Keynote by Rohit Aggarwala, Commissioner of NYC DEP and NYC’s Chief Climate Officer
09:50 - 10:00
Break I
10:00 - 11:30
Session 1: Energy in a Changing Climate (Chair: Marta Gutman, Dean of CCNY School of Architecture)
10:00 - 10:30
Talk 1A: Damon Bolhassani, Assistant Professor of Architecture, CCNY
10:30 - 11:00
Talk 1B: Tria Case, Director of Sustainable CUNY
11:00 - 11:30
Talk 1C: Jane Atkinson Gajwani, Office of Energy and Resource Recovery Programs and Agency Chief Decarbonization Officer, DEP
11:30 - 11:45
Flash Talks (by selected poster presenters)
11:45 - 12:30
Lunch & Collaborative Brainstorming Activity
12:30 - 13:30
Poster Session
13:30 - 15:00
Session 2: A Resilient Harlem Microgrid (Chairs: Michael Bobker, Building Performance Lab, CUNY Energy Institute; Sanjoy Banerjee & Alexander Couzis, Grove School of Engineering)
13:30 - 14:00
Talk 2A: Mark Evlyn, Director II of Advanced Energy, DER, Resiliency, Grid Modernization & Michael D’Ambrose, Project Engineer, TRC Companies
14:00 - 14:30
Talk 2B: Clayton Banks, Co-Founder and CEO of Silicon Harlem
14:30 - 15:00
Talk 2C: Shawn Rickenbacker, Director of the Max J. Bond Center for Urban Futures and Associate Professor of Architecture, CCNY
15:00 - 15:15
Break II
15:15 - 16:45
Session 3: Resilient and Efficient Distribution & Infrastructure (Chair: Ahmed Mohamed, Engineering)
15:15 - 15:45
Talk 3A: Nelson Yip, Director of Strategic Planning, Con Edison
15:45 - 16:15
Talk 3B: Mohamed Kamaludeen, Director of Energy Storage Validation, U.S. Department of Energy
16:15 - 16:45
Talk 3C: Ahmed Mohamed, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, CCNY