The Microgrids Convergence Conference consists of two, unique, content-rich days: DAY ONE Two Tracks Designed for New & Established Microgrid Customers PRACTICAL MICROGRIDS: A Customer-Focused Track designed to provide potential microgrid users with the knowledge and skills they need to evaluate their needs and access partners, services, and technologies in the market. This track assumes that all participants have a basic understanding of what microgrids are and how they work. MICROGRID MARKETS: An Advanced Track with deep dives into nation-wide and California microgrid policy developments, and opportunities in behind-the-meter microgrid market segments including Federal, DoD, City, Community, Campus & Remote. DAY TWO Microgrids Convergence SMART CITIES & MICROGRIDS: The Two Tracks Converge to explore the interaction and synergies between smart city technologies and microgrids, which will focus in on Data Analytics, Energy Resilient Communities, Electric and Autonomous Vehicles, the role of Blockchain Technologies and a future forecast for the convergence of microgrids and smart cities. 1 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2016 – TRACK I: PRACTICAL MICROGRIDS 8:00-8:50 Registration & Continental Breakfast 8:50-9:00 Welcome & Introduction by Track Chair 9:00-9:40 Keynote Address: Population is Power™: How One City is Prototyping America’s Energy Future The future of energy is undergoing rapid transformation. Utility 1.0 created a centralized model of energy production that has been mostly invisible to the general population. Produced remotely and transmitted to our population centers, the current United States’ utility grid system loses electricity through transmission; is often developed through greenhouse gas creating fossil fuels fueling global Climate Change; poses significant security risks; and fails to address State and Federal mandates for more local, renewable energy. Utility 2.0 will create “hundreds of millions of people producing their own green energy in their homes, offices and factories, and sharing it with each other in an energy internet, just like we now create and share information online” (Jeremy Rifkin). The City of San Leandro is taking bold steps to create a connected, renewable energy future today. Ms. Acosta will take us on the journey of how this Bay Area City is leveraging Lit San Leandro, its existing 10 gbps fiber optic network, to scale deployment of local, renewable energies through creation of a city-wide renewable energy micro grid. The ZipPower platform, developed through a public/private partnership, is intended to transform the City’s energy consumers into energy prosumers. ZipPower is prototyping the creation of a distributed, renewable energy future for American cities. Deborah Acosta, Chief Innovation Officer, CITY OF SAN LEANDRO 9:40-10:05 Presentation: Tales from The Field: Lessons Learned What insights can be gleaned from three microgrid projects, each one with different partners and financing? The technology choices may vary from project to project, and the key project elements may be arranged in any number of ways, but the desired impacts are similar. How is it then that the outcomes can be so varied? We'll investigate by shedding light on the "differences that make a difference". Gordon Feller, Consultant, CISCO SYSTEMS HQ; Founder, MEETING OF THE MINDS, Member, US DOE’S ELECTRICITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE 10:05-10:30 Presentation: The Microgrid Project Lifecycle: Laying out the elements of a microgrid project from start to finish. Matthew Fairy, Microgrid Sales Manager – DGen Group, NRG ENERGY 2 10:30-11:00 Networking Break 11:00-11:45 Panel Discussion: The Ideal Microgrid Candidate: What parameters make for a high-potential microgrid project? Moderator: John Carroll, Vice President, Business Development, IPERC Michael E. Firenze, CEO, CLEANSPARK Sally Jacquemin, Microgrid Business Manager, SIEMENS Geoff Oxnam, CEO, AMERICAN MICROGRID SOLUTIONS 11:45-12:30 Panel Discussion: Ownership Models: What are the different ownership models for microgrids and what are the pros and cons of these different models? How is each model financed? Rick Bolton, Director, New Projects, NAVIGANT Sudipta Lahiri, Senior Consultant – Energy Advisory, DNV GL Craig Lewis, Executive Director, CLEAN COALITION Brad Luyster, Vice President of Sales and Business Development, US GRID COMPANY 12:30-1:45 Networking Luncheon 1:45-2:15 Presentation: The Right Baseload Fit: What are the different kinds of baseload generation being used in microgrids today and what are the comparative merits of each for a microgrid? William Moran, Director, Microgrid Engineering, TRC 2:15-3:15 Case Studies: What Has Worked / What Has Failed?: Three firms each present two case studies (ten minutes per case study); one where they had success and one where they failed to make the project work. Drivers behind the success and failure will be presented. Michelle Isenhouer Hanlin, Lead Associate, BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON Steve Pullins, Vice President, HITACHI CONSULTING Eric Putnam, Senior Electrical Engineer, BURNS & MCDONNELL 3:15-3:45 Networking Break 3:45-4:30 Panel Discussion: Practical Planning This panel takes a look at the panelist’s specific microgrid opportunities and planning process around how to implement a microgrid at their locations. Take a view of the microgrid planning process in action to have a better idea of how to implement this 3 process on their own. The projects being presented would be in different customer types such as community, hospital, university campus, industrial. This will be their opportunity to detail microgrid developers about their project, their unanswered questions moving forward, and what their plans are as the project progresses. Austin Blackmon, Chief of Energy, Environment and Open Space, CITY OF BOSTON Ben Rushwald, P.E., Interim Director Technology Innovation, SEATTLE CITY LIGHT Garrett T. Wong, Sustainability Analyst, Climate & Energy, Office of Sustainability and the Environment, CITY OF SANTA MONICA 4:30-5:30 Panel Discussion: The Greenest Microgrid: This panel discussion will be centered around the development of highly sustainable microgrids and consider both end users and developers who have developed systems like these. Mark Johnson, Smart Cities Chief, MW Battery Energy Storage Solar Microgrids Innovator, SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC Michael Kendzierski, National Energy Storage Specialist, GEXPRO ENERGY SOLUTIONS Jagmeet K. Khangura, Western Region Microgrid Solution Lead, BLACK & VEATCH Michael Kornitas, Director of Sustainability and Energy, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY 5:30 Track I Adjourns TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2016 – TRACK II: MICROGRID MARKETS 8:00-8:50 Registration & Continental Breakfast 8:50-9:00 Welcome & Introduction by Track Chair 9:00-9:45 Keynote Panel Discussion: Microgrid Policies, Programs & Regulations Powering the Market This panel of federal and state policy-makers and regulators will assess the latest policies, programs and regulations empowering the microgrid market. Robert “Bob” Burns, Commissioner, ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION Rob Pressly, Resiliency Program Coordinator, Resiliency & Recovery Officer, STATE OF COLORADO 9:45-10:30 Panel Discussion: California’s Microgrid & Enabling Technologies Grants & Proceedings 4 California has initiated a number of microgrid, DERs and energy storage grants & proceedings that will fuel the California microgrid market. This panel discussion of California state policy-makers will highlight these initiatives. David Hochschild, Commissioner, CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION Peter Klauer, Smart Grid Solutions Manager, CALIFORNIA ISO Jamie Ormund, Advisor to Commissioner Sandoval, CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION 10:30-11:00 Networking Break 11:00-11:45 Presentation: Microgrid Market Segments Overview Peter Asmus, Principal Research Analyst, NAVIGANT 11:45-12:30 Panel Discussion: The Key Role of Microgrids at DoD & Federal Facilities This presentation will share how microgrid adoption is enabling energy resiliency and other mission goals, lessons learned that may be applicable for private sector applications and provide insight on future adoption. Michael Stadler, Ph.D, M.S., Head Grid Integration Group, Microgrid Team Lead, LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY Laura Castellini, Sustainability Coordinator, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Mick Wasco, Energy Program Manager, MCAS MIRAMAR (INVITED) 12:30-1:45 Networking Luncheon 1:45-2:30 Panel Discussion: Lessons Learned from Microgrids at Critical Facilities Municipalities all over the country are looking into microgrids as a solution to energy resiliency concerns at critical facilities. This panel of municipalities and microgrid enabling technology providers will make the case for microgrids at the municipal level, and the role that they can play at Critical Facilities. Moderator: John Carroll, Vice President, Business Development, IPERC Cal Broomhead, Climate and Energy Strategic Program Development, SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT Jeff King, Chief, Energy and Climate Programs, METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS (INVITED) 2:30-3:15 Panel Discussion: Commercial & Industrial Microgrid Initiatives for Energy Independence & Security 5 This panel will feature major corporations, critical infrastructure, large real estate developers and progressive facility owners discussing business models for utilizing microgrids for energy hedging, management and security. Will Agate, Senior Vice President, Navy Yard Energy Operations & Initiatives, PIDC/THE NAVY YARD, President & Founder, NET ZERO MICROGRID SOLUTIONS Thomas