ASCEND SUMMIT 2026
Meet Ascend
at the Summit
Connect with Ascend's energy leaders to tackle 2027's toughest challenges.
SEPT 30 - OCT 2, 2026
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LIMELIGHT HOTEL
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BOULDER, COLORADO
Connect with Ascend's energy leaders to tackle 2027's toughest challenges.
Our leadership, commercial, account management, and market experts will be at Ascend Summit 2026. Find the right person for the conversation you want to have and reserve time with them.
25 years building high-performance teams, driving operational excellence, and supporting growth across global energy and SaaS markets.
Leads Ascend's forecasting, valuation, and bidding products, bringing more than 24 years of experience in energy technology and power-market analytics.
Leads Ascend’s growth and go-to-market strategy across business development, demand generation, and customer success.
Technology leader focused on product innovation, AI, cloud platforms, data, and building high-performing engineering teams at scale.
Works with utilities, technology firms, developers, and industrial customers to translate power-market analytics into clear commercial insight and informed decision-making.
Supports developers, investors, and utilities with wholesale and retail price forecasting, dispatch simulations, market strategy, project acquisition, M&A, and competitive bids.
Works with financial institutions investing in energy, using quantitative market insights to strengthen asset valuation, portfolio strategy, and long-term capital allocation decisions.
Leads commercial strategy across Eastern merchant markets, with two decades of energy-market experience and more than 6 GW of successful projects spanning renewables, storage, thermal generation, and utility digital transformation.
Leads business development, delivering regulatory-accepted price forecasts and dispatch simulations that support investment-grade decisions for developers, investors, and utilities.
Leads portfolio management, resource planning, and reliability analysis, bringing more than 15 years of energy-market experience across risk, settlements, performance, and software analytics.
Business development leader in utilities and corporates, specializing in asset valuation and portfolio management. 10+ years at Lansing Board of Water & Light leading strategic initiatives.
Leads account management at Ascend Analytics, driving customer engagement, retention, and growth across power-market analytics solutions while strengthening client relationships and team performance.
Brings more than a decade of account management leadership across energy, software, and financial markets, with experience driving energy-efficiency programs and translating client insights into measurable outcomes.
Brings more than a decade of experience in energy markets and trading, combining commercial insight with analytical depth to strengthen client partnerships and support portfolio growth.
Helps energy developers, investors, and utilities use data-driven insights across PowerVAL, PowerSIMM, and SmartBidder, with experience in clean energy markets, M&A, and PPA strategy.
Partners with utilities, developers, IPPs, and financial institutions to navigate pricing volatility, evolving market structures, and project economics using market intelligence and analytics.
Works with energy companies and market participants to drive commercial strategy and adoption of analytics solutions, aligning Ascend’s market intelligence and modeling capabilities with evolving business needs.
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Leads Ascend’s Market Intelligence practice, delivering long-term supply stack, market price, and project economics forecasts that support high-confidence investment and planning decisions.
Leads Ascend Energy Exchange, connecting buyers and sellers of storage and renewable projects while helping utilities, developers, and investors enhance asset value and streamline M&A and PPA transactions.
Leads Ascend’s SmartBidder platform, overseeing customer success, product strategy, development, sales, and marketing across energy storage and renewable bid optimization.
Leads Ascend’s valuation team, delivering bankable asset valuations and revenue forecasts for merchant storage while helping developers and investors make investment-grade decisions across the project lifecycle.
Dr. Mauch leads Ascend Analytics’ resource planning modeling team, supporting utilities with integrated resource planning and energy strategy. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.
Caroline Zechter leads Ascend Analytics’ retail forecasting team, modeling retail rates, community solar bill credits, and distributed energy resources across U.S. markets. She also oversees deployment of Ascend’s VDER battery dispatch tool.
