YPE 2015-2015 Speaker Series | Energy and Carbon: Getting to 2050
David Hochschild
Commissioner Hochschild’s career has spanned public service, environmental advocacy and the private sector. He first got involved in the solar energy field in 2001 in San Francisco as a Special Assistant to Mayor Willie Brown where he launched a citywide $100 million initiative to put solar panels on public buildings. He went on to co-found the Vote Solar Initiative, a 60,000-member advocacy organization promoting solar policies at the local, state and federal level. He served as executive director of a national consortium of leading solar manufacturers and worked for five years at Solaria, a solar company in Silicon Valley. In 2007-2008, he served as a commissioner at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.For his work to advance clean energy, Commissioner Hochschild was awarded the Sierra Club’s Trailblazer Award, the American Lung Association’s Clean Air Hero Award and the Department of Energy’s Million Solar Roof True Champion Award.
Dan Kammen
Daniel Kammen is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, with parallel appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the Department of Nuclear Engineering. He was appointed the first Environment and Climate Partnership for the Americas (ECPA) Fellow by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in April 2010. Kammen is the Founding Director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), Codirector of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, and Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center. He has founded or is on the board of more than 10 companies and has served the State of California and the U.S. federal government in expert and advisory capacities.
Date: October 13, 2015
Time: 6:00-8:00PM; 6-6:30 Networking and Refreshments; 6:30-7:30 Fireside Chat; 7:30-8:00pm Networking and Wrap Up
Location: Oakstop, 1721 Broadway #201, Oakland, CA
Getting there: Participants are encouraged to take public transit to the event conveniently located two blocks from 19th street BART in Oakland.
