Saturday Conference
Registration required

Time Track1 Track2 All Day Events
7:00-8:00 am
Registration & Breakfast
Ride and Drive (Outside Marriott) Vehicles to be announced

8:00 am
8:30 am
Opening Remarks:
Brian Walsh, Conference Managing Director

Welcoming Address:
Susan Hockfield, MIT President

8:30 am

 

9:15 am

Morning Keynote:
Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric
9:15-9:30 am
Networking coffee break
9:30 am

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



10:30: am

Prof. Charles L. Cooney (moderator)
Professor, Chemical Engineering, MIT

Philip New
President, BP Global Biofuels

Robin Graham
Group Leader, Environmental Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Author, "Billion Ton Study"

Mark Stowers
Vice President, Research and Development, Broin Companies

Doug Cameron
Chief Scientific Officer, Khosla Ventures

 

Prof. H.D. (Jake) Jacoby (moderator)
Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT
Director, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

Prof. Martin Zimmerman
Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Commissioner, National Commission on Energy Policy
Former Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Ford Motor Company

Joe Goffman
Legislative Director, Office of Senator Joseph I. Lieberman

Michael J. Murray
Director - Corporate Legislative Policy, Sempra Energy

 
10:30-10:45 am
Networking coffee break
10:45 am

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:45: pm

Travis Bradford (moderator)
Founder and President, Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development

Richard Swanson
Co-Founder, President, and CTO, SunPower

Charlie Gay
Vice President and General Manager, Solar Business Group, Applied Materials

Rhone Resch
President, Solar Energy Industries Assocation

Jigar Shah
CEO, SunEdison

 

Richard Ward (moderator)
Senior Director of Research - Upstream Strategy, Costs and Technology
CERA - Cambridge Energy Research Associates

Nancy Lever
Managing Director, Non Conventional Group, ARC Financial

Stephen Mut
CEO of the Shell Unconventional Resources Unit

Harold Wright
Chief Technology Officer, Rentech Inc.

Dan Woynillowicz
Senior Policy Analyst, The Pembina Institute

 
11:45-12:15 pm
Networking coffee break

12:15 pm

 

 

 


1:45 pm

Lunch:

NEEIC $150K Energy Business Creation Competition Winner Announcement

&

Lunch Keynote:
Daniel Yergin, Chairman & Co-founder of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA)

1:45-2:15 pm
Networking coffee break
2:15 pm

 

 

3:15 pm

Prof. John Heywood (moderator)
Professor, Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Director, MIT Sloan Automotive Laboratory

K.G. Duleep
Managing Director – Transportation, Energy and Environmental Analysis, Inc.

Mark Duvall
Senior Project Manager - Transportation, Electric Power Research Institute

Ted Miller
Technical Specialist, Ford Research and Advanced Engineering

Jaycie Chitwood
Senior Strategic Planner
Advanced Technologies Department
Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.

 

Steve Taub (moderator)
Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing – Renewables, GE Energy Financial Services

Charlie Smith
Executive Director, Utility Wind Integration Group

Pete Duprey
CEO, Acciona North America

Sandy Butterfield
Chief Engineer, National Wind Technology Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Michael Jacobs
Deputy Policy Director, American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)


 
3:15 - 3:30 pm
Networking coffee break

3:30 pm

 


4:30 pm

Fireside Chat:
Energy Investing & Entrepreneurship: Lessons from History

Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran (Fireside Chairman)
, Correspondent, Economist
Vinod Khosla
, Founding Partner, Khosla Ventures
Chansoo Joung, Managing Director, Energy Group, Warburg Pincus

4:30 pm


5:20 pm

MIT Energy Technology Showcase
Prof. Yet-Ming Chiang, MIT Department of Materials Science / Co-Founder, A123 Systems
Hal Alper, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
Prof. Joel Schindall, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

5:20 pm +

Evening Reception and Networking
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