Speakers: CEBA Summit 2026

Plenary Speakers

Rich Powell
CEBA
CEO

Susan Buehler
CEBA
Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications

Michael Terrell
Google
Head of Advanced Energy

Rob Threlkeld
General Motors
Director, Global Energy Strategy

Michael Mattera
Akamai
Corporate Sustainability and ESG Officer

Joseph Dominguez
Constellation
President and Chief Executive Officer

Alex Fitzsimmons
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Director of the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER)

Misti Groves
CEBA
Senior Vice President, Energy Transactions

Michelle Patron
Microsoft
General Manager, Energy and Sustainability Policy

Kleber Costa
AES
Chief Commercial Officer

Kara Hurst
Amazon
Chief Sustainability Officer

Nidhi Thakar
CEBA
Senior Vice President, Policy

Elliot Mainzer
California ISO
President and Chief Executive Officer

Eric Gibbs
CEBA
Senior Vice President, Global Programs

Giovanni Rojas
Target
Senior Director

Manu Srivastava
New & Renewable Energy Department, Government of Madhya Pradesh
Additional Chief Secretary

Charles Hernick
Amazon
Head of Energy & Environmental Policy

Session Speakers

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Garret Graves
Perkins Oak
Former Congressman
The federal policy outlook

Misti Groves
CEBA
Senior Vice President, Energy Transactions
Opening Plenary: Powering Our Future at Scale
Navigating emerging carbon accounting frameworks
Preparing for the next phase of Scope 2 revisions

Chris Handwerk
Amp Americas
Chief Commercial Officer
Moo-ving the needle: dairy RNG as a scalable decarbonization solution (Table 18)
Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too: How Buyers Can Use Gas and Reduce Emissions

Wesley Herche
Prologis
Director, Energy and Sustainability
Corporate clean energy procurement fundamentals
Putting storage to work for corporate decarbonization

Molly Hubbard
Meta
Clean Technology and Innovation Manager
Geothermal in your decarbonization strategy

Hannah Hunt
Google
Carbon Standards Reform Lead
Understanding the future of consequential accounting

Joan Hutchinson
Marathon Capital
Managing Director, Head of Offtake Solutions
Reducing your VPPA portfolio risks

Jacob Isaacson
3Degrees
Senior Manager, Climate Strategy
Maximizing your Scope 3 strategy impact

Dhruv Jain
CleanMax
Head - Business Development, Carbon Business
Deep dive into energy markets around the world

Kuldeep Jain
CleanMax
Founder and Managing Director
Deep dive into energy markets around the world

Robert Keene
REsurety
Head of Consulting
Reducing your VPPA portfolio risks

Peggy Kellen
Center for Resource Solutions
Senior Director, Policy and Market Development
Preparing for the next phase of Scope 2 revisions

Maya Kelty
Generate
Director, Regulatory Affairs
Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too: How Buyers Can Use Gas and Reduce Emissions

Karen Kemerait
Fox Rothschild
Partner
Shaping the future of utility clean energy tariffs

Emma Konet
Tierra Climate
CTO
Aligning energy storage operations with emissions: from pilot to practice (Table 2)
Understanding the future of consequential accounting

Lauren Kotze
The Cheesecake Factory Inc.
Sustainability Manager
Corporate clean energy procurement fundamentals

Katie Kuhn
CEBA
Associate, Energy Transactions
Corporate clean energy procurement fundamentals

Daniel Lee
Orrick
Counsel
Reducing your VPPA portfolio risks

Wei-In Lin
Apala Group
Director, APAC Clean Energy & Impact
Deep dive into energy markets around the world

Megan Lorenzen
Meta
Energy Manager, Clean Energy Standards
Understanding the future of consequential accounting

Seyed Madaeni
Verse
Co-Founder & CEO
Defining the role of data centers in 2026 and beyond

Jacob Mansfield
Tierra Climate
Chief Executive Officer
Aligning energy storage operations with emissions: from pilot to practice (Table 2)
Putting storage to work for corporate decarbonization

Robert Martine
Enbridge
Director, Origination
The Cowboy Project Unplugged: Meta, Black Hills, Enbridge and the future of clean power in Wyoming

Cy McGeady
Equinix
Head of Energy Policy
What PJM’s interconnection changes mean for clean energy

Lauren McGinley
Allotrope Partners
Operations Manager
Deep dive into energy markets around the world

Lyrica McTiernan
Task Force for Corporate Action Transparency (TCAT)
Senior Advisor
Navigating emerging carbon accounting frameworks

Emily Menz
Beale Infrastructure
Manager, Energy & Sustainability
Defining the role of data centers in 2026 and beyond

Sarah Mihalecz
CEBA
Senior Director, Energy Transactions
Reducing your VPPA portfolio risks
Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too: How Buyers Can Use Gas and Reduce Emissions
CCS, corporate procurement, and the draft Energy Attribute Certificate methodology

David Mills
PJM
President & CEO
What PJM’s interconnection changes mean for clean energy

David Mindham
EDP Renewables North America
Sr. Director
What PJM’s interconnection changes mean for clean energy

Conversation Hosts

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caroline abramo
pana group
Behind the fence, off the queue — financing on-site generation when the grid can't deliver (Table 4)

Anjali Balakrishna
Microsoft
Dual-use solar: powering projects, empowering communities (Table 11)

Matt Barnes
Calibrant Energy
Accelerating time to interconnection for large loads (Table 1)

Marina Barnett
CEBA
Drive supply chain decarbonization with the Clean Energy Procurement Academy (Table 10)

Svena Bhasin
ERM Coho
Corporate clean energy procurement fundamentals
Energizing your suppliers to take action on their Scope 2 emissions (Table 12)

Giacomo Bravaccini
Flexidao
GHG Scope 2 changes: assessing the potential impact on procurement and operational costs (Table 13)

Chris Caswell
AES
Surplus storage: Unlocking speed‑to‑power from existing assets — opportunities and challenges (Table 21)

Sam Cotterall
Verse
Think Again: How PPA performance management leads to better contracts (Table 23)

Keegan Dean
STRIVE by STX
Cost-effective pathways to reducing Scope 3 emissions through renewable electricity (Table 7)

Susanne Fratzscher
Sol Systems
Dual-use solar: powering projects, empowering communities (Table 11)
Themes, trends, and perspectives in purpose-driven procurement (Breakfast)

Kelly Gallo
BSR
How can companies reduce the environmental impacts of AI? (Table 15)

Chris Handwerk
Amp Americas
Moo-ving the needle: dairy RNG as a scalable decarbonization solution (Table 18)
Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too: How Buyers Can Use Gas and Reduce Emissions

Sean Harris
Samsung C&T Renewables, LLC
BESS tolling agreements: how to hedge energy through tolling and TBx structures (Table 5)

Megan Hofmeyer
QTS Data Centers
What are you deprioritizing in your sustainability report, and why? The “off-the-record” conversation (Table 24)

Emma Konet
Tierra Climate
Aligning energy storage operations with emissions: from pilot to practice (Table 2)
Understanding the future of consequential accounting

Robert LaFaso
Ascend Analytics
At scale and at risk: How your energy strategy move prices—and performance (Table 3)

Michael Leggett
ever.green
How voluntary procurement enables new clean energy (from certificates to capital) (Table 16)

Jacob Mansfield
Tierra Climate
Aligning energy storage operations with emissions: from pilot to practice (Table 2)
Putting storage to work for corporate decarbonization

Renee O'Donnell
CRS
Cost-effective pathways to reducing Scope 3 emissions through renewable electricity (Table 7)

Aaron Olson
Black Bear Energy
De-risking onsite and community solar project development: what buyers need to know (Table 9)

Jeanine Otte
Elevate
Growing grid capacity with measurable residential building retrofits (Table 14)

Elizabeth Pearce
ever.green
How voluntary procurement enables new clean energy (from certificates to capital) (Table 16)

Mark Ramos
3Degrees
Corporate clean energy procurement fundamentals
The power couple: linking transferable tax credits with EACs (Table 22)

Sam Salustro
Oceantic Network
You’re buying energy –– why not offshore wind? (Table 26)

Patty Solberg
ENGIE
Navigating congestion: strategies for AI/data center loads (Table 19)

Daan Terpstra
Flexidao
GHG Scope 2 changes: assessing the potential impact on procurement and operational costs (Table 13)

Micah Turner
ERM Coho
Energizing your suppliers to take action on their Scope 2 emissions (Table 12)
Themes, trends, and perspectives in purpose-driven procurement (Breakfast)

Shehzad Wadalawala
Verse
Think Again: How PPA performance management leads to better contracts (Table 23)

Steven Willins
kW Energy Advisors
Retail vs. wholesale pricing - implications for clean energy buyers (Table 20)

Jordan Woll
STX Group
Cost-effective pathways to reducing Scope 3 emissions through renewable electricity (Table 7)

David Younan-Montgomery
WattTime
Aligning energy storage operations with emissions: from pilot to practice (Table 2)

Candice Yu
Kairos Power
Commercializing first-of-a-kind clean technologies (Table 6)

Zoe Zwecker
Black Bear Energy
De-risking onsite and community solar project development: what buyers need to know (Table 9)

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