Energize! Workshop — The EV Charging Initiative - A national collaboration to meet and exceed 500,000 charging stations nationwide

Join us in person May 15th in Portland, OR for this interactive workshop. Inspired by the reality TV series Shark Tank, this interactive session will feature policy entrepreneurs pitching solutions to our biggest infrastructure deployment challenges. You, the audience, get to grill them and weigh in on what you think will work and how to get it done. There may be drama!

Program Schedule

Welcome to Energize!

2:00 PM

Colleen Quinn | Founder and President, eMobility Advisors

Rachael Nealer | Deputy Director , U.S. Joint Office of Energy and Transportation

Setting the Table

2:15 PM

Moderator: Max Baumhefner | Senior Attorney, Climate & Clean Energy Program, NRDC

Nick Nigro | Founder, Atlas Public Policy

Ray Minjares | Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program Director, International Council on Clean Transportation

Kara Podkaminer | Senior Advisor for Sustainable Transportation and Fuels, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Inspired by the reality TV series, Shark Tank, this interactive session will feature policy entrepreneurs pitching solutions to our biggest challenges. You, the audience, get to grill them and weigh in on what you think will work and how to get it done. There may be drama!