Join Joe Swift, Residential Operations Supervisor for Connecticut Light & Power’s (CL&P) Conservation and Load Management Department at Northeast Utilities and Christopher Ehlert, Manager, Residential Energy Services for The United Illuminating (UI) Company to discuss how Connecticut's electric distribution companies (CL&P and UI) provide portfolios of energy efficiency programs to residential customers.

Join Andre de Fontaine from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change who will talk about how to a recently released report that describes the leading corporate energy efficiency programs, identifies key lessons learned, and details energy efficiency strategy development and implementation through six in-depth case studies of exemplary corporate programs.

Join Alexis Ringwald, Co-founder and Director of Business Development at Valence Energy, who will talk about emerging trends in the convergence of IT and energy in buildings and about her Silicon Valley entrepreneurial experience.

Join Hannah Choi Granade, a principal in McKinsey & Company’s Stamford, CT office, who will talk about how to bring energy efficiency to 100 million buildings and billions of devices.

Join Dorian Dale, Energy Director of Babylon, NY to learn about how someone can transform a municipality into a one-stop shop for retrofits that make it easy for a homeowner to have a more affordable, comfortable and efficient home.

Join Erika Diamond, Vice President of Business Development for ThinkEco who will talk about the Modlet, a plug-in device that eliminates unnecessary electricity usage by your home and/or office appliances.

Join Claire Broido Johnson, the Acting Program Manager of the Office of Weatherization and Intergovernmental Programs at DOE, who will talk about the transition from public to private investment in residential energy efficiency.

Join Cameron Brooks, Senior Director of Market Development and Policy Strategy for Tendril Inc. to discuss a unique business solution that enables consumers to better understand their energy consumption patterns and empowers them with the ability to make a difference.

Join David Lee, Director for the Residential Branch overseeing the ENERGY STAR New and Existing Homes Program at the US EPA, who will talk about the lessons learned from the ENERGY STAR Residential Programs and future directions.

Join Emmaia Gelman, Policy Director of the Center for Working Families who will talk about Green Jobs/Green NY, an unprecedented statewide initiative to retrofit one million homes and small businesses in five years. Emmaia Gelman guides the Center for Working Families’ portfolio of policy ideas and strategy linking jobs, housing, economic development, equity, and climate change.

This event is organized in collaboration with the Connecticut Fund for the Environment.

Join Zeke Hausfather, Executive Vice President of Energy, and Andy Frank, Executive Vice President of Business Development of Efficiency 2.0, who will talk about the strategies to radically increase consumer energy engagement in order to place behavior as a preferred efficiency resource and demonstrate one approach to breaking down household savings opportunities.

Join Brian Keane, President of SmartPower, who will talk about the challenges and opportunities of marketing clean energy and energy efficiency to the nation’s households and communities.

Join Michael Vandenbergh, Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, in a talk about overcoming barriers to implementing the behavioral wedge to be achieved in 10 years.

Join Ian Ayres, the William K. Townsend Professor of Law and Anne Urowsky Professorial Fellow in Law at Yale University, who will talk about a recent study that uses large scale data analysis to assess how peer feedback can reduce residential energy usage.

Join Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez, founder of Human Dimensions Research Associates, who will talk about the scale of potental behavior-related energy savings and the critical contributions of applied social science research for achieving successful energy initiatives.

Join Steve Nadel, Executive Director of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) who will talk about leading examples of state level energy efficiency policies and the current discussions on energy efficiency resource standards at the federal level.

Join Lori Bird, a member of the Market and Policy impact Analysis Group at NREL, who will discuss policies and markets for renewable energy in the U.S. She will provide an overview of current policies driving renewable energy development in the U.S. as well as the costs and impacts of proposed federal policies, She will also discuss the interplay of efficiency and renewable energy in a combined renewable energy portfolio standard.

Join Jamie Howland, a Policy Analyst - Data and Energy Policy at Environment Northeast, who will focus on the economic output and job growth potential from increased investments in energy efficiency.

Join Yerina Mugica, a Research Associate at NRDC, who will focus on the recently released ACEEE 2009 Energy Efficiency Scorecard and specifically how to measure performance in state energy efficiency for the residential sector.

Join Anthony Leiserowitz, of the Yale Project on Climate Change, who will focus on attitudes, behavior and barriers in energy savings.