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Thursday, May 15, 2025

• 10:00am - 10:15am PDT

  Welcome Remarks

  • Neale Mahoney, SIEPR Trione Director
• 10:15am - 11:00am PDT

  Fireside Chat

  • Derek Kaufman, Founder and CEO of Inclusive Abundance

  Moderated by John Lyman, Managing Partner at Telescope

• 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT

  Panel 1: How to build more energy?

  • Duncan Campbell, Vice President, Scale Microgrid Solutions
  • Rick Needham, Chief Commercial Officer of Commonwealth Fusion Systems

  Moderated by Lisa Hansmann

• 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT

  Lunch

• 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT

  Fireside Chat

  • Bharat Ramamurti, Deputy Director (2021-2023), White House National Economic Council

  Moderated by Ryan Cummings, SIEPR Chief of Staff

• 1:45pm - 2:45pm PDT

  Panel 2: How to build more industrial capacity?

  • Arnab Dutta, Managing Director of Policy Implementation
  • Mike Schmidt, Former Director of the CHIPS Program Office at the US Department of Commerce
  • Ted Nordhaus, Director of Research, The Breakthrough Institute.

  Moderated by Josh Zoffer, SIEPR Policy Fellow

• 2:45pm - 3:00pm PDT

  Break

• 3:00pm - 4:15pm PDT

  Panel 3: How to build more housing

  • Tia Boatman Patterson, Executive Director of the California Housing Finance Agency
  • Salim Furth, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Urbanity project, Mercatus Center, George Mason University.
  • Chris Elmendorf, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Institute for Progress, UC Davis
  • Scott Wiener, California State Senator (District 11)

  Moderated by Chad Maisel, the White House Domestic Policy Council (February 2021 – Jan 2025), SIEPR Policy Fellow

• 4:15pm - 5:15pm PDT

  Afternoon Keynote

  • Spencer Cox, Governor of Utah

  Moderated by Ramin Toloui, SIEPR Distinguished Policy Fellow