Conference Agenda - 2026
Networking Breakfast
Mining and Renewables: Reshaping the Next Phase of Data Center Power
Earnest Hamilton (Moderator) - Financial Ernie, John Belizaire - Soluna Holdings
Grids and the AI Boom: Working With Utilities in a Shifting Landscape
Emily Basileo (Moderator) - Satoshi Energy, Bradley Garrone - Valuehash, Jeffrey Norman - CPower, Scooter Womack - Vega Energy Advisors
Break
Energy Meets Compute: Unpacking the Latest Cambridge Digital Mining Report
Alexander Neumueller - Cambridge Judge Business School
Investing in Convergence: Mike Alfred in Conversation
Earnest Hamilton (Moderator) - Financial Ernie, Mike Alfred - Alpine Fox LP
Building and Servicing the Next Wave of Data Centers
Jesse Colzani (Moderator) - BlocksBridge Consulting, Joshua Buzzell - Bitdeer, Blake King - Galaxy, Giovanni Mariani - LU-VE Group
Flexible Compute: The Grid-Aware Operating Model for AI Infrastructure in a Power-Constrained World
Medi Naseri - LōD
Balancing Act: How Digital Infrastructure Can Stabilize the Grid
Gwyn Lauber (Moderator) - Canaan Inc., JohnPaul Baric - MiningStore, Brad Cuddy - Cholla Inc, Taras Kulyk - Synteq
Lunch
The Mullet Mining Thesis: AI in the Front, Bitcoin in the Back
Dave Perrill (Moderator) - Backbone Digital, Steve Barbour - Upstream Data, Brock Petersen - Satoshi Energy, Shanon Squires - Compass Mining, Jay Zapata - SATOKIE
Proof of Work: Inside the Digital Asset Mining Ecosystem
Mike Cohen (Moderator) - Pow.re, Mike Colyer - Foundry, Erik Ellingson - Fortitude Mining, Sean McDonough - New West Data
Securing Bitcoin in the Post-Quantum Future
Ray Song (Moderator) - BlockSpaceForce, Danno Ferrin - Tectonic, Jonathan Kohn - BitPetro, Eli Nagar - Braiins
Break
Can Renewables Break the Energy Bottleneck?
Riley Choquette (Moderator) - Choquette Engineering, William Hossain - Project Vanguard, Spencer Marr - Sangha Renewables, Eugenio Villanueva - Transatlantic Power, David Vorick - Glow
Sourcing Energy Amid Geopolitical Uncertainty
Jesse Colzani (Moderator) - BlocksBridge Consulting, Lee Bratcher - Cipher Mining, Lisa Hough -
Break
Private Markets: Financing the Compute Economy
Ryan Peters (Moderator) - Tulane University, Greg Osuri - Akash, Nicholas Roche - Cinderwood, Matthew Roszak - Bloq, Ray Song - BlockSpaceForce
Public Markets: Pricing the Compute Economy
Earnest Hamilton (Moderator) - Financial Ernie, Jesus Bueno - Northland Capital Markets, Paul Golding - Macquarie, Jonathan Paulson - DC Advisory, Nathan Yee - White Lion Capital
Building Responsibly: How the Data Center Boom Can Benefit All
Lee Bratcher (Moderator) - Cipher Mining, Buddy Carter - US House of Representatives
The Texas Compute Economy: Building the Infrastructure for the Next Industrial Revolution
Giovanni Capriglione (Moderator) - Texas Blockchain Council, Curtis Harris - Compass Mining, Guillaume Goualard - Data Factory, Jared Patterson - Texas House of Representatives
Evening Networking Reception. Beer, wine and hors d’oeuvres, sponsored by BlocksBridge Consulting
The EIF agenda is still under development as we finalize session topics and speaker applications; interested speakers can submit the Speaker Interest Form here.