The Future of Energy May Not Be Stationary. It May Be on Wheels.
Andre Champagne, founder of Hollywood Trucks and inventor of ECOLUXE®, closes GTSE26 on Wednesday, November 18 at RE+ Vegas. His self-powered trailer technology generates, stores and manages its own energy, and it was just recognized among TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026.
TIME Best Inventions of 2026: ECOLUXE®
Four GTSE26 keynote speakers
Energy, artificial intelligence and film, clean mobility, and communications. Four keynote speakers, four separate sessions, and one connected story.
GTSE26 Keynote Speaker · Closing Keynote · Wednesday, November 18
Andre Champagne: autonomous mobile power
Every generation has inventors who see the future before the rest of us. Andre spent nearly two decades reimagining what vehicles can become: not just consumers of power, but energy assets that generate, store and distribute electricity wherever they go.
Closing Keynote: Autonomous Power — The Future of Self-Powered Vehicles
- When
- Wednesday, November 18, 2026 · 4:00–5:00 PM PT
- Where
- Electric Drive Theater, West Hall
- Speaker
- Andre Champagne · Hollywood Trucks
Watch Andre explain his technology (The Tie-In podcast on YouTube). Open on YouTube
Seven vehicles to thousands of productions
Andre founded Hollywood Trucks and grew it from seven vehicles into a major clean-energy entertainment transportation platform.
ECOLUXE® arrives
The multi-patented solar off-grid trailer: an early commercial model for vehicles that generate, store and manage their own energy.
Autonomous Mobile Power (AMP)
Autonomous mobile microgrids for entertainment, mobile data centers and compute, defense, emergency response, electric transportation and distributed energy.
I personally invited Andre to close GTSE26 because I believe his work deserves a much larger audience. Every generation has inventors who see the future before the rest of us. Andre is one of them.
Brian Trice · Director, Green Transportation Summit & Expo
Andre Champagne
Andre Champagne is an entrepreneur and inventor pioneering the convergence of autonomous mobile energy, transportation and compute.
- Founded Hollywood Trucks in 2008 and grew it from seven vehicles into a clean-energy entertainment transportation platform serving thousands of productions.
- Introduced the multi-patented ECOLUXE® solar off-grid trailer in 2014. ECOLUXE® is recognized among TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026.
- That technology became the foundation for Autonomous Mobile Power, Inc. (AMP), which now owns Hollywood Trucks.
- Hollywood Trucks has a multi-year, global partnership with NBCUniversal for clean-energy transportation and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) applications.
- B.S., Louisiana State University. Delivered LSU’s commencement address in 2012.
His thesis: the future of energy will be mobile, distributed, intelligent and bidirectional.
Source: Andre Champagne’s RE+ 26 speaker profile.
GTSE26 Keynote Speaker · Tuesday, November 17
Mike Levine: from LucasArts to AI filmmaking
More than 25 years at the intersection of storytelling, visual effects, interactive entertainment, immersive media and AI. Mike has spent his career building the tools and techniques behind several generations of media disruption.
GTSE Keynote – Mike Levine, Founder & CEO, FilmSpark.AI
- When
- Tuesday, November 17, 2026 · 10:45–11:45 AM PT
- Where
- W209, Level 2, West Hall
Mike Levine
- LucasArts and Industrial Light & Magic veteran. Created and led the LucasArts Cinematics and Visual Effects group and served on the Technology Council at Skywalker Ranch.
- Credits include Star Wars: Rebel Assault, Dark Forces, Jedi Knight – Dark Forces II, Shadows of the Empire, The Dig, Full Throttle, The Curse of Monkey Island, Sam & Max Hit the Road and Herc’s Adventures, plus Star Wars: Battlefront and the Full Throttle and Dark Forces remasters.
- Co-founded Puffin Designs (Commotion, acquired by Pinnacle Systems). Visual effects on Spawn and the opening sequence of the 1999 Academy Awards.
- Founded HappyGiant (AR/VR) working with Disney, Hasbro, Spin Master and Amazon, including the AR experience for Pepsi’s Super Bowl Halftime Show featuring The Weeknd. Executive produced Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual!
- Today: FilmSpark.AI, a professional AI production console that takes a project from script to storyboard to character-consistent video to export, orchestrating more than 50 AI models, built with veterans of LucasArts, EA and Activision.
Source: Mike Levine’s RE+ 26 and GTSE speaker bios.
GTSE26 Keynote Speaker · Monday, November 16
Michael Berube: the road ahead for transportation and energy
What comes next for vehicles, fuels, infrastructure and the energy systems that power them? Michael Berube, President and CEO of Catalyst Mobility (formerly CALSTART), brings more than 30 years of leadership across energy, environment and the auto industry.
The Road Ahead: Transportation Is Becoming an Energy Industry
- When
- Monday, November 16, 2026 · 10:45–11:45 AM PT
- Where
- W209, Level 2, West Hall
- Speaker
- Michael Berube · Catalyst Mobility
Energy, environment and automotive
A rare blend of government policy expertise and corporate business leadership in clean technology, safety and sustainable transportation.
National transportation strategy
Guided research, development and demonstration across batteries, electric mobility, hydrogen, biofuels and advanced materials, and helped develop the U.S. Transportation Decarbonization Blueprint.
Catalyst Mobility™
CALSTART became Catalyst Mobility on September 14, 2026, and Forth is set to combine with it at the start of 2027.
Michael Berube
- Most recently a senior leader at the U.S. Department of Energy, where he created the Energy Efficient Mobility Systems program, which focused on connected and automated vehicles, and represented the United States in multiple international initiatives.
- Earlier, executive roles at Chrysler: led electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid initiatives and shaped fuel economy (CAFE) and greenhouse gas strategy.
- Held profit and loss responsibility for the Chrysler and Jeep brands and helped relaunch Alfa Romeo. His safety policy leadership earned DaimlerChrysler the National Transportation Safety Board’s highest leadership award.
- Alumnus of MIT’s Technology & Policy Program and the Sloan School of Management.
Sources: GTSE speakers page, Catalyst Mobility staff bio and Catalyst Mobility press release.
GTSE26 Keynote Speaker · Tuesday, November 17
Randall Scott White: Energy at the Edge
Super intelligence, autonomous systems, advanced aviation, space technologies and critical infrastructure are converging with the energy systems that power them. Randall’s session explores that convergence, with Andre Champagne joining him on stage.
Energy at the Edge: Space, SI, & Critical Infrastructure
- When
- Tuesday, November 17, 2026 · 2:30–3:30 PM PT
- Where
- W210, Level 2, West Hall
- Speakers
- Randall White, with Andre Champagne
- ID
- Presentation 3517107
From cybersecurity, resilient computing and SI at the edge to drones, advanced air mobility, satellites, energy infrastructure and autonomous systems, the discussion examines how these technologies are reshaping transportation, aerospace and defense, and creating new requirements for secure, resilient and reliable energy and infrastructure.
Randall Scott White
Award-winning film production, AI video creation, the GTSE AI video series, and brand marketing experience with Dave’s Killer Bread.
Four Voices · The Collaboration
Energy, AI and film, mobility and communications: the story that connects them
Andre is inventing autonomous mobile energy technology. Mike brings decades of cinematic visual effects and AI-powered filmmaking. Michael Berube brings more than 30 years of clean transportation leadership across government and industry. Randall brings award-winning film production, AI video creation and brand marketing. The connection between them is the story.
Energy invention
Andre Champagne
ECOLUXE® and autonomous mobile power: vehicles that generate, store and distribute their own energy.
GTSE26 Closing Keynote · Wed, Nov 18
Cinematic VFX + AI filmmaking
Mike Levine
From LucasArts and ILM to FilmSpark.AI, a professional AI production console.
GTSE26 Keynote · Tue, Nov 17
Clean mobility leadership
Michael Berube
From the U.S. Department of Energy and Chrysler to Catalyst Mobility, the clean transportation nonprofit formerly known as CALSTART.
GTSE26 Keynote · Mon, Nov 16
Film, AI video + marketing
Randall Scott White
Award-winning film production, the GTSE AI video series and marketing experience with Dave’s Killer Bread.
GTSE26 Keynote · Tue, Nov 17
Four keynote speakers working across energy, artificial intelligence and film, clean mobility and communications, all at GTSE26. Each speaker presents in a separate session. See the schedule below.
Schedule · All times Pacific
Four keynote sessions, three days
GTSE26 at RE+ 26 · November 16–19, 2026 · Las Vegas Convention Center, West Hall.
The Road Ahead: Transportation Is Becoming an Energy Industry
GTSE26 Keynote: Michael Berube, CEO, Catalyst Mobility · W209, Level 2, West Hall
GTSE Keynote – Mike Levine, Founder & CEO, FilmSpark.AI
W209, Level 2, West Hall
Energy at the Edge: Space, SI, & Critical Infrastructure
GTSE26 Keynote: Randall Scott White, with Andre Champagne · W210, Level 2, West Hall
Closing Keynote: Autonomous Power — The Future of Self-Powered Vehicles
GTSE26 Closing Keynote: Andre Champagne · Electric Drive Theater, West Hall
Be in the room in Las Vegas
GTSE26 at RE+ 26 · November 16–19, 2026 · Las Vegas Convention Center. RE+ brings together more than 37,000 energy and transportation professionals.