The Liberty & Energy Series brings highly knowledgeable speakers with insights highlighting Liberty’s dual passions and the most important factors in creating the modern world: Liberty & Energy.
2025
PANEL: POLICY, AI, AND THE FUTURE OF ENERGY DEMAND
October 2025
In this conversation, we explore how public policy choices intersect with the rapid growth of AI and other large load industries—and what this means for energy demand in the years ahead.
PANEL: POWER GENERATION
May 2025
In this Power Generation Panel, our industry expert panelists will discuss their views on the future of electric innovation and ensuring access to reliable and affordable energy in an increasingly complex energy landscape. We will dive into the changes over the past 30 years and how the current model operates to deliver efficiency, innovation, and reliability.
Camilo Serna
January 2025
Camilo is NERC’s SVP of Strategy & External Engagement. Before NERC, he held senior management roles related to rate design, strategy, and regulatory affairs at FirstEnergy, DTE Energy, and Eversource Energy. Camilo discusses the long-term outlook for power grids across North America, with critical implications for electricity providers and consumers.
2024
Magatte WadE
September 2024
Magatte Wade is the Director of the Center for African Prosperity at Atlas Network, the leading organization of African free-market think tanks. She was listed as a Forbes “20 Youngest Power Women in Africa,” a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and a TED Global Africa Fellow. In her talk, she spoke about her passion for the role of free markets in overcoming poverty and the power of enterprise to tackle social issues and promote entrepreneurial education.
OKLO Leadership
June 2024
Besides hydrocarbons, nuclear energy is the technology with the greatest potential to grow our supply of reliable, affordable, dense energy. Join us to hear from Oklo founder and leading nuclear innovator Jake DeWitte, along with Brian Gitt, Head of Business Development, as they discuss the exciting developments in advanced nuclear power plants.
Chris Wright
April 2024
Join a thoughtful dialogue surrounding the world energy system, climate change, and the inevitable tradeoffs between the two. The last two centuries of increased energy access have more than doubled global human life expectancy and dramatically reduced severe poverty. Yet only about a billion lucky people live highly energized lives. What does the future hold for the other seven billion people?
2023
Roger Pielke, Jr.
September 2023
In collaboration with Veritens C.O.B Tuesday Podcast, Roger Pielke, Jr. leads the discussion with a presentation highlighting the current state of science around energy and climate. This is followed by a dialogue with Roger, Maynard Holt, and Liberty CEO, Chris Wright.
Scott W. Tinker
June 2023
Scott W. Tinker delivered a compelling presentation on Energy, Climate and Global Reality, while also touching his films “Switch” and “Switch On,” which shed light on the issue of energy poverty.
Matt Ridley
March 2023
Matt Ridley joined us for his talk titled “A Man-made Climate, a Man-made Pandemic.” He first discusses energy and climate, then moves to molecular biology.