Sydney Energy Leaders Forum (ELF) THU 5 MAR 2020
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LAUNCH: WOMEN IN RENEWABLES SYDNEY
FutureGrid 2.0 Rebooting Energy Systems for Recovery & Resilience in the Wake of Disaster
Event: Energy Leaders Forum March 2020 @ Venture Cafe Sydney
Date/Time: 6:30-7:30PM Thursday 5 March 2020
CHANGE OF LOCATION: AS A PRECAUTIONARY RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, VENTURE CAFE SYDNEY | ENERGY LEADERS HAS CHANGED TO AN ONLINE FORUM.
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Energy Leaders | Women in Renewables Panel
At this Energy Leaders Forum, we'll hear from an amazing panel of Women in Renewables and work together in a roundtable brainstorm to identify key Challenges and Opportunities.
Liz Fletcher, Moderator [LinkedIn Profile] - Co-Founder, the etc.
Victoria Mollard [LinkedIn Profile] – Director, AEMC
Amanda Sinden [LinkedIn Profile] - Associate Director | Energy l PwC
Tricia Lorenzo [LinkedIn Profile] - Senior Business Development Manager, Flow Power
Corine Mulet [LinkedIn Profile] - Technical Projects Manager, NABERS
Jacqueline Fetchet [LinkedIn Profile] - Renewable Energy Lawyer, Herbert Smith Freehills
(Apology) Amy Kean [LinkedIn Profile] - Director, Stride Renewables
About The Panel
Liz Fletcher [LinkedIn Profile]
In key roles at both Flow Power and TransGrid, Liz has taken great ideas and built brands, teams and businesses from them. She is an ardent believer in the role of strategy and marketing in bringing forward the new energy era. To grow, businesses need to humanise their ideas so real people want to and can buy into them. More than just a thought bubble, she is doing something about it. In 2019, she co-founded the etc, a platform to grow the marketing cohort in the energy industry.
Victoria Mollard [LinkedIn Profile]
Victoria is a Director at the AEMC where she oversees high level policy, economic and technical recommendations to the Chief Executive and Cmmission. Prior to the AEMC, Victoria consulted on regulatory and public policy issues. Victoria’s experience covers many of the recent changes to the energy market.
Amanda Sinden [LinkedIn Profile]
(Apology) Sally Torgoman [LinkedIn Profile]
As Managing Director Energy at PwC, Sally heads up the Infrastructure Lead Advisory services, facilitating the development of major projects. The team has a network of over 3000 corporate relationships throughout the energy and infrastructure sectors, and connecting experts across more than 60 countries. Sally is an industry focused lawyer who is dual qualified in the legal and engineering professions. Her Practice Areas include Energy, Renewables, Storage, Power, PPP, Global Transactions, Infrastructure, and Project Financing. She has supported corporations in infrastructure investment projects up to a value of $2B, particularly in countries with significant political, financial, and legal risks.
Tricia Lorenzo [LinkedIn Profile]
Tricia's role at Flow Power focuses on creating value for clients through the wholesale electricity market, facilitating operational energy efficiencies and helping customers take control of their energy. In 2009, Flow Power pioneered a way for smaller businesses to buy their power direct from the wholesale market, and pave the way to a clean energy future. in 2019, Flow Power facilitated City of Sydney, City of Newcastle transition to 100% renewable electricity. And in 2020, the City of Adelaide announced that, in a first for SA councils, operations will be powered by a 100 per cent renewable electricity contract with Flow Power, sourced from a mix of South Australian wind and solar farms.
Corine Mulet [LinkedIn Profile]
Corine is driving the latest iteration of building ratings at NABERS. Having worked in Australia, France and Brazil, she brings a broad range of experience in transitioning the built environment for the new energy era. Using a 6 star scale, NABERS (which stands for National Australian Built Environment Rating System) can be used to measure a building’s energy efficiency, carbon emissions, as well as the water consumed, the waste produced and compare it to similar buildings.
Jacqueline Fetchet [LinkedIn Profile]
A motivated, innovative and committed renewable energy lawyer with experience across government, private and community sectors. Jacqueline brings creativity and strategic thinking to her work and takes a collaborative approach with clients, colleagues and networks on projects that make a difference. She is passionate about building resilient communities, sustainable businesses and renewable energy systems for the future.
(Apology) Amy Kean [LinkedIn Profile]
Energy Leaders Forum (ELF) events provide the opportunity to interact with like-minded professionals in the clean energy sector to discuss projects, challenges and solutions, galvanise industry engagement, and spark investment opportunities.
Each Energy Leaders Forum focuses on a key topic - chosen from a shortlist selection by the Energy Leaders community - under the overarching theme of 2020 Vision x Energy, highlighting Challenges and Opportunities in the Energy Sector.
Major themes of interest identified by the community include solar and wind, batteries and other energy storage, EVs, hydrogen, wave energy and other new technologies, energy efficiency, energy market disruptors, digital innovation, community engagement, and the Energy Leaders Awards.
The Sydney Energy Leaders Forum is hosted within the Venture Cafe Sydney (VCS) weekly event series, part of the Venture Cafe Global network founded in 2009 by the Cambridge Innovation Center in Boston, USA. VCS is championed by Macquarie University and founding partners City of Ryde, EY, Konica Minolta, NAB, NSW Department of Treasury, ORIX and Stockland.
Energy Leaders Forum Organising Committee
Luke Poliszcuk [LinkedIn Profile] - Director & Founder, Energy Leaders
Luke has 20 years experience in clean energy and strategic corporate sustainability with a focus on commercial solar and renewables, retail electricity and energy efficiency products and services. He has worked with a variety of clients from government and Fortune 500 corporations - including NSW Government, AMP Capital, Bupa, Goodman, ALDI, Toyota, Frasers Property, Mitsubishi, Panasonic and Toshiba - as well as startups and NGOs, across a range of industries such as Environmental Management, Construction, Manufacturing, Renewables, CSR, Investor Relations and Finance.
JP Vernon [LinkedIn Profile] - Solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) & Energy Pricing & Analytics
Highly experienced solar power purchase agreement (PPA) pricing and energy analyst who has worked with leading national and international organisations like Singapore-based large-scale renewables investment group Sembcorp and Vellocet Clean Energy to deploy innovative renewable energy generation and storage solutions across Australia.
Stuart Gordon [LinkedIn Profile] - Clean Energy & Commercial Solar Sales & Marketing
Stuart has over two decades of experience in marketing and sales, combined with a decade of practical consulting and analysis in residential and commercial renewable energy servicing property owners, facilities managers, CFOs, business owners, sustainability managers, builders, energy brokers, project managers and more.
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