Speakers and Moderators – 2024
For 2024, the Booth Energy Group presents “Ideation into Action,” a set of conversations that unpack the tumultuous last year in Energy, explore further salient themes regarding the Grid, Financing, Extration, and Growth, and seek to identify partnerships across clasically siloed industries.
Daniel Foley
Innovation Leader
Cordelio Power
Fmr. CEO, GlidePath Power
Lunch Keynote: Grid Forward
Brian Tolliver
CEO
Banyon Power
Progress Through Partnerships
Meena Beyers
VP, Business and Community Development
Nicor Gas
Progress Through Partneships
John Weiland
Chief Development Officer
Leeward Renewable Energy
Heatmaps
Mike Weich
CEO
Valor Infrastructure Partners
Financing
Chris Wheat
Adjunct Associate Professor of Strategy | University of Chicago Booth
Managing Director, Policy & Government Affairs | Sustainable Cities Fund
Moderator, Progress Through Partnerships
Bob Greenlee Chief Operating Officer, Tusk Holdings
Heatmaps
Charles Murray CEO, Switched Source
Progress Through Partnerships
Evan Racine-Johnson
Manager, Power Origination, Acciona
Heatmaps
Stefano Galiasso
Vice President, Energy Capital Ventures
Financing
Hans B. Christensen
Chookaszian Family Professor of Accounting and David G. Booth Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Booth
Moderator: Heatmaps
A Look Back – 2023
Energy companies, especially IOCs and utilities, play an outsized role in shaping global energy markets. Many have set aggressive decarbonization targets and made investments into low-carbon businesses. This panel will help illuminate the priorities, strategies, and challenges of energy majors in the transition.
Bob Frenzel
President & CEO
Xcel Energy
Panelist
Prerna Jain
Corporate BD
Chevron
Panelist
Torrence Hinton
President
WEC Energy Group
Panelist
Sonny Garg
Former CIO
Exelon
Moderator