Agenda
Monday March 19, 20127:00 AM
Registration & Breakfast
8:00 AM
Setting the Green Agenda
Moderator: Barry Worthington, Executive Director, United States Energy Association
State of Green Finance Today
Peter C. Fusaro, Chairman, Global Change Associates Inc.
8:30 AM The Green Political Landscape Today
Michael Zimmer, Senior Counsel, Thompson Hine
9:00 AM State of Sustainable Finance Today
Matt Arnold, Head of Office of Environmental Affairs, JP Morgan
9:30 AM Water Sustainability
Dan Bena, Senior Director of Global Sustainable Development, PepsiCo Inc.
10:00 AM
Networking Break
10:30 AM
Renewable Energy Finance & Trading Today
Moderator: Micah Kotch, NYC ACRE
Special Presentation: US EPA's Efforts on Clean Technology
Barbara Bennett, Chief Financial Officer, US Environmental Protection Agency
Introduced by Peter Fusaro, Global Change Associates
State of Renewable Energy Markets
Michael Carter, Director, Energy Group, SNL Energy
How a Big Fund Views This Sector
Jonathan Koch, Co-Founder, US Renewables Group
Financing Recs from a Utility Perspective
Jill Anderson, Director, Supply Acquisition & Renewable Energy, New York Power Authority
How to Manage Weather Risk & Renewable Energy
Brian O'Hearne, President & CEO, eWeatherRisk
How an Investment Bankers Views the Sector
Tom Blum, Partner, G C Anderson
Distributed Generation the Way Forward
Frank Dinucci, Principal,Meridian Advisors
12:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM
Renewable Energy Finance Part 2
Moderator: Jack Jacobs, Cleantech Law Partners
Brownfields to Greenfields
Linda Shaw, Principal, Future Energy Development
Managing Renewable Energy Project Risks
Howard Siegel, Partner, Brown Rudnick
The Role of the Military in Renewable Energy
Howard Snow, Federal Business Strategies and Solutions & Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy(Installations/Facilities/Energy)
Renewable Energy Credit Securitization
John Joshi,Managing Director, CapitalFusion Partners,
2:30 PM
Everything You Wanted to Know About Carbon Trading
Moderator: Jack Jacobs, Founder & Managing Partner, Cleantech Law Partners
Overview of the European Emissions Trading Scheme
Elizabeth Zelljadt, Point Carbon
The California Carbon Market and Generating CRTs in North America
Saskia Feast, VP, Sales & Marketing, EOS Climate
Carbon Projects in Asia
Julie McLaughlin, Regional Director, Southeast Asia, E.ON Climate & Renewables GmbH
3:15 PM
Sponsor Break
3:45 PM
Smart Grid 101
Moderator: David Manning, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc and Chair of NYS Smart Grid Consortium
Real World Experience with Smart Grid
Matt Futch, Global Policy Lead, Energy & Utilities, IBM
How One Utility Is Undertaking Smart Grid Initiative
Cheri Warren, Vice President, Asset Management, National Grid
Providing the Infrastructure for Smart Grid
Jack Reader,Principal Enterprise Architect,
Cisco Systems
Leading Edge Technology Choices: Smart Meters and Automation
Kurtis Erickson, Sales Director- Smart Grid, GE Energy Services
Demand Response
Rebecca Craft,Con Edison
Energy Efficiency Impacts
Mary Barber, Campaign Director, NY Region, Environmental Defense Fund
Discovering New Behaviors That Will Drive Innovation in Renewable Energy and Smart Grids
Bert Haskell, Director of Technology, Pecan Street Demonstration Project
5:30 PM
Cocktail Reception Sponsored by Bard College's MBA Program in Sustainability
7:00 PM
Reception Ends
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