2024 Program
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2024
8:00 AM | Breakfast
Join your peers for breakfast and networking.
9:00 AM | Welcome Remarks
The conference kicks off with welcoming remarks and an introduction to the 2024 theme, Achieving Energy Resilience.
9:10 AM | Opening Keynote: The Global Protection Gap
How natural catastrophes are impacting global economies.
9:30 AM | Energy Resilience: Next Generation Energy Architecture
Designing our built environment for Energy Generation, Storage, and Integration.
10:30 AM | Coffee Break
Join your peers for coffee and networking.
11:00 AM | Rediscovering the Energy Industry Value Chain
How prosumers and energy democracy are transforming the energy industry value chain.
12:00 PM | Lunch & Nature Walk
Description Coming Soon.
1:30 PM | Energy Innovation Challenge Finalists, Investor Pitch Competition
Hear about breakthrough innovations and entrepreneurs.
2:30 PM | Valuing Demand Response
Dentralized Energy solutions that improve the performance of distribution networks. Smart thermostats, smart water heaters, solar and battery, and cold climate heat pumps.
3:30 PM | Business to Business Matchmaking
Meet every person at the event at this dynamic matchmaking session.
4:30 PM | Cocktail Reception
Enjoy networking, food & cocktails, and a musical performance.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2024
8:00 AM | Breakfast
Breakfast and networking.
9:00 AM | Welcome Remarks
We’ll recap day one and welcome you back for day two of the program.
9:05 AM | Opening Keynote: The Changing Energy Landscape… Location, Location, Location
Speaker: Gary Holden, Managing Director and Founder, Lodestone Energy Limited
9:20 AM | Energy Resilience
A period of creativity and active innovation.
10:30AM | Boozy Brunch
Enjoy a little something special with your coffee break.
10:45 AM | Chew on a Bone
You have a topic to discuss at your table.
11:30 AM | Energy Innovation Challenge Finalists, Investor Pitch Competition
Hear about breakthrough innovations and entrepreneurs.
12:30 PM | Lunch
Enjoy lunch and networking with your peers.
1:00 PM | Workforce of the Future
Multidisciplinary needs to support an ever-outsourced workforce. How multi-ticket roles might become more important than high paying jobs.
2:15 PM | Closing Keynote
Description coming soon.
3:00 PM | Investor Pitch Winners and Close
Description coming soon.
CHANGES OR CANCELLATION OF OUR PROGRAM. Circumstances beyond our control may necessitate substitutions, alterations, postponements, or cancellations to the content, format, themes, name, hosts, moderators, venue, timing or dates of DEF. We reserve the right to do so at any time and will not be liable to you for any cost incurred by you as a result.