Why Participate


"The volatility and uncertainty swirling around the energy industry today requires a combined and focused effort from everyone with a stake in our nation's energy future. The inaugural EnergyBiz Leadership Forum brought together some of the best minds in the industry and gave these leaders a platform to share their visions for overcoming challenges and developing new opportunities now and well into the future."

Ray Beavers,
CEO, United Cooperative Services
 

In Order to Lead in Energy You Need to Take an Active Role

The Leadership Forum is built to promote interactivity and audience participation with presentations and panels — the latter include open Q&A sessions. This unique format ensures you can help drive the conversation, from sharing your vision on the emerging architecture of energy to showing your support in solving the formative issues shaping the industry.

Share Your Vision Where Industry Leaders Gather 
Who will you share your vision with? The forum is an event for leaders, bringing together all the major influences on energy — industry executives, policy makers, regulators, consumers, and members of the financial and legal communities. In 2009, in addition to 45 national and international media, forum attendees were:

A sample of the utility, regulatory, and legislative organizations in attendance included:


• American Electric Power
• American Municipal Power (AMP)
• American Public Power Association (APPA)
• Baltimore Gas and Electric
• Bermuda Ministry of Energy, Telecommunications,
     and E-commerce
• Bonneville Power Association
• California Public Utilities Commission
• Central Iowa Power Cooperative
• Con Edison
• Constellation Energy
• Duke Energy
• Edison Electric Institute (EEI)
• Electric Consumers Resource Council
• Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
• Great Plains Energy
• Great River Energy
• Gulf Power, a Southern Company
• International Power 
• National Association of Regulatory Utility
     Commissioners (NARUC)

• National Conference of State Legislators
• National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)
• North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)
• Northern States Power Company, an Xcel
     Energy Company
• NRG Energy
• Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E)
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• PNM Resources
• Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)
• Sandia National Laboratories
• Santee Cooper
• Solar Electric Power Association
• Southern California Edison
• Southern Company
• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
• United States Energy Association
• United States House of Representatives — Committee
     on Science and Technology 
• Washington DC Public Service Commission
• Xcel Energy

These leaders came from all across the nation to participants in these important discussions:

There are six distinct ways you can share your vision with these important industry leaders:

>> Industry Leadership Partner
>> Keynote Partner
>> Panelist Participant
>> EnergyBiz KITE Awards Supporter
  >> Industry Supporter
>> Cyber Lounge Sponsor

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