Keyue Smedley, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, UC Irvine
“One-Cycle Controls and Its Application for Stabilizing Power Grids with High Renewable Penetration”
Chelsea Choudhary, Sustainable Manufacturing Alliance for Research and Training Industrial Assessment Center (SMART IAC)
“UCI SMART IAC Updates”
Katherine Dayem, Xergy Consulting
“Electric Vehicles as Grid Resources and Plug Loads: Benefits and Opportunities”
Zhaocai Liu, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
“Transportation Network Modeling & Infrastructure Planning”
Alan Meier, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
“Efficient and ZNE-Ready Plug Loads CPR Meeting”
Katie Gladych, CalPlug
“Plug Load Energy Testing to Inform Codes and Standards (PLETICS) & Low Power Mode”
https://www.calit2.uci.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/01D-Johnson.pdf
Doug Johnson, Consumer Technology Association (CTA)
“Plug and Process Loads – Latest News”
Katie Gladych, CalPlug, Associate Specialist,"Load Energy Efficiency Codes & Standards: A Policy Review"
Chelsea Choudhary, Program Manager, SMART IAC,
"SMART IAC Updates"
Caitlin Murphy, Group Manager and Senior Analyst, NREL, "Future of Electrification"
Antonio Corradini, CEO, AESC, "How Smart Building Can Help a Greener Grid"
Therese Peffer, PhD, UC Berkeley, CIEE, "Building to Grid: Thermostats and Microgrids"
Vince McDonell, Associate Director, UCICL, "What Happens When We Use Low Carbon Fuels in Applications Like Water Heating and Cooking"
Phil Roberts, LADWP Consultant, "Project Aurora, Empowering the Unhoused"
Todd Bell, Sr. Program Manager, Frontier Energy, "Foodservice Plug Loads" "Project Aurora, Empowering the Unhoused"
Ann Davis, LADWP Consultant,"Customer Gaming Console Use & Energy Efficiency"
Danielle Preziuso, Renewable Energy Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Place-based Renewable Energy Infrastructure at Scale
Andrea Warner, Business Relationship Manager, OCPA
Orange County Power Authority
Louis Ting, Director of Power Engineering & Technical Services, LADWP, Pathway to 100% Clean Energy"
Genaro Bugarin, Director of Energy Innovation, The Energy Coalition, Addressing Equitable Electrification through Advanced Energy Communities"
Alvin Viray, Applied Innovation, UC Irvine
"UCI’s Collaboration and Commitment to OC’s Startup Ecosystem"
Marc Kelly, Innovative Financial Consultants
"10 Reasons Why Medical Device Companies Fail – A CFO’s Perspective”
Curtis Huffmire, Knobbe Martens
"Legal Protections for Medical Devices and Data"
Sharief Taraman, Children’s Hospital of Orange County
"Equitable Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare – Mitigating Risk of Magnifying Biases”
Tom Andriola, Institute for Precision Health, UC Irvine
"Digital Health through the Empowered Health Consumer”
Peter Chang, Co-Director CAIDM
"Future Health: A Navigational Approach to Health"
Michael Oh, Neurological Surgery, UC Irvine
"Innovation from a Surgeon’s Perspective”
Mark Bachman, Xidas LLC
"Small: Bigger and Better"
Rodolfo Rohr, LarmorBio
"Non-Invasive Disease Diagnostics Using Microscale Nuclear Magnetic Resonance”
Benjamin Park, Founder & CTO, Enevate
Solving Difficult Problems Together to Help Mitigate Climate Change
Amy Lebar, Researcher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Achieving Commercial Building Resiliency through Plug Load Management: Emerging Technologies and Strategies
Ammi Amarnath, Senior Technical Executive, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Industrial Load Flexibility – An Opportunity for Decarbonization in California
John Woolsey, Principal Engineer, Center for Sustainable Energy CHP TAP
Combine Heat & Power – Resiliency and Reliability
Li Zhao, Technical Director of CalPlug
Plug and Process Loads: Roles and Opportunities in Energy Resiliency
Jay Seidel, Professor, Fullerton Drone Lab at Fullerton College
Drones for Efficient Energy and Infrastructure Inspection
John Anderson, OhmConnect
WiFi Smart Plugs: the ‘Gateway Drug’ to Home Energy Automation
Paul Campbell, Facil AI
Object Oriented Design in Energy and Decision Management
Mary Ann Piette, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Overview of the California Load Flexibility Research and Deployment Hub
David Jacot, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
LA’s La Kretz Innovation Campus and CleanTech Incubator
Edwin Hornquist, Southern California Edison
SCE’s Pathway to Beneficial Building Electrification
Ann Hancock, Climate Center
Accelerating Climate Action in California
Yennie Solheim, Niantic Labs
How AR Games Can Inspire Sustainability
Luc Severi, Sustainable Energy for All
Powering Healthcare: Setting the Scene PPT
G.P. Li, Director of CalPlug
16th semi-annual CalPlug WorkshopWelcome:
Joy Pixley, CalPlug Research Director
Highlighting Plug Loads in Energy Efficiency Programs for Commercial Customers
Michael Klopfer, PhD, Calplug Technical Director
COVID-19 Residential Impacts in LA County: Then & NowOverview of CalPlug Research
Scott Hinson, Chief Technology Officer, Pecan Street
Residential Energy Consumption During COVID-19
Steven Davis, UCI Associate Professor of Earth System Science
Effects of COVID-19 on CO2 Emissions in the US and Globally
Kim Trenbath, Lead, Systems Technology R&D, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Advances in Plug Load Control Technology
Amir Tabakh, Manager of the LADWP La Kretz Labs and Energy Efficiency Solutions Engineering
The Role of Utilities in the New Paradigm
Day 1
Chris Busch, Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC
Insights from the California Energy Policy Simulator
Cathy Higgins, New Building Institute
Plugging into Electrification: Market, Policy and Technology Progress
Joy Pixley, CalPlug
Overview of CalPlug Research
Katie Gladych, CalPlug
Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Program Opportunities in Connected Plug Load Devices (SDG&E)
Amir Tabakh, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Utility perspectives on Earth Day and Beyond
Day 2
Wendell Brase, UC Irvine
What We’ve learned Since 2007 – Efficiency, Load Management and De-Carbonization
Michael J. Klopfer, CalPlug
Energy, GHG, and User Behavior Nexus with Plug Loads: Looking Forward thru 2030
Aldyen Donnelly, Nori
Getting to 2030 (or not) Why Carbon Removal is Essential
Michael Mitchel, MCM Group
Earth Day 1970 – 2020
G.P. Li, CALIT2
GHG Reduction: Results of the COVID-19
Michael Guilliana, Knobbe Martens
Patent Protection of AI‐Powered Medical Devices
Brent Noblitt, Nobllitt & Rueland
UCI Medical Device Regulatory Awareness-Implications for Start-ups
Alvin Viray, UCI Applied Innovation
Commercializing Your Medical Devices with UC Irvine’s Startup Ecosystem
Curtis Huffmire, Knobbe Martens
Respect and Protect: Intersection of Med Devices, AI, and Data Privacy
Francis Duhay, Koa Accel
The Next Evolutionary Step in Medical Device Acceleration
G.P. Li, CALIT2
The Workshop onCalifornia Decarbonization
Panama Bartolomy, California Energy Commission
Calplug
Charles Kim, Southern California Edison
What Compels Us to do All Electric Buildings in CA?
Jun Wen, Southern California Edison
Decarbonization and the Grid: Impacts and Opportunities
CK Herro, Meritage Homes
Tomorrow's Smart Home Today: Disruptors in the Homebuilding Industry
Joy Pixley, CalPlug
SIM Home Testing: Device Use Profile Approach
G.P. Li, CALIT2
Workshop Welcome
Felix Villanueva, California Energy Commission
Overview of Energy Commission’s Research and Development Program
Joy Pixley, CalPlug
Power Management User Interface (CEC sponsored)
Saniya Syed, CalPlug
SIM Home Project (SCE sponsored)
Sabine Kunrath, CalPlug
Literature Review (SCE sponsored)
Richard Donovan, CALIT2
Smart Manufacturing (DOE sponsored)
Michael Klopfer, CalPlug
Smart Energy Efficiency 2.0
Chris Giovanniello, Menlo Microsystems, Inc.
Enabling the Electrification of Everything
Ian Harris, CPRI
Cybersecurity in IoT Systems
Kyle Kettler, UC Irvine
Environmental and Social Consequemces of Dynamic Electricity Pricing
Paul Delaney, Southern California Edison
Alternative Cooling
Alexander Woolf, Lineage Logistics Holdings, LLC
Virtual Energy Storage for Grid Stabilization
Meera Shier
Innovation at MicroVention
Stanton Rowe
Lessons from the Development of TAVR
Luis Jimenez
Leverage Regulatory Controls in Product Development
Alvin Viray
Commercializing Your Biomedical Technology with UC Irvine’s Startup Ecosystem
Michael Guiliana
Can Your Medical Device IP Portfolio Pass Muster?
Scott Raevsky, Knobbe Martens (Moderator)
Can Machines Invent?
Charless Fowlkes, UCI computer science
TheFuture of Machine Learning
Wei Li, Intel
Machine Learning at Supercomputer Speed (Not available for download)
Larry Smarr, UC San Diego
Distributed Cyberinfrastructure to Support Big Data Machine Learning (Not available for download)
Jeremy Holleman, CTO, Syntiant
Analog Computers for Deep Machine Learning
Henry Wong, Axiado
Universal Problem: Data Breeches
A.Viray, UC Irvine
Medical Device Commercialization
Ahmed Zobi, Syntr Heath Technologies
Novel Therapeutic for the Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Apollo Nanotech, Apollo Nanotech Inc.
Apollo Nanotech Inc.
Edward Kacic, Irvine Health Foundation
Foundations as Investors?
Gregory Weiss, Phage Tech Inc
Simplifying Diagnostics
Jim Lam, United Precision Technologies
United Precision Technologies
Luc Vialard, Castres Digital Healthcare Ecosystem
International Collaborations
Michael Guiliana, Knobbe Martens
Helping Build the Foundation of High Value Patent Rights
OM Sangyo Co., LTD
Our Products
Ruey-Kang Chang, QT Medical, Inc.
Personalized Cardiac Care powered by AI
Stanton Rowe, Edwards
Medical Device Development in a Large Multinational Company
Shashin Kagaku, SK-Electronics Co., LTD
Integrated Volitional Control Electrical Stimulator
Tomomi Shiratori, Komatsuseiki Kosakusho Co.,LTD.
Fabrication Techniques for Metal MEMS Like as Metal Micro Pump
Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo, TKK
Tanaka Group
Yasojima Proceed, Yasojima Proceed Co., LTD
Yasojima’s Ultrafine Processing