Kintsugi for Infrastructure; A Climate Week NYC Morning Forum

The grid (and the workforce) is aging, the demand curve is spiking, the workforce is shifting, and buildings are becoming power plants. The question is not whether our systems will be remade, but whether the seams will show gold. This invitation-only morning forum brings together utilities, technologists, policymakers, and investors to examine the repair work already underway and what it will take to finish it. Hosted by Blackhorn Ventures and Mitsubishi Electric, a company that has spent a century building the systems that heat, cool, connect, and power the world, this conversation is grounded in infrastructure reality, not aspirational abstraction. Hosted by Blackhorn Ventures, Mitsubishi Electric and Morrison Foerster Run of Show: 8:30am　Doors open / Coffee & Networking9:30am　Opening Remarks 9:35am　Keynote Seiji Oguro, Executive Officer, Corporate Strategic Planning / Sustainability Innovation Group, Mitsubishi Electric Corp. 9:50am　PanelⅠ: Rewiring the Backbone: Grid Modernization, Power Infrastructure & the Data Center Imperative Sergej Mahnovski, Managing Director, Strategy, Technology, and Innovation, Edison International Josh Wong, Founder & CEO, ThinkLabs AI Jasper de Vries, Co-founder & CTO, Lucend Eric Pelli, Group Vice President, Mitsubishi Electric Power Products Heerea Rikhraj, Capital Markets Reporter, New Project Media 10:25am　Panel II: Comfort Intelligence: Heating, Cooling & the Virtual Power Plant Opportunity Matthew Johnson, Senior Vice President, Energy Hub Samir Pendse, Co-founder & CEO, Coral Mark Kuntz, Chief Operating Office, Mitsubishi Electric US 10:55am　Panel III: The Gold in the Seams: Physical AI, the Factory Floor & the Workforce That Runs It Allan Gibson, Head of Product Innovation, Formic Kim Zou, Founder, Sightline Climate Masahiro Kaji, President & CEO, Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America Stacey Weismiller, President & CEO, American Manufacturing Futures Institute 11:30am　Close & Continued Networking