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 cities consider gas bans and companies work towards deep decarbonization goals, commercial and industrial applications need electric alternatives for their traditionally gas-powered appliances. This session brings together a trailblazing investor, innovator and policymaker who are thinking about an all-electric future. Join us to hear about opportunities and challenges as we electrify everything. 

This session looks at how energy and sustainability managers are balancing competing agendas to reduce costs and carbon. Corporate leaders will talk about how to engage stakeholders to get buy-in for ambitious initiatives, the tools and technologies available to measure and reduce emissions, and lessons learned from past programs.

“Industry” makes up a sizable part of the emissions pie chart, but the term is a catch-all. Over lunch, we’ll dive deep into the challenges in reducing those emissions across plants, factories and processes. We will discuss how industry decarbonization is unique relative to other sectors, and how this varies by types of industrial businesses. Furthermore, we will explore: What is the state of play for solutions to zero out emissions in industry, and the outlook for meeting science-based targets?

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.

You can’t get to 100 percent clean energy without including everyone. This session will look at finance opportunities, innovations and markets to ensure that the clean economy will work for residents in all communities. From public-private partnerships to leveraging new financial structures, our experts look at the latest financial innovations that promote inclusivity.

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.

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.

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.

What technologies are emerging to keep companies and people resilient amid growing storms droughts and other weather events? How can we make sure we're taking everyone along as we prep for more hurricanes, droughts, floods, wildfires and other calamitous events? This session looks at the emerging technologies designed to help communities and organizations be prepared and discusses how cities and companies can work together to identify and implement the tools needed to become more resilient. 

Energy efficiency is often assumed to be a dwindling, rising-cost resource. But integrative design — optimizing buildings, vehicles, equipment and industrial processes or factories as whole systems for multiple benefits — can make efficiency an expanding, declining-cost resource. Thought leader Amory Lovins shares examples of integrative design from diverse sectors and applications to reach several-fold larger and cheaper savings than previously supposed, often with increasing returns, so that (as with modern renewables) the more you buy, the cheaper it gets. He explains why this  has revolutionary implications for climate and many other challenges, is much more fun for the designers — and needs to become common practice.

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.