9:00 a.m. – Welcoming Remarks

Steve LeVine, @stevelevine
Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation
Author, "The Oil and the Glory" blog, Foreign Policy

9:05 a.m. - Oil: Innocent Until Proven Guilty

Bruce Everett
International Business Professor, Fletcher School, Tufts University
Downstream Government Relations Manager, ExxonMobil (1999-2002)

Moderator
Steve Coll, @newamerica
President, New America Foundation

9:30 a.m. – When Will the Age of Big Oil End?

Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones
CEO, LiveFuels

Peter Diamandis, @PeterDiamandis
Chairman and CEO, X-PRIZE Foundation

Anthony Tether
Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (2001-2009)

Moderator
Paul Roberts
Author, The End of Oil

10:20 a.m. – Video: Does Alternative Energy Have Street Cred?

10:25 a.m. – What Will Drive us in 2030? (Hint: The Consumer is Always…)

Donald Paul
Executive Director, USC Energy Institute
Chief Technology Officer, Chevron (retired 2008)

Oliver Kuttner, @verylightcar
Founder and CEO, Edison2

Johan de Nysschen, @audi
President, Audi of America

Moderator
Dan Neil, @Danneilwsj
Auto Columnist, Wall Street Journal

11:15 a.m. – Presentation: Why Batteries

Jeffrey Chamberlain
Energy Storage Initiative Leader, Argonne National Laboratory

11:25 a.m. – The Geopolitics of Energy

Edward Chow
Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Jeffrey Chamberlain, @argonne
Energy Storage Initiative Leader, Argonne National Laboratory

Steve LeVine, @stevelevine
Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation
Author, "The Oil and the Glory" blog, Foreign Policy

Moderator
Susan Glasser, @FP_Magazine
Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy

12:15 p.m. – Lunch Break

12:30 p.m. – Video: Why Nuclear

Nathan Myhrvold, @ivinvents
Co-founder, Intellectual Ventures
Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft (1991-1999)

12:35 p.m. – Keynote Conversation: Time to Roll the Dice

Craig Venter, @JCVenter
Founder, Chairman and President, J. Craig Venter Institute

Moderator
Steve Coll,
President, New America Foundation

1:30 p.m. – Video: Why Biofuels

Wim Vermaas, @ASUgreen
Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

1:35 p.m. – Going Off Campus: The Challenge of Scaling Up Cool Lab Toys

Daniel Betts
Executive Director, EnerFuel, Inc.

Tom Hicks, @USNavy
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy, U.S. Navy

Wim Vermaas, @ASUgreen
Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

Moderator
Bryan Walsh, @bryanrwalsh
Energy Writer, TIME

2:25 p.m. – The View from Wall Street

Paul Sankey, @Deutsche_News
Oil Analyst, Deutsche Bank

Moderator
Annie Lowrey, @AnnieLowrey
Economy and Business Reporter, Slate

2:45 p.m. – Coffee Break

2:55 p.m. – Video: Why Solar

Gary Dirks
Director of LightWorks, Arizona State University

3:00 p.m. – The Visible Hand: Government's Role in Powering the Future

Steven E. Koonin, @ENERGY
Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy

Michael Levi, @levi_m
Director, Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations

Lisa Margonelli, @TheEnergyTrap
Energy Initiative Director, New America Foundation
Author, Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank

Moderator
David Biello, @dbiello
Environment and Energy Editor, Scientific American

4:00 p.m. – Video: Everything You Heard Here Today Could Be Wrong

Parag Khanna, @paragkhanna
Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation
Author, How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance

4:10 p.m. – Where Will We Really Be in 2030?

Maggie Koerth-Baker, @maggiekb1
Science Editor, Boingboing.net
Author, Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before it Conquers Us (March 2012)