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Date:

Thursday, June 11, 2020

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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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Free

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http:// https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ev-charging-infrastructure-panel-tickets-107015415990

Speakers

Lauren Kastner

Director of Mobility and Policy

Build Edison

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Lauren Kastner

Lauren is the Director of Mobility and Policy at Build Edison, where she leads the firm’s research and advisory services for transportation clients including cleantech, fleets, utilities, and strategic partners. She also leads policy initiatives across Build Edison’s client areas, including supporting NYSERDA’s innovation programs. Lauren has led previous consulting engagements in the transportation sector including an investigation of zero-carbon fuel pathways for global marine shipping, advising the 100% electrification of the MTA bus fleet, and developing a strategy for zero-emissions trucking for the Port of LA. Previously, Lauren was an Environmental Policy Manager at Cummins, Inc, where she was responsible for regulatory affairs, partnerships, and informing business and technology strategy with emerging energy and environmental policy trends. In 2017, Lauren was named on Midwest Energy News’ 40 Under 40 and GreenBiz’s 30 Under 30 list as an emerging leader in sustainable business. Lauren is a Senior Fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program. Lauren earned her MPA from Columbia University and she holds degrees in journalism and public affairs from Indiana University-Bloomington.

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Jesse Karp

Regional Deployment Manager for Supercharger

Tesla

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Jesse Karp

Jesse is the Deployment Lead for Tesla charging infrastructure in the greater Northeast. His team covers the design, permitting, and construction activities for Supercharger. Jesse has over fifteen years of experience working across the infrastructure space including heavy civil bridge and tunnel, rural health, and virtual power (demand response). Jesse holds both a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University and is a licensed Civil Engineer in the State of California.

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Jonathan Ells

Director of Fleet Sustainability

NYC DCAS

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Jonathan Ells

Jonathan is the Director of Fleet Sustainability at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS). Jonathan works to implement Mayor de Blasio’s Clean Fleet Plan, announced in December 2015, to reduce emissions from the municipal fleet 50% by 2025 and 80% by 2035. Jonathan has piloted renewable diesel, higher blends of biodiesel, increased the number of electric vehicles, and improved the vehicle charging network, including introducing solar charging. NYC operates 2,500 EVs and 700 chargers, the largest network in the state. Jonathan also oversees the city’s car share efforts, supervises the auction of 3,500 city vehicles annually, and serves as Fleet’s liaison to NYC Emergency Management. Jonathan has worked for New York City since 2001 when he began his career at NYC Parks in fleet operations and emergency management.

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Brian Warshay

Principal

DNV GL

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Brian Warshay

Brian is a principal consultant on DNV GL’s Energy Storage and DER team. He has experience developing large-scale behind the meter and front of meter energy storage projects that incorporate wholesale energy market revenues. At DNV GL, he evaluates electric vehicles, energy storage, and other distributed energy resource (DER) projects and products to ensure operational strategies align with financial documentation and regulatory guidelines. Brian supports clients developing strategies to incorporate EVs, DERs, and energy storage into their portfolios and develops client strategies for entering new markets. He contributes to product and project technical due diligence reports on various storage cells, packs, stacks, and systems to identify risk on behalf of developers and investors. He has evaluated new storage and DER technologies, including fuel cells, and develops some of DNV GL’s greenhouse gas accounting strategies for DERs.

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Ari Kahn

Project Specialist for the EV Demonstration Projects Group

Con Edison

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Ari Kahn

Ari helps increase EV adoption in New York through numerous programs. They include funding for EV infrastructure and partnering with the private sector to implement business and technology innovation. Current projects include developing curbside charging and pioneering vehicle to grid school buses that function as summertime batteries. Previously, Ari was the Policy Advisor for Electric Vehicles to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio, where he helped change electricity policy to make time of use pricing available for electric cars, wrote and spearheaded a new City law that will make thousands of private parking spots EV ready, and created a curbside electrification pilot for food carts. Ari was also a fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council, where he helped pass a precedent-setting electronics recycling law at city and state levels. Ari graduated from Amherst College and received an MBA from the Yale School of Management.

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