GridPoint CEO to Join Walgreens and Leap at VERGE Electrify to Discuss Smart Buildings as Grid Resources
Joining a panel discussion, Mark Danzenbaker will provide expert insight on how smart technologies are enabling buildings to become participants in balancing grid resources
RESTON, Va., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- WHAT
GridPoint CEO Mark Danzenbaker will join David Hughes, senior director of Facilities, Energy and SmartBuildings at Walgreens and Christie Dodge, head of Partner Success at Leap, a leading energy market access provider, to discuss how small and midsize businesses are using smart technology, like automated demand response, to support building electrification, reduce energy bills and meet climate goals at VERGE Electrify.
The panel session, "Smart, Connected Buildings as a Resource" will explore how buildings can be an active participant to balance grid resources in an all-electric future. Heather Clancy, vice president and editorial director at GreenBiz Group will moderate the discussion.
VERGE Electrify is a two-day event that brings together technology experts to share learnings and best practices for electrifying transportation, buildings and industry — rapidly and equitably. The event explores turning ambition into reality to reach climate and net-zero goals while ensuring reliability and affordability.
WHO
Mark Danzenbaker, CEO, GridPoint
Mark Danzenbaker is the CEO of GridPoint, a leader in building energy management and optimization technology that decarbonizes commercial buildings and drives grid modernization. Danzenbaker joined GridPoint in 2009 and has served in several leadership positions, including senior vice president of sales, marketing and product management, before being named CEO in 2016.
In his role as CEO, Danzenbaker drives GridPoint's efforts to accelerate the world's transition to a sustainable energy future by creating a network of smart, efficient, grid-interactive buildings. Working with commercial buildings, utilities and technology partners, Danzenbaker leads the GridPoint team to support grid modernization and focus on making buildings smarter through advanced controls, monitoring and reporting, intelligent automation and machine learning. To date, GridPoint has saved its customers hundreds of millions of dollars in energy costs, reduced billions of kWh in electricity and eliminated billions of lbs. of carbon emissions.
David Hughes, senior director of Facilities, Energy and SmartBuildings, Walgreens
David Hughes drives improved operational conditions and financial results for the Facilities, Energy and SmartBuildings team at Walgreens. His expert skills in strategy development, internal partnerships, leadership and developing new programs have helped increase resiliency and sustainability efforts across his projects.
Christie Dodge, head of Partner Success, Leap
Christie Dodge heads the partner success team at Leap, a leading software company whose platform enables distributed energy resources to access wholesale energy markets. Her passion for addressing climate change has led her through client solutions roles at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, FirstFuel Software (acquired by Uplight), and most recently battery storage developer and operator Advanced Microgrid Solutions (AMS, acquired by Fluence and Stem). Christie holds a BS in environmental science and psychology, and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
Heather Clancy, vice president and editorial director, GreenBiz
Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist specializing in chronicling the role of technology in enabling corporate climate action and transitioning to a clean, inclusive and regenerative economy. She started her journalism career on the business desk of United Press International, and her articles have appeared in Entrepreneur, Fortune, The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times.
Clancy was the launch editor for the Fortune Data Sheet, the magazine's newsletter dedicated to the business of technology. She co-authored the Amazon best-seller for entrepreneurs, "Niche Down, How to Become Legendary By Being Different."
WHEN & WHERE
Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Time: 10:15 a.m. PT/1:15 p.m. ET
Location: Online
Learn more or register to attend virtually here.
About GridPoint
GridPoint is a leader in building energy management and optimization technology that decarbonizes commercial buildings and drives grid modernization. GridPoint's data-driven platform connects energy grids with the built environment and behind-the-meter distributed energy resources, enabling the ability to optimize energy and sustainability goals for businesses and the grid at the same time. GridPoint's technology platform is deployed in 16,000+ commercial buildings across multiple industries. Leveraging data analytics, intelligent automation and machine learning to deliver unprecedented visibility into complex building operations, GridPoint reduces energy costs, maximizes decarbonization, provides actionable facility insights, and strengthens resiliency – building by building. Networked together, buildings with GridPoint IntelligenceTM aggregate the reliable, precise and instantaneous capacity that energy grids increasingly require. GridPoint's intelligent energy network of buildings is driving grid modernization and accelerating the transition to a sustainable energy future. For more information, visit https://www.gridpoint.com.
Media Contact
Elizabeth Buccianti, Gabriel Marketing Group (for GridPoint), 407-463-8865, [email protected]
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