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GREENTECH PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE (pdf)
     
       
7:00 am Registration Registration & Continental Breakfast  
7:30 am Opening Remarks Mayor Bill Bogaard
City of Pasadena
Sustainability and Survivability
7:45 am Entretech Introduction Stephanie C. Yanchinski
Executive Director
Entretech
7:50 am GreenTech Remarks
& Presentation
Dr. Michael A. Giardello
Materia, Inc.
President & CEO
Materia, Inc.
       
SESSION 1
     
       
  Moderator Jeffrey C. Selman
Partner
Nixon Peabody LLP
8:10 am Invited Speaker Presentation Phillip J. Finck, Ph.D.
Technical Integration Office
Director for GNEP
INL Associate Laboratory
Director, Nuclear Science
& Technology
Fellow of the American Nuclear Society
The Future of Nuclear Energy
8:55 am Presenter Dr. Jose N. Reyes
Chief Technical Officer
and Co-Founder
NuScale Power Incorporated
NuScale Power, Inc. - Changing the Nuclear Power Paradigm
9:20 am Presenter James H. Caldwell Jr.
Assistant General Manager
of Environmental Affairs
Los Angeles Department of
Water & Power (LADWP)
LADWP Renewable Development Goals and Challenges
9:45 am   Break  
       
SESSION 2
     
       
  Moderator Fred Farina
Assistant VP
California Institute of Technology,
Office of Technology Transfer
10:00 am Presenter

Mamadou S. Diallo, Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Chair
of the Scientific Advisory Board
AquaNano Technologies LL

Water Purification by Selective Encapsulation
    Mark A. Thompson
General Manager
AquaNano Technologies LLC
Water Purification by Selective Encapsulation
10:25 am Presenter Jeff Green
Co-Founder & CEO, Nano H2O
Nano H2O - Next generation reverse osmosis membranes for desalination and water reuse
10:50 am Keynote Speaker Maurice E.P. Gunderson
Senior Partner
CMEA Ventures

Rethinking Energy
11:40 am   LUNCHEON SERVED California Ballroom
       
LUNCHEON/NETWORKING
     
       
  Lunch Sponsors Merrill Lynch
UK Trade & Investment
 
12:50 pm RECONVENE International Ballroom
       
SESSION 3
     
       
12:55 pm Moderator Michael A. Giardello
Chairman of GreenTech
Chairman of the Board, Entretech
Chairman Comments
1:00 pm Presenter Pat Gruber, Ph.D., MBA
CEO, Gevo
Advanced Biofuels
1:25 pm Presenter Mel Luetkens
COO
Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc.
Innovation and the Expanding Role of Biochemicals
1:50 pm Presenter Jim Cowell, PE
Associated Vice President for Facilities
California Institute of Technology
Caltech Solar Power Project
2:15 pm Presenter Dina Lozofsky
VP of IP Development and
Strategic Alliances
Solarmer Energy, Inc.
The Path to Commercial Grade Plastic Solar Cells
2:40 pm   Break  
       
SESSION 4
     
       
  Moderator Andrea R. Cohen
Counsel
Nixon Peabody LLP
2:55 pm Presenter Art Buckland
CEO & Chairman
Soliant Energy, Inc.
Soliant Energy - Solar that Makes Sense
3:20 pm Presenter

Paul M. Glenney
Director
Clean Energy Technology Center
AeroVironment, Inc.

Getting from "Here to There": Market Opportunities and Barriers in Onsite Wind Power Generation
3:45 pm Presenter Robert Mechielsen
Owner & Founder
Studio RMA
Emerging Green Technologies in Architecture and Urban Design
       
VENTURE CAPITAL PANEL AND DISCUSSION
     
       
  Moderator Andrea R. Cohen
Counsel
Nixon Peabody LLP
4:10 pm Panelist Bruce Pasternack
Venture Partner
CMEA Ventures
  Panelist David Dreessen
Partner
Battery Ventures LLP
  Panelist Winston Fu
General Partner
U.S. Venture Partners (USVP)
  Panelist Shahin Farshchi, Ph.D.
Associate
Lux Capital
5:15 pm   CONFERENCE ADJOURNS