September 20, 2011—Denver, Colorado

Jonathan Livingston will join E Source Executive Vice President Jay Stein as a panelist on the topic of “Navigating the Tides of Emerging Technology.”  Livingston will present an overview of how leading energy utility programs strategically design their emerging technology portfolios from a gap and priority standpoint. 

Departing from the topic of efficient technology election and assessment, Livingston will instead focus on opportunities for efficiency program executives to evaluate their company innovation profiles and staff capabilities against current and future program portfolio objectives and priorities.  Taking a cue from the investment community, Stein will address the important and sometimes overlooked impact of the qualifications of emerging technology company management teams on their viability and ultimate survival in the rough waters of commercial business launch and scaling.  The program will be rounded out with brief presentations by E Source staff on their latest new technology insights.

May 6, 2011—Berkeley, California

An international team of experts on energy efficiency policy, product manufacturing, and project implementation attended Jonathan Livingston’s talk “Realizing Building End-Use Efficiency with Emerging Technologies” at the Hotel Shattuck Plaza as part of this second annual symposium organized by the U.S. DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy International Program and their Chinese Counterparts.  

The Forum focused on advancing the initiatives of the 2009 U.S.-China Action Plan and the U.S.-China Ten Year Framework for energy efficiency in industry and buildings.  Both countries have placed high priority on energy efficiency cooperation and technical exchange as a means to meet common energy challenges.  Participants included representatives of U.S. and Chinese government and nongovernmental organizations, laboratories, and industry.

April 12, 2011—Washington, DC

Jonathan Livingston, President of Livingston Energy Innovations, led the panel “Crossing the Other Chasm: Successful Transfer of Emerging Technologies into Tomorrow’s Programs” at the fifteenth annual National Symposium on Market Transformation. The panel feature energy efficiency program executives Anne Kraft of Xcel Energy and Sarah Moore of Bonneville Power Administration addressing the challenges and opportunities in bringing new, energy-saving technologies into utility and 3rd party administrators’ program portfolios.  Numerous energy efficiency industry insiders attended and participated in a lively discussion.  Audience members displayed a strong interest in program adoption of new technologies to replace those that previously received subsidies and had become standard practices incorporated into increasingly aggressive codes and standards. 

This event was co-presented by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy and the Consortium for Energy Efficiency.