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Julia Souder is a strategic executive with over 20 years of expertise in the energy and environmental sectors as a coalition builder, change maker, and motivator for inclusive implementation. She is a long-time advocate of clean energy technologies and equitable transitions. Souder is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the LDES Council, a global non-profit working to accelerate decarbonization through the acceleration of long-duration energy storage (LDES). As CEO, she leads strategy and vision to enable the advancement and scale of LDES deployment in the energy transition worldwide. In addition, she serves as the Chair of the Global Renewables Alliance, of which the LDES Council is a founding member, and sits on the Board of the Keystone Policy Center.

Alex Heil, PhD, he has more than 20 years of experience in the energy, environment and infrastructure space. His work is centered on the energy transition, renewable energy resources, urban economics, and how infrastructure and transportation will affect development patterns and economic trends.Before joining the Conference Board, Alex was VP for Research at the Citizens Budget Commission, a think tank focused on the finances and operations of New York City and State governments. Prior to CBC, Alex was the Chief Economist of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. In that role, he analyzed regional economic conditions, conducted regional cost benefit analysis, assessed the regional economic impacts of transportation investments, and undertook economic and financial project evaluations. He also worked as a consultant on energy and utility projects for private and public sector clients as an economist for CDM Smith, Inc.

David is a recognised global thought leader in the area of hydrogen, renewable energy, HSE, resources,  and project management.  He brings more than thirty years of hydrogen and renewables, HSE, government, resources and energy experience, in Australia, and Morocco, UK, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Norway, USA, Africa, and Middle East. His background includes lead roles in hydrogen and renewables, HSE, asset management, planning, and systems engineering. He has particular expertise in Hydrogen and Renewables, HSE, integrated operations and digital transformation across green hydrogen and renewables project feasibility, conceptual design, specification and procurement.  Client project value in hydrogen and renewables exceeds $30 billon for projects David has led.  David is a recognised national and global technical authority in hydrogen, writing Australian standards for hydrogen mobility on land, air and sea, and contributing similarly to international hydrogen standards.  He is also responsible as Chief Hydrogen Officer of Hydrogen West and Hydrogen East for hydrogen companies with a combined project capex in excess of $1 billion and NPV exceeding $2 billion.  He has been selected to represent Australia at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27.

Hobbs uses systems analysis and economics to improve electric utility planning, operations, and policy, as well as management of environmental and water resources systems. Hobbs was the founding director of the former Johns Hopkins’ Environment, Energy, Sustainability and Health Institute, and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics. A member of the Johns Hopkins faculty since 1995, he is co-director of the USEPA Yale-JHU Solutions for Energy, Air, Climate, and Health (SEARCH) Center, an interdisciplinary team that studies how power generation trends, climate change, and public policy interact to affect air quality. As an example of his research, Hobbs’ lab is working with IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the University of Texas at Dallas, and two power grid operators on a project to better forecast sunshine and backup power needs. Traditional power suppliers now have to predict how much power a region will need a day in advance, potentially overestimating or underestimating demand. Hobbs’ project aims to significantly improve solar forecasting, using artificial intelligence and data analytics, so the nation’s grid operators know precisely, and in advance, how much power to produce for any given day and hour. They will test the system initially in California and in the central part of the United States.