U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
ENERGY
Document 59 - Attachment 1
Event Information Request Form
Thank you for your interest in hosting the U.S. Secretary of Energy at your event. To ensure that the appropriate individual within the Department of Energy is participating in your event and because the Office of the Secretary is committed to maintaining the highest ethical standards, we need the information requested below before we can agree to confirm a speaker.
Please respond to the questions below and send your response to the.secretarvAhq.doe.gov. If you have any questions you may contact the Secretary's Scheduling Office at 202-586-5534.
Title of the Event (please note if the event is a weekly, monthly, annual, etc.):
Yotta 2025 Annual Conference
Date of Event (please note if the date is flexible):
Event Dates: September 8-10 Session Time: September 10, 8:40am
Event Location (venue, address, city and state/country):
Point(s) of Contact (Name, Email, Phone):
Option to move to the afternoon of September 10 or September 9 to accommodate the Secretary's schedule MGM Grand 3799 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas, NV 89109 United States George Rockett George.Rockett@datacenterdynamics.com
Briefly describe the event in detail including the purpose and desired role of the Secretary (i.e. deliver keynote remarks, attend an event, meet with attendees etc.):
Sarah Zilonis Sarah@yotta-event.com -I-(b) (6) This year's program will focus on the intersection of AI and Energy. We will be playing to an audience of 3,500 data center and energy professionals that will include many of the industry's most senior executives. Last year, we had 134 digital infrastructure CEOs in the room and the C-Level accounted for more than 30% of our overall audience, making the event a singularly important opportunity to connect with the leaders responsible for deploying $100s of billions into U.S. infrastructure.
Our intention is to have Secretary Wright sit for a fireside chat/keynote interview on the main stage with Mark P. Mills, Executive Director, National Center for Energy to kick-off the energy program scheduled for 10 September.
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Is the event a fundraiser? If yes, please explain who it is benefiting (i.e. specific charity, a political candidate, etc.): Audience Approximately how many people are expected to attend the event?
No. 3,500.
Please describe the target audience of the event (elected officials, local community leaders, academics, industry representatives, public sector representatives, etc.).
Will the attendees at the event include persons with a diversity of views or interests, or representatives from throughout an industry or profession, or the range of persons interested in a matter? (If yes, please describe.)
Is the event open to the public (this includes ticketed individuals)? If not, please describe who is privately invited.
Thought leaders, decision-makers, and business professionals spanning all sectors of the digital infrastructure industry including AI compute, network, telecoms, data center builders and operators (hyperscale, colo and enterprise), energy providers and beyond. Yes -- stakeholders spanning all sectors of the digital infrastructure industry will come to the table with differing perspectives on how to achieve energy dominance within the United States, including those from oil and gas, nuclear, geothermal, battery storage, and other energy perspectives both behind and in front of the utility meter.
Yes.
Who are other VIPs or speakers confirmed and in what role?
We currently have around 100 speakers confirmed, comprised predominantly of senior executives -- we have included a few notable names below. This list is expected to nearly double by the time of the event: https://www.yotta-event.com/2025-speakers/
KR Sridhar, PhD, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Bloom Energy Constantin Eis, CEO, CMBlu Energy Chris Crisby, Founder & CEO, Compass Data Centers Cully Caveness, Co-Founder & CEO, Crusoe Energy Liz Muller, Co-Founder & CEO, Deep Fission Jon Mauck, Senior Managing Director, DigitalBridge Chris Sharp, CTO, Digital Realty David Quirk P.E. President & CEO, DLB Associates Lon Huber, Senior Vice President, Pricing and Customer Solutions, Duke Energy Spencer Viernes, CEO & Founder, E3 Platforms Yuval Bachar, Founder & CEO, EdgeCloudLink Jakob Carnemark, Founder & CEO, Endeavour Hannan Happi, CEO & Founder, Exowatt Gary Demasi, Global Director, Data Center Energy
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Who are other VIPs or speakers invited?
and Location Strategy, Google Cloud John W. Henderson, P.E.Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, HDR Brian Smith, Director, Nuclear Reactor Development, Idaho National Laboratory Waldemar Szlezak, Partner, Global Head of Digital Infrastructure, KKR Adam Simpson, CCO and Founder, Mainspring Energy Pankaj Sachdeva, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company Mark P. Mills, Executive Director, National Center for Energy Analytics Craig Scroggie, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, NEXTDC Marc Spieler, Senior Managing Director - Global Energy Industry, NVIDIA Keith Heyde Director, Infrastructure Strategy & Development, OpenAl Pradeep Vincent, SVP and Chief Technical Architect. Oracle Emmanuel Levy, CEO, Phinergy Varun Garg, Co-Founder & CEO, Quantum Technology Systems Sayles Braga, Senior Partner, Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP) Tobias Hooton, CEO, Stelia These are just a few of the active invitations we have:
Remarks If you are requesting remarks, are there any specific issues you would like the Secretary to highlight/address in his remarks?
Andrew Feldman, CEO, Cerebras Steve Smith, CEO, Zayo Dan Roberts, Co-Founder & CEO, IREN Renee J. James. Founder/Chairman & CEO, Ampere Computing
We envision the conversation to include thoughts on the roadmap to energy dominance in the U.S. and the role leadership in AI will play.
What is the desired format of his remarks (will he be delivering the keynote, sharing the stage, participating in a panel or roundtable, etc.)?
Our audience will be highly interested in the how government and regulation will work with private industry to accomplish this. Sharing the stage with one other individual, Mark P. Mills, in a fireside chat/keynote interview format.
What is the public registration/ticket fee to attend/participate in the event?
$700-$1,295
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Will there be a teleprompter available? Will there be a podium? Communications/Press Is the event open or closed to press?
No. Open.
If open, are you expecting local, state, or national news coverage?
If this is an annual event, which news outlets typically cover the event?
Given the presence of the Secretary of State, we would expect a mix of all three. However, we lean more towards business to business publications that are relevant to the industries we serve. Last year, representatives from the following outlets attended the event:
Will you be advertising or live streaming the event on any social media outlets or websites? (If yes, please explain.)
Data Center Frontier Data Center Knowledge (Informa) Datacenter Dynamics DC Byte Energy Innovation Center Institute IDC InterGlobix Magazine IT Pro Today Latitude Media Power Engineering Magazine POWERGEN International SemiAnalysis Shinyusha Publishing Structure Research TechArena The New York Times Uptime Institute Yes.
We will be advertising the event and speakers on social media (Linkedln and other sites) as part of our audience development program.
Logistics/Other* If this invitation includes any gifts to the Secretary (e.g., waived registration/conference event fee; meals or refreshments; receptions or other entertainment; informational materials; award; transportation; memento or token of appreciation), please identify them and provide their monetary value. Please also identify how the value was determined. (Please attach separate sheet if necessary.)
We will not be live streaming the event.
Registration/Conference Event Fee ($1,195) is waived for all speakers.
Complimentary meals and refreshments are available to all attendees of the event -- speakers and delegates.
Does the invitation extend to the Secretary's
No.
spouse or other guest? If yes, will others in
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attendance generally be accompanied by a spouse or other guest?
Will the Secretary be asked to sign a speaking/participation agreement or release related to this event? If so, please provide a copy. If the Secretary is not able to attend, is a surrogate desired? If yes, anyone specific?
Any additional notes or information?
No.
Yes. Alex Fitzsimmons, Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER). N/A.
Event Host and Sponsor Who is the event host? (Please identify and provide background on the Event host as well as any other organization involved in the Event.)
The event host is Yotta Event Inc.: https://wwvv.yotta-event.com/about-yotta/
Event host website/url. Is the event host a registered lobbyist or lobbying organization, and/or registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act? (If yes, please identify.)
https://vvww.yotta-event.com/ No.
Is the event host a partisan political candidate, a No.
representative of a political party or a registered
political action committee (PAC)? (If yes, please
identify.)
Is the event host a 501(c)(3) organization or a
No.
media organization? (If yes, please identify.)
Is the event host seeking or currently have any
No.
business interests with the Department such as
permits, contracts, litigation, grants, etc.? (If yes,
please describe.)
Who are the sponsors of the event? Please identify and provide background information on the individual and/or entity.
Are any event sponsors seeking or do they currently have any business interests with the Department such as permits, contracts, litigation, grants, etc.? (If yes, please describe.)
The exhaustive list of sponsors to date can be found here (please note, more sponsors will join over time through the dates of the event): https://www.yottaevent.com/sponsors-exhibitors/ Unknown.
With which Bureau or Agency does your agenda most align? Please list all, if more than one.
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Manufacturing (Office of Energy and Environmental Industries/Office of Information and Communication Technologies)
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Partisan Political Candidate or Elected Official Participation Will any partisan political candidate or elected official participate in the event? If so, please identify and explain role. Is the coordination of any elected official's involvement being handled solely by their official staff, or is there any campaign staff involvement or coordination? If a candidate for office or elected official is participating in the event, is the event taking place in their respective district/jurisdiction, and will the entire delegation for the respective district/jurisdiction(s) been invited? If not, please explain.
No. N/A. N/A.
*IMPORTANT NOTE: The purpose of these questions is to elicit information relevant to the ethics analysis and is not a solicitation or request for anything of value by the Department or any of its employees.
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