On behalf of the Council for Clean and Reliable Energy and the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE), we invite you to join us for the annual Technology Innovation and Policy Forum 2016. This inaugural event is intended to bring together policy makers, technology innovators, leading researchers and entrepreneurs, to address the convergence of policy development with technology advances. The goal of the forum is to understand the timing and impact on emerging disruptive technologies on the current policy regime, and to understand the impacts of microgrids embedded on a large scale within the existing networks.

The Innovation Showcase will bring together the most current corporate and institutional state-of-the-art technologies. There will be plenty of opportunity for you to network, ask questions, and interact with our expert panelists.

To Learn More about the Forum go to: www.thinkingpower.ca

Dr. Jatin Nathwani, Forum Co-Chair and Executive Director, WISE	David McFadden, Forum Co-Chair and Counsel, Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP

Program

8:30 am

Registration
Continental Breakfast

9:30 am

Welcome
Glen Wright, Chairman, Council for Clean & Reliable Energy
Jatin Nathwani, Forum Co-Chair and Executive Director, Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy

9:45 am

Keynote Speaker

Bruce Campbell, President & CEO, Independent Electricity System Operator

10:15 am

Break

10:30 am

Panel One: Technology and Disruptive Innovation

Is the state of technology mature enough for a massive exodus of customers and is there a real threat of stranded assets? If not, when? Declining cost structure of distributed energy resources (solar, EVs and storage, microgrids, cogeneration) pose a challenge to the utility distribution network. Will prosumers proliferate?

Moderator:

Jatin Nathwani, Professor & Executive Director, Waterloo Institute of Sustainable Energy, University of Waterloo

Panelists:

Josipa Petrunic, Executive Director & CEO, Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC)

Mark Henderson, EVP, Asset Management and COO, PowerStream

Hartmut Schmeck, Professor of Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Q&A Session - 45 minutes

12:00 noon

Lunch

1:00 pm

Innovation Showcase and Networking & Industry-Academic Collaboration

1:15 pm

Optional Lab Tours (for Pre-registered Guests)

1:30 pm

Panel Two: Financing: Business Models; and Regulatory Construct: Policy Alignment

The traditional 'cost recovery' model for the electricity sector was designed and built for a one-way flow of energy technology. Technology is changing the texture of the system. Will distributed energy resources, high penetration of variable generation and ICT-enabled consumers undermine the existing business model of the distribution utilities?

Moderator:

David McFadden, Counsel, Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP

Panelists:

Colin Andersen, Chair, Energy Council of Canada

Vicky Sharpe, Corporate Director and founding President & CEO, Sustainable Development Technology Canada(SDTC)

Brian Poth, Partner, Power and Utilities, Price Waterhouse Coopers

Paul Murphy, Board Chair, Advanced Energy Centre

Q&A Session - 45 minutes

3:00 pm

Reception, Innovation Showcase, Networking & Industry-Academic Collaboration

3:45 pm

Optional Lab Tours (for Pre-registered Guests)

5:30 pm

Closing Remarks and Wrap-up
David McFadden, Forum Co-Chair and Counsel, Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP

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