Business Program
Late News Abstracts Due: March 19th (POSTER Presentation Only)
Day-At-A-Glance
Selected Business Panels & Sessions: (does not include "Technology" Sessions)
| T1 Smart Grid & Storage |
T2 Sustainable Cities |
T3 Transpor- tation |
T4 Efficiency & Green Building |
T5 Water |
T6 Power |
T7 Capital, Markets & Policy |
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| Tuesday | |||||||
| Morning | Keynote |
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| Smart Grid: Long Term Opportunities & Challenges | Designing Sustainable Cities | Water Industry overview + Industry panel | Decarbonizing traditional energy | ||||
| Early Afternoon | Smart Grid: IT - Efficiency, Reliability, Security | Military Sustainability | Creating the Smart Building (efficiency) | Utility Technology Challenge | Six months since Copenhagen: Global & US Climate Policy update | ||
| Late Afternoon | Utility Technology Challenge | Policies & Financing for Sustainable Cities | Water Energy Nexus | Utility Technology Challenge | Policies & Financing for Sustainable Cities | ||
| Wednesday | |||||||
| Morning | Keynote Panel - What is Smart Grid |
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| Smart Grid: Top Technologies | Clean Cities Case Studies | Clean Cities Case Studies | Water: Top Technologies | The Economics of Solar Technologies | |||
| Early Afternoon | Anaheim Clean Ventures Awards | Managing & Assessing: Tools, Technologies, Systems | Technology Innovations for Efficiency & Emissions Reduction | Anaheim Clean Ventures Awards | Business Models for Algae | Cleantech capital: State of VC, PE & M&A markets | |
| Late Afternoon | Anaheim Clean Ventures Awards | The Economics of Biofuels | Managing peak power: SG & demand management | Project financing - evaluating options | |||
| Thursday | |||||||
| Morning | Top 10 Technologies for Sustainable Cities | FutureH2O: Drinking/Waste Water Infrastructure | Hottest clean technologies for VC's - who will they fund next? | ||||
| Early Afternoon | Grid Storage: State of Industry | Creating Infrastructure for EV | Creating Infrastructure for EV | FutureH2O: Water Storage & Supply Infrastructure | Clean Tech Partnering & Ventures | Clean Tech Partnering & Ventures | |
| Late Afternoon | Storage: Top Technologies | Clean Cities Case Studies | Clean Tech Partnering & Ventures | Clean Tech Partnering & Ventures | Clean Tech Partnering & Ventures | Clean Tech Partnering & Ventures | Clean Tech Partnering & Ventures |
 Click here to see list of confirmed speakers for this program. |
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Business Program
| Tuesday, June 22, 2010 | |
| Morning | Keynote |
| T1: Smart Grid: Long Term Opportunities & Challenges - Frank Hoss, Senior Manager, Accenture |
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| T2: Designing Sustainable Cities - Jennifer Wolch, Director, Dean, College of Environmental Design; William W. Wurster Professor of City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley - Risa Baron, Energy Programs Supervisor, Sustainable Communities Program, SDG&E - Dimitris Klapsis, STUDIOdnk/USGBC |
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| T5: Water Industry overview + Industry panel - Moderator: David Henderson, Managing Director, XPV Capital - Steve Hagen, Director, Procurement, Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market |
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| T6: Decarbonizing traditional energy - Paul Genoa, Nuclear Energy Institute - David Mohler, Senior VP/CTO, Duke Energy Corporation - C. Michael Ming, President, Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America - Frank Bevc, Director, Technology & Innovation, Siemens - TBD, EPRI |
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| Early Afternoon | T1: Smart Grid: IT- Efficiency, Reliability, Security - Lorie Wigle, General Manager, Eco- Technology Program, Intel Corporation - Cheemin Bo-Linn, CEO, Peritus Partners, Inc. - Kenneth Van Meter, Principal, Energy & Cyber Services, Lockheed Martin Corporation |
| T2: Military Sustainability - Perspectives on recent energy strategies developed by the US military services - Defense specific energy considerations: clean technology versus national security - a contradiction in terms? - Legislative drivers supporting clean energy technology and a sustainable culture in the Department of Defense - Potential approaches for clean technology industry involvement - Moderator: Matthew Merzig, Booz Allen Hamilton |
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| T4: Creating the Smart Building (efficiency) - Moderator: Dimitris Klapsis, STUDIOdnk/USGBC - Daryll Fogal, VP Technology, Honeywell Building Solutions - Martin Graham, Chairman & CEO, EnOcean Alliance - Dimitris Klapsis, STUDIOdnk/USGBC - Bob Dixon, SVP Global Effieciency & Sustainability, Siemens Building Technologies |
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| T6: Utility Technology Challenge With support from the US Department of Energy, the Clean Technology & Sustainable Industries Organization (CTSI) has launched a program to address a critical challenge faced by organizations in the clean tech space - finding the right test and adoption partners. Working with US utilities and municipalities, CTSI is identifying the utilities and municipalities that have testing and technology needs and matching them with the global community of clean technology solution providers. For more information click here and lead them to: http://www.techconnectworld.com/Cleantech2010/challenge.html |
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T7: Six months since Copenhagen: Global & US Climate Policy update
- Moderator: Lisa Hodes, The Gold Standard |
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| Late Afternoon | T1: Utility Technology Challenge With support from the US Department of Energy, the Clean Technology & Sustainable Industries Organization (CTSI) has launched a program to address a critical challenge faced by organizations in the clean tech space - finding the right test and adoption partners. Working with US utilities and municipalities, CTSI is identifying the utilities and municipalities that have testing and technology needs and matching them with the global community of clean technology solution providers. For more information click here and lead them to: http://www.techconnectworld.com/Cleantech2010/challenge.html |
| T2: Policies & Financing for Sustainable Cities - Barry Hooper, City & County of San Francisco - Micah Kotch, Director Operations, NYC ACRE - William Anderson, FAICP, Director of City Planning & Community Investment, City of San Diego |
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| T5: Water Energy Nexus - Moderator: TBD - Shahid Chaudhry, Water-Energy Efficiency Program Manager, California Energy Commissions, - Paul M. Gallagher, Director, Global Process Technology, Siemens Water Technologies - David Henderson, XPV Capital |
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| T6: Utility Technology Challenge With support from the US Department of Energy, the Clean Technology & Sustainable Industries Organization (CTSI) has launched a program to address a critical challenge faced by organizations in the clean tech space - finding the right test and adoption partners. Working with US utilities and municipalities, CTSI is identifying the utilities and municipalities that have testing and technology needs and matching them with the global community of clean technology solution providers. For more information click here and lead them to: http://www.techconnectworld.com/Cleantech2010/challenge.html |
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| Wednesday, June 23, 2010 | |
| Morning | Keynote Panel - What is Smart Grid - Moderator: Paul Dickerson, Partner, Haynes and Boone, LLP, Former Chief Operating Officer, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, Department of Energy (EERE) |
| T1: Smart Grid: Top Technologies | |
| T2: Clean Cities Case Studies - "CleanTECH Collaboration: San Diego's Solar Success " - Lisa Bicker, President and CEO, Clean Tech San Diego - "The Über Consumer: Local Government’s Role in Stimulating the Clean Tech Economy" - Linda Giannelli Pratt, Chief Program Manager, City of San Diego Environmental Services Department - "The Pecan Street Project " - Brewster McCracken, Executive Director, Pecan Street Project Inc. |
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| T5: Water: Top Technologies | |
| T6: The Economics of Solar Technologies - Moderator: Michael Holman, Research Director, Lux Research - Danielle Merfeld, Director, Solar Technology Platform, GE Global Research Center |
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| Early Afternoon | T1: Anaheim Clean Ventures Awards Anaheim Center for New Energy Technologies Business Plan Competition - Submission Deadline March 12th. Finalists presentations June 23rd at the 2010 Clean Technology Conference & Expo. Submit your plan. |
| T2: Managing & Assessing: Tools, Technologies, Systems - Shannon Parry, LEED AP, Sustainable City Program, City of Santa Monica - Siraz Dalmir, Head, Government Division, Visible Strategies - Robert Vos, USC Center for Sustainable Cities |
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| T3: Technology Innovations for Efficiency & Emissions Reductions Session Chair: Wayne Gears, President, CAMG - Dimitri Kazarinoff, Vice President and General Manager, Hybrid Power Systems, Eaton Corp. - Jeff Milanette, Executive Director, PortTechLA |
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| T4: Anaheim Clean Ventures Awards Anaheim Center for New Energy Technologies Business Plan Competition - Submission Deadline March 12th. Finalists presentations June 23rd at the 2010 Clean Technology Conference & Expo. Submit your plan. |
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| T6: Business Models for Algae (panel) - What products will drive algae-based companies growth while oil prices are low? Specialty chemicals, oil, jet fuels, nutraceuticals, carbon capture? - What production and recovery methods will enable the lowest costs? - How are advances in algae bioengineering changing the economics of the sector? - Predict which game changers will generate quickest success for algae companies: rise in oil prices, climate legislation, technology advances - Jonathan S. Wolfson, Chief Executive Officer, Solazyme, Inc. - Barry Toyonaga, Chief Business Officer, Kent BioEnergy Corporation - Margaret McCormick, General Manager, Bio-Based Materials, Targeted Growth |
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| T7: Cleantech capital - State of VC, PE, M&A markets Moderator: Tim Carey, US Cleantech Practice Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP - Walter Schindler, Sail Ventures - Matthew Trevithick, Venrock - Arati Prabhakar, General Partner, U.S. Venture Partners |
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| Late Afternoon | T1: Anaheim Clean Ventures Awards Anaheim Center for New Energy Technologies Business Plan Competition - Submission Deadline March 12th. Finalists presentations June 23rd at the 2010 Clean Technology Conference & Expo. Submit your plan. |
| T3:The Economics of Biofuels - TBD, Shell Oil Company - Andy Aden, BioEnergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Candace Wheeler, Global Energy System Center, GM Research & Development Center |
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| T6: Managing peak power - renewables, smart grid and demand management - Gregg Dixon, Senior Vice President of Sales & Business Development, EnerNOC - Chris Hickman, Senior Vice President, Utility Solutions, Ice Energy - Ryan Hledik, The Brattle Group |
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| T7: Project financing - evaluating loan guarantees, tax equity, RE credits in moving the market forward - Matt Haskins, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers - Stephanie Smith, Cooley Godward |
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| Thursday, June 24, 2010 | |
| Morning | T2: Top 10 Technologies for Sustainable Cities |
| T5: FutureH2O: Drinking/Waste Water Infrastructure Drinking/Waste Water Treatment & Supply Systems takes an integrated approach to envisioning drinking/waste water treatment of the future. Topics to be explored include: centralized, decentralized and neighborhood treatment; technologies that allow plants to achieve environmental sustainability; "smart" technologies (ranging from predictive maintenance programs to integrated sensor networks); incorporating green building concepts into facility design; advanced monitoring and control of process operations and equipment systems; and human-nature systems for managing waste disposal. Moderator: Angela Adams, Water Quality Improvement Center U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation - Commercializing New Innovative Technology in Drinking and Waste Water Treatment, Finn Nielsen, Chairman, VWS North America, Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies North America - Optimizing Dual Conjunctive Water Supply and Reuse Systems with Distributed Treatment for High-growth Water-scarce Regions, Kevin Lansey, University of Arizona - Applications for Sensor Networks in Drinking and Waste Water Treatment, Joy Weiss, President & CEO, Dust Networks - eighborhood/Individual Water Reuse Systems & Practices, as Utilized in Los Angeles and New York, Valerie Nelson, Director, Coalition for Alternative Wastewater Treatment - Condition Report on Water Treatment Infrastructure - the ASCE Infrastructure Report Card, Dale Jackson, President, Jacobson-Satchell Consultants |
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| T7: Hottest clean technologies for VC's - who will they fund next? Moderator: Andrew Heckler, Workhouse - Matthew Nordan, Venrock - Amy Smith, Barclays Capital - Dhiraj Malkani, RockPort Capital Partners - Alexandar Wong, D.E Shaw & Co, L.P. |
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| Early Afternoon | T1: Grid Storage: State of Industry - Janice Lin, Co-Founder & Director, CA Energy Storage Alliance |
| T3: Creating Infrastructure for EV Moderator: Moderator: Jeffrey G. Reed, Director, Market Development and Emerging Technology, SDG&E and SoCalGas - Mark Duval, Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI) - Tom Turrentine, Director, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Research Center and Research Anthropologist Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis - Donald Karner, President, eTec (a wholly-owned subsidiary of ECOtality) - Joel Pointon, Manager, Electric Transportation Program, San Diego Gas and Electric |
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| T5: FutureH2O: Water Storage & Supply Infrastructure Water Storage/Supply Infrastructure encompasses levees, dams, reservoirs, delivery/drainage canal systems, and water-production wellfields. They are the backbone of the nation's water supply systems. This session will consider the components necessary to build a more interconnected, automated, productive and efficient system. Topics to be explored include: advanced monitoring of system conditions; automated and remote operations and control; advanced technologies to improve efficiency and production (high-efficiency turbines, methods to reduce system evaporation, advanced construction materials); ecologically-responsive technologies; interconnectivity and coordinated operation of an entire system; and technologies that align these systems with environmental sustainability. Moderator: Angela Adams, Water Quality Improvement Center U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation - Applying Smart Technology to Water Storage & Supply Infrastructure, Peter Williams, Distinguished Engineer & Chief Technology Officer, Big Green Innovations, IBM - A New Framework for Making Renewal/Rehabilitation Decisions for Aging Water Infrastructure, Valerie Nelson, Director, Coalition for Alternative Wastewater Treatment |
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| Late Afternoon | T1: Storage: Top Technologies - Innovations in Fast Energy Storage, Jeff Brunings, Director, Strategic Marketing, Altairnano, Inc. - Chandler Williamson, VP, Business Development, Pentadyne Power Corporation - Chris Wheaton, COO & Founder, EnerG2 |
*If interested in organizing a specific business panel or symposium, please contact Regina Ramazzini .