ACEEE Intelligent Efficiency Conference

Intelligent efficiency holds the promise of substantially reducing energy use while transforming many energy-using markets. Achieving this outcome requires collaboration among the efficiency, technology, and user communities. These communities are largely distinct, and few opportunities have existed to date for the energy efficiency and technology communities to interact. Past interactions have been limited to speakers from one community addressing assemblies of the other.

The 2016 Intelligent Efficiency Conference will bring together people from the IT, telecom, energy efficiency, utility, solution provider, and policy sectors to share and learn how information and communications technology (ICT) can improve the use of energy. The conference will have featured speakers, plenaries, and over a dozen breakout sessions. The theme of this year’s conference is “Lessons from the field, Vision to the future”. With this in mind, our breakout session speakers will share case studies and field results while our featured speakers will share their insights into how such results provide a glimpse into the future.

Sessions will focus on the policies, programs, and practices that are changing and improving as a result of the application of ICT. Attendees will learn about, and be able to participate in, discussions on smart buildings, smart cities, integrated mobility, energy efficiency program design, customer engagement, project and program evaluation, measurement, and verification (EM&V), and the integration and load balancing of distributed energy resources into the electric grid. And since we’re in Austin, we’re going to feature local and state policy stakeholders who will share their thoughts on how Texas is and can embrace intelligent efficiency. Our Monday lunch panel will feature directors of several of Texas’s university-based energy efficiency-focused research centers. They will share information on their work and how they are partnering with other organizations.

Likely Participants Include: Energy efficiency program developers and administrators, state and local government policymakers, staff, and associations, chief technology officers and chief information officers, service providers, investors, entrepreneurs, hardware and software developers, ICT solution providers, building automation providers, and smart manufacturing, smart transportation, smart buildings, and smart cities leaders.

For more information or to register, visit the conference website.