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The 18th US-China Green Energy Summit

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Stanford Faculty Club
439 Lagunita Dr, Stanford, CA 94305

Advancing the Green Energy Transition through Innovation and Global Collaboration

A premier forum where global leaders exchange ideas, build trusted relationships, and shape the future of clean energy.

October 10, 2026 Stanford University California

A strategic convening at a consequential moment for energy and climate.

Why now

The global energy transition is entering a more complex and consequential phase, as clean-energy technologies continue to scale while policy uncertainty, grid constraints, rising electricity demand, and geopolitical tensions reshape the path forward.

Why this Summit

The Summit creates a focused setting for leaders to compare experience, build trusted relationships, and identify practical opportunities for cooperation and innovation.

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Innovation

Explore emerging technologies and practical solutions shaping the future of green energy.

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Strategic Insights

Understand technology trends, policy evolution, market design, and investment opportunities.

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Partnership

Connect leaders across government, academia, industry, investment, and international organizations.

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Impact

Turn dialogue into lasting collaboration and real-world outcomes for the energy transition.

The forces reshaping energy.

Key areas of discussion are expected to include:

AI ↔ Energy: Powering AI, Transforming EnergyPowering AI with reliable, clean electricity — and transforming energy systems with AI-enabled intelligence, optimization, and innovation.
Power Systems for the Age of ElectricityGrid modernization, flexibility, storage, renewable integration, transmission, virtual power plants, and new approaches to reliability in high-renewables systems.
Next-Generation Clean EnergyFrom breakthrough innovation to commercial scale, including emerging technologies, investment pathways, and deployment models.
Clean Energy Supply ChainsResilience, security, manufacturing capacity, critical minerals, and global competitiveness in the clean-energy economy.
Energy in a Fragmented WorldHow competition, security concerns, policy uncertainty, and geopolitical tensions are reshaping international energy cooperation.

Nobel laureates, policy leaders, innovators, and investors in one conversation.

The Summit brings together exceptional voices across science, policy, technology, industry, and investment.

Steven Chu

Steven Chu

Conference Chair
Nobel Laureate
12th U.S. Secretary of Energy
Stanford University
Paul Milgrom

Paul Milgrom

Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences
Stanford University
Erik Solheim

Erik Solheim

Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
Former Executive Director
UN Environment Programme
David Sandalow

David Sandalow

Inaugural Fellow
Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia SIPA
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Energy
Rodi Guidero

Rodi Guidero

Executive Director
Breakthrough Energy
Nancy Skinner

Nancy Skinner

Commissioner
California Energy Commission
Former California State Senator
Yi Cui

Yi Cui

Conference Vice Chair
Director, Sustainability Accelerator
Fortinet Founders Professor, Stanford University
More speakers will be released soon.