黄色电影

黄色电影
Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

The Abundance Agenda

Bridging Research and Policy to Build More in America

Event Details:

Thursday, May 15, 2025
10:00am - 6:00pm PDT

Location

John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building
366 Galvez Street
黄色电影, CA 94305
United States

This event is open to:

By Invitation Only

What if we could remove the choke points that constrain the supply of housing, clean energy, and manufacturing capacity to address our affordability, climate, and security goals? 

That鈥檚 the idea behind the 鈥渁bundance agenda" policy movement that has recently burst into the national conversation.

Join us at SIEPR on Thursday, May 15th, for a policy forum titled 鈥淭he Abundance Agenda: Bridging Research and Policy to Build More in America.鈥 

This event brings together academics, industry leaders, and policymakers from across the spectrum to discuss the key issues the abundance agenda is trying to address. Our speakers include Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, California State Sen. Scott Wiener, Biden NEC deputy director Bharat Ramamurti, and Derek Kaufman 鈥 Founder and CEO of the Inclusive Abundance Initiative 鈥 among many others. 

Schedule

Thursday, May 15, 2025

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    Welcome Remarks

    • Neale Mahoney, SIEPR Trione Director
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    Fireside Chat

    • Derek Kaufman, Founder and CEO of Inclusive Abundance

    Moderated by John Lyman, Managing Partner at Telescope

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    Panel 1: How to build more energy?

    • Duncan Campbell, Vice President, Scale Microgrid Solutions
    • Rick Needham, Chief Commercial Officer of Commonwealth Fusion Systems

    Moderated by Lisa Hansmann

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    Lunch

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    Fireside Chat

    • Bharat Ramamurti, Deputy Director (2021-2023), White House National Economic Council

    Moderated by Ryan Cummings, SIEPR Chief of Staff

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    Panel 2: How to build more industrial capacity?

    • Arnab Dutta, Managing Director of Policy Implementation
    • Mike Schmidt, Former Director of the CHIPS Program Office at the US Department of Commerce
    • Ted Nordhaus, Director of Research, The Breakthrough Institute.

    Moderated by Josh Zoffer, SIEPR Policy Fellow

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    Break

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    Panel 3: How to build more housing

    • Tia Boatman Patterson, Executive Director of the California Housing Finance Agency
    • Salim Furth, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Urbanity project, Mercatus Center, George Mason University.
    • Chris Elmendorf, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Institute for Progress, UC Davis
    • Scott Wiener, California State Senator (District 11)

    Moderated by Chad Maisel, the White House Domestic Policy Council (February 2021 鈥 Jan 2025), SIEPR Policy Fellow

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    Afternoon Keynote

    • Spencer Cox, Governor of Utah

    Moderated by Ramin Toloui, SIEPR Distinguished Policy Fellow

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