Conference Schedule

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Hosted by PPA New Generation Committee 

Sponsored by

7:00 PM

7:00 AM - 4:00 PM

7:00 AM - 9:30 AM

All registered attendees will receive a voucher for breakfast at The Circular. You may use the voucher at your leisure anytime the morning of October 12 between 7:00 AM – 9:30 AM. Your voucher will be included in your conference badge holder. Please register for the conference prior to attending breakfast that morning in order to receive your attendee badge and breakfast voucher. The conference registration area is located on the Mezzanine which is one floor above The Circular. 

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Guest Presentation: Cummins Propane Autogas Project

Speakers:

Derek Whaley, Business Development Manager, ROUSH CleanTech

Steven Whaley, Director of Autogas Business Development, Propane Education & Research Council (PERC)

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Denton Cinquegrana, Chief Oil Analyst, OPIS

2022 brought incredible price volatility, supply disruptions, and record prices. There are many moving pieces to the oil markets and some structural changes. Was 2022 just of preview of the years to come or just a one-year phenomenon?

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Dr. G. Terry Madonna

Dr. Madonna will provide an analysis of the 2022 midterm election. His talk will cover national and Pennsylvania politics, with an update on Pennsylvania’s important open-seat U.S. Senate and Governor’s elections. He will also assess the impact President Biden’s standing with the voters will have on the Midterm as well as the important issues before the voters.

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Guest Presentation: PennDOT Deployment of Federal EV Infrastructure Program

Speaker: Natasha Fackler, Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator, PA Department of Transportation

The NEVI Formula Program will provide funding to states to strategically deploy electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and to establish an interconnected travel network. Pennsylvania will receive $171.5 million in funding from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The focus in the initial years is the establishment of EV charging locations along designated travel corridors (primarily interstates) within fifty miles from another.

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Panelists 

Kevin Beatty, Lucknow-Highspire Terminals

Riley Gilbert, Innospec

Paul Nazzaro, Clean Fuels Alliance America

Jason Lawrence, Renewable Energy Group

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Jeff Hove, Vice President, Fuels Institute

Electric vehicles are gaining moment but are decades away from replacing the existing U.S. fleet of light, medium, and heavy-duty vehicles. This session will explore the impacts of potential EV adoption rates and how this will effect carbon emissions. We will also look at near and long-term approaches to reducing emissions from combustion engines and how the marketer can leverage these approaches to their benefit.

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Guest Presentation: Winter 2022-2023 Distillate Supply Outlook

Speakers:

Quincy Longacre, Director, Marketing & Distribution, Buckeye Energy Services LLC

Josh Rode, General Manager, Shipley Fuels Marketing

Steve McCracken, Manger, Refined Products Sales, Sprague Operating Resources LLC

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Keynote Speaker: Weathering The Storms of Adversity: Consistency Is Key

Jay Paterno 

Jay Paterno is the President of Blue Line 409 LLC, a broad-based practice touching business ventures, writing, television, public speaking and consulting in college athletics and other areas. Jay has over two decades’ experience as a college football coach at Penn State, the University of Virginia, the University of Connecticut and James Madison University. As a writer, he wrote the Best-Selling book “Paterno Legacy”, and followed it up in 2020 with the novel Hot Seat: A Year Inside College Football’s Pressure Cooker. In 2012 his Eulogy at the Memorial for Joe Paterno was honored among “The Most Important Speeches of The Century” by American Rhetoric. He continues to speak on leadership, team building, and crisis management to industry and on college campuses and serves as an Alumni-elected member of Penn State University’s Board of Trustees.

8:30 PM - 11:00 PM

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Rob Underwood, President, Energy Marketers of America

With the upcoming midterm elections around the corner, the GOP seems likely to take back the House and potentially the Senate. Energy Marketers of America (EMA) President Rob Underwood will update PPA members on what to expect next year if the GOP controls Congress.

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM

Jon Medo, Field Manager, Federated Insurance

Have you ever lost a promising employee? If you have, you know the costs related to turnover are high and getting higher as jobs become more specialized. Rewarding key employees and letting them know how important they are to your business could mean the difference between keeping or losing a valued employee. But, to do that, you need benefits that work well, both short- and long-term. During this session, learn about the triple protection option approach that your peers are using successfully to recruit and train top talent.

11:00 AM