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National Press Club… Washington DC… December 2025… Hosted by Kevin Cirilli, founder, mtf.tv’s meet the future (mtf) | Host, iHeartMedia’s HELLO FUTURE with Kevin Cirilli…. mtf convened its latest signature Power Breakfast with:

• Dan Brouillette, former U.S. Secretary of Energy

• Tala Goudarzi, former Acting Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy & Carbon Management, DOE

PACKED HOUSE —> current and former DOE officials, DARPA officials, national security leaders, senior executives from America’s biggest energy companies, technologists, researchers, and reporters from Reuters, NPR, the Washington Examiner, and more.

MEET THE FUTURE → We are in a full-on global race to build the energy backbone of the next economy — and China is not jogging. China is sprinting.

MTF’S TOP 6 TAKEAWAYS:

1. China isn’t hiding the game plan. We just aren’t keeping up.

Brouillette: “We’re in a race — and China knows it.” China is building:

• industrial power hubs in the time it takes the U.S. to hold a scoping meeting

• nuclear reactors every ~5 years (U.S. timeline: 20+ years)

• transmission lines at national-strategy speed

WHY YOU CARE: Whoever builds energy fastest owns AI, robotics, data centers, and advanced manufacturing. Beijing is operating like it already knows that — because it does.