7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. — Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - 8:40 a.m. — Welcome
Joseph R. Bankoff
Chair and Professor of the Practice, The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
Rafael L. Bras
Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs, K. Harrison Brown Family Chair, Georgia Institute of Technology
8:40 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. — Introduction & Opening Remarks
The Honorable Sam Nunn
Distinguished Professor, The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology; Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. — Morning Keynote Address; Questions and Answers
Ernest Moniz
United States Secretary of Energy
10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. — Break
10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. — Panel 1: Towards a New Era of Gas?: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
Moderator: Adam N. Stulberg
Associate Professor, The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Opening Remarks: “The Changing Global & National Landscapes: An Overview”
Sarah O. Ladislaw
Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies - Panel Discussion
- "The Changing Trans-European/Eurasian Energy Security Landscape"
Elin Suleymanov, Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United States of America - “North America’s Resurgence”
Raoul LeBlanc, Managing Director, Global Gas, PFC Energy - “Impacts of the Gas Revolution on the Southeast”
Timothy C. Lieuwen, Professor of Aerospace Engineering & Executive Director of the Strategic Energy Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology - “Gas, Economic Competitiveness, and the Southeast Region”
Thomas Kurfess, Professor and HUSCO/Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion Control, The George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
- "The Changing Trans-European/Eurasian Energy Security Landscape"
11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. — Break
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. — Panel 2: Two Revolutions, One Region: Bridging the Digital and Energy Revolutions in the Southeast
Moderator: Adam N. Stulberg
- Opening Remarks: “Digital World and the Age of Gas”
Peter Evans
Vice President, Center for Global Enterprise - Panel Discussion
- “A Power Operator’s Perspective in an Emerging Gas Market”
John Trawick, Vice President, Commercial Operations & Services, Southern Company - “Intersections and Interactions Between the Electrical, Natural Gas, and Transportation Grids"
Donald P. McConnell, Executive Director of Industry Strategy and Commercialization, Office of Industry Research, Georgia Institute of Technology - “Transitions in Coupled Digital-Gas Systems”
Valerie Thomas, Anderson Interface Associate Professor of Natural Systems, with appointments in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology - “The Energy Cloud: Emerging Trends in Distributed Energy and New Business Models”
Jan Vrins, Managing Director and Global Energy Practice Leader, Navigant
- “A Power Operator’s Perspective in an Emerging Gas Market”