The Climate Champions

Jukka Kukkonen, Founder & Chief EV Educator, Shift 2 Electric, an EV market and business consulting and training company in Minnesota. He has a deep knowledge of the electric vehicle market, specializing in market dynamics and real-life user perspectives.

Andres Carvallo, CEO & Founder at CMG Consulting LLC, Professor of Innovation & Co-Director of CIEDAR at Texas State University, Smart Grid Godfather, Author, and Editor of 38 Power Engineering, Telecom/IoT, and Building Technologies titles at Artech House

Jason Rodriguez, CEO, Zpryme, leads strategy and direction of the company's market research, events, and advisory work in the clean-tech and energy industry. Their flagship event, the Energy Thought Summit (ETS) has featured legends such as Steve Wozniak.

Gerald Kutney is the creator of #ClimateBrawl! With 40,000+ Twitter followers, he unifies the silent #ClimateChampion majority, raises each voice into a chorus, defends social media from climate denier propaganda, ensuring science and facts rule the day!

Patty Durand, President & CEO, Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC); a consumer-focused non-profit promoting, among all US stakeholders, the understanding and benefits of a consumer-safe, consumer-friendly, smart modernized electrical system.

Ron Pernick, co-author of The Clean Tech Revolution and Clean Tech Nation, founder/managing director of Clean Edge, a clean-tech research firm offering a suite of stock indexes, benchmarking reports and events, creating a clean-energy, low-carbon economy.

Jorge Elizondo, engineer at Heila Technologies, leads the technical vision of enabling the grid of tomorrow by with renewable-based microgrids. Heila software powered Stone Edge Farm, a vineyard in Sonoma, California, during the devastating fires in 2017.

Conrad Chase, co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Point Load Power, unlocks the solar potential of millions of commercial rooftops by following the sun as it moves across the sky; the PV Booster rooftop tracker Double Platinum'd at SPI - check it out!

Hagen Ruff, co-founder & CEO of Chava Energy and Chava Wind, sold his Business Intelligence company to Sapient and launched Chava, an energy technology research company, to conduct research in new energy technologies that go beyond conventional paradigms.

Courtney Blodgett, Founder of Yield Positive, has worked for more than 15 years on sustainable finance. She was a climate finance advisor to the UN and led the Impact Investing Team at Vulcan, the family office of Paul G. Allen, Microsoft’s co-founder.