Program Committee

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Matthew Laudon, CTSI, USA
Bart Romanowicz, NSTI, USA

Advisory Chairs

Wade Adams, Rice Univ., USA
Patricia Glaza, CTSI, USA
Daniel Laird, Sandia National Labs, USA

Symposium Chairs

Sustainable Industries

Sustainability

Shyam Venkatesh, National Industrial Cluster Development Program of Saudi Arabia

Green Chemistry

Terrence Collins, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA
Emily Richert, Warner Babcock Inst. for Green Chemistry, USA

Green Building

George Elvin, Green Tech Forum, USA

Transportation

Trina Martynowicz, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USA

Waste Management/Remediation

Peter Adriaens, Univ. of Michigan, USA

Traditional Energy

Clean Coal

Jay Kipper, Univ. of Texas, USA

Natural Gas

David Carroll, The Gas Technology Institute, USA
Michael Ming, RPSEA, USA

Nuclear Energy

Paul Genoa, Nuclear Energy Institute, USA

Oil & Gas

Florin Ciontu, NanoSPRINT, FR
Sean Murphy, Advanced Energy Consortium, USA
Lewis Norman, Halliburton, USA
Howard Schmidt, Rice Univ., USA
Luminita Vasii, New Park Drilling, USA

Renewable Energy

Bio Energy

Bob Avant, Texas A&M, USA

Geothermal

Richard Erdlac, Consulting Geoscientist, USA
Michael Gurin, Rexorce, USA

Marine/Tidal

Roy Kornblush, SRI International, USA

Solar

Loucas Tsakalakos, General Electric, USA
Howard Schmidt, Rice Univ., USA

Wind

Daniel Laird, Sandia National Labs, USA

Infrastructure

Smart Grid

Wade Adams, Rice Univ., USA
Roger Duncan, Austin Energy, USA

Storage Technologies

Bill Tumas, Los Alamos National Lab, USA
Wade Adams, Rice Univ., USA

Hydrogen

Monika Willert-Porada, Univ. of Bayreuth, DE

Water Technologies

Nitin Parekh, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
Armin Volkel, Palo Alto Research Center, USA

Technical Program Committee

Reza Abhari, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH
Wade Adams, Rice Univ., USA
Peter Adriaens, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Kent Anson, Honeywell Building Solutions, USA
Bob Avant, Texas A&M, USA
Vincent Battaglia, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Mark Bernstein, Univ. of Southern California, USA
David Berokoff, Sempra Energy Utilities, USA
Samit Bhattacharyya, Savannah River National Laboratory, USA
Kitu Bindra, Crowell Moring, USA
Gerald Brady, Siemens, USA
Peter Brehm, Infinia Corp., USA
Neil Cameron, Emerald Technology Ventures, USA
Michael Carlson, Xcel Energy, USA
David Carroll, The Gas Technology Inst., USA
Andres Carvallo, Austin Energy, USA
Shushana Castle, Clinton Global Initiative/Millenium Water Alliance, USA
Florin Ciontu, Nanosprint, FR
David Claridge, Energy Systems Lab, USA
Terrence Collins, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA
Maria Vittoria Diamanti, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Issam Dairanieh, BP, USA
Paul Danielson, MMA Renewable Ventures, USA
Matt Denesuk, IBM Venture Capital Group, USA
Joshua Dickinson, WateReuse Foundation, USA
Stephen Dorris, Argonne National Laboratories, USA
Roger Duncan, Austin Energy, USA
George Elvin, Green Tech Forum, USA
Richard Erdlac, Consulting Geoscientist, USA
Ben Finkelor, UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center, USA
Majeed Foad, Applied Materials, USA
Todd French, Mississippi State Univ., USA
Paul Genoa, Nuclear Energy Institute, USA
Michael Gurin, Rexorce, USA
Imre Gyuk, US Department of Energy, USA
David Henderson, XPV Capital Corporation, USA
Christopher Hieb, Pacific Crest Securities, USA
Michael Hiri, Kinder Morgan-CO2, USA
Andy Hoffman, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Susan Hutson, US Geological Survey, USA
Brian Johnston, Eastman Kodak, USA
Chuck Jones, First Energy, USA
Dan Kapp, Ford Motor Company, USA
Richard Kimball, Marine Maritime Academy, USA
Jay Kipper, Univ. or Texas at Austin, USA
Kei Koizumi, AAAS, USA
Roy Kornbluh, SRI International, USA
Daniel Laird, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Stephen Lasher, TIAX LLC, USA
Warren Lasher, ERCOT, USA
Craig Lewis, GreenVolts, USA
Ben Machol, Environmental Protection Agency, USA
Dhiraj Malkani, RockPort Capital, USA
George Maracas, Arizona State Univ., USA
Tim Marbach, California State Univ. of Sacramento, USA
Trina Martynowicz, U.S. EPA, USA
Ibrahim Maslamani, City of Atlanta, USA
Tony Maull, Vergent Energy, USA
Marshall Mazer, Babcock & Wilcox, USA
Sallie-Keller McNulty, Rice Univ., USA
Marie Miglin, Shell, USA
Michael Ming, RPSEA, USA
Sean Murphy, Advanced Energy Consortium, USA
Melanie Nadeau, CANMET Energy Technology Centre, CA
Michael Nasi, Jackson Walker, LLP, USA
Lewis Norman, Halliburton, USA
M. Grant Norton, Washington State Univ., USA
Rosibel Ochoa, Univ. of California, San Diego, USA
Martin Olsen, Active Power, USA
Jeff Osborne, Thomas Weisel Partners, USA
Joseph Ostafi, Flad Architects, USA
Nitin Parekh, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA
Jean-Luc Park, Calvert Funds, USA
Ron Pate, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Nag Patibandla, Applied Materials, USA
Emily Reichert, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, USA
Rob Renner, American Water Works Association, USA
Edward Rosenberg, Univ. of Montana, USA
Howard Schmidt, Rice Univ., USA
Purnesh Seegopaul, Pangea Ventures, USA
Mark Smallwood, Whole Foods Market, USA
Amy Smith, Barclays Capital, USA
Mary Beth Stanek, General Motors Corporation, USA
Rajesh Swaminathan, Applied Materials, USA
Motohiro Tanaka, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., USA
Matthew Trevithnick, Venrock, USA
Wade Troxell, Colorado State Univ., USA
Loucas Tsakalakos, GE, USA
Bill Tumas, Los Alamos National Lab, USA
Case Van Dam, Univ. of California, Davis, USA
Luminita Vasii, Newpark Drilling, USA
Shyam Venkatesh, National Industrial Cluster Development Program of Saudi Arabia
Armin Volkel, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
Monika Willert-Porada, Univ. of Bayreuth, DE
Eric Witherspoon, Applied Materials, USA
Alexander Wong, D. E. Shaw Group, USA
Andy Zaske, General Electric, USA
Jin Zhang, UC Santa Cruz, USA

Committee Management

Regina Ramazzini, TechConnect Group, Cleantech, USA

Conference Operations Manager

Sarah Wenning, NSTI & TechConnect Group, USA