Energy technology is transforming rapidly, and corporate energy management priorities need to keep up and look ahead. Companies have more options and data available than ever – which also makes the job of an energy manager more complicated than ever. 

This tutorial walks through how to develop a strategic, comprehensive approach to achieve a company’s energy-related financial and environmental objectives. Following the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) guidelines, we’ll cover the six dimensions that make up an integrated energy strategy: 

1. Vision and Goals: How to set a clear vision that is supported by credible targets that make sense of how your company operates in your supply chain
2. Energy Strategy Governance: Clarify accountability on who is leading and who is delivering on each goal
3. Data Collection and Management: Select tools to collect and understand data
4. Mandatory and Voluntary Reporting: How to develop a reporting program that provides action-oriented insight into the status of the integrated energy strategy to internal and external stakeholders. 
5. Internal and External Engagement: Get internal buy-in and engage employees to see maximum benefits 
6. Solutions: How to develop a roadmap of measures that improve energy efficiency, increase the use of low-carbon energy and fuel, and enable natural climate solutions – in your operations and together with your value chain.  

In advance of the tutorial, participants are encouraged to read WBCSD’s guidelines on how to develop an Integrated Energy Strategy: https://wbcsdpublications.org/integrated-energy-strategy/

As more companies set ambitious energy and climate targets, there’s a need for policymakers to send clear market signals that will inspire the private sector to take big, collective steps forward. What role should businesses play in influencing clean-energy policy? How can companies advance new markets and technologies, all while addressing their SDG commitments? This session will explore the growing body of organizations emerging to help unify voices from corporations, the power of private sector to inspire change, the reputational opportunities and risks and how to navigate the tough issues, such as setting an internal policy agenda and getting C-suite buy-in.

Companies, universities and even cities are beginning to embrace the “electrify everything” movement for heating and cooling buildings, as well as for powering on-campus, employee-owned and corporate fleet electric vehicles. This session will explain how these electric building and electric vehicle systems interconnect, how they can be powered cleanly, how EVs can be used as grid services, and the first steps organizations can take to deploy these dual electric programs.

Over one billion people on the planet do not have access to electricity. However, enabling access to renewable energy for globally underserved communities on the frontlines of climate change could rapidly realize regenerative progress for these communities and for the world. This is a massive opportunity to create a new paradigm for international development. Join our conversation to talk about the Global Goals, clean energy, gender empowerment, reversing climate change and creating a mutually beneficial relationship between humans and the planet.

About Roundtable Lunches: Join interactive lunch discussions, moderated by an expert or thought leader, held at roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants. All roundtable lunches do not have advanced sign-up — participation is first-come, first-served.

In this session attendees will learn what it takes to plan, build and operate high demand charging infrastructure that will not only create cleaner, livable cities, but is scalable, sustainable and profitable. Join technology innovators as they discuss how e-mobility models are changing the way we move within cities, and the practical realities of creating a new economy around this effort – built on a foundation of open-standards, powered by renewable energy sources, dynamically optimized and reinforced by the grid – and paving the way for the imminent electric transportation wave.

The next generation of blazing fast wireless broadband networks, called 5G, is being rolled out this year and will soon start connecting cities, vehicles, street infrastructure and the cloud. Autonomous vehicles, also now emerging, will need super-fast connections to create safer environments for riders and pedestrians. Street and road infrastructure sensors connected to 5G can reduce congestion and make transportation more efficient. This session will explain how 5G could fundamentally change how transportation networks operate.

The world is in the early stages of a multi-trillion-dollar transformation of the power sector. This session examines the forces driving the rapid evolution of electric markets, and highlights examples of how and why these changes are occurring across power markets. We look at technologies, power markets, regulatory decisions and business models to understand the “how” and “why.” We also discuss the implications for both utilities and their customers, and suggest ways to effectively deal with this accelerating rate of change.

If you're a renter of office, retail or industrial space, you may not know a lot about the carbon intensity of your facilities. But that doesn't mean you can't do anything to decarbonize them. This session highlights the tools, contracts and technologies tenants are using to work with property managers to power their operations more cleanly and efficiently.

The role of the utility is changing how electric vehicle infrastructure is deployed and the opportunities that EVs can provide for the grid. In this session, leading utilities and service providers will explain how EVs and EV charging can make the grid more resilient and distributed.

Hear from companies that are leveraging next-generation technologies to make buildings more efficient, comfortable and healthy. Experts from Google and Adobe will discuss their newest buildings, which tap into all-electric appliances and geothermal energy options to keep employees comfortable, and why transitioning away from natural gas made sense for their operations.