Corporate Planning Roundtable
Upcoming Teleconference
Previous Teleconference
“Planning Emerging Transportation Technologies”
February 12, 2008
11:00 am – 12:00 noon, EST
Teleconference participants:
Mark A. Alexander, Vehicle Systems Analysis, Electric Power Research Institute (Slides)
Austan S. Librach, Director, Emerging Transportation Technologies, Austin Energy (Slides)
Daniel Bean, Financial Analyst, FDIC, moderator
A podcast of this teleconference is available.
Background:
The economic benefit of cleaner operating vehicles could prove to be enormous. The United States could maintain a strong economy plus boost American jobs and competitiveness by increasing the nation’s energy supply from all sources – oil, gas, coal, nuclear, and alternative fuels and technologies. Specifically, the nation’s power delivery systems could be expanded to accommodate electric vehicles. A benefit from this might be the improvement in the environment through greater efficiency, technology-based solutions to address greenhouse gas emissions and a reduction in air pollution.
Key questions:
- Is there a market for and what about planning for flexible fuel plug-in hybrid vehicles?
- Who is supporting plug-in vehicles?
- What is the economic and environmental assessment of plug-in hybrid vehicles?
- What are the future technologies?
Mark A. Alexander is manager of vehicle systems analysis in the electric transportation program area of the power delivery and utilization sector at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). His current research activities focus on the development of hybrid electric vehicle simulations, control strategies, and software for plug-in hybrid and fuel cell vehicles.
Alexander earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering and a Master of Science in electrical engineering, both from the University of California at Davis. While at Davis, he spent nearly eight years at the Hybrid Electric Vehicle research Center working on the development of prototype plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and conducting research on hybrid powertrain design, embedded control systems, vehicle simulation, and high-voltage systems.
Austan S. Librach is the director of emerging transportation technologies at Austin Energy, a department in the City of Austin (COA) municipal government. Librach works specifically on the Plug-In partners (PIP) national campaign that is designed to convince auto makers that there is a market for plug-in hybrid vehicles. He has worked with PIP at Austin energy for the last year. He is responsible for helping to enlist partners from a broad geographic mix of the largest municipalities and utilities in the country.
Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Librach graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor’s degree in water resources engineering. He earned a Master’s Degree in city and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a registered engineer and a charter member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
“The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2030”
Thursday, December 13, 2007
11:00 AM EST
Speaker:
Dean Foreman, ExxonMobil
Sydney Smith Hicks, NABE Corporate Planning Roundtable Chair, will moderate
Previous Teleconferences
“Global Trends in the E-Readiness of National Economies”
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
11:00 AM EDT
Speaker:
James W. Cortada, IBM Institute for Business Values
Sydney Smith Hicks, NABE Corporate Planning Roundtable Chair will moderate
Slideshow (PDF)
This teleconference is available as a podcast.
“How Information Technology is Transforming Industries: Lessons from the Past"
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Co-sponsored by the Technology Roundtable
Speaker: James W. Cortada, IBM Institute for Business Values
Sydney Smith Hicks, NABE Corporate Planning Roundtable Chair will moderate
This teleconference is available as a podcast.
"Strategic Applications of Game Theory"
Wednesday, May 31
2 PM Eastern
Michael Phillips and Dr. Niall Fraser, Open Options Corporation, will discuss how a game theoretic approach can be an effective strategic approach for addressing many complex business issues. He will introduce the concept of game theory and present some case studies. Participants will take away an understanding of the types of problems game theory has helped solve, the results it has achieved and the situations in it is most applicable.
The podcast of this teleconference is free and can be downloaded from the Podcasts page.
Slide Show (PDF, 4.8 MB)
“Climate Change: an Economic View”
Teleconference sponsored by the NABE Corporate Planning, Manufacturing, and Regional Utility Roundtables
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
11 AM EDT
Speaker:
Bob Shackleton, Congressional Budget Office
Lloyd Nace, Chair, Manufacturing Roundtable will moderate.
Learn about the basic climate science and the historical and projected climate change along with the uncertainties with respect to that change. Hear about the economics of climate change: stock externalities, discounting, distribution of costs, and mitigation (quantity, price, and technology).
Bob Shackleton has served as a senior analyst in the Macroeconomic Analysis
Division at the Congressional Budget Office since 1999, working on climate
change, global demographics, retirement preparation, and international
remittances. From 1991 to 1999 he worked on climate issues at the
Environmental Protection Agency. He received his B.A. in Economics and
Political Science from Yale College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from
the University of Maryland at College Park.
The podcast of this teleconference can be purchased online.
Roundtable Teleconference
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
11:00 AM Eastern
"Issues in the External Environment"
The Corporate Planning Roundtable began its 2006 series of teleconferences with a presentation by Nariman Behravesh, Executive Vice President and Chief Economist for Global Insight. His presentation touched on topics such as the outlook for U.S. economic growth, China, oil prices, housing, inflation, interest rates, the dollar and the current account deficit. Harry Homan, Senior Director, Strategic Development, Fluor Corporation and Chair of the Corporate Planning Roundtable moderated.
This podcast is a free download
Teleconference slides (PDF, 171 K)
"Strategic Business Intelligence"
Kermit Patton and Tom McKenna of SRI Consulting Business Intelligence presented an overview of the SRI Scanning process, which is designed to systematically find, capture, interpret and act on cues from an ever-changing environment. They discussed:
- The key elements for creating a scanning process
- How to spot new signals & patterns of change
- New insights on potential changes that could affect your organization
- How to align scanning process and outputs in overall strategy management activities.
Harry Homan, Fluor Corporation, moderated.