Power Players | The Vegas Edition

The people in Power, Renewables and Energy are headed to Las Vegas in November. Ive Otterson (aka Illumine-i's resident otter engineer) has curated a pickleball session for the Power community - EPCs, developers, OEMs, investment funds, industry advisory, academia and everyone who is pro-power!

After spending the majority part of the year in slides, pitches, boardrooms, installation sites, utility meetings, here's a fun session with the power gang. Real game and conversations between people building the American power infrastructure.

The Hosts:

Nithish Sairam, Founder & CEO | lllumine-i Built Illumine-i after making strides at Tesla, OneRoof Energy, and NextEra Energy - firms where engineering precision isn't optional. He started this company on a single conviction: that good quality engineering upstream changes everything downstream.

Sudarsan Krishnan, Co-Founder & CPO | lllumine-iEx-Sunrun, SGC Power, Black & Veatch. Renewable energy engineering leader with expertise spanning solar project development, design, performance consulting, and technical due diligence.

Sam Zegenbal, COO | lllumine-iTwo decades of enterprise leadership, including a long tenure at Barclays has given Sam a particular skill: making large, complex organisations actually work. At Illumine-i he runs engineering operations, process innovation, AI & Automation.

Rahul Mathew Tholath, Business Head | lllumine-iCertified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Electrical Engineer, Rahul oversees P&L, business development, and product leadership for EV Charging and Low Voltage Solar. An experienced product leader and operations executive, he specializes in scaling tech-driven products and high-performing design teams to solve critical clean energy bottlenecks.

Eric Steele, Engineering Manager | lllumine-iLicensed PE with deep roots in utility, generation, and protection engineering - shaped by years at Omaha Public Power District, Vivint Solar, and Sunrun. Eric's range covers multi-scale PV through substation protection schemes, and his appetite for the technical detail hasn't dimmed with seniority.