Conference Overview
The Rice Energy Finance Summit (REFS) is an annual student-led conference promoting forward-looking discussions on the most relevant energy finance, investment and strategy topics affecting the global energy industry. The conference serves as a distinguished platform for senior executives, investors, advisers and policymakers to share their perspective with over 400 fellow energy industry professionals and Rice University students, alumni, faculty and staff.
Our strategic theme this year, Shifting Goalposts: Energy at the Nexus of Capital Discipline and Value Creation, will explore the linkages between the industry's commitment to capital discipline and the imperative to generate sustainable returns for investors, all against a backdrop of changing business models, capital markets constraints, increasing private ownership and uncertain growth prospects.
Details will be circulated in late August for applications to join the 2019/2020 REFS committee. Please reach out to Lucas Bifera at lucas.bifera@rice.edu for more details.
