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 Technologies
Head of Corporate Sustainability

Emily Williams
Trio
VP, Strategy & Sustainability

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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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

Naoki Murakata
Sumitomo Corporation
Head of Energy Management Unit (Japan Energy Solution SBU)
Deep dive into energy markets around the world

Elena Nikolova
RMI
Manager, Commodity Market Transformation Initiative
How gas buyers can reduce methane emissions

Chris Pennington
Iron Mountain Data Centers
Director, Energy & Sustainability
Defining the role of data centers in 2026 and beyond

Aaron Perry
REsurety
Director, Commodity Trade Advising
Reducing your VPPA portfolio risks

Pamela Quinlan
GQS New Energy Strategies
Principal
What PJM’s interconnection changes mean for clean energy

Mark Ramos
3Degrees
Manager, Power Markets
Corporate clean energy procurement fundamentals
The power couple: linking transferable tax credits with EACs

Ashby Remley
CEBA
Senior Manager, Policy & Energy Transactions
Corporate clean energy procurement fundamentals

Henry Richardson
WattTime
Senior Analyst
Understanding the future of consequential accounting

Aiden Roake
Allotrope Partners
Project Associate
Deep dive into energy markets around the world

Oana Root
AES
VP, Structured Origination
Scaling data centers at speed: the role of renewable energy

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Matt Barnes
Calibrant Energy
Accelerating time to interconnection for large loads

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

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

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

Sam Cotterall
Verse
Think Again: How PPA performance management leads to better contracts

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

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

Kelly Gallo
BSR
How can companies reduce the environmental impacts of AI?

Chris Handwerk
Amp Americas
Moo-ving the needle: dairy RNG as a scalable decarbonization solution

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

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

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

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

Seyed Madaeni
Verse
Think Again: How PPA performance management leads to better contracts
Defining the role of data centers in 2026 and beyond

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

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

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

Jeanine Otte
Elevate
Growing grid capacity with measurable residential building retrofits

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

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

Sam Salustro
Oceantic Network
You’re buying energy –– why not offshore wind?

Patty Solberg
ENGIE
Navigating congestion: strategies for AI/data center loads

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

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

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

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

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

Candice Yu
Kairos Power
Commercializing first-of-a-kind clean technologies

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