Previous Distinguished Keynotes and Panelists
Each year, CMU Energy Week brings together approximately 100 speakers from all energy and cleantech sectors to engage and collaborate on research, trends, insights and opportunities that are making a significant and disruptive impact. We've highlighted some of these speakers from our 2019 and 2021 conferences below.
Shara Mohtadi, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
Grant Ervin, Department of City Planning, City of Pittsburgh
Dean William Sanders, College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
County Executive Rich Fitzgerald (E 81), Allegheny County
Jim Skea, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Raj Kapoor, Lyft
Paula Glover, Alliance to Save Energy
Michael Dorsey, Around the Corner Capital; IberSun
CMU alumna Carmen Yulín Cruz, Mayor, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Thomas Siebel, CEO, C3.ai
Barbara J. Burger, President, Chevron Technology Ventures
Michael O'Sullivan, Senior Vice President of Development, NextEra Energy Resources
David Danielson, Managing Director for Science, Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Anne Pramaggiore, (Ret.), Senior Executive Vice President & CEO, Exelon Utilities
Arletta Scott-Williams, Executive Director, Allegheny County Sanitary Authority (ALCOSAN)
Ken Hayes, Executive Director, Cleantech Open
Katharine Eagan Kelleman, Chief Executive Officer, Port Authority of Allegheny County
Matthew Nordan, Managing Director, PRIME Impact Fund
Karina Ricks, Director, City of Pittsburgh Department of Mobility and Infrastructure
Brian Anderson, Director, US DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory
Congressman Conor Lamb, (PA-17)
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy
Congressman Mike Doyle (PA-18)
Gladys Brown, Chair, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
Grace Bochenek, Former Director, US DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory
William Peduto, Mayor, City of Pittsburgh
CMU alumna Chanette Armstrong, Principal Deputy Director, ARPA-E
Jay Weatherill, 45th Premier of South Australia
Jay Hakes, Former Administrator, US Energy Information Administration
Marcia McNutt, President, National Academy of Sciences
Howard Gruenspecht, Former Deputy Administrator, U.S. Energy Information Administration
CMU alumnus Harmeet Singh, CTO, Greenlots
Colette Honorable, Partner, Reed Smith LLP, Energy and Natural Resources Group
Alex Laskey, President & Founder, Opower
Sanjit "Bunker" Roy, Social Activist & Founder, Barefoot College
Andrew Stevenson, Formerly of Tesla Special Products
CMU alumnus Paul Browning, President & CEO, Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas, Inc.
Mary Conturo, Executive Director, Sports & Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County
Chris White, Executive Vice President & Chief Sales Officer, Bloom Energy
Balaji Ganapathy, Head of Workforce Effectiveness, Tata Consultancy Services
