Registration & Coffee Networking

Sponsored by Constellation

Welcome Remarks

Nuclear New York | Bracewell

Opening Keynote: New York's Nuclear Moment

Rory M. Christian, Chair and CEO, New York State Public Service Commission

Fireside Chat: The Reliability Math and Market Design

An independent view from the operator of New York's grid: the reliability numbers behind the state's nuclear commitment deficiency spanning the entire 2026–2030 horizon. Explores how New York's competitive power market can incentivize the massive, long-dated capital investment new firm generation requires — the same challenge grid operators nationwide face as demand surges.

Guest Lecture: Financing the Nuclear Plan

Julie Kozeracki, Acting Chief Investment Officer, Office of Energy Dominance Financing (EDF), U.S. Department of Energy

Panel: The New York Policy Agenda — Siting, Selection, and the View from Other States

Building on the keynote and NYPA address, this panel surfaces the selection criteria, community benefit requirements, and regulatory framework that will shape New York's nuclear buildout — giving developers, communities, and investors a clear roadmap with buy-in from all stakeholders.

Networking Break

Welcome to New York: Host Community Orientation

F. Scott Cicora, Co-Executive Director, Nuclear New York

Panel 1: What Communities Need from New York's Advanced Nuclear Process

Gives NYPA, NYSERDA, the PSC, developers, and labor a candid view of what communities learned through the RFI process and what would make the next phase effective.

Panel 2: Building the Community, Developer, Labor Partnership

Moves from lessons learned to the practical design of successful partnerships during matching, early development, and eventual project delivery.

Day 1 Closing Remarks

Exclusively for sponsors, speakers and invited guests

VIP Welcome Dinner

An invitation-only networking dinner bringing together speakers, sponsors, policymakers, developers, investors, host communities, universities, labor organizations, and industry leaders — many meeting one another for the first time. Conversation-starter prompts at each table keep discussion focused on what's next for New York's nuclear buildout. The evening closes with an invitation to stay engaged as part of an ongoing statewide network beyond the Symposium itself.

Registration & Breakfast

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Nuclear New York · Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability

Opening Keynote: The Partnership Imperative

Today a new set of partnerships — project developers, large-scale off-takers, industry innovators, startups, financiers, communities eager to benefit, and public servants with vision — will define the future of advanced nuclear in the 21st century. This keynote frames the day ahead.

Featured Address: From RFI to Groundbreaking — NYPA's Nuclear Buildout

Justin Driscoll, President & CEO, New York Power Authority

Panel: The New Nuclear Race

How Manufacturing and Computing Infrastructure Are Reshaping the Energy Landscape

Panel: Fast-Tracking Advanced Nuclear

This panel brings together companies navigating these different pathways, alongside the policy experts tracking the landscape, to discuss what's changing, what's working, and what still needs to improve.

Panel: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle — From Sourcing to Enrichment to Recycling

This panel follows uranium from conventional to innovative extraction methods, enrichment (including HALEU), and the emergent recycling and used-fuel solutions that close the loop. As the US works to rebuild domestic fuel-cycle capacity, this panel examines the bottlenecks to secure a resilient supply for a rapidly expanding reactor fleet and the partnerships that are closing them.

Networking Lunch

Networking lunch with the full room — developers, energy buyers, government, capital, and community leaders together.

Presentation: Advanced Nuclear Policy Options for New York

A direct look at the policy mechanisms New York State is evaluating to support new advanced nuclear projects – financing structures, risk-sharing, and technology selection – presented by the agency shaping the state's approach.

Panel: Innovations for Nuclear Bankability

Nuclear projects are capital-intensive, long-dated, and politically exposed — and the gap between a reactor design and a built, operating plant is where most of them fail. This panel explores the innovations in delivery, financing, government support, and new capital stack architectures that turn nuclear designs into bankable projects delivered at scale.

Panel: Energy Security and Growth Through Nuclear

Nuclear power sits at the intersection of two goals shared by governments and industries alike: energy security – reducing dependence on volatile or adversarial energy supplies – and economic growth, the manufacturing, jobs, and industrial competitiveness that reliable, affordable power makes possible. This panel explores the policy choices, technology decisions, and industrial partnerships that turn nuclear power into national energy security and economic growth.

Coffee Break

Panel: Local Voices, National Stakes

New nuclear cannot be built without community consent and alignment between industry, government, labor, and academia around a shared plan. This panel examines the consent-based siting frameworks, tribal sovereignty protections, host community agreements, and benefit-sharing structures that are necessary to build durable partnerships.

Closing Plenary: Partnerships for Success — Commitments and Next Steps

The day's panels have revealed the partnerships essential for nuclear to succeed. The closing plenary brings the day's discoveries together, synthesizes key commitments, and asks: what will the people in this room do differently?

Networking reception

All participants are invited to an open-bar networking reception.