2024 Energy & Climate
Security Conference
October 14-15, 2024
Oil Region National Heritage Area, Northwest Pennsylvania
Experts, Practitioners & Leaders Discuss Future of Energy & Climate Security
Energy Transition Seminar & Tours
October 14, 2024
The conference's inaugural day features presentations on community transition projects, heritage and recreational tours. Open to conference attendees and the public with prior registration and subject to availability. The program is designed to facilitate interactions and spark new conversations between local leaders and conference attendees concerning future opportunities and lesson learned from the region's 165-year and counting experience with - and environmental recovery from - the early oil and gas Industry.
Multiple Venues
Throughout the Oil Region National Heritage Area between Oil City and Titusville, Pennsylvania
Drake Dialogues
October 15, 2024
In the spirit of Edwin Drake's tenacity and creativity, which produced America's first oil discovery in 1859, global and local experts, practitioners, and leaders will gather to discuss and debate the future of energy security and climate. This includes hybrid interactive presentations with panelists giving introductory arguments followed by a free-flowing dialogue followed by questions and answers. By invitation only.
The Venue
Drake Well Museum & Park commemorates Edwin Drake's drilling of America's first oil well In 1859. The museum and surrounding grounds chronicle the birth and development of Pennsylvania's petroleum and gas industry and its evolution into today's global enterprise.
Join The Conversation!
Mid-October in Western Pennsylvania features some of the world's most breathtaking autumn foliage, the annual gift from the varied deciduous forest that took the area back from the brink of environmental destruction following the early oil boom.
Who Should Attend?
Energy and climate experts, practitioners, officials and those interested in how America and the World can practically balance their energy and climate goals.
What to Expect?
A full two days of in-depth dialogues, debates and presentations on energy security Issues now facing the United States and the World - as well as a lot of history, great food and even a bit of local moonshine!
Online Registration
For more information, please email info@drakeenergysecurity.org
Past Events
Energy's Past and Its Lessons for Powering a Sustainable & Prosperous Tomorrow
Attendees
Ed Chow
Senior Associate (Non-resident), Energy Security and Climate Change Program - Center for Strategies & International Studies (CSIS)
Alison Hills
Vice President, Public and Government Affairs –Total Energies
Steven Burns
Chief, Energy & Infrastructure, Technical Support Office, Bureau for Europe and Eurasia, USAID
Richard Morningstar
Founding chairman of the Global Energy Center at the Atlantic Council. Former US Ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan and the European Union
Brenda Shaffer
Professor – Research Energy Academic Group – Naval Postgraduate School
Rob Boulware
Director, Stakeholder Relations at Seneca Resources Company
Eric Pelofsky
Deputy Chief of Staff / Vice President The Rockefeller Foundation
Michael Ratner
International Energy Lead, Congressional Research Service
Khazar Ibrahim
Ambassador, The Republic of Azerbaijan to the United States of America
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East Hudson Institute
George Coates
Chairman, Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy
Walter Kansteiner
Senior Director, Africa, International Government Relations, ExxonMobil
Andrew J. Tabler
Author and former Director, National Security Council and Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of State
Victoria Coates
Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and the Council for a Secure America
Brian Katulis
Vice President of Policy and Senior Fellow, Middle East Institute
Natig Bakhishov
Executive Director, United States- Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce