- 9:00am-9:45am: Registration/Breakfast
- 9:55am-10:15am: Deans Welcome
- 10:15-10:45am: Keynote Speaker, Mr. David Rothkopf
- 11:00am – 12:15pm: Panel 1 - Clean Tech to Market, see details below
(Please Note: Panels 1 and 2 occur simultaneously) - 11:00am – 12:15pm: Panel 2 –Strategic International Partnerships, see details below
(Please Note: Panels 1 and 2 occur simultaneously) - 12:30pm – 1:30pm: Catered lunch
- 1:45pm – 3:00pm: Panel 3 – The Mature Green Market Place: 2030
- 3:00pm – 3:15pm: Closing Remarks
- 3:30pm – 5:30pm: Career Fair
- 5:30pm – 7:00pm: Reception
Keynote Speaker
Mr. David Rothkopf, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment, has written Running the World: The Inside Story of the NSC and the Architects of American Power, published numerous articles on America’s role in the world, and directed the efforts of the Carnegie Economic Strategy Roundtable. His most recent book, Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making, examines the power of global elites, how they are shaping globalization and being shaped by it.
In addition, he is also president and CEO of Garten Rothkopf, an international advisory firm specializing in emerging markets investing and risk management related services. Previously, Rothkopf was founder, chairman and CEO of Intellibridge, a firm offering open-source intelligence and advisory services on international issues, after serving for two years as managing director of Kissinger Associates.
Panel 1 - Clean Tech to Market
The development of clean energy technologies can address the world’s dependence on oil, the demand for reliable sources of power by a growing population, and the dangers of environmental degradation. In order to reach our future energy goals, we will need innovative methods of developing, financing and commercializing these technologies.
Speakers:
- Mr. Brandon Belford, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the United States Department of Energy
- Mr. George McPherson, Managing Director at Global Environment Fund (GEF)
- Mr. Keith Curtis, a senior member of the Foreign Service
- Mr. Bo Poats, is Managing Director of Pace Financial Services, LLC (“PFS”), a wholly owned registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Pace Global Energy Services, LLC (“Pace”)
- Mr. Michael Bruce, is the co-founder and Director of Manifest Energy, a company committed to energy technology investments and infrastructure development and a Senior Advisor at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s Energy and Clean Technology Practice
Central questions to be answered:
- How do developers and entrepreneurs attract seed funding to move from idea to technology? Attract growth funding to take the technology to market?
- Who are the major public and private investors in clean energy technologies, and what do they look for?
- How can clean energy technology development become more appealing to private investors and government funders?
- What technologies are attracting financing currently? Why?
Panel 2 – Strategic International Partnerships
Energy markets are are international in scope. Cooperation between trading partners can expand market opportunities for clean energy technologies. Partnerships between US and foreign businesses can unlock markets and increase market penetration. This panel will highlight successful strategies that facilitate international collaboration.
Speakers:
- Mr. George A. Pickart, has served as General Manger of Government Relations for the General Electric Company’s Energy business since March 2008
- Dr. Joseph M. Dukert, is a senior associate with the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at CSIS and an independent energy analyst who focuses on North America’s energy market and policies
- Dr. Robert F. Ichord, Jr., is Chief of Energy and Infrastructure in the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia , US Agency for International Development
- Ms. Martha A Duggan, serves as Vice President, Government and Regulatory Affairs for United Solar Ovonic (a division of Energy Conversion Devices), headquartered in Rochester Hills, Michigan
- Mr. David Rodgers, is a Senior Energy Specialist at GEF with a portfolio emphasizing energy efficiency, renewable energy, and other clean energy projects and programs
Central questions to be answered:
- How can international partnerships accelerate innovation, commercialization and market penetration for clean energy technologies?
- What are the major limitations to partnerships between US and foreign businesses? Regulation? Intellectual property? Technological differences? How can these be mitigated?
- How can the US collaborate with its trade partners to accelerate international growth for US clean tech firms abroad?
Panel 3 – The Mature Green Market Place: 2030
Many at the forefront of clean energy innovation describe the current state of the market as the wild west. In the next 10 to 20 years, select technologies will reach maturity while others will continue to face significant challenges. Businesses will capture market control and vertical integration will change industry structure. In this panel we challenge visionary experts to predict how clean energy markets will look in 2030.
Speakers:
- Mr. Scott Sklar, is the founder of The Stella Group, Ltd, which facilitates clean distributed energy including advanced batteries and controls, energy efficiency, heat engines, minigeneration, microhydropower, modular biomass, photovoltaics, small wind and solar thermal
- Mr. Elliot Roseman, is a Vice President with ICF International, and has been a senior advisor in the energy industry for 30 years
- Ms. Kimberly Kupiecki, first joined Edelman in 1998 and in 2004 founded the firm’s clean tech practice, a key agenda promoting clean energy, energy efficiency solutions and other innovative sustainable technologies
- Mr. Michael McAdams, has successfully managed and grown an association of 32 advanced biofuels companies that have come to be the leading voice in the biofuels industry
Central questions to be answered:
- What are the clean technologies and systems that are likely to be dominant market players by 2030?
- How will cities be built in a carbon constrained world? Energy infrastructure? Buildings?
- What clean energy technologies are expected to reach cost parity with conventional technology by 2030?
