Chris White
Senior Analyst, Parks Associates

Chris is a Senior Analyst with Parks Associates, covering the smart home and smart energy markets. He was previously a Director of Insights at PeopleMetrics in Philadelphia and the Data Manager of a youth-serving collaborative in New Orleans. He leverages this background in marketing research and data gathering to contribute to the design of Parks Associates consumer surveys.

Chris earned his BBA in Marketing from the College of William & Mary and his MBA in Marketing and Finance from American University.

Anna Demeo, Ph.D.
CTO, Savant

Anna Demeo is the CTO of Savant. Parent company to GE Lighting, Savant delivers smart home and smart power solutions across the residential sector.

Prior to Savant, Anna was the co-founder and president of Racepoint Energy, which developed an advanced flexible load management platform to monitor and control distributed energy resources for scalable microgrid and utility applications. 

Now part of the Savant family as Savant Power,  the team is reimagining the concept of smart power as a key component of the smart living experience for the modern home. Anna is an associate professor of Sustainable Design Engineering at UPEI and was a visiting professor at the Energy Center at EPFL, a science and technology institution in Switzerland.

Joseph Piccirilli
CEO, Rosewater Energy

Joseph Piccirilli is an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant, strategist, and speaker with a 50-year career that spans the consumer electronics, systems integration and energy industries.

Joe co-founded distributor AVAD, which grew to over $200M in sales through 30 North American warehouses. During his tenure as Managing Director of AVAD, he arranged and negotiated the company’s sale to Ingram Micro Systems, a Fortune 100 company.

Piccirilli then began to study the causes and effects of the deteriorating power quality in North America. In particular, the damage poor power quality causes in automated residences. That research led him to co-found Rosewater Energy Group. Today, Rosewater Energy provides the most complete energy management system on the market.

Rene Rieck
Global Product Marketing Manager, Alexander Maier Gmbh

Rene Rieck is an electrical engineer with over 27 years of experience in the industry. He worked as design and commissioning engineer, product developer and lecturer in the KNX building automation business around the world. In his role as the product manager at Alexander Maier GmbH he his responsible for the development of the EisBaer Software suite.

EisBaer software is a complete visualisation, management and control solution. It`s well thought-out energy management system contributes to increasing the sustainability of buildings, optimise energy generation and use and reduces the greenhouse gas emissions. The software is the chosen solution at the years Solar Decathlon and Rene is happy to work as consultant together with the local team on their home energy management solution. The Solar Decathlon is the world's largest university Olympics for sustainable building and living. 

Dan Ross
Vice President of Sales, Power and Energy, Savant

Adam Weinstein
Executive Sales Manager,Sonnen

Adam Weinstein oversees sales across multiple channels and geographies. His passion for sustainable building practices and emerging technology fuels his success in the workplace where he helps solve complex energy problems and moves a growing base of people toward energy independence. Prior to sonnen, Adam began his career in IT at Lutron Electronics and found his true calling in renewable energy, transitioning into sales with SolarCity/Tesla and ultimately sonnen in 2017. Adam lives in Colorado where he enjoys snowboarding and live music in his free time.

William Schnell
Marketing Manager, Residential Systems, Kohler