AGENDA
October 15-17, 2025
The Fairmont Hotel
Austin, TX
Wednesday, October 15
VIP Dinner
- 5:00pm-7:30pm
Sponsored by Terrestrial Energy
- Simon Irish, CEO, Terrestrial Energy
- Moderator: Charles Oppenheimer, Oppenheimer Energy
Welcome Reception
- 7:00pm-9:00pm
Sponsored by Lockton
Thursday, October 16
Registration & Breakfast
- 7:30am-8:15am
Welcome Remarks & Chairman’s Address
- 8:15am–8:30am
- Doug Robison, Chairman, Texas Nuclear Alliance
Fireside Chat featuring Maria Korsnick, President and CEO, Nuclear Energy Institute
- 8:30am–9:00am
Panel: From Demonstration to Marketplace
- 9:00am–9:40am
- James Walker, CEO, NANO Nuclear
- Simon Irish, CEO, Terrestrial Energy
- Matt Loszak, CEO, Aalo Atomics
- Jason Cooper, CEO, GE Vernova SMR
- Moderator: Tighe Smith, Chief Nuclear Officer, Paragon Energy Solutions
Panel
- 9:40am-10:15am
- Jake Jurewicz, CEO & Co-founder, Blue Energy
- Sean Stibich, Executive Director, Port of Victoria
Fireside Chat featuring Dan Eggers, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Constellation
- 10:15am–10:45am
Coffee Break
- 10:45am–11:00am
Morning Breakout Sessions DOE Pathways to Nuclear Commercialization
- 11:00am-11:45pm
- Jon Guidroz, SVP Commercialization, Aalo Atomics
- Bill Goodwin, Chief Legal and Strategy Officer, Oklo
- Moderator: Ryan Lighty, Partner, Morgan Lewis
Oil Boom to Microreactor Boom
- Tim Williamson, Director of Regulatory & Public Affairs, Shepherd Power
- Bobby Gallager, CEO & CTO, Deployable Energy
- Brad Tomer, Director, National Reactor Innovation Center at Idaho National Laboratory
Onshoring the Nuclear Industry’s Critical Fuel Supply
- Brent Berg, Senior Vice President for U.S. Operations, Uranium Energy Corp
- Alex Polonsky, Partner, Morgan Lewis
- Steve Winston, Founder, CrisiScience Collaborative
Coffee Break
- 11:45am-12:00pm
Fireside Chat featuring Glenn Hegar, Chancellor, Texas A&M University System
- 12:00pm-12:30pm
Buffet Lunch
- 12:30pm-1:30pm
Panel: Utility Scale Nuclear: Can Consumers Benefit from New Nuclear?
- 1:00pm-1:40pm
- Jim Smiley, Senior Manager, Advanced Nuclear Development, Entergy
- Elaina Ball, Chief Strategy Officer, CPS Energy
Panel: Scaling to Meet Demand: Project Management, Supply Chain, Construction & Workforce
- 1:40pm–2:20pm
- Kreshka Young, North America Business Director for Energy and Climate, Dow
- Rick Springman, President of Global Clean Energy Opportunities, Holtec International
- Ted Enos, CEO, Certrec
- Doug VanTassell, CEO, Paragon Energy Solutions
Fireside Chat featuring John Hopkins, CEO, NuScale
- 2:20pm–2:50pm
- Moderated by Dr. Dale Klein, the University of Texas at Austin
Networking Coffee Break
- 2:50pm-3:00pm
Afternoon Breakout Sessions A Resource, Not Waste: Advancing Nuclear Fuel Recycling in Texas
- 3:00pm-3:40pm
- Dr. Jenifer Shafer, Associate Director for Technology, U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E)
- David W. Bergmann, Chief Engineer, U.S. Nuclear Group, AtkinsRéalis
- Brooke Paup, Chairwoman, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Nuclear Finance
- Simon Irish, CEO, Terrestrial Energy
- Rick Springman, President of Global Clean Energy Opportunities, Holtec International
- Moderator: John Butler, Clinical Associate Professor of Finance, The University of Texas at Austin
Energy and Climate: Competing Demands?
- Armond Cohen, Executive Director, Clean Air Task Force
- Stephen Comello, Executive Director, Nuclear Scaling Initiative
- Moderator: Derek Haas, Associate Professor, Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Panel: Fermi America
- 3:50pm–4:20pm
- Former Texas Governor Rick Perry, Co-Founder and Director, Fermi America
- Toby Neugebauer, Co-Founder & CEO, Fermi America
Panel: Nuclear Powering AI and AI Powering Nuclear
- 4:20pm-5:00pm
- Evan Cummings, Senior Director of Business Development, Kairos Power
- Alex Hern, Founder and Partner-Development, Big Watt Digital
- Kevin Clarno, Associate Professor in the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program, the University of Texas at Austin
Networking Happy Hour, Sponsored by Uranium Energy Corp.
- 5:30pm–7:30pm
Friday, October 17
Registration & Breakfast
- 7:30am–8:15am
Panel: The Imperative and The Obstacles: Why the United States Must Build Nuclear and The Obstacles it Must Overcome to Do It
- 8:15am–8:45am
- Robert Bryce
- Ray Rothrock
Panel: The Texas Grid Regulators
- 8:45am–9:25am
- Thomas Gleeson, Chairman, Public Utility Commission of Texas
- Bill Blevins, Director of Grid Coordination, Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)
Fireside Chat featuring Ken Peters, Executive Vice President & Chief Nuclear Officer, Vistra
- 9:25am–9:55am
Networking Coffee Break
- 9:55am–10:10am
Panel
- 10:10am–10:40am
- Liz Muller, Co-Founder & CEO, Deep Fission
- Duane Sherritt, Vice President of Low Carbon Solutions, Halliburton
Panel: Laboratories of Democracy: How Texas Became an Overnight Nuclear Sensation
- 10:40am–11:20am
- Dr. Joe Elabd, Vice Chancellor for Research, The Texas A&M University System
- Daniel Womack, Global Lead for Carbon Policy, Dow
- Reed Clay, President, Texas Nuclear Alliance
Panel: Texas Legislative Leaders
- 11:20am-12:00pm
- Rep. Cody Harris
- Rep. Drew Darby
Lunch
- 12:00pm–12:30pm
Panel: Nuclear is National Security
- 12:30pm-1:10pm
- Igor V. Dubinsky, PhD, Director of Defense Nuclear Programs, BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- John M. Borland, P.E., PMP, Director, Widelity, LLC
Keynote Address: Texas Governor Greg Abbott
- 1:15pm–1:45pm
Networking Coffee Break
- 1:45pm-2:15pm
Fireside Chat: Meet the Texas Advanced Nuclear Energy
- 2:15pm-2:45pm
- Jarred Shaffer, Director, Texas Advanced Nuclear Energy Office
- Moderator: Reed Clay, President, Texas Nuclear Alliance
Closing
- 2:45pm-3:00pm
- Reed Clay, President, Texas Nuclear Alliance