Mr. Zambrano is Senior Director of Products within Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Customer Energy Solutions organization.   Mr. Zambrano’s team is responsible for developing new products and delivery programs to create value for commercial and residential customers based on their specific energy needs.   Product management responsibilities include energy efficiency, demand response, solar, distributed generation/storage, energy management systems, pricing, home area networks and electric vehicles. 

In addition to his duties at Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Mr. Zambrano serves on the Board of Directors for the Electric Drive Transportation Association and the California Electric Transportation Coalition.  Additional duties include primary business owner for the electric vehicle and home area network technical standards roadmap.

Prior to Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Mr. Zambrano has worked with several Fortune 10 global utility, telecommunication, finance and information technology firms in the delivery of product, business development, finance, sales and strategy solutions.  Previous employers include Intel, Nortel Networks, IBM and Carlson Wagonlit Travel.

Mr. Zambrano graduated from Southern Methodist University with a Masters in Business Administration and the University of Texas in El Paso with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Economics.

Travis Bradford founded the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development, a nonprofit organization focused on harnessing the power of the business sector to develop cost-effective and sustainable solutions in technologies, including energy, water, food, and recycling. Bradford also founded Atlas Capital Investments, LP, a global hedge fund dedicated to investing in sustainable technology companies in energy, water, food, and materials. Previously, he has served as a deal partner at Steel Partners II, LLC, in New York; deal principal at the Holding Capital Group in New York; and statistical and financial analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta.

Since 2008, Bradford has been a professor of renewable energy for MBA students at University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, and has lectured on finance, entrepreneurship, and alternative energy economics to a wide audience including many of the world’s top institutions. His published works include Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry, published by the MIT Press.

Bradford earned a bachelor's degree in finance from Georgia State University in 1992 and an MBA in 1996 from the NYU Stern School of Business with distinction in finance, management, and international business. In 2006, he received a master's degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Mr. Bhattacharya has served as Mission Motors' CEO since 2009. He began his career as an engineer at Velocity11 (now part of Agilent). He first got involved in the energy industry in 2005 while designing and implementing solar energy systems for off-grid businesses in South Africa. In 2007, Mr. Bhattacharya worked at the venture capital fund, Spring Ventures where he focused on lithium-ion battery technology and the array of business models driving the emerging electric vehicle industry. Mr. Bhattacharya holds a Master's in mechanical engineering from Stanford and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Dan Bowermaster is the Manager of PG&E’s Electric & Natural Gas Vehicles, On-bill Financing, and Emerging Technologies team.  Dan joined PG&E in September 2008 as part of the MBA Leadership Program, during which he completed projects in PG&E’s Engineering and Operations, Power Generation, and Corporate Strategy groups.

Prior to joining PG&E, Dan worked for seven years at Stryker Corporation, one of the world’s leading medical technology companies.  At Stryker, Dan worked in factories in Silicon Valley, Germany, San Diego, and Dallas.  Dan held several different roles, including Production Supervisor, Sr. HR Representative, and ultimately worked as Operations Manager responsible for the production and quality of $54M in shipments from the Dallas factory.

Dan completed the Wharton-Lauder dual degree program at the University of Pennsylvania, earning both an MBA from Wharton and an MA in International Studies.   In addition, Dan holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a BA in International Relations from the University of California, Davis.  

One their way to the ground, 72% of the world’s electrons pass through something Schneider Electric makes.  AsSenior Manager of Schneider’s Smart Grid Solutions CenterPhil Davis develops strategies for coordinating and integrating demand side grid events with the traditional supply side resources of the energy business.  The emergence of PEV’s will increase grid challenges, but Davis believes they also present a generational opportunity.  Electric vehicle growth will focus public mindshare on the grid as few other applications can.  In turn, grid owners can use this spotlight to make their cases for the smart grid of the future.

Grid demand management will take on critical importance as these “rolling central air conditioners” move about their communities presenting new revenue potential to any site with a charger, but reliability must remain the key focus.  In Schneider’s Smart Grid unit, Phil has the personal challenge of developing grid network management strategies that coordinate end user activities with the demands of large scale grid operations.  He believes that PEV’s can serve a unifying role in educating all classes of customers about the factors in grid reliability and sustainability.

Prior to joining Schneider Electric via an acquisition, he was Chief Operating Officer for RETX Energy Services, a pioneer of Demand Response, and has engaged in similar activities for over thirty years.  Trained in Economics, Mr. Davis has an extensive professional background in applying efficient energy strategies to support disparate management goals.   Among his recent credits is the design and installation of a groundbreaking “intelligent building system” at Rockefeller Center in New York. 

Phil is a recognized authority on energy infrastructure support systems and the human interactions that define them.  With a rare career combination in Sales, IT, Finance, Marketing, and Operations, he has developed an empathetic ear for customer perspectives and makes it a point of pride to provide good value for the investments those customers make.

Donald Karner, President and CEO, has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering. Mr. Karner has over 25 years experience in the advanced transportation and energy areas including fifteen years of electric utility industry management experience. Mr. Karner held the position of Chief Nuclear Officer for Arizona Public Service Company during the construction and commissioning of the 3800 MWe Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station. During this period Mr. Karner directed a staff of 3,000 and interfaced with and provided testimony for the multiple plant owners, the NRC, various State regulatory commissions and the financial community regarding plant matters.

As President of ECOtality North America, Mr. Karner provides Strategic direction, conducts Research and directs the development of products and services in the areas of energy, environment, and advanced transportation. Mr. Karner has authored numerous papers on these topics and ECOtality North America offers a number of products associated with these technology areas including battery fast chargers, specialized battery products, hydrogen fueling infrastructure and internal combustion engine vehicle hydrogen fuel conversions.

Josh Gerber is Lead Architect for Smart Grid at San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), a Sempra Energy utility. In his role leading enterprise-wide smart grid strategy, policy, and project alignment, with a focus on IT infrastructure, networking and security, Josh recently led the development of SDG&E's Smart Grid Deployment Plan. Prior to joining Sempra, Josh was a Systems Engineer at Inflow, Inc., now part of SunGard Availability Services. In his 15+ year career, including 9 years with the Sempra utilities, Josh has held multiple senior positions involving the planning, design, and implementation of smart grid, advanced metering, and data center infrastructure.  Josh serves as SDG&E's representative on the UCAIUG OpenSG Technical Committee and the NIST Smart Grid Interoperability Panel.

SDG&E is a regulated public utility that provides service to 3.4 million consumers through 1.4 million electric meters and more than 840,000 natural gas meters in San Diego and southern Orange counties.

Stephen J. Callahan is a partner within the energy & utilities industry of IBM Global Business Services and leads IBM’s U.S. smart grid services initiative. Over his 25 year career, he has led the development and implementation of a wide range of business and technical systems including financial, networking, RTO, AMM and smart grid systems.

For the past ten years Callahan has been a strategy partner for IBM (via the PwC acquisition) focused on electric utility restructuring and transformation. He consults the industry in business and technology strategy and manages numerous large complex system implementations. Callahan was the lead partner for the implementation of the California ISO and the lead U.S. partner for the IMO in the Provence of Ontario, Canada. He also led the creation of the utility procurement consortium Pantellos and has led large systems integration projects for clients in real time T&D, financial and customer systems. 

Prior to IBM, Callahan held various management positions at Pacific Gas and Electric Company in San Francisco in the areas of commercial and industrial energy management, telecommunications network planning, and financial systems. In addition, he was also director of IT strategy and budget, director of network planning and was the project manager for PG&E’s implementation of SAP.

Callahan holds degrees in physics and mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia. He is a registered profession engineer and certified energy auditor. 

One industry buzzword Larsh Johnson believes in is “Interoperability”. At eMeter he has always advocated for a design that is easily integrated with a full range of AMI products and minimally disruptive to existing business processes. Larsh is regularly sought out to contribute to industry standards boards and interoperability conferences, notably as a founding member of the GridWise Architecture Council, the Utility Standards Board, and UtiliMetrics. Larsh combined his technical foresight with Cree Edwards’ vision to co-found CellNet Data Systems in 1984. He’s been leading developers in implementing TOU and other advanced metering solutions for over 20 years. Larsh has a B.S. and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

Felix Kramer is a serial entrepreneur and lifelong environmentalist focusing on innovative technology-related ideas, events and businesses.

In 2002, he enlisted engineers, entrepreneurs, environmentalists and drivers to promote plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) by technology demonstrations, advocacy and buyer demand. In 2006, he became the world's first non-technical consumer owner of a PHEV. He popularized the "100+MPG" goal and "cleaner/cheaper/domestic" to describe electricity's benefits. In late 2009, while noting much remained to be done, CalCars "declared victory" on plug-ins. Thomas Friedman, in his best-seller, Hot Flat and Crowded, said, "Felix Kramer has made plug-in electric cars not only his passion but an imminent American reality." He took delivery of the ninth Chevy Volt GM sold, and in 2011, his family became the world's first household with both a Volt and a Nissan Leaf.

With allies including Andy Grove, Kramer is forging a technical, business and government coalition to spark a new industry to turn millions of large internal combustion engine vehicles now on the road into safe, practical, EVs and PHEVs via carmaker-sanctioned retrofits.

In 2008 he began advising several transportation electrification and conversion startups.

A graduate of Cornell University, Kramer lives with his wife in Silicon Valley. 

Jim Francfort has been the principle investigator for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity at the Idaho National Laboratory since 1994. During this time, he has been responsible for the testing of 110 different electric drive vehicle models, including more than 3,000 PHEVs, HEVs, NEVs, and BEVs, in laboratory and field testing environments. Jim has undergraduate and graduate degrees from Idaho State University and over 125 publications on vehicle testing and energy issues. He will discuss ongoing DOE charging infrastructure and grid-connected vehicle data collection activities.

Mr. LoPorto has over 20 years experience in senior executive management positions in the technology industry.  Most recently he was CEO of Breakthrough Systems, Inc., a provider of embedded software to the data storage, avionics, telecommunications and defense industries.  Mr. LoPorto was previously Vice President of Business Development for Storage Technology Corporation (STK).  Mr. LoPorto has previously held various senior executive sales and marketing positions at EMC and Sun Microsystems and was also an early stage key executive in a number of successful startup organizations including Veritas Software which was acquired by Symantec for over $13B and Logicraft, which was the first company to earn a position on the prestigious Inc 500 list for three consecutive years.

Mr. LoPorto holds an engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and completed graduate business studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Mr. McCloskey leads Airbiquity's marketing activities, bringing nearly two decades of experience in networked-services marketing to the company. His expertise in services and networks has been honed in North America and Europe, and he has also lived in Japan. He was most recently vice president of marketing for IntelliTax, a provider of software and services for tax professionals, and has held senior leadership positions at Nexagent, Ebone and Terabeam. While at EDS, he defined a novel method for connecting customers to the EDS global service delivery infrastructure. Mr. McCloskey holds a B.A. in Russian studies and language from Dickinson College.

Emma Ritch is an analyst at GTM Research, focused on communications and networking technologies for the smart grid. She has been quoted as an expert by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Nature scientific jounal and The Guardian. She previously worked as senior research analyst at the Cleantech Group, a research and consulting firm, where she advised clients on technologies, trends and investments in energy efficiency in the built environment. Prior to Cleantech, Emma worked as a cleantech reporter for the Silicon Valley Business Journal, where she covered topics including energy storage, biofuels, solar, smart grid and lighting. Emma graduated from the University of South Carolina with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and studied at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands before beginning her career as a business reporter at the Associated Press and The Sun News. She lives and works in San Francisco.

David Leeds directs the smart grid research practice at GTM.  Mr. Leeds has guest lectured on the subject at MIT, Stanford, and The Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania). He has been quoted as an expert by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post; his perspective pieces have appeared in a variety of publications including BusinessWeek, Power Magazine and Fortune.  He is the author of the groundbreaking report “The Smart Grid in 2010,” which has been downloaded more than 10,000 times.

An avid world-traveler, David has come into contact with many of our most pressing environmental and social challenges. His research, focused on the convergence of IT, telecom and energy networks, leads him to believe that a smarter future is possible if we can reinvent our collective relationship with energy. Mr. Leeds completed his degree in international business and finance at Trinity College at Oxford (U.K.) and the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He lives and works in New York City.

Rick Thompson brings 14 years of industry experience from leading technology start-ups, incumbent networking and communications companies, and technology market research firms. Most recently, Rick was senior analyst at Heavy Reading, the market research arm of Light Reading, the dominant online media company in the telecommunications market. CMP bought Light Reading in 2005. Prior to Heavy Reading, Rick was a principal at PointEast Research, where he led market analysis and strategic consulting across a wide range of network communications market segments.

Rick previously served as the vice president of marketing at PanGo Networks, a wireless software company, and as director of product management and marketing at Sycamore Networks Inc. At Sycamore, he defined the product strategy and executed the launch of the industry's first intelligent optical switching platform. Under his leadership, Sycamore deployed several of the world's largest intelligent optical network infrastructures for global wired and wireless service providers. Prior to joining Sycamore, Rick held similar product management positions with Packet Engines, a pioneer of Gigabit Ethernet switching that was later acquired by Alcatel, and FORE Systems, a leader in ATM networking that was later acquired by Marconi and, subsequently, Ericsson. Mr. Thompson earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.

Prior to joining Greentech Media, Eric Wesoff founded Sage Marketing Partners in 2000 to provide sales and marketing-consulting services to venture-capital firms and their portfolio companies in the alternative energy and telecommunications sectors. Mr. Wesoff has become a well-known, respected authority and speaker in these fields. He also was the publisher of the Venture Power newsletter, a subscription-only newsletter covering venture-capital investment in renewable energy.

Eric's expertise covers solar power, fuel cells, biofuels and advanced batteries. His strengths are in market research and analysis, business development and due diligence for investors. He frequently consults for energy startups and Silicon Valley's premier venture capitalists.