Events Calendar
Barbara Finamore, Natural Resources Defense Council; Senior Attorney and Senior Strategic Director for Asia
Time, location, and registrations details forthcoming
Speakers
George Friedman
Founder and Chairman, Geopolitical Futures
Kay Bailey Hutchison
U.S. Ambassador to NATO
Kent D. Logsdon
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, U.S. Bureau of Energy Resources
Mark P. Mills
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
John Mingé
Former Chairman and President, BP America Inc.
Scott S. Nyquist
Director Emeritus-Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company
Scott D. Sheffield
President and CEO, Pioneer Natural Resources
2019 Honoree, Kay Bailey Hutchison Center Award for Outstanding Excellence in the Energy Industry
Scott W. Tinker
Director, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas
Jonathan Woetzel
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
This event is held in conjunction with the 2019 McCombs Hall of Fame Dinner honoring our founding member, Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison. The 2019 McCombs Hall of Fame Dinner will be held the night prior to the KBH Center Symposium, Thursday, November 7, 2019.
The McCombs Hall of Fame Dinner is by invitation only.
For more information about purchasing a table for either the McCombs Hall of Fame Dinner or the KBH Center Symposium, please contact Mari Myers at marisela.myers@mccombs.utexas.edu.
**Registration details to be announced soon.
Frank Male, Post-doctoral Fellow, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin
Businesses use data analytics to improve efficiencies, products, and services.
It’s time for cities to do the same.
No one wants to leave our city. Accompanied by Austin’s growth comes pressing challenges with Health, Housing, Public Safety, and of course, Mobility! Austin is at the beginning of it’s journey of embracing Smart City efforts to tackle these challenges.
The Smart City Case provides UT-Austin undergraduate students the opportunity to emerge themselves into Smart Cities and impact this complex effort effecting the future of their own city.
PROMPT.
Revealed at Kickoff, the prompt asks students to develop a long-term strategy addressing one of Austin’s central challenges, defined by city leaders.
STRUCTURE.
Prompt reveal Friday, October 18th with Pizza.
Competition day Saturday, November 2nd, teams present to panels of judges involved in tech and city issues. Then, finalists present their strategy to attendees and our special finals judges panel for a prize (TBA)!
See our website for more info
Greetings from The Institute for Transnational Law at The University of Texas School of Law!
Join the Institute for a Master Class on “How to Draft and Negotiate a Wind Lease, with a Look at International and Comparative Law.” This 3-hour training is being taught by Rod Wetsel, a recognized leader in wind energy and an adjunct professor at Texas Tech University School of Law . It will be held on October 18th from 10am-1pm in Townes Hall (TNH) 3.126 at the School of Law. An RSVP is requested. Lunch will be served.
Mike Sloan, Virtus Energy Research Associates
Weekly meeting for LEC’s UT Energy Week Committee
Distinguished Lecture Series with David Falck, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Pinnacle West Capital Corp.
Sponsored by Phillips 66
University of Texas School of Law, Austin, TX
11:30 – 1:00 p.m.
Weekly meeting for LEC’s UT Energy Week Committee
Casual LEC meetup at Scholz Garten - open to everyone!
This event brings together a wide variety of people from Austin’s growing clean tech community. At Clean Energy Beers you’ll meet with job hunters looking for work, employers looking for employees, investors looking for startups, business partners seeking deals, and people who just like hanging around other people who like clean energy and sustainability. This is a great networking opportunity for anyone who is interested in clean tech in Texas.
Weekly meeting for LEC’s UT Energy Week Committee
Weekly meeting for LEC’s UT Energy Week Committee
This week at the Energy Symposium, Edward Mantey, GVP and Executive Advisor of Corporate Strategy & Planning and R&D at Toyota Motor North America, will present. The title of the talk is "Toyota Sustainable Mobility."
Speaker bio: Edward J. Mantey serves as Executive Advisor to the Corporate Strategy and Planning office at Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) located in Plano, Texas. Mantey also serves as Executive Advisor at Toyota Motor North America, Research and Development (TMNA R&D) based in York Township, Michigan. Prior to his current assignment, Mantey was Senior Vice President of the Product Development Office.
Mantey joined Toyota in 1991 with responsibility for overseeing the structural evaluations of products developed in North America. From 1996 to 2000, Mantey held the position of Executive Engineer for Development, Planning and Operations where his responsibilities included the position of Chief Engineer for the 2000 Avalon.
Mantey earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Ohio State University.
Abstract: In October 2015, Toyota announced the Toyota Environmental Challenge 2050. We have been striving to reduce the environmental burden attributed to automobiles to as close to zero as possible, while developing measures to contribute positively to the earth and its societies with the aim of achieving a sustainable society.
This presentation provides an update on Toyota’s efforts in North America and globally. To achieve our vision, we will need support from business partners, researchers, governmental agencies and even competitors. This is an exciting time to participate in making a better future.
The UT Energy Symposium will meet every Thursday during the fall 2019 semester, and is free and open to the public. No RSVP required.
This event is free and open to students, faculty and staff. The panel will be held in the Flawn Academic Center, Room 430, next to the UT Energy Institute.
Weekly meeting for LEC’s UT Energy Week Committee
Brent Bennet, Policy Analyst, Texas Public Policy Foundation
LEC will meet at Scholz Garten for some snacks and drinks this Wednesday afternoon. This is an informal opportunity to meet energy-focused students and faculty and to share your ideas about club activities for the year.
Registration required: https://events.attend.com/f/1383789922
Come learn what LEC is all about! We will meet in FAC 430, adjacent to UT’s Energy Institute, from noon to 1:30 on Friday, September 6. We will introduce officers, UT’s Energy Week conference, the Smart City case comp, and additional activities in the works for the year.
This is an open meeting for all undergrad and graduate students. Lunch will be provided.
Distinguished Lecture Series Jeff Dietert, Vice President – Investor Relations, Phillips 66
Networking reception to follow. Dress: casual / business casual
Free and open to the public
Sponsored by Phillips 66
Co-hosted by the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin and the KBH Center for Energy, Law & Business
Avaya Auditorium, POB 2.302, University of Texas, Austin, TX
5:15 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
LEC will have a table at the Student Org Fair during Party on the Plaza. Come out to Speedway Mall to chat with this year’s leadership and learn more about what LEC has in the works. We are still planning our events this year and want to hear from you about energy events we need to bring to campus!
This event brings together a wide variety of people from Austin’s growing clean tech community. At Clean Energy Beers you’ll meet with job hunters looking for work, employers looking for employees, investors looking for startups, business partners seeking deals, and people who just like hanging around other people who like clean energy and sustainability. This is a great networking opportunity for anyone who is interested in clean tech in Texas.
Partner Event with the Sustainability Group.
Speaker: Michael Osborne, Former Chairman of the City of Austin Electric Utility Commission
