SPEAKERS
FEATURED SPEAKERS

DANIEL YERGIN
Vice Chairman, S&P Global

KIP TOM
Former U.S. Ambassador, United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture

RAHM EMANUEL
United States Ambassador to Japan
MAIN STAGE SPEAKERS

Ali Al-Saffar
Director, Energy Transition and Climate Action
Rockefeller Foundation

Tom Atkinson
General Manager & Chief Executive Officer
Kotzebue Electric Association

Keriann C. Baker
Director of Member Relations
Homer Electric Association Inc

David Boyce
Chief Executive Officer, Schroders Greencoat
Schroders

John Boyle
Commissioner
Alaska Department of Natural Resource

Dave Bronson
Mayor
Municipality of Anchorage

Jason W. Brune
Commissioner
Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation

John Burns
President & CEO
Golden Valley Electric Association

Mark Cheeseman
Head of Business Development & Future Programmes
Rolls-Royce

Peter Corsell
Partner
I Squared Capital

Nancy Dahlstrom
Lieutenant Governor
The State of Alaska

Abhijit Dandekar
Professor and Chair of Petroleum Engineering
University of Alaska Fairbanks

Bruce Dingeman
Executive Vice President & President, Alaska
Santos

Mike Driscoll
ERD Project Integration Manager
ConocoPhillips

Mike Dunleavy
Governor
The State of Alaska

John C. Eichelberger
Research Professor
Alaska Center for Energy & Power, UAF

Julie Estey
Senior Director of External Affairs & Strategic Initiatives
Matanuska Electric Association, Inc

Marcus Frampton
Chief Investment Officer
Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation

Justin Freeman
VP CCUS & Hydrogen
Coffman

Jeff Gibbons
ESG Business Advisor
Bridge House Advisors

Jennifer Gordon
Director, Nuclear Energy Policy Initiative
Atlantic Council

Gwen Holdmann
Associate VCR, Innovation & Industry Partnerships
University of Alaska Fairbanks

Tom Hsieh
President
Northern Pacific Airways

Kim Kovol
Commissioner
Department of Family & Community Services

Colin le Duc
Founding Partner
Generation Investment Management

Reg Manhas
Chief Executive Officer
Lapis Energy

Arthur Miller
Chief Executive Officer
Chugach Electric Association, Inc.

Kara Moriarty
President & Chief Executive Officer
Alaska Oil & Gas Association

Teresa Mattamouros
Managing Director
EQT Partners

James McIntyre
Senior Managing Director
Moore Strategic Ventures

Kellie Metcalf
Managing Partner – Energy Transition
EnCap Investments L.P.

Steve Moseley
Managing Director
Wafra, Inc.

Jesse Noffsinger
Partner
McKinsey & Company

Francis O’Sullivan
Managing Director
S2G Ventures

Joshua L. Parker
Director, Business Development
BWXT Advanced Technologies

Brett Pingree
Country Manager
EWT, America’s

Pat Pitney
President
University of Alaska

George Potts
Head of Climate Principal Investments
Hartree Partners

Geoffrey R. Pyatt
Assistant Secretary for Energy Resources
U.S. Department of State

Cristian Rabiti
Vice President, U.S. Business Development
Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation

Frank Richards
President
Alaska Gasline Development Corporation

Chris Rose
Executive Director
Renewable Energy Alaska Project

Gabrielle Rubenstein
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Manna Tree

Michael Sachs
Managing Director
Goldman Sachs

Dan Sullivan
U.S. Senator for Alaska
U.S. Senate

Macky Tall
Partner & Chair Global Infrastructure
Carlyle

Curtis W. Thayer
Executive Director
Alaska Energy Authority

Brian Tochman
General Partner
Trust Ventures

Dave Turk
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy
Department of Energy

Michael Valore
Senior Director – Advanced Reactors
Westinghouse Electric Company

Richard Voorberg
President, North America
Siemens Energy

Erin Whitney
Director
Arctic Energy Office, U.S. Department of Energy

Cathy Woollums
SVP, Chief Sustainability Officer
Berkshire Hathaway Energy

Kassia Yanosek
Partner
McKinsey & Company
BREAKOUT SESSION SPEAKERS

Audrey Alstrom
Director – Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency
Alaska Energy Authority

Michele Anderson
Program Officer
Office of Naval Research

Ryan Anderson
Commissioner
Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities

Glen Bailey
Vice President of Key Accounts & Partnerships
Carbon Clean

Andy Berke
Administrator
Rural Utilities Service

Robert P. Bernard
Director, Energy Storage – Commercial Operations
Westinghouse

Carsten Brinkschulte
Chief Executive Officer
Dryad Networks GmbH

Garrett Boyle
Federal Cochair
Denali Commission

Patrick Boyle
SVP, Head of Codebase
Ginkgo Bioworks

Dayne Broderson
ARCTIC Program Administrator
University of Alaska Fairbanks

Raymond Byrne
Manager, Energy Storage Technology & Systems
Sandia National Laboratories

Sophie Chu
Principal Oceanographer
Captura

Rebecca Clark
Co-Founder
Remora App

Katie Conway
Energy Program Manager
Denali Commission

Nick Cooper
Chief Executive Officer
Storegga

Paul L. Craig
Chief Executive Officer
GeoAlaska, LLC

Stuart Davies
Chief Executive Officer
ORPC

Julie Decker
Executive Director
Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation

Indra den Bakker
Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder
Overstory

Sean Dolan
Chief Executive Officer
NorthLink Aviation

Ron Duvall
Vice President, Director of Information Technology
Alaska Electric Light & Power

Georgy Egorov
Chief Investment Officer
ZeroAvia

John Farrell
Laboratory Program Manager – Vehicle Technologies
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Ramzi Fawaz
President and Chief Executive Officer
Ambler Metals

Jim Flatt
Chief Executive Officer
Brightseed

Chris Fletcher
Senior Policy Analyst
National Governors Association

Amy Foote
Senior Area Executive Chef
NANA Management Services, Alaska Native Medical Center

Simon Freeman
Program Director
ARPA-E

Samantha Galltin
Vice President Commercial Operations
FleetZero

Robbin Garber-Slaght
Research Engineer
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Rebecca Garrett
Rural Programs Manager
Alaska Energy Authority

Chris Gearhart
Center Director
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Nicholas Goodman
Chief Executive Officer
Cyrq Energy, LLC

Griffin Hagle
Executive Director
Taġiuġmiullu Nunamiullu Housing Authority

Arlo Hannigan
Pilgrim Hot Springs Sustainability Coordinator
Kawerak, Inc.

Melissa Heuer
Principal
Spork Consulting

Kevin Hinrichs
Special Agent
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Brian Hirsch
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
DeerStone Consulting

Mark D. Houston
Net Zero Consultant
The Comforts Of Home, LLC

Bert Hunter
Chief Investment Officer
CT Green Bank

Anthony Huston
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
GraphiteOne Inc

Lorrie Irwin
Director
Space Farming Institute

Ashwin Jadhav
Vice President, Business Development
Twelve

David Karp
SVP Alaska, Saltchuk & President, Naniq Global Logistics
Saltchuk

Jeremy Kasper
Director
Alaska Center for Energy & Power

Katherine Keith
Deputy Commissioner
Department of Transportation & Public Facilities

Marc von Keitz
Director
Grantham Foundation

Chandler Kemp
Assistant Professor
UAF Bristol Bay Campus

Levi Kilcher
Senior Scientist
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Annalise Klein
Program Architect
Alaska Center for Energy and Power, UAF

Katie Koester
Engineering & Public Works Director
City & Borough of Juneau

Michael Lammert
Senior Commercial Vehicle Technologies Engineer Organization
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Alexander Lavin
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Pasteur Labs & Inst for Simulation Intelligence

Michael Lavin
Founder & Managing Partner
Germin8 Ventures

Tim Leach
Transportation Lead
Launch Alaska

Ben Loeffler
PMEC Co-Director
University of Alaska Fairbanks

John Lyons
Fieldwide Ops Support Supervisor
ConocoPhillips

Dustin Madden
Rural Energy Program Manager
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium

Ingemar Mathiasson
Energy Manager
Northwest Arctic Borough

Casey Matney
Associate Professor, Cooperative Extension Service
University of Alaska Fairbanks

Karen Matthias
Executive Director
Council of Alaska Producers

Ben May
Founder & CEO
Alaska Solar

Chris McConnell
Director Alaska Network of Energy Education and Employment Organization
Renewable Energy Alaska Project

Laurel McFadden
Director of Independent Assessments
DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations

Dan McIntosh
Manager of Distribution
Cordova Electric Cooperative

Andrew McDonnell
Vice President
Alaska Renewables

Dave Messier
Infrastructure Division Director
Tanana Chiefs Conference

Mark Merchant
Chief Information Security Officer
Municipality of Anchorage

Lance Miller
VP Natural Resources
NANA Regional Corp

Jodi Mitchell
Chief Executiove Officer & General Manager
Inside Passage Electric Cooperative

L. Monika Moskal
Professor and Director of Precision Forestry Cooperative
University of Washington

David Muth Jr.
Managing Director Asset Management
Peoples Company Capital Markets

Jeff Myers
Chief Information Officer
Matanuska Electric Association, Inc

Ranjith (Ran) Narayanasamy
President & Chief Executive Officer
Petroleum Technology Research Centre

Laurent Nassif
Chief Executive Officer
Renewable Solutions

Marcus Nichol
Senior Director, New Reactors
Nuclear Energy Institute

Greg Poelzer
Professor
University of Saskatchewan

Matthew Perkins
President & Chief Executive Officer
Macro Oceans

Gideon Powell
Chief Executive Officer
Cholla Inc

Dominique Pride
Research Assistant Professor of Economics
Alaska Center for Energy & Power, UAF

Christine Resler
President & CEO
ASRC Energy Services

Andy Romanoff
Executive Director
Alaska Heat Smart

Michael Rovito
Deputy Director
Alaska Power Association

Randy Ruaro
Executive Director
Alaska Industrial Development & Export Authority

Tim Sandstrom
Chief Operating Officer
Alaska Energy Authority

Bryan Scoresby
Director of Agriculture
Alaska Division of Agriculture

Lorali Simon
Vice President External Affairs
Usibelli Coal Mine

Dan Smith
General Engineer – Alaska
U.S. Department of Energy – Office of Indian Energy

Justin Sternberg
Director, Alaska Blue Economy Center
University of Alaska Fairbanks

Kalb Stevenson
Principal Consultant
Axiom Environmental

Susan Su
Partner
Toba Capital

Amanda Toerdal
Pilgrim Hot Springs General Manager
Kawerak, Inc.

Justin Tuomi
Rural Assistance Manager
Alaska Energy Authority

Erin Trochim
Assistant Research Professor
ACEP / UAF

Robert Venables
Executive Director
Southeast Conference, Alaska

Michelle Wilber
Research Engineer, Lead of the Beneficial and Equitable Electrification Initiative
UAF, Alaska Center for Energy and Power

Bryce Wrigley
Owner
Alaska Flour Company