GoingGreen East 2010 Programs Listing

Mar 09,2010

  • 05:30 am
    Keynote
  • 06:00 am
    Cleantech's Competitve Conundrum
    When financing cleantech innovation and project development depends on the prices for conventional energy and other resources going up, what happens when the prices go down? What clean technology solutions are becoming competitive against market priced conventional solutions, and as these solutions become commodities, how will investors and entrepreneurs earn extraordinary returns?
    • Judith Warrick, Senior Economics Advisor, Morgan Stanley
    • Samuel Newell, Principal, The Brattle Group
  • 06:45 am
    CEO Showcase
  • 07:00 am
    The Evolving Grid
    Smart electrical grids, from the utility to inside the meter, are just the beginning. How can every element of the urban grid, from energy to water to waste, become smarter and more efficient? How can these various elements benefit from integrated management and integrated retrofits? Where is the grid, in the broadest meaning of the term, going next, and what opportunities does this present for innovators and investors?
    • Russ Landon, Managing Director, Head of Clean Technology Group, KeyBanc Capital Markets
    • Tim Healy, CEO, EnerNOC
    • Stephen Doroff, Director, Smart Grid Initiatives, KPMG
  • 07:45 am
    CEO Showcase Session
  • 08:00 am
    The Nuclear Option
    The latest technologies to produce nuclear power have come a long way in the past fifty years. What new solutions exist, both at large and small scales, how safe are they, how can they integrate with existing grid, and what does exercising the nuclear energy option mean in terms of either integrating with or obviating other new energy alternatives?
    • Elise Zoli, Partner, Goodwin Procter
    • Doug Levin, CEO, Persistent Power Systems, Inc.
    • Seth Grae, CEO, Lightbridge
  • 08:45 am
    Presentation - WildAid: The Business of Saving Endangered Species
    Hear how WildAid, a small but fast growing charity, is using business and venture capital principles to reach over one billion people per week with its messaging, which addresses the demand side of the multi-billion dollar trade in endangered animal parts.
    • Tod Bensen, Chairman, WildAid
    • Peter Knights, Founder & Executive Director, WildAid
  • 09:00 am
    Lunch: 12:00 - 1:00pm
  • 10:00 am
    Keynote: How to Win in New Media
  • 10:45 am
    CEO Showcase Session
  • 11:00 am
    Next Generation Solar
    Beyond the usual suspects - monocrystalline, thin film, and solar thermal - have emerged a tantalizing array of even more advanced solar energy technologies. These promise to deliver ongoing reductions in cost and increases in potential. What are these next generation solutions, and how will they compete within the overall energy economy, as well as with today's solar technologies?
    • David Anthony, Partner, 21 Ventures
    • Lawrence Kaufman, CEO, Lightwave Power, Inc.
    • Mike Clary, CEO, Solasta Corp.
  • 11:45 am
    CEO Showcase Session
  • 12:00 pm
    Cleaner Fossil Fuels
    The most abundant sources of energy currently being used worldwide are not going away anytime soon. What are the latest clean coal, natural gas and petroleum technologies? What is the future of fossil fuel, and how clean can it get?
  • 01:00 pm
    Green Mega-Engineering
    The cities of the future will integrate every clean technology across every sector - transportation, energy, water, and waste management. They will incorporate high-rise agriculture and massive underground infrastructure. They will continuously evolve and improve, delivering better quality of life every decade. They may even be net exporters of water, energy and food. How will these cities look, and what companies and technologies today are delivering the first building blocks?
  • 01:45 pm
    CEO Showcase Session
  • 02:00 pm
    Life Sciences and the Biochemical Age

    The convergence of life sciences and the emerging biochemical economy - specialty chemicals, biofuel and bioplastics - is well underway. How are advances in genomics and life sciences in general overlapping with everything from new medical treatments to new sources of biochemicals, fuels and materials?

    • Mark Fischetti, Board of Editors, Scientific American
    • Bill Sims, CEO, Joule, Inc.
    • Eric Schadt, Chief Scientific Officer, Pacific Biosciences, Inc.
    • Stephen J. Gatto, CEO, Myriant Technologies
  • 02:45 pm
    Governor's Room
    AlwaysOn Reception

Mar 10,2010

  • 04:30 am
    Breakfast hours: 7:30 - 9:30am
  • 04:31 am
    Registration hours: 7:30 - 3:00pm
  • 05:30 am
    Keynote
    • William Aulet, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management & Acting Managing Director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
  • 06:45 am
    Climate Science & Climate Policy
    Is the role of anthropogenic CO2 as a primary cause of potentially catastrophic climate change truly established as undisputed fact? If so, will Cap & Trade or other forms of CO2 regulation effectively address this menace? This panel of experts with divergent points of view will survey the latest economic, political and scientific discussions, and debate what their various conclusions should mean for legislative policy and cleantech investment.
    • Robert Metcalfe, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners
  • 07:00 am
    Countercyclical Wind Innovations
    Notwithstanding 500' turbines that deliver perhaps 2.0 constant megawatts of power (40% yield), best case, per unit, what other wind energy innovations are emerging with less fanfare? What companies and technologies are offering less visible, smaller scale, possibly building-integrated solutions that can be more easily installed close to the centers of demand?
    • Jon Fouts, Senior Managing Director, Power and Renewables Group, Morgan Stanley
    • Stanley Kowalski, Jr., CEO, FloDesign Inc.
  • 07:45 am
    CEO Showcase Session
  • 08:00 am
    Smart Civilization
    Information technology has the potential to dramatically increase efficiency in all areas of resource consumption, without compromising quality of life. How are IT innovations delivering these benefits today, what is on the way tomorrow, and what are the companies and technologies to watch?
  • 08:45 am
    CEO Showcase Session
  • 09:00 am
    Lunch: 12:00 - 1:00pm
  • 10:00 am
    Keynote
    • David Vieau, President & CEO, A123 Systems
  • 10:45 am
    CEO Showcase Session
  • 11:00 am
    Energy Storage

    The likely emergence of extremely cheap energy that is acquired intermittently - such as during sunshine - but consumed continuously, makes energy storage an absolutely essential element of the new cleantech economy. What are the latest large and small scale energy storage solutions, and who are developing them?

    • Thomas Burton, Partner, Mintz Levin
    • Andrew Friendly, Partner, ATV Capital
    • David Marcus, Founder & CEO, Zong
    • Ake Almgren, CEO, International Battery, Inc.
    • Riccardo Signorelli, CEO, FastCap Systems, Inc.
  • 11:45 am
    CEO Showcase Session
  • 12:00 pm
    The Future of Cleantech

    The disruptive power of innovation will not end when solar energy is $.01 per kilowatt-hour, or water is reused, recycled and desalinated so efficiently that water again becomes a cheap commodity. Cleantech will evolve relentlessly, delivering ongoing advancements that offer better quality of life than ever at the same time as they are more sustainable than ever. What are these future generations of cleantech? Where is cleantech going to go next?

    • Nick D'Arbeloff, President, New England Clean Energy Council
    • Eric Giler, CEO, Witricity, Inc.
    • Jim Matheson, General Partner, Flagship Ventures
    • Paul Leggett, Vice President, Morgan Stanley