Every year, thought-leaders in energy descend on MIT for one primary reason: to formulate powerful, productive ideas in the face of a rapidly changing industry. On March 16th and 17th this year's MIT Energy Conference will explore the challenge, and promise, of Insight and Innovation in Uncertain Times From the failure at Fukishima to the fall of Solyndra, the past year has been witness to several destabilizing events across the known energy landscape. However, despite the ambient sense of uncertainty around the globe, a different spirit animates MIT, where the pace of research discovery carries on,  students and faculty of wide-ranging discipline interact, and critical new concepts, collaborations, and ventures emerge year after year.