Powering AI: Texas, Energy, and Private Capital

Texas Wall Street Women Houston is proud to partner with Norton Rose Fulbright, the event’s host and sponsor, for Powering AI: Texas, Energy, and Private Capital — an executive-level discussion moderated by Amelia Zhang, Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, featuring Kim Padeletti, Global Head of Energy Data & AI at Amazon; Joe Ramieri, Head of Industries at Anthropic; and Alaina Bookstein, Senior Vice President at Siemens Energy. Additional speakers from the energy and private capital sectors will be announced.

AI is the largest new source of energy demand in a generation, and Texas sits at the center of the buildout, bringing together power generation, grid infrastructure, data center development, industrial operators, and the capital required to support the next phase of the AI economy. This program will explore how AI’s growth is being powered, where investment is flowing, how market participants are approaching infrastructure and energy demand, and the role Texas is playing in supporting the physical infrastructure required to scale AI.

The program will be followed by a networking reception connecting professionals across the energy, finance, technology, and infrastructure sectors.

When: Tuesday, November 10, 2026
5:00pm – 7:00pm CST

Where: Norton Rose Fulbright
1550 Lamar Street, Suite 2000, Houston, TX 77010
Free on-site parking is available, validated by our host, Norton Rose Fulbright.

Invited: Houston professionals

Cost:   $20/member and $30/non-member

Registration Deadline: Friday, November 6, 2026


Meet the Speakers

John T. Apostolides

Managing Director, Rothschild & Co

John Apostolides is a Managing Director in Rothschild & Co's Global Advisory business, where he focuses on Digital Infrastructure, Telecommunications, and technology-enabled infrastructure. Based in New York, he advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, strategic alternatives, capital raising, and financing solutions across the communications and digital infrastructure ecosystem.

With more than two decades of industry experience, John has advised, financed, and invested in companies spanning data centers, communications infrastructure, telecom, satellite, and emerging technology sectors. Prior to joining Rothschild & Co, he was an Investment Partner and member of the Investment Committee at Palistar Capital. He also held senior investment banking roles at Macquarie Capital and Evercore and began his career at Citigroup.

John is a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences focused on digital infrastructure, telecommunications, and technology investment. He has participated in global forums covering the future of connectivity, data infrastructure, space communications, and the capital markets that support next-generation technologies.

He holds a B.A. in Economics, cum laude, with a minor in Music from Dartmouth College.

Alaina Bookstein

Senior Vice President, Siemens Energy

Alaina Bookstein is Head of Sales, North America at Siemens Energy, bringing extensive commercial leadership and strategic advisory experience at the intersection of energy, technology and infrastructure. Prior to joining Siemens Energy, Alaina served as Senior Vice President and Head of Business Development at GridCARE, where she was the founding revenue leader and led strategic partnerships with data center developers, hyperscalers and utilities to accelerate grid interconnection and unlock critical capacity for AI-driven infrastructure.

Previously, Alaina led corporate development and strategic partnerships for energy at Amazon Web Services (AWS), working with utilities, renewable developers and technology partners to advance innovation and cloud-enabled transformation. Earlier in her career, she founded and led Bridge Strategy Group, a strategic advisor to utility and energy executives that was acquired by Houlihan Lokey. Alaina began her career at McKinsey & Company.

Kim Padeletti

Global Head of Energy Data & AI, Amazon Web Services

Kim Padeletti leads AWS's Energy Data & AI Business Development, where she has built AWS into a foundational technology partner for the world's largest energy operators, utilities, and infrastructure customers navigating the convergence of AI and energy systems.

Kim brings roughly two decades of hands-on industry experience rooted in operations and capital project execution. At BHP and Oxy, she served as an International Project lead, managing a portfolio spanning US$50 billion in large capital projects upstream operations across four countries.

Her career arc from the field to enterprise-scale AI transformation gives her fluency across operations, risk management, capital markets, and energy infrastructure. Today she leverages that foundation to help energy companies operationalize Generative AI and emerging technologies at scale.

Kim holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Mississippi. She was named to the 50/50 Women on Boards "50 Women to Watch for Boards" for her work on AI Advisory. She is based in Houston, Texas.

Joe Ramieri

Head of Industries, Anthropic

Joe currently leads Anthropic's go-to-market efforts across Industrial Verticals in the North American market. Joe's teams are working to bring Claude to the physical economy to help boost employee productivity, transform business processes, and launch new AI-powered products. Prior to Anthropic, Joe led GTM teams at various software companies, ranging from Microsoft and IBM, to early-AI start-ups.

Amelia X. Zhang

Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright

Amelia X. Zhang is a partner in the corporate, M&A and securities group. Her practice focuses on securities offerings, securities reporting, public and private M&A, international transactions and corporate governance including board advisory. Amelia's clients include corporations in the digital infrastructure, technology, energy, consumer products, banking, real estate and healthcare sectors. In addition, she has experience in general corporate matters like joint venture, international business reorganization and shareholder engagement. Amelia has an area of focus on the emerging corporate law, risk governance and disclosures related to artificial intelligence (AI), large language model (LLM) and transformative technology.

Clients value Amelia's technical experience and practical advice with commercial sense. Having previously served as the managing counsel for M&A and securities and Assistant Corporate Secretary for a NYSE-listed company, Amelia understands clients' business needs and shapes her services to achieve the business goal. Amelia has been recognized by The Legal 500 as a Recommended Lawyer for M&A, and by Best Lawyers in America for her exceptional work in corporate governance, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions law and securities/capital markets.

Amelia serves on the Society of Corporate Governance and the Audit Committee of the Board of Houston Ballet Company. She is a member of the State Bars of Texas and New York, and Asian American Bar Association of Houston.

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