We are pleased to invite you to the Thursday and Friday sessions of the IHS Energy CERAWeek 2016 – IHS CERA’s 35th annual Executive Conference at the Hilton Americas in Houston, Texas, Feb 25-26, 2016, with complimentary (free) MIT Alumni registration for the MIT program (starting 2pm Feb 25 through Feb 26.)
MIT will again have an entire plenary session, co-hosted by Dan Yergin, CERAWeek Chairman, and Robert Armstrong SM’97, MITEI Director: “Frontiers of Science and Innovation: Future Technologies to Meet the Energy & Climate Challenge – the View from MIT.”
U.S. Senators John Cornyn, Majority Whip of the United States Senate (Texas), and Lisa Murkowski, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee (Alaska), will immediately follow our session with a discussion on The US & Global Energy Future. Finally, MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) has arranged space for up to 100 MIT alumni to join us for the session – and for most of Thursday and Friday.
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Hilton Americas-Houston
1600 Lamar
Houston, TX 77010
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Afternoon sessions starting at 2pm and evening sessions including the MITEI reception and conference wide dinner
Participating MIT alumni will be able to attend CERAWeek starting at 2pm on Thursday.
This includes the dinner keynote address from J.B. Straubel, Chief Technology Officer at Tesla, who will cover mobility, storage, and the grid.
New this year, Lou Carranza, Associate Director and former co-chair of CERAWeek, will host the MIT Energy Initiative reception at 6:30 pm, just prior to the Thursday night dinner keynote address.
MITEI (MIT Energy Initiative) Reception
6:30pm, Thursday, February 25, 2016
Location: Innovation Pioneer Showcase, located on the second floor to the side of the general reception
Friday, February 26, 2016
Participating MIT alumni may attend all public sessions at CERAWeek, including the MIT plenary session in the morning, featuring a panel of MIT faculty.
10:15am Frontiers of Science & Innovation: Future Technologies to Meet the Energy & Climate Challenge–The View from MIT
- Daniel Yergin (Chair)
Vice Chairman, IHS, CERAWeek Conference Chairman - Robert Armstrong SM’97
Director, MIT Energy Initiative, Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT - Yet-Ming Chiang ’80, SCD ’85
Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, MIT - Jeffrey Grossman
Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, MIT - Kristala Jones Prather ’94
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, MIT - Yogesh Surendranath ’PD ’11, PhD ’11
Assistant Professor, Chemistry, MIT
If you have any questions, please contact CERAWeek by email at ceraweek@ihs.com.