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2023 National Conference

Energized for Success: It’s Time!

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FEATURED SPEAKERS

TUEsday, May 2nd

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Charles Crews

PANELIST

Southern Star Central

    Gas Pipeline    

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Joyce Cooper, MHR, PHR

PANELIST

Omaha Public Power

District

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Ralph Cleveland 

MASTER OF CEREMONY

AABE

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Paul Fischer

PANELIST

Burns and McDonnell

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Tiffany Callaway-Ferrell

MODERATOR

Southern Company Gas

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Dr. Pandwe Gibson

MODERATOR

EcoTech Visions

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Alex Glenn 

PANELIST

Duke Energy Florida

and Midwest

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  Komi Hassan

PANELIST

New Fortress Energy 

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Chris Fenwick

PANELIST

Klean Energy Culture

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Sean P. Jamieson   

PANELIST

Spire Inc. 

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Colette D. Honorable

PANELIST

Reed Smith LLP

Southern Company

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Cary Kottler  

PANELIST

Pattern Energy

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Tim Rausch

PANELIST

Tennessee Valley Authority

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Octavais Walton  

PANELIST

CERM  

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Dana Johnson  

PANELIST

WeACT For Environmental 

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Regina Jones

PANELIST

Baker Hughes

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Jennifer A. Loraine

PANELIST

Duke Energy

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Robert Matthews 

MODERATOR

Exelon

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Richard Meyer 

PANELIST

American Gas

Association

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Shalaya T. Morissette

MISTRESS OF CEREMONY

U.S. Department of Energy

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T.J. Osborne

PANELIST

Dream.org 

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Terry Palmer 

PANELIST

Constellation

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Courtney Peterson

PANELIST

Edison Electric Institute

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Stanley Porter

MODERATOR

Deloitte LLP

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Jason Reynolds

PANELIST

Entergy

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Porsche Townsend

PANELIST

Burns & McDonnell 

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Alexander Winn 

PANELIST

Cadmus Group 

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Stephen Woerner

PANELIST

National Grid

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Rachel Young

MODERATOR

Just Transition Fund

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Ryan Norman

PANELIST

Thirdway Think Tank

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Joseph Boffie, Ph.D.

MODERATOR

South Carolina

State University

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Keturah A. Brown

MODERATOR

Sidley Austin LLP 

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Stephen Brown

MODERATOR

Climate Imperative

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Telisa Toliver

CHAIRMAN'S CUP

RECIPIENT

Chevron Pipeline

and Power

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Richard Thigpen

INTRODUCTION OF

CHAIRMAN'S CUP RECIPIENT

PSEG

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Dawn James

PANELIST

Deloitte

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Roy Rhynes

MASTER OF CEREMONY

Millennium Solar

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Natalie Edwards 

PANELIST

National Grid 

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Kevin Simmons

PANELIST

Deloitte  

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Kenneth Coleman

PANELIST

CenterPoint Energy  

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Laura Bartsch 

WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR

Advanced Energy United 

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Matthew Crozart

PANELIST

Niclear Energy

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Wednesday, May 3rd

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Jermone Farquharson

PANELIST

Burns and McDonnell

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Kevin Donaldson

MODERATOR

Deloitte Consulting Energy, Resources & Industrial 

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Emily Sanford Fisher 

PANELIST

Edison Electric Institute 

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Sandra Brummitt 

PANELIST

NiSource 

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Scott Angelle

PANELIST

Angelle Partners 

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Gilbert Campbell

PANELIST

Volt Energy Utility

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H.G. Chissell

MODERATOR

Advanced Energy Group

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Cyntressa Dickey

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Ernst & Young

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Shannon Baldwin Davis

PANELIST

Schneider Electric

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Allen Clare

WORD FROM OUR

SPONSOR

Tennessee Valley Authority

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Timothy L. Bryant, PE

WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR

Next Era

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Sam Icasiano

MODERATOR

Deloitte

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Rica K. Johnson

MISTRESS OF CEREMONY

Con Edison 

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Derrick Johnson

PANELIST

NAACP

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India James

PANELIST

Exelon

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Erin Jackson

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Olympic Gold Medalist

& AABE SCHOLAR

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 La-Asia Hundley

WORD FROM OUR 

SPONSOR

Con Edison

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Utopia Hill

PANELIST

Reactivate

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Stephen L. Hightower  

PANELIST

Hightowers

Petroleum Co.  

HP Energy Co.

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Shari Gribbin

PANELIST

CNK Solutions Corp.

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Timothy Graham

WORD FROM OUR

SPONSOR

National Grid

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Peter Green 

PANELIST

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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Alysia Green

WORD FROM OUR

SPONSOR

Chevron

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Larry Young

PANELIST

Southern California

Edison

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Constance Thompson

PANELIST

ACORE

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Eliecer (Eli) Viamontes

MODERATOR

Entergy Texas

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Jud Virden

PANELIST

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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La'Meshia Whittington

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

WSC Group

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Dr. Bakeyah Nelson 

PANELIST

Community Health Collaborative Consulting, LLC

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Dr. Tony Reames, PH.D., P.E.

PANELIST

U.S. Department of Energy

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Shalonda Baldwin

PANELIST

WSP, USA

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Kristol Simms

PANELIST

Ameren Illinois

Timothy Alan Simon

PANELIST

TAS Strategies

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Krislyn Smithson

MISTRESS OF

CEREMONY

AABE

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Dr. David Mussington

PANELIST

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

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Nancy Mifflin

MISTRESS OF CEREMONY

Independent Consultant

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Fred McKinney, Ph.D.

MODERATOR

BJM Solutions, LLC

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David Smith

WORD FROM OUR

SPONSOR

National Grid

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Lynn Sutton

PANELIST

Kairos Worldwide

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Marc Lemmond

PANELIST

U.S. Department

of Energy

THURSDAY, May 4th

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Dan Bowermaster

PANELIST

 EPRI

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Fleur Callender

PANELIST

National Grid

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Darrell Butler

PANELIST

Burns and McDonnell 

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Melody Birmingham 

MODERATOR

NiSource  

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Neville Anderson 

PANELIST

Basha Services

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Calvin G.  Butler

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Exelon

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Zoe Cadore 

PANELIST

Calpine Energy 

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Ralph Cleveland

MODERATOR

AABE

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Tremese C. Davis

MODERATOR

Nicor Gas

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Gilbert Campbell

MASTER OF CEREMONY

Volt Energy Utility

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Brad Crabtree

PANELIST

U.S. Department of Energy

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Paul Douglas

PANELIST

The JPI Group

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Megan Flynn

 PANELIST

Tennessee Valley

Authority

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Louise Duncan Dixon

PANELIST

Entergy

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Leslie Duke

PANELIST

Burns and McDonnell

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Laron Evans

MASTER OF CEREMONY

Burns & McDonnell

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Richard Ezike

PANELIST

Joint Office of Energy

and Transportation

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Paula Glover

INTRODUCING THE JAMES E. STEWART AWARD RECIPIENT 

Alliance to Save Energy 

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Leon Harden

PANELIST

Burns & McDonnell

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Nancy Harvey 

PANELIST

New York Power

Authority 

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Rose McKinney-James

PANELIST

McKinney-James & Associates 

Energy Works LLC

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Rose McKinney-James

THE JAMES E. STEWART AWARD RECIPIENT 

McKinney-James & Associates 

Energy Works LLC

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Mark Handy

PANELIST

DNV Energy

Systems

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Reihaneh Irani-Famili

PANELIST

National Grid 

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Maurice Kimsey, II  

PANELIST

Omaha Public Power

District

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Andy Jarvis

PANELIST

Burns & McDonnell

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Natalie King

PANELIST

Dunamis Clean

Energy Partners

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Wilbur C. Milhouse

PANELIST

Milhouse

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Dr. Calvin Mackie 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

STEAM NOLA 

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Brian Merchant

MODERATOR

Kinder Morgan​

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Carmen Ortiz-McGhee 

PANELIST

National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) 

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Chanel Parson

MODERATOR

Southern California

Edison

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Tamla A. Olivier

PANELIST

Pepco 

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Dedrick Roper

PANELIST

Board for Nonprofit

Charge Across Town

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Kimberly Randolph PE, PMP

MODERATOR

Xcel Energy

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Chris Norquist 

PANELIST

Burns & McDonnell

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April Thomas

PANELIST

Strategic Diversity Management

Solutions 360

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Diana Sharpe

INTRODUCTION OF 

CALVIN G. BUTLER

ComEd 

Earl Stone

MODERATOR

Deloitte & Touche LLP

Kameale C. Terry

PANELIST

ChargerHelp

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Richard Thigpen

PANELIST

PSEG

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Jamie Saunders

INTRODUCTION OF

CHRIS WOMACK 

Meta

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Brandon Thornhill 

PANELIST

National Grid

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Renardo Wilson

INTRODUCTION OF

CHRIS WOMACK

Southern California Edison

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Andre Walker 

WORD FROM OUR

SPONSOR

Pattern Energy

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Chris Womack

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Southern Company

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Wendell Dallas

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Nicor Gas

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FRIDAY, May 5th

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Esi Akinosho

PANELIST

Ernst & Young

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Ralph Cleveland

PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS

AABE

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Laron Evans

PANELIST

Burns & McDonnell

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Antoinette Brown Jackson

MISTRESS OF CEREMONY

Southern Company

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Danilo Juvane, CFA

PANELIST

Williams 

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Richard Thigpen

STATE OF ENERGY ADDRESS

PSEG

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Angila Retherford

PANELIST

CenterPoint Energy

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Shalaya T. Morissette

PANELIST

U.S. Department of Energy

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Gwen Mizell

MODERATOR

Ameren

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FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT

Natasha Freeman at confadmin@aabe.org

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ENERGIZED FOR SUCCESS: 
IT'S TIME!

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN HOUSTON!

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