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.