency
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David Hochschild
Chair, California Energy Commission
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Darcie Houck
Commissioner, California Public Utility Commission
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Tamotsu Saito
Chairman, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)
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Lindsey Horvath
3rd District, LA County Board of Supervisors
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Josh Becker
Chair, CA Senate Energy, Utilities & Communications Committee
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Karen Bass
Mayor, City of Los Angeles
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Janisse Quiñones
CEO and Chief Engineer, LADWP
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Mark Pestrella
Director, Los Angeles County Public Works
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John Keisler
CEO & Managing Partner, Sunstone Economic Development
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Angelina Galiteva
Board Member, CAISO
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Tyson Eckerle
Senior Advisor for Clean Infrastructure & Mobility, GoBiz
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Caroline Choi
Executive Vice President, Public Policy & Corporate Affairs, Edison International and Southern California Edison
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Dave Jones
Fmr. California Insurance Commissioner, Director of Climate Risk Initiative, UC Berkeley Law
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Nancy Sutley
Deputy Mayor of Energy & Sustainability, City of Los Angeles
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Anselmo Collins
Sr. Asst. General Manager, LADWP Water System
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Bill McGowan
Vice President, Granite Construction
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Doreen Harris
President & CEO, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
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Laura Friedman
Congresswoman, 30th District of CA
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Steve Westly
Founder & Managing Director, The Westly Group
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Susan Kennedy
Chairman & CEO, Cadiz, Inc.
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Ted Bardacke
Executive Director, Clean Power Alliance
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Gene Seroka*
Director, Port of LA
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Andrea Sasse
Consul General of the German Consulate, Los Angeles
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Allison Agsten
Director, USC Annenberg’s Center for Climate Journalism and Communication
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Terry O'Day
Chief Operating Officer, InCharge Energy
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Randall Winston
Deputy Mayor for Infrastructure, City of LA
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Dr. Jimmy Chen
Managing Director, SECA - Stanford Energy Corporate Affiliates, Precourt Institute for Energy
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Sara Neff
Partner/ GM, Sustainability Cloud Operations + Innovation, Microsoft
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Tom Pilarski
Geospatial Solutions Lead, Guida, Inc.
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Siva Gunda
Vice Chair, California Energy Commission
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Shekhar Chitnis
Founder, Chairman and CEO, HyZero
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Brian Jordan
Chief Growth Officer, GISI Consulting Group and Senior Vice President, Hill International
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Darcy Coleman
Vice-President, Asset and Investment Management, Alagem Capital Group
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Andrew McAllister
Commissioner, California Energy Commission (CEC)
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Phil Walsh
Global Programs Manager of Strategic Partnerships, Arup
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Gunjan Bagla
CEO, Amritt, Inc.
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Heather Repenning
Executive Officer of Sustainability Policy, LA Metro
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Evelyn Cortez-Davis, P.E., BCEE
Director of Strategic Initiatives (Water), LADWP
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Simon Bluestone, PG, BCES
Vice President, Stantec
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Gail Goldberg
Board Member, Metropolitan Water District Board
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Richard Katz
President, Board of Water and Power Comissioners
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Minh Le*
General Manager, Los Angeles County Internal Services Department
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Nurit Katz
Chief Sustainability Officer (UCLA)
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Joe Edmiston
Executive Director, Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy
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Gloria Roberts
District 7 Director, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), Appointee of the Governor of California
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Ross Zelen
Chief Committee Consultant, Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies
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Lalitha Krishnamoorthy
Vice President, Artificial Intelligence and Digital, Stantec
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Heather Rosenberg
Los Angeles Resilience Lead, Arup
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Arnab Pal
Executive Director, Deploy Action
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Janna Sidley
Board Member/ Commissioner/President, LACERS/Little Hoover Commission/ Ichor Strategies
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Gene Rodrigues
Former Assistant Secretary for Electricity for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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Colleen Quinn
Founder & President, eMobility Advisors
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Mike Wallace
Chief Decarbonization Officer, Persefoni
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Matt Horton
VP, Research & Policy, LAEDC
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Katy Yaroslavsky*
Chair, Energy & Environment Committee, LA City Council
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Greg Pierce
Research + Co-executive Director, Luskin Center for Innovation | Director, Human Right to Water Solutions Lab
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Robert Hertzberg
Sr. Advisor, Mission Possible Partnership,/CA Senate Majority Leader Emeritus
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Ruben Aronin
Senior Vice President, Better World Group
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Kristen Torres Pawling
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy & Planning, Office of LA City Councilwoman Yaroslavsky
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Thomas Aujero Small
President & CEO, Culver City Forward
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Mark Nechodom
Senior Director for Science and Technology, Western States Petroleum Association
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Jules Radcliff
Partner, Radcliff Fairman LLP
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Kathleen Brown
Fmr. Treasurer, State of California | Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
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Diego Soto Garcia
Senior Project Consultant, ESG Advisory, Stantec
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Hilary Norton
Fmr. Chair, California Transportation Committee
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Eliot Abel
Senior Vice President, Corporate Clean Energy Solutions, Pivot Energy
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Okko-Pekka Salmimies
Finnish Consul General, Consulate of Finland, Los Angeles
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Tak Yokoo
Founder and Chair, Japan Hydrogen Forum
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Darrell Steinberg
Fmr. Mayor, City of Sacramento
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Jim Kelly
Director, S&C Electric
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David Jacot
Director of Efficiency Solutions, LADWP
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Mary Nichols*
Co-Chair, Commission on the Future of Mobility
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Rick Cole
Councilmember, City of Pasadena
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Amy Broughton
Senior Principal, North America Funding Program, Stantec
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Lex Heslin
CEO, Enso Infrastructure LLC
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Rita Kampalath
Acting Chief Sustainability Officer, LA County Chief Sustainability Office
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Robin Raj
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Solar AquaGrid
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Terry Tamminen
CEO, AltaSea
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Lauren Faber O’Connor
Partner, Lowercarbon Capital
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Lisa Davidson
Disaster Recovery Program Director, Stantec
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Michael Colvin
Director, Regulatory and Legislative Affairs, EDF
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Earl Blumenauer
Congressman (Ret.), Oregon’s 3rd District
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Cecilia Estolano
CEO & Founder, Estolano Advisors and CEO of Better World Group
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Wendy J. Wagner
Head of Canada's International Trade Group, Gowling WLG
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Brian Goldstein
Executive Director, Energy Independence Now
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Larry Kosmont, CRE*
Chairman and CEO, Kosmont Companies
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Mia Lehrer
President, Studio MLA Urban Design Landscape Architecture
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Jacob Lipa
Founder and Principal, Lipa Consulting
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David Nahai
President, David Nahai Consulting Services, Inc.
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Tom Soto
Founder, Latimer Partners, LLC
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Stephen Cheung
President/CEO, LA County Economic Development Council/World Trade Center-Los Angeles
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Bonnie Lowenthal
President, Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners
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Paola Bernazzani
Principal and Nature Lead, ESG Advisory Services, Stantec
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Dan Mapes*
Founder/President, VERSES AI
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Phillip Recht
Partner, Mayer Brown
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Effie Turnbull Sanders*
Vice President, Civic Engagement & Economic Partnerships
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Dan Hopper
Director, Portfolio Planning & Analysis, Southern California Edison (SCE)
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John A Pérez
Vice-President, Los Angeles Harbor Commission
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Eli Lipmen
Executive Director, Move LA
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Jonah Bliss
Founder and Curb Whisperer, Curbivore
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Fran Inman
Senior Vice President, Majestic Realty
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John Withers*
Board of Directors, Irvine Ranch Water District
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Daishu Hara
Senior Director, Hydrogen and Ammonia Department, NEDO
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Gideon Kracov*
Mediator & Special Master, ADR Services, Inc.
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Annie Nam
Deputy Director of Transportation, Southern California Association of Governments
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Jaimie Levin
Director of West Coast Operations, Center for Transportation and the Environment
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Davina Hurt
California Climate Policy Director, Pacific Environment
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Charles Wilson
Executive Director & CEO, Southern California Water Coalition
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Dan Rosenfeld
Fmr. Senior Deputy for Economic Development, LA County Board of Supervisors
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Andrea Ambriz
General Manager, Exposition Park
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Gurmesh Sidhu
Founder & CPO, Moment Energy
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Bill Elrick
Executive Director, CA Hydrogen Fuel Cell Partnership
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Mick Dalrymple
Chief Sustainability Officer, University of Southern California
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Evan Birenbaum
Sr. Technical Executive, EPRI
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Samantha Bricker
President, Bricker Strategic Solutions
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Michael Galvin
Director of Waterfront and Commercial Real Estate, Port of LA
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Martin Adams
LA County Blue Ribbon Commission on Climate Action & Fire Safe Recovery
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Monica Benavides
District 7 Chief Deputy District Director, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)
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Nobuhiro Shiraishi
CEO, enagia Inc. & Fukushima Midorianzen Inc.
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Yuri Freedman
Senior Director, Business Development, Southern California Gas Company
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Analy Castillo
Zero Emissions Technical Lead, Stantec
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Rob Lempert
Director, RAND Pardee Center for the Longer Range Future
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David Libatique*
Deputy Executive Director, Stakeholder Engagement, Port of Los Angeles
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Jag Singh
Nuclear and Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Lead, Stantec
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Doane Liu
Chief Tourism Officer, City of Los Angeles
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Jack Brouwer
Director, Clean Energy Institute, UC Irvine
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Robin Kramer
Managing Director, The Smidt Foundation
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John Hanula
Senior Vice President, Stantec
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Ava Bromberg
President and CEO, Creative Urban Solutions Inc.
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Elliot Washor
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Big Picture Learning
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Patrick Fiedler, P.E.
President, Fiedler Group
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Daniel Chang
COO, Cool Innovation
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Pierre Gonthier
President & CEO, SAF International
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Howard Chang
CEO, AVA Community Energy
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Coby Skye
Former Deputy Director of Los Angeles County Public Works; Blue Skye Environmental Consulting
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Radha Mistry
Associate Principal, Americas Foresight Leader, Arup
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Jaron Brandon
Supervisor, Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors, CA
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Colin Connors
Sr. Director of Sales, ASUENE USA
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Masa Ando
CEO, Eco-Pork America
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Zac Swank
Deputy Director, Boulder County Office of Sustainability, Climate Action & Resilience
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Tesi Bravo
Deputy Director - Commercial Clean Transportation Infrastructure, CALSTART
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Danny Jaffe
Partner, Angeleno Group
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Michael Grant
Vice President, National Accounts Executive | Lockton Insurance Brokers, LLC
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Reagan Cerci
Research Analyst, Boundless Impact Research & Analytics
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Tim Hade
COO and Co-founder, Scale Microgrid Solutions
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Felicia Marcus
William C. Landreth Visiting Fellow, Stanford University’s Water in the West
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Mark Gold
Director, Water Scarcity Solutions, NRDC
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Yoshihito Ozawa
Professor Emeritus, Fukushima University
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Nate Taylor
Director of Integrated Infrastructure Planning, SoCal Gas
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Kit Cole
Founder and Director, Kit Cole Consulting
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Bill Penney
Program Manager, Project Nexus
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Ben Stapleton
Executive Director, USGBC California
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Paul Nelson
Managing Partner, Saoradh Enterprise Partners (SEP)
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Tanya Peacock
Managing Director for California and Hydrogen, EcoEngineers
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Robert Piascik
SVP and Chief Information and Technology Officer, New York Power Authority
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Justin Ward
General Manager of Fuel Cell Development (FCD), Toyota North America
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Jason Caudle
CEO, First Public H2
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Laura Iannaccone
Manager, Clean Transportation and Energy Programs, County of Los Angeles Internal Services Department
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Edward Sanders
Chief Executive Officer, Equatic
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Akira Narui
Vice Mayor, Namie Town (Japan)
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Jonathan Parfrey
Director, Climate Resolve
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Aaron Paley
President, Community Arts Resources (CARS)
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Garrett Lehman
Director of Development, Aypa Power
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Adrin Nazarian
Committee Member of the Energy and Environment, LA City Councilmember (Council District 2)
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Kendall Helm
Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer, LADWP
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Masaaki Kawai
Business Development Director, NGK Automotive Ceramics USA
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Lujuana Medina
Environmental Initiatives Division Manager, Los Angeles County Internal Services Department
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Steve Glenn
Founder, CEO, and Chair of the Board, Plant Prefab
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Charles Loveman
Executive Director, Heritage Housing Partners
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Chanel Parson
Director, Clean Energy and Demand Response, Southern California Edison
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Stefan Tongur
VP of Business Development, Electreon
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Julia Pyper
Vice President of Public Affairs, Good Leap
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David Vela
Trustee, Los Angeles Community College District
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Michael Cano
Deputy Executive Officer of Goods Movement Planning and State Policy and Programming, Los Angeles County Metro
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Peter Nearing
Principal Advisor, Analytics and Technology, Stantec
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Don Manvel
Retired Chairman & CEO, AVL Americas
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Brenda A. Levin, FAIA
Founder & President, Levin & Associates Architects
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Panama Bartholomy
Director, Building Decarbonization Coalition
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Myrna Bittner
Founder and CEO, RUNWITHIT Synthetics
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Thomas Huettner
Executive Director, AVL California Technical Center
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Kristen Barbee
Principal Manager, Southern California Edison
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Joseph Dieguez
Senior Vice-President, Kosmont Companies
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Anselmo Collins
Senior Assistant General Manager - Water System, LADWP
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Sahar Abbaszadeh
Americas West Region Sustainability Leader, Arup
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Jason Hills
Director of Power Engineering, LADWP
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Jonathan Beaulieu
VP Programs, Letenda
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Rosa Davies
Business Development Director, Veloz
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Haresh Kamath
Director of Cross-Cutting Technologies and Solutions, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
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Phil Ting
Fmr CA State Assembly Member, Assembly District 19
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Brian Goldman
Senior Advisor, Policy Pulse
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Tim McOsker
15th District, Los Angeles City Council
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Victoria Harmon
CEO & Founder, V&L Advisors
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James Tillman
CEO, EVLogic
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Jody Litvak
Senior Fellow, UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
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David McNeill
Executive Director, Baldwin Hills Conservancy
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Lia Cohen
Senior Coordinator, Climate Planning & Resilience, Climate Resolve
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Anssi Paalanen
Head of Energy Supply Team, Finland National Emergency Supply Agency (NESA)
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Gunjan Bagla
CEO & Founder, Amritt Inc.
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Laurie Ochoa
General Manager of Food Coverage, LA Times
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Neal Payton
Principal, Torti Gallas + Partners
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David Buczkowski
Vice President of Gas Distribution, SoCal Gas
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Suzanne Plezia
Senior Director/Chief Harbor Engineer, Port of Long Beach
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Tom Ashley
Vice President, Government Relations & Utilities Relations, Voltera
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Aravind Kailas
Advanced Technology Policy Director, Volvo
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Luis Gutierrez
Director of Energy & Water, Office of LA Mayor Karen Bass
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Garrett Rapsilber
Director, HR&A Advisors
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Steven Lewis
Principal, ZGF Architects
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Julia Reichelstein
CEO & Co-Founder, Vaulted Deep