Saturday Conference
Registration required

Time Track1 Track2
7:00-8:00 am
Registration & Breakfast
8:00 am
8:30 am

Opening Remarks:
Susan Hockfield, MIT President

8:30 am

9:15 am
Morning Keynote:
John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
9:15-9:30 am
Networking coffee break
9:30 am


10:30: am

Howard Herzog (moderator)
Principal Research Engineer,
MIT Energy Initiative

Bruce Braine
Vice President, Strategic Policy Analysis
American Electric Power

Scott Klara
Director for the Strategic Center for Coal at the National Energy Technology Laboratory

George Peridas
Science Fellow at the Climate Center
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
 

Jonathan Raab (moderator)
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT

Jackalyne Pfannenstiel
Chair, California Energy Commission

J. Michael McQuade
Senior Vice President, Science & Technology, United Technologies Corporation

Harvey Michaels
Co-Founder, Nexus Energy Software
 
10:30-10:45 am
Networking coffee break
10:45 am

 

11:45: pm

Lawrence Makovich (moderator)
Vice President and Senior Advisor, Cambridge Energy Research Associates

Laurie Aylsworth
Vice President, Transmission Projects, Engineering and Maintenance, Northeast Utilities

Stephen Conant
Vice President, New England Transmission Company, LLC

Jess Totten
Director, Competitive Markets, Public Utility Commission of Texas
 

Prof. Jefferson Tester (moderator)
H. P. Meissner Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT

Lucien Bronicki
Chairman and CTO, Ormat Technologies

Doone Wyborn
Executive Director, Geodynamics Limited

Allyson Anderson
Professional Staff, US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
 
11:45-12:15 pm
 Networking coffee break

12:15 pm


1:45 pm

Lunch Keynote:
James Rogers, Duke Energy
1:45-2:15 pm
 Networking coffee break
2:15 pm

 

3:15 pm

John Heywood (moderator)
Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical
Engineering, MIT

Christopher Grundler
Deputy Director, EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality

Edward Cohen
Vice President, Government & Industry Relations, American Honda Motor Co., Inc.

Jan-Olaf Willums
President and CEO, THINK Global As
 

Panel Session:
Nuclear Power
Panel Blog

Andrew Kadak (moderator)
Professor of the Practice, Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT

Thomas Christopher
President and CEO, AREVA NP

Richard Myers
Vice President, Policy Development, Nuclear Energy Institute

H. John Gilbertson, Jr
Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
 
3:15 - 3:30 pm
 Networking coffee break

3:30 pm


4:30 pm

John Holdren (moderator)
Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard

Robert Fishman
CEO, Ausra, Inc.

Michael Idelchik
VP Advanced Technology, GE Global Research

Moray Dewhurst
Chief Financial Officer, FPL Group, Inc.
 

4:30 pm


5:30 pm

Panel Session:
Innovation in Energy

Edward Roberts (moderator)
David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology,
Founder and Chair of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center

R. James Woolsey
Counsel, Goodwin Procter LLP
Venture Partner, VantagePoint Venture Partners

Robert Metcalfe
Co-Inventor of Ethernet, Founder and former CEO of 3Com
General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners

Dan Reicher
Director, Climate and Energy Initiatives, Google.org

 
 
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