Under the leadership of CEO Pat Carlson, Kiwetinohk Energy is creating the next-generation business model for future energy companies – a future in which the relationship between “molecules and megawatts” sits collaboratively at the board and management tables. It is experimenting with a vertically integrated model via which power generation comes from diverse sources, including renewables.
This presentation will use Kiwetinohk’s investments in agrivoltaics – solar farms in which farming occurs within the panel array – to explore the importance of these new models to attracting future technical talent to the energy sector.
Bill Whitelaw
Bill Whitelaw is the Managing Director, Strategy and Sustainability at geoLOGIC Systems and JWN Energy. In this role, he helps shape the company’s focus on the products and services most widely used in Canada’s upstream oil and gas sector. Bill is currently chair of the Canadian Society for Evolving Energy, formerly the Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources. Bill is on the steering committee for the Energy Futures Lab, as well as its partner council, as well as the digital technologies working group at the Clean Resource Innovation Network. He also serves on the communications advisory committee for the Petroleum Technology Alliance of Canada. Bill is a graduate of Loyalist College and Queen’s University and holds a master’s degree in communication studies from the University of Calgary.
He is an experienced senior energy and resource sector executive leader with a strong record of growing shareholder and stakeholder value. He is a strong operations leader experienced in determining operational efficiencies through a variety of innovative organizational practices. Bill has a long background in government relations who works effectively integrating perspectives of industry to align with key government policy, regulatory and communications initiatives.
Bill is an technology advocate who seeks heightened awareness of the key roles technology and innovation play in resource sector evolution and is an innovative leader and respected manager who builds organizational foundations of efficiency and collegiality among goal-focussed management teams. He is a senior communications strategist well-versed in contemporary conventions of conventional media, social media, digital and print platforms and an energy literacy practitioner focused on creating balanced energy conversation by focussing on the "communicative licence to participate. He has a long history as an energy sector leader creating "industrial capital" through leadership roles working with – and on – key industry associations.