AABE Energy News: March 2013
March 2013 News
ENERGY: Embracing Change and Creating Opportunity
In a fast moving world with shifting new business models, new technologies and evolving environments the only constant is CHANGE.
I am excited to serve as your Interim President and CEO as our organization goes through a period of profound Change. Last year, our Chairman shared a strategic plan which built against a vision and framework originally laid out 36 years ago by our founding members.
One year later, we continue to work through that plan. In order to succeed this organization must embrace change, and by doing so we will grow our membership, strengthen our financial health and increase our legislative influence.
By embracing change we will ensure opportunities for our communities to participate in this industry from the development of policy, to developing young leaders and promoting more of our businesses as providers of the goods and services our industry uses.
In just a couple of weeks, the AABE’s 36th Annual Conference,
“Embracing Change and Creating Opportunities” will take place in Baltimore, MD. This year’s conference planning committee has done an excellent job developing an agenda which describes the changes and challenges our industry will face, but they also bring together industry leaders to offer solutions.
The conference keynote speaker, Daniel Yergin, is a leading energy scholar, Pulitzer Prize winning author who Fortune Magazine called “one of the planet’s foremost thinkers about energy and its implications.” I know that Dr. Yergin will set the stage for a terrific conference.
Additionally, we’ll be joined by Ambassador Andrew Young, former Congressman, Mayor of Atlanta and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Ambassador Young has a wealth of knowledge that you will find informative and thought provoking. If you haven’t already done so, I encourage you to REGISTER for this year’s conference. It’s one you don’t want to miss.
As we move through a conference that looks at change in the industry, and an organization which is sure to change, my question for you is what role do you want to play in the AABE story? I am most excited about the opportunity to lead at a time so important to our organization. Because I believe that if we Embrace Change it will Create Opportunity.
Best,
Paula R. Jackson
Time is short. Register Today.
Latest Energy Industry and Scholarship News
The Latino Coalition, a national organization that represents Latino interests with senior executives of many Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, invites AABE Members to join them at the 2013 America's Small Business Summit from Monday, April 29, 2013 to Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC.
The summit will be co-sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and is designed to provide an ideal forum for professional networking, timely analysis of issues impacting our business sector and, most importantly, a face-to-face opportunity for business development.
In conjunction with the Summit, The Latino Coalition will also host the B2B National Procurement Matchmaking on Tuesday, April 30th, that will unite Summit attendees with procurement officers from government agencies and Fortune 500 companies to assist small business in future procurement opportunities.
Through this nationwide program, they have helped to create millions of dollars in contracts for small businesses throughout the country.
Click here to learn more and to register for the event.
The ACORE Power Generation & Infrastructure Forum will examine the strategies, opportunities, and challenges in the western region related to potential realignment of business models to support accelerated renewable energy development in all phases of electric power company operations.
The Forum will focus on the technologies, policies, and financing needs associated with any increase in renewable electricity.
Learn more, register today or contact Thomas Veague for more information.
On the Martin Luther King holiday, those working on the first floating holiday for management employees under the new vacation policy were invited to witness the second inauguration of President, Barack Obama, in the auditorium at 4 Irving Place. While many employees participated in the weekend’s Power of Giving and National Day of Service activities honoring Dr. King’s legacy, few were aware that among the estimated nearly one million spectators gathered at the foot of the U.S. Capitol’s steps was Con Edison employee Allison Skeete, associate analyst, Gas Conversion Group, and her husband.
Allison, a 25-year veteran of Con Edison, and a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, covered the swearing in ceremony of the 44th President of the United States as a freelancer. Not her first trip to an inauguration, Allison and her husband, a freelance photographer, attended the ceremony four years ago.
Allison’s Story “Obama’s Second Term: Views from the Street on Inauguration Day,” was picked up by Network Journal Magazine, a publication that has honored several Con Edison women at its annual 25 Influential Black Women in Business luncheon.
She says this inauguration experience was different than her first trip. “The crowds were smaller, and there were more families with children,” she explains, “It didn’t have the same feeling of urgency as the first time. But it was life changing all the same. To see the president of the United States take the oath of office is historic, to witness it with my husband at my side, it’s hard to put into words how incredible it was.”
Read more about our fellow AABE Member's experience at the second inauguration of President Obama.
U.S. Energy Department Announces New Funding Opportunity for Innovative Small Modular Reactors
As part of the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy, the Energy Department today issued a new funding opportunity announcement to help U.S. industry design and certify innovative small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs).
There is still time to register for the 2013 AABE Annual Conference being held April 9-12 at the Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor in Baltimore, MD.
Join your fellow AABE members for four days of great discussion about a variety of topics that affect your company and our community. If you haven't already done so, renew your membership and join us April 9-12.
Thank you for your continued membership and hope to see you in Baltimore.
LaKeesha Wilson
AABE Member Services
e: lwilson@aabe.org
phone: (202) 371-9530
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