6:30-7:30
Microgrid Morning Yoga
7:30-5:30
Registration
8-8:30
Breakfast
Breakfast provided courtesy of our Silver Partners:
- Bloom Energy
- Burns
- Rockwell Automation
8:30-8:45
Welcome and Overview
Ormandy Ballroom
Sponsored by: 
8:45-9:15
Keynote
Ormandy Ballroom
9:15-10:15
Plenary Panel
Microgrids Have Leapt ‘the Chasm.’ What’s on the Other Side?
- Mark Feasel (Schneider Electric) President, Smart Grid
- Mike Innocenzo (PECO) President and CEO
- Ben Parvey (Blue Sky Power) CEO
- Erik Svanholm (S&C Electric) Vice President of Non-Wires Alternatives
Ormandy Ballroom
10:15-10:30
Break
10:30 -11:30
Issue of the Day: Panel Discussion
Resiliency vs Sustainability. Why They are in Conflict and How to Make Peace
- Michael Bakas (Ameresco) Executive Vice President
- Allan Schurr (Enchanted Rock) Chief Commercial Officer
- Craig White, (Philadelphia Gas Works) President and CEO
Ormandy Ballroom
11:45-1
Lunch & Networking
Symphony/Overture
Lunch provided courtesy of our Gold Partners:
- Concord Engineering
- Cummins
- Compass Energy
- Power Engineers
- Enchanted Rock
- RTDS Technologies
- Worley
- Introspective Systems
- Scale Microgrid Solutions
- Typhoon HIL
1:15-2:15
The Philadelphia Navy Yard: The Remarkable Emergence of an Unintentional Microgrid as Told by Those Who Made it Happen
Moderator: Will Agate (Ameresco) Vice President, Microgrid Services
- Jayant Kumar (GE) Global Digital Grids Program Director
- Mike Walton ( Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation) Project Engineer
- TBA
1:15-2:15
How Utilities are Enhancing the Grid and Improving Customer Service with Microgrids
Moderator: Lola Infante (Edison Electric Institute) Senior Director Clean Energy Technology and Policy
- Bennett Chabot (Pacific Gas & Electric) Principal Product Manager Grid Innovation
- Donald Chung (Arizona Public Service) Consultant
- Chuck Hookham (CMS Energy/Consumers Energy) Executive Director
1:15-2:15
- Far Out, Man. Remote Outposts and Islands as Centers of Microgrid Innovation
Moderator: Allison Archambault (EarthSpark) President
- Bob Kirslis (Eaton) Account Executive, Microgrid
- Bryan Urban (Leclanche) Executive Vice President
- Anil Kumar Khedar (NTPC Utility) Manager
1:15-2:15
Innovation Hall
How to Moblize Students for University Microgrid Development
William Byun (University of California, San Marcos) Professor of Finance
2:15-3:15
Town by Town: Lessons Learned from the New Jersey Town Center Microgrid Program
- Matthew Nyquist (Concord Engineering) Project Manager
- Mike Smedley (Vicinity Energy) Vice President of Business Development
- Andrew Zwicker (New Jersey State Legislature) Assemblyman (invited)
2:15-3:15
Electrifying and Microgridding Planes, Trains and Ports
- Steve Pullins (AlphaStruxure) Senior Vice President, Development
- Mike Walton (Burns Engineering) Director
- TBD
2:15-3:15
Innovation Hall
USDA Funding & Financing for Microgrids: Presentation
- Renie Langan (USDA) Energy Program Specialist
- Fred Petok (USDA) Business Loan and Grant Analyst
2:15-3:15
It Takes Two (or More): How to Find Partners and Form Teams to Build Successful Government Microgrids
- David Hommrich (Pennsylvania Microgrids) President
- Stephanie Pine (S&C Electric) Manager, Federal Market
- Joe Vitella (Ameresco) Senior Manager, Engineering
3:15-4
Networking Exhibit Hall
4-5
The Evolution of Microgrid Finance: The Latest on Impact Investing, Project Finance, As-a-service and other Financial Mechanisms
- Jerome Garciano (Robinson & Cole, LLP) Attorney
- Mark Fisher, (Electrical Midstream), CEO
- Ryan Goodman (Scale Microgrid) CEO & Co-Founder
4-5
Where, When, Why and How Microgrids Can Serve Electrification Efforts: What Early Leaders Can Teach Us
- Mohammed Alam (ComEd) Principal Qualitative Engineer
- Nicole Geneau (Mortenson) Director, Strategy and Market Development
- Shashank Sane (Invenergy) SVP, Head of Invenergy Edge
- Philip Jonat (Worley) Energy Engineer
- David Smith (Burns Engineering) Director of Energy Service
4-5:30
Innovation Hall
Presentations and demonstrations of the latest microgrid tech
- Gary Oppedahl, Emera Technologies. Hybrid AC/DC distribution system for integrated nano/microgrids
- Tristan Jackson, Veckta: Microgrid optimization software toolkit
- Jean-Philippe Bérard, Opal-RT Technologies: Real-time simulations of microgrids, hosting capacity, other feature
- James McGinniss, David Energy: Commodity & demand integrated software for microgrid management
- Alexandra Schwertner, Rockwell Automation: Systems approach to security & technology for Microgrid and lifecycle operations
- Joachim Lohse, ampcontrol.io: Smart charging for charging point operators software
- Ken Dulaney, FREEDM Systems Center at NC State: Leveraging power of open source software to spur deployment
- Christian Jegues, RTDS Technologies: Hardware in the loop testing, real time simulations
- Andrew Meers, SwitchDin, Australian experience, cyber, VPP’s, DER integration
- Justine Jarvinen, UNSW Energy Institute, Tools for planning and operating microgrids
4-5
Microgrid Knowledge Greater Good Awards
Annual award winners will be announced and will present their projects
Sponsored by: 
5-5:30
Parting Thoughts: Solving the Day’s Big Question
Ormandy Ballroom
An interactive session with audience members and panelists to discuss concepts and propose next steps needed to overcome obstacles and drive microgrid adoption. Here’s a chance to ask questions and propose your ideas.
- Kay Aikin (Introspective Systems) CEO and Co-founder
- Rick Bolton (Compass Energy Platform) CEO
5:30 - 6:30
Networking Reception
Symphony/Overture
Networking Reception provided courtesy of our Platinum Partners:
- S&C Electric
- Schneider Electric
- Ameresco
- Siemens
This Agenda is Subject to Change
Featuring the industry’s top thinkers, innovators and change-makers, Microgrid 2020: Distributed Energy and World Electrification will explore opportunities for microgrids, nanogrids, non-wires alternatives other forms of distributed energy as we increasingly electrify vehicles, buildings and infrastructure.
Designed by the editors of Microgrid Knowledge, the one-of-a-kind event will bring out the latest news and trends in market development, technology, business models, financing and policy.
Join us for pre-conference workshop June 1 that will create an opportunity for regulators, policymakers, industry leaders and work together on some of the microgrid industry’s biggest challenges.
On June 2-3 gain a rare look at the evolving industry through lively keynote talks, engaging panel discussions, curated meeting for targeted groups, and in-depth case studies and presentations.
A fourth bonus day — June 4 — will offer tours of advanced microgrids in Philadelphia.
If you’re a project developer or customer seeking financing for your microgrid project, consider participating in Microgrid Financing Connection III.
Also stay tuned for the announcement of the deadline to apply for the Microgrids for the Greater Good Awards II.
The agenda is under development. For updates, please sign up for the free Microgrid Knowledge Newsletter.
Interested in being part of Microgrid 2020? Become a sponsor or exhibitor.
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Contact Veronica Trotto at 704-641-2600
Email: Veronica@MicrogridKnowledge.com