Meetings

PANC sponsors monthly meetings and educational seminars to help professionals better understand the challenges confronting the power industry.

This month at PANC

October 19th – Annual Seminar
Join us for PANC’s premiere annual event – October 19th @ PG&E Auditorium (PG&E HQ) in downtown Oakland.

PANC Annual Seminar: October 19th

9:00am        Check-In/Continental Breakfast

9:30am        Seminar Welcome & Overview

9:45am         WELCOME KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
xxxxxxxxxxxxCalifornia Works: Meeting the Moment of Historic Electric Demand
xxxxxxxxxxxxto Power California’s Growth

                      JASON GLICKMAN – EVP Strategy and Growth, Pacific Gas & Electric Company

10:15am         Break / Networking

10:45am           PANEL #1: California’s EDAM: What Changes?
                         For the first time all of California will be in one energy market. 
                          How will a unified market change how we serve load?

                         Panelists:
                         TRISHA BLEVINS – Turlock Irrigation District  
                         JON OLSON – Sacramento Municipal Utility District
                         OSCAR HERRERA – Manager EDAM Implementation, LADWP
                         LAUREN CARR – Deputy Director of Regulatory Affairs, CalCCA

                         Moderator:  MICHAEL COLVIN – Director, Environmental Defense Fund

12:00pm        Lunch / Networking

1:00pm          AFTERNOON KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
                       California Wildfire Reform: What’s Next?
                        ANN PATTERSON
xxxxxxxxxxxxxPolicy Scholar, Stanford University
xxxxxxxxxxxxxFormer Cabinet Secretary, Governor Gavin Newsom

1:45pm         Break / Networking

2:00pm         PANEL #2 – DIY Speed to Power:
                       Hear how energy infrastructure is being built out in new and different ways,
xxx xxxxxxxxbeyond the traditional models of the past.

                        Panelists:
                         KATE ELLIS – General Manager, San Manuel Utility Authority
                         NICO PROCOS – Chief Electric Utility Officer, Silicon Valley Power
                         TREVOR UDWIN – Product Manager, Pacific Gas & Electric Company
                         ALEXANDER DE TABOADA – Technical Advisor, FERC

                         Moderator:  DAWN WEISZ, Principal – Dawn Weisz Consulting

3:30 pm       Reception / Networking @ Drake’s Dealership – Oakland

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