UC Davis Industrial Decarbonization Symposium 2024

8:00 – 8:30 am
Registration

8:30 – 9:00 am
Welcome and Introduction (watch video)

• Kelly Kissock, Faculty Director, UC Davis Energy and Efficiency Institute (view slides)
• Sabbie Miller, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering UC Davis (view slides)
• Prakash Rao, Head of the Building and Industrial Applications Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

9:00 – 10:00am
Opening Plenary Panel: The U.S. and California’s Role in Industrial Decarbonization

• Moderator: Ben Finkelor, Executive Director, UC Davis Energy and Efficiency Institute
• Emmeline Kao, Supply Chain Deployment Manager, U.S. Department of Energy (view slides)
• Matthew Baker, Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission (view slides)
• Jonah Steinbuck, Director of Research and Development, California Energy Commission (view slides)
• Tim Greutert, State Materials Engineer, Caltrans (view slides)

10:00 – 10:20am
Break

10:20 – 11:15am
Breakout Session 1: Leading with Efficiency (watch video)

• Moderator: Kelly Kissock, Faculty Director, UC Davis Energy and Efficiency Institute
• Rory Schmick, Senior Advisor, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (view slides)
• Dede McEllhiney, Market Development Manager, Grundfos (view slides)
• David Duffy, Senior Advisor, Carbon Reduction, Chevron (view slides)
• Ali Qamar, PhD Candidate, UC Davis (view slides)

Breakout Session 2: Advanced Research in Food and Agriculture Decarbonization (watch video)

• Moderator: Ben Finkelor, Executive Director, UC Davis Energy and Efficiency Institute
• Nick Karki, Energy and Environmental Researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (view slides)
• Ammi Amarnath, Principal Technical Executive, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) (view slides)
• Nitin Nitin, Professor and Food Engineer, UC Davis (view slides)
• Ben Schlegelmilch, Engineering Manager, Leprino Foods (view slides)

11:20am – 12:15pm
Breakout Session 3: Policy Drivers and Quantification for Materials Decarbonization (watch video)

• Moderator: Hanjiro Ambrose, Staff Air Pollution Specialist, Building Embodied Carbon, California Air Resources Board (CARB) (view slides)
• Anish Tilak, Manager, Carbon-Free Buildings, Rocky Mountain Institute (view slides)
• Patrick Cunningham, PhD Candidate, UC Davis (view slides)
• Jin Fan, Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Davis (view slides)
• John Harvey, Director, UC Pavement Research Center (view slides)
• Thomas Hendrickson, Energy and Environmental Policy Project Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (view slides)

Breakout Session 4: Industrial Heat Pumps (watch video)

• Moderator: Prakash Rao, Head of the Building and Industrial Applications Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Jibran Zuberi, Research Scientist, Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (view slides)
• Stephen Hamlin, Sector Integration Business Development Manager, Danfoss (view slides)
• Ryan Orozco, Senior Program Engineer, Cascade Energy (view slides)
• German Robledo, North America Industrial Heat Pumps Sales Manager, GEA Group (view slides)

12:15 – 1:20pm
Networking Lunch and Poster Session

1:20 – 2:15pm
Breakout Session 5: Drivers for Novel Technologies and Current Needs (watch video)

• Moderator: Corinne Scown, Deputy Director for Research, Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Forrest Etter, Director of Design and Construction Innovation, Prologis (view slides)
• Nick Santero, Lead for Design for Sustainability, Rivian (view slides)
• Birgitte Dodd, Research Ecologist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (view slides)
• Priya Chhiba, Sustainability Lead, Data Center Innovation, Google

Breakout Session 6: Process Integration and Deep Decarbonization (watch video)

• Moderator: Kelly Kissock, Faculty Director, UC Davis Energy and Efficiency Institute
• Rajkumar Gnanaraj, North America Technology Manager, Circular Thermal, Armstrong International (view slides)
• Ovais Khan, Master’s Student, Fulbright Scholar, UC Davis Energy Graduate Group (view slides)
• Amit Kanungo, Vice President, DNV (view slides)
• Kevin Johnston, Senior Account Executive, Renewable Energy, Total Energies (view slides)

2:20 – 3:15pm
Breakout Session 7: Pathways to Net-zero Materials Production (watch video)

• Moderator: Nate Forrest, Co-Director, California Nevada Cement Association (CNCA) (view slides)
• Hernan Perez, Technical Services Director, Cemex (view slides)
• Amari Jones, Manager of Corporate Sustainability, Nucor (view slides)
• Melissa Zirps, Metallurgical Engineer, Magrathea Metals
• Molly Morse, CEO, Mango Materials (view slides)

Breakout Session 8: Load Flexibility and Smart Products (watch video)

• Moderator: Prakash Rao, Head of the Building and Industrial Applications Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Vedant Sinha, Master’s Student, UC Davis Energy Graduate Group (view slides)
• Sam Murthy, Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (view slides)
• John McGrath, Director, Climate Intelligence, Rocky Mountain Institute (view slides)
• David Allgood, Air Resources Engineer, Industrial and New Facility Allocation, California Air Resources Board (CARB) (view slides)

3:15 – 3:40pm
Break

3:40 – 5:00pm
Closing Plenary Panel: The Path Forward (watch video)

• Moderators:
  
  • Sabbie Miller, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis
  • Prakash Rao, Head of the Building and Industrial Applications Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Mike Taptich, Lead Technologist, Sustainability Measurement Science, Amazon
• Yousif Abudra, Hydrogen Commercial Lead, Chevron New Energies (view slides)
• Richard Hart, Director of Industrial Programs, ACEEE (view slides)
• Claus Krog Ekman, Energy Attaché, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (view slides)

5:00 – 5:15pm
Closing and Wrap-up

• Kelly Kissock, Faculty Director, UC Davis Energy and Efficiency Institute (view slides)

5:15pm
Happy Hour and Networking
Live Jazz
Poster Session