8:00am – 9:00am

Breakfast

9:00am – 9:05am

Opening Remarks

9:05am – 9:35am

John E. Buehler, Jr.
Managing Partner
Energy Investor Funds

Interviewed by:
Eric F. Silverman
Partner
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP

Session Description:
Current and future investment allocation in the energy markets as well as the impact of energy legislation will be some of the topics discussed during this keynote.

*This session is off the record

9:40am – 10:10am

Richard L. Kauffman
CEO & President
Good Energies, Inc.

10:15am – 10:55am

Panel Discussion
Presented by PricewaterhouseCoopers

“M&A Trends in the Energy Sector”

Moderator:
John McConomy
Transaction Services, U.S. Power and Utilities
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Panelists:
David Giordano
Vice President
Babcock & Brown

Craig Jarchow
Managing Director
Pine Brook Road Partners LLC

Chansoo Joung
Managing Director
Warburg Pincus

10:55am – 11:25am

Coffee Break

11:25am – 12:05pm

Panel Discussion
Presented by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants

“Creating an Optimal Fuel Mix: Affordable, Sustainable and Clean”

Session Description:
Soaring oil prices and rising carbon emissions pose the threat of a global catastrophe in the economic, environmental, and political spheres. In addition, traditional fossil fuels will be exhausted in the next 50 to 150 years. As a result, nations, regions, and companies are re-evaluating fuel portfolios. In examining the alternatives, affordability, sustainability and cleanliness should be considered. And as no single fuel meets all of the above criteria, a mixed portfolio of coal, gas, nuclear, and renewables will have to be created while the answer to the optimal fuel mix question will be a regional one. This panel will discuss approaches to achieving an optimal fuel mix, and whether this can be done without nuclear fuels.

Moderator:
Michael J. Beck
Managing Director
MJ Beck Consulting, LLC

Panelists:
Gurudatta Nadkarni
Vice President, Strategic Planning
Consolidated Edison Inc.

Veit Schwinkendorf
Partner and Head of the Global Competence Center, Energy & Chemicals
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants

Wim van Acker
Managing Partner
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants

12:10pm – 12:50pm

Panel Discussion

“Transaction Trends, Opportunities and Challenges”

Moderator:
Larry Eisenstat
Head of Energy Practice
Dickstein Shapiro LLP

Panelists:
Doug Egan
Chairman, CEO and Founder
Competitive Power Ventures

Lawrence Makovich
Vice President and Senior Advisor
CERA

Edward Sondey
Director, Global Energy & Power Group
Merrill Lynch

12:50pm – 1:50pm

Lunch

1:50pm – 2:20pm

Michael G. Morris
CEO
American Electric Power

2:25pm – 3:05pmPanel Discussion

 

"The Impact of the Alberta Oil Sands on North American Energy Supply: Recent Cross Border Deals and Future Developments."

Session Description:
This panel will discuss recent cross-border oil sands deals as well as the Alberta oil sands from a U.S. perspective while also offering an update on Suncor as a key oil sands player in the market, its recent deals and expansion plans.

Moderator:
Karim H. Mahmud
Partner
Fraser Milner Casgrain

Panelists:
Scott Burrell
Director Legal Affairs, Major Projects
Suncor Energy

Mark Zvonkovic
Partner
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

3:05pm – 3:20pm

Thought Leadership Spotlight Presented by Bennett Jones LLP

"The Canadian Oil and Gas Sector - Opportunities and Challenges"

Session Description:
With Canada's oil and gas reserves considered to be second only to Saudi Arabia in size, largely as a result of the reserve potential of the oil sands, there has been a significant increase in inbound international investment in the Canadian oil and gas sector.  An overview of recent merger and acquisition activity, the opportunities for continuing investment in the sector as well as the challenges presented by the Province of Alberta's new royalty regime, environmental pressures and rising costs and development constraints will be discussed during this presentation.

John H. Kousinioris
Partner
Bennett Jones LLP

3:20pm – 3:45pm

Coffee Break

3:45pm – 4:15pm

Lynn Good
Group Executive and President Commercial Business
Duke Energy Corporation

*This session is off the record

4:20pm – 4:50pm

John Balbach
Managing Partner
Cleantech Group LLC

4:50pm – 4:55pm

Closing Remarks

4:55pm – 5:25pm

Closing Reception

 

*Please note agenda is subject to change