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| [ SF Climate Week 2026 ] |
| Women On Wildfire
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| With Carla Peterman (President, PG&E), Meghan Reibstein (COO, Gridware). |
| Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco |
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Apr 22 (Wed) , 2026 @ 02:30 PM
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Join us at SF Climate Week 2026 for a timely & critical conversation on the future of our electricity grid in the face of growing wildfire risk.
Moderated by Gridware's Chief Operating Officer Meghan Reibstein, a panel of leading experts across electricity regulation, lineworker safety, ratepayer affordability, grid resilience, & risk planning come together to tackle one of the grid's most urgent challenges: utility-caused wildfires.
The panel will explore how utilities, regulators, & communities can balance safety, reliability, & affordability while reducing wildfire risk, & what it will take to build a more resilient energy system for the future.
Stick around after the panel for a networking mixer hosted at Gridware's headquarters to continue the conversation, connect with fellow attendees, & engage directly with leaders shaping the future of the grid.
Doors open at 2:30pm; programming begins at 3pm.
PANELISTS
Carla Peterman
President, PG&E Corporation, & Executive Vice President, Customer & Corporate Affairs
Carla has spent her career focused on California's energy policy & regulatory landscape. At PG&E, she oversees the company's regulatory, legislative, sustainability, & charitable strategies, all focused on delivering for the customers & communities that PG&E serves in Northern & Central California. Prior to joining PG&E in 2021, Carla served as Senior Vice President of Strategy & Regulatory Affairs at Southern California Edison. Before that she served a six-year term as a Commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). Prior to her CPUC appointment, Carla served on the California Energy Commission, where she was the lead commissioner for renewables, transportation, & natural gas.
Sam Smith
Strategic adviser to the President for clean energy jobs at the AFL-CIO.
Sam Smith was the director of the Just Transition Centre at the International Trade Union Confederation, the global union federation representing 191 million workers. At ITUC, Sam & her team worked with unions around the world to get agreements with governments & employers for good union jobs in clean energy.
Letha Tawney
Chair of the Oregon Public Utility Commission
Chair Tawney has worked regionally & nationally on affordable clean energy deployment, solutions for energy burdened households, & utility wildfire risk mitigation. Throughout her tenure, Chair Tawney has championed regional electricity market cooperation between California & the rest of the West. She was a founding sponsor of the West Wide Pathways Initiative, closely engaging to center customer protection & benefits.
MODERATOR
Meghan Reibstein
Chief Operating Officer at Gridware
As the Chief Operating Officer of Gridware, Meghan & her team collaborate with utility companies to enhance existing grid assets with cutting-edge technology. Their work helps prevent wildfires & other hazards, reduce utility operating costs, & ultimately make the grid more resilient. She leads the end-to-end operation, including the teams responsible for designing & building the digital products that support it, spanning supply chain & manufacturing, field installation, hardware fleet management, machine learning & autonomy, & commercial product development. She also oversees business operations, as well as people & culture.
Meghan's experience spans two decades of launching software & hardware products, scaling data-centric digital & physical operations, & building multidisciplinary organizations across companies ranging from Series A startups to Fortune 50 enterprises. Before pivoting her career to critical infrastructure & climate tech, she served as a VP of Product at Zillow, an Amazon S-Team Technical Advisor, & the global owner of the first Prime Day.
By registering for this event you agree to share your registration information with the organizers of SF Climate Week.
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