The conference will kick off at 9 AM and will conclude at 5 PM. Breakfast and lunch will be provided! OREC is also planning a happy hour in partnership with Power Up Oklahoma after the conference concludes, so keep an eye out for more information!

Please note, session titles and speakers may change as we finalize the schedule but the topics covered will remain as they are here!

Registration will open at 7:30 and we will have breakfast available.

We will kick off the conference at 9 AM with AEE-OK and OREC Welcomes and our Keynote Address!

We will then have a series of breakout sessions, with two tracks in each.

Breakout Session #1 (10:05-10:50 AM)

• Energy Efficiency, including OG&E energy efficiency programs presented by CLEAResult and the home of the future presented by ICF.
• "Powering Tomorrow's Future", including conversations on data centers and grid resiliency, advanced air mobility, and large campuses and energy requirements, presented by Guernsey

Breakout Session #2 (10:55-11:40 AM)

• "Modernizing the Grid: Tech Solutions for Meeting Energy Demand" - Pew Charitable Trusts, A New Energy LLC, and TransGrid Advisors
• "The Role of Fuel Cells in Industrial and Data Center Expansion", presented by Kaushal Biligiri (Bloom Energy)

Our lunch keynote will be a legislative panel where we will be joined by Jonathan Gray (Triton Capitol Group), Senator Casey Murdock, and Noah Oaks (South-central Partnership for Energy Efficiency as a Resource or SPEER).

Breakout Session #3 (1:00-1:45 PM)

• "OG&E's Combined Energy Pilot: how an electric utility and a community nonprofit joined forces to bring solar + battery storage to northeast OKC", presented by Restore OKC and OG&E
• History of commissioning, presented by Parkhill

Breakout Session #4 (1:50-2:35 PM)

• "Saku: renewable energy on tribal land", presented by Cory Baitz (Brightwell/EightTwenty)
• Energy financing presented by Adam Ness and Matthew Graham (Barchee Holdings), and a conversation about AI as a smart energy strategy presented by Blake Standen (Brainbox AI)

Breakout Session #5 (3:00-3:45 PM)

• "Community engagement in Oklahoma: opportunities and challenges", a panel moderated by Claire Burch (Olsson) with representatives from the Nature Conservancy, Triple Oak Power, GGW Renewable Resources, LLC, and Oklahoma State University
• Energy storage, including a conversation on evolution of batteries by Scott Hemphill (Hemphill) and a case study of a manufacturing plant achieving LEED v4 platinum by Cory Toole and Flint Richter (Entegrity)

Breakout Session #6 (3:50 - 4:35 PM)

• Microgrids, including a conversation on the economic value of microgrids by Arnel Garcesa (Cherokee Nation) and microgrids and water efficient technology by Saxon Metzger (Eighth Generation Consulting
• A workforce development panel moderated by Hitesh Vora (Oklahoma State University) and including panelists from OSU IT, Hamm Institute for American Energy, Hydraulic Institute, and OCAST.

We will conclude the conference at 5 PM.