Electrifying Transportation: Insights from Utility Leaders

Join us for a dynamic panel discussion featuring leading utilities at the forefront of transportation electrification. Here’s what you can expect:

 

• Strategic Insights: Hear directly from utility leaders about their strategies for accelerating and optimizing the transition to electric vehicles.

• Lessons Learned: Gain valuable insights from real-world experiences in implementing EV programs.

• Success Stories: Discover “best-in-class” programs and innovative solutions to include from recent winners of Chartwell’s Best Practices Awards for Electric Vehicle Programs

This panel discussion is a must-attend for anyone interested in the role utilities play as the EV trusted advisor today and into the future.

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Panelists: 

• Amy Atchley, EV Equity Development Manager, Austin Energy

Amy Atchley is a leader in social impact; possessing a diverse skill set that draws from over 20 years of experience serving vulnerable communities through her work with the non-profit sector with agencies like Meals on Wheels Central Texas and the VH1 Save the Music Foundation. Her role at Austin Energy is building frameworks of equity through transportation electrification access by collaborating with community stakeholders and historically underserved communities. She brings an experienced perspective and passion to her work by designing human centered programs that ensure people are not left behind as emerging technologies become mainstream. The core of Amy’s work is to develop and implement new market offerings and policy direction to provide a meaningful community impact with that advance decarbonization.

• Becky Whitman, Business Development Manager, Electric Vehicles & Charging, Ameren Missouri

Becky Whitman is the Business Development Manager for EVs & Charging at Ameren Missouri, passionately working to increase education and awareness around electric vehicles in the Show-Me state. An EV driver herself, she enjoys engaging with the public, businesses, municipalities and vehicle dealerships in Ameren’s territory, serving as a trusted advisor for all things related to eMobility.
While Becky has been in her current role at Ameren for 2 years, she is no stranger to the utility space. Prior to working for Ameren, Becky worked with utilities across the country to capture rebates and incentives in the commercial refrigeration space and also implemented residential and low-income energy efficiency programs working as a contractor of Ameren Missouri.

Panel Moderator:

Moderator: Karl Popham, Senior Consultant, Chartwell, Inc.

Karl launched and led the Electric Vehicles & Emerging Technologies program at Austin Energy, the nations 3rd largest city-owned utility, in 2011 whose program is recognized as “Drive Electric Utility of the Year” by Plugin America and “EVisionary City of North America” by the Electric Drive Transportation Association.

Karl has been a Principal Investigator on over ten electrification/innovation grants and led the utility’s “5 EV Pillar Strategy” advancing transportation electrification through infrastructure, fleets, grid integration, outreach, and equity. Karl has served on several boards including The Energy Thought Summit, Austin Forum on Technology & Society, co-chair of the Tx Public Power Corridor EV workgroup, and co-chair of the Austin Climate Equity Plan workgroup, to name a few.

An active speaker and research contributor, Karl is co-author of “Smart Cities; Applications & Standards” an industry/college textbook published by Springer. Previous roles include Austin Energy’s Chief Information Officer, a Managing Director at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, and Captain in the US Army Corps of Engineers.

 

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