MAY 28-29, 2024 / DENVER, COLORADO / CONTACT@HEATPUMPSUMMIT.ORG
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Chad Simpson founded and grew Simpson Salute to six locations and $21 million in annual revenue on core values of committing to long term onsite training, creating quality service by not using sales commissions, involvement in the local community, and more. Hear his behind the scenes story and learn what you can implement in your business for high growth and high employee and customer satisfaction.
// Chad Simpson, Simpson Salute
In three years of business Mike Missimer at MGI Mechanical has put 19 trucks on the road and is selling +90% heat pump equipment for both air and water in the Fort Collins area. He’s found success using his passion for a fundamental understanding of what the home needs and how the duct system works to create high performance installs and happy, comfortable customers. Hear hard lessons learned on how to offer the complete heat pump package, how it’ll differ from traditional gas furnaces with ACCA QI5 and QI9 standards, and more.
// Mike Missimer, MGI Mechanical
Finding success with rebates and financing - panel with the rebate providers. Incentives to help the heat pump market are not always easy to implement into your operations. Hear from the program representatives themselves on effective strategies and success stories.
// Representatives from Xcel, Colorado Energy Office, Colorado Clean Energy Fund, Boulder County, Platte River Power Authority
Businesses are often caught in a web of marketing options, with each promising unparalleled growth and visibility, making it difficult to discern the most effective path forward. As the CEO of CI Web Group, a digital marketing company founded in 2006, Jennifer Bagley has navigated these turbulent waters, emerging with a blueprint for marketing success that leverages data, technology, and strategic foresight to maximize ROI and ROAS. Jennifer will guide attendees through the critical aspects of optimizing marketing performance, transforming complexity into clarity and challenges into opportunities for home service companies.
// Jennifer Bagley, CI Web
What should innovation look like in the trades? Hear from founders and senior leadership at several tech enabled companies brining new models to contracting, financing and more. Moderated by Rewiring America's Nick Stevens, this panel will dive into how tech can help contracting, where it can get in the way, and how traditional contracting businesses should think about these new entrants.
// Jack Policar, Carbon Free Homes | Grant Gunnison, ZeroHomes.io | Elephant Energy | BlocPower
Meet other leaders in the heat pump world and connect with Summit sponsors and exhibitors
Seeking speakers
Welcome comments from Daikin - our 2024 Title Sponsor
Hear how the heat pump revolution is creating massive business opportunities that are yours for the taking! 40+ year veteran of high performance buildings, Mark LaLiberte, will share why the best business is in heat pumps and how it’s time to become an expert in the technology. Through fundamentals and real world success stories like a $1m new build contract won on heat pump knowledge, Mark will demonstrate how comprehensive knowledge of the building’s envelope and systems is essential for creating a comfortable, efficient environment.
// Mark LaLiberte, Construction Instruction
Eric Kaiser will dive into how heat pump performance changes across temperatures, why variable speed models outperform single or dual stage models, how design day sizing leads to poor performance in both furnace and heat pumps, why blasts of hot furnace air are no match for continuous warm air from a heat pump, and more.
// Eric Kaiser, TrueTech Tools
Dive into all the things you need to do to deliver superior comfort, efficiency, and performance. Learn why you should have a structured process based on ACCA Manuals J, S, T and D but don’t need to bust them out every time. Go far beyond rules of thumb with easy to follow math and science that will avoid most all common design and equipment selection mistakes.
// Jeremy Begley, HVAC Home Performance
Ben Knopp's heat pump obsession goes back over a decade to the Advanced Technologies Engineering Lab at Daikin. Since then he's designed and advised on hundreds of heat pump installations. Ben will cover heat pump specific airflow fundamentals and advanced fluid dynamics that make or break a system design.
// Ben Knopp, Community Housing Partners
Grab food truck lunch and meet the companies exhibiting!
Commissioning your heat pump installations is more than checking a few boxes on a form. Heat pumps require many steps including proper evacuation and critical charge and measuring airflow to name a few. Document that these processes were performed correctly with measured results can prevent issues that may send you back with performance callbacks, addressing comfort complaints, and ultimately your bottom line.
// Joe Medosch, MeasureQuick
Tour the companies exhibiting at the U.S. Heat Pump Summit!
Ditch the myths, and do it right. Heat pumps can perform in the cold. With the summit's four-part fundamentals in mind, let's dive into successful and unsuccessful installations in the real world. Shawn LeMons will show how missing some details led to unhappy outcomes in Marshall Fire new builds. He will also show how sticking to fundamentals can lead to heat pumps proving their capabilities (with data) and occasionally out performing their specs, even on the coldest days.
// Shawn LeMons, Vice President, Midwest Appliance and HVAC
Hear from special guests, Summit organizers, and head into happy hour!
Meet other leaders in the heat pump world. Sponsorship of happy hour available.
// Mark LaLiberte, Construction Instruction
All your success with heat pumps lies in the details. Go beyond rules of thumb and into the numbers with a computer simulation of the home. Look at common envelope, sizing, duct, and airflow issues and their impact into performance and equipment selection. Jonathan Mousdell holds a degree in building engineering and has worked across numerous engineering roles as well as in the building modeling space. This session is designed to complement the related sessions before and after it.
// Jonathan Mousdell, H2X
The answer to "Will my utility bills go down after this heat pump install?" has typically been a guess at best. Rocky Mountain Institute's new software tool the Green Upgrades Calculator offers a data driven answer. Using the customer's energy bills, information about all energy devices in their home, and more, the tool can more accurately estimate changes to a customer's bills for various equipment changes. This session is designed to complement the two related sessions before it.
// Ryan Shea, RMI
Xeres Steirer helps homeowners review and understand HVAC quotes. He created Just Heat Pumps, LLC to help homeowners navigate the wide spread of quotes they may get from HVAC contractors. He's helped hundreds of customers get quality equipment installed correctly, and has numerous tips for your sales and quoting process to ensure both an easy close and a satisfied customer.
// Xerxes Steirer, Just Heat Pumps LLC
Contractors doing high quality heat pump installations face the challenge of convincing homeowners that larger, more comprehensive jobs, and higher tickets, are worth the investment. Heat pumps are popular, and demand is growing, but few homeowners understand what a quality installation means. With so many new entrants in the heat pump market--many positioning on price and often not doing load calculations, these challenges are even more elevated. The result is that “high performance” contractors—those practicing building science, doing load calculations, and solving problems with a whole house perspective—are facing a whole new breed of competition. Peter Troast of Energy Circle, one of the country's leading authorities on heat pump marketing, will provide actionable approaches to standing out amidst an increasingly crowded and competitive market.
// Peter Troast, Founder/CEO, Energy Circle
In 2023, the most common question our team received delivering trainings and presentations was "When will air to water heat pumps be ready?" The Center for Energy and Environment is tracking and researching the energy savings and cost-effectiveness of air-to-water heat pumps to determine the best suited system types and configurations for cold climates. We will summarize the CEE research project and discuss the opportunity for air-to-water systems in cold climates. The presentation will cover both energy and non-energy benefits, the market assessment and opportunities, and performance data from real air-to-water heat pumps monitored and installed in the field.
// Dan Wildenhaus, Sr. Technical Manager, Center for Energy and Environment
Get up to speed on the latest from rebate providers. Hear from their representatives on program specifics, updates, recommendations for effective deployments, and more. Providers will give individual overviews for their programs, and then take questions.
Get up to speed on the latest from rebate providers. Hear from their representatives on program specifics, updates, recommendations for effective deployments, and more. Providers will give individual overviews for their programs, and then take questions.
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