{"id":1247,"date":"2016-09-08T11:10:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T09:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/summit2016\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2016-09-08T11:18:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T09:18:35","slug":"disruption-on-its-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/summit2016\/news\/disruption-on-its-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Disruption on its way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1252\" src=\"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/summit2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jeremy-Rifkin-speaker-1024x655.jpg\" alt=\"jeremy-rifkin-speaker-1024x655\" width=\"1024\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/summit2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jeremy-Rifkin-speaker-1024x655.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/windeurope.org\/summit2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jeremy-Rifkin-speaker-1024x655-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/windeurope.org\/summit2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jeremy-Rifkin-speaker-1024x655-495x317.jpg 495w, https:\/\/windeurope.org\/summit2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jeremy-Rifkin-speaker-1024x655-740x473.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><strong>Business meets Policy: Disruption on its way?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>17:00 \u2013 18:30, Tuesday, 27 September 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Your business model could be out-of-date. In this brand new Business Meets Policy session, US economist Jeremy Rifkin debates with entrepreneur Jeremy Leggett and Enel Green Power\u2019s CEO Francesco Venturini on disruptions brought in by the energy transition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeremy Rifkin<\/strong> advises the European Union and triggered historic shifts in the world\u2019s biggest economies. He wrote the blueprint for the German \u201cEnergiewende\u201d and inspired China to embrace a third industrial revolution in its latest five-year-plan. He believes that both ubiquitous connectivity by 2030 and a system of zero marginal cost energy will be reality. But utilities will have to explore new business models to thrive in this new paradigm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Francesco Venturini<\/strong> will chime in with a perspective rooted in his experience as the CEO of one of the world\u2019s largest renewables developers alongside futurist Jeremy Leggett. <strong>Jeremy Leggett<\/strong>, Chairman of Solarcentury and one of the world\u2019s leading chronicler of the energy transition, has seen disruptions in the making with the global solar boom. Mastering the technological challenges might be as important as triumphing in the political arena to win \u2013 what he calls in his bestseller \u2013 \u201cthe carbon war\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>By learning about the hurdles and hopes to the energy transition, you make your business fit for the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/summit2016\/registration\/\">Register online<\/a> today and save up to 135 euros* off the onsite rate.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business meets Policy: Disruption on its way? 17:00 \u2013 18:30, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 Your business model could be out-of-date. In this brand new Business Meets Policy session, US economist Jeremy Rifkin debates with entrepreneur Jeremy Leggett and Enel Green Power\u2019s CEO Francesco Venturini on disruptions brought in by the energy transition. Jeremy Rifkin advises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/summit2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/summit2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/summit2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/summit2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/summit2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/summit2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/summit2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/summit2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/summit2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/summit2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}