Dr. William (Bill) Burke, Founder and CEO of Virtual Peaker

Jul 27, 2022, 9:30 – 11:30 PM

Louisville

TEN20 Craft Brewery, 1020 East Washington Street, Louisville, 40206

Dr. William (Bill) Burke is the Founder and CEO of Virtual Peaker. He is a visionary engineer and created Virtual Peaker to help utilities accelerate grid modernization - something that will impact all of us. Join us at TEN20 Craft Brewery on Wednesday, July 27th. Doors open at 5:30 PM and the Fireside Chat begins at 6 PM sharp. Tickets to this event are FREE, compliments of our sponsors.

In-person event
Fireside Chat

About this event

Dr. William (Bill) Burke is the Founder and CEO of Virtual Peaker. He is an experienced mechanical engineer with some serious coding skills who loves finding solutions to big problems. He created Virtual Peaker to help utilities accelerate grid modernization - something that will impact all of us.  Join us at TEN20 Craft Brewery to learn more about Bill's story and vision for Virtual Peaker.

Meet Bill

Dr. William (Bill) Burke is the Founder and CEO of Virtual Peaker. He has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Controls and Artificial Intelligence and over 15 years of experience with high-performance residential energy management and connected appliances. He was previously at GE Appliance in the Connected Home Software Group where he built high-performance energy management applications and helped develop the API that GE uses to communicate with their connected devices. While at Berkeley, Bill wrote the software for the first programmable communicating thermostat under contract by the California Energy Commission.

Bill founded Virtual Peaker in 2015, and their first utility contract was with Glasgow (KY) Electric Plant Board. He wrote the first version of the Virtual Peaker Platform, and today he is responsible for the product vision, technology architecture, and intellectual property.

Bill grew up in Louisville and returned with his family in 2010 after a long stint in the San Francisco Bay Area. He loves Louisville and is working to make it a better and more attractive city for high-tech startups.

Check out what happened

Speaker

  • William Burke

    Virtual Peaker

    Dr.

When

When

Wednesday, July 27, 2022
9:30 PM – 11:30 PM UTC

Agenda

Networking and Drinks
Fireside Chat
Networking

Organizers

  • Adam Robinson

    Strategexe | Markexe | Villepreneurs

    Director

  • Lisa Bajorinas

    Lisa Bajorinas LLC

    Entrepreneur Advisor

  • Chase Barmore

    WhatConverts

    Team Member

  • Kevin Gibson

    Team Member

Presenting

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Amplify

Render Capital logo

Render Capital

Phocus logo

Phocus

Partners

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TEN20 Craft Brewery

Aspen Studios logo

Aspen Studios

Goodson Clothing & Supply Co. logo

Goodson Clothing & Supply Co.

Strategexe logo

Strategexe

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