The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association Presents:

BuildingEnergy10, March 9-11, 2010 

Meet the Professionals in Sustainability and Whole Systems Thinking

Generating truly new ideas in the world of sustainability requires whole systems thinking, a cross-disciplinary approach, and rigorous standards for content and case studies.  Find all this and more at NESEA's BuildingEnergy Conference March 9-11, 2010, at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, MA.  BuildingEnergy is the only conference where architects, designers, planners, builders, policymakers, manufacturers, and installers work together to determine what's possible. This year's theme: Reduce, Retrofit, and Renew. Conference sessions range from emerging trends in renewable energy to deep energy retrofits of commercial and residential buildings.  The Trade Show features 160 exhibitors with the next generation of sustainable technologies and products. Hear about the things you can do today to reach the goal of zero net energy - where you produce as much energy as you use. Register on line now.

For BuildingEnergy10, we welcome Betsy Pettit of Building Science Corporation as Chair and Bruce Coldham of Coldham & Hartman Architects as Vice Chair. They have worked throughout the summer and fall with the BE10 Planning Committee to develop content for the BuildingEnergy10 Conference. Click the buttons on the left hand menu bar to see the Track Overview, Tuesday Workshops, Wednesday Sessions or Thursday Sessions.

RESCHEDULED to March 11

Talk is cheap. Sustainability and climate change get talked about a lot. But what does it really mean to investors, entrepreneurs, and policy makers? We know that clean tech doesn’t mean quick tech, quick solutions, quick money, or a quick fix. However, the challenges posed by sustainability and climate change do mean enormous opportunity in the energy industry, the largest industry in the world, and opportunity brings innovation, jobs and new markets. You will hear from one of the leading clean tech investors, Ray Lane of Kleiner Perkins, and perspectives from a panel of thought leaders in institutional sustainability investment, policy development and the science of climate change.  What are the key issues related to making clean energy the next big thing? How will science, business and policy of climate change converge to create opportunity?  Is clean energy for real now or ten years from now?
  
 
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Keynote:

Ray Lane Managing Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and former President and COO of Oracle Corporation Ray Lane is a Managing Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, focused on helping entrepreneurs with technological and market insight, organizational development, team building, selling and managing growth. Since joining KPCB, Ray has sponsored several investments for the firm in enterprise and consumer technology, as well as clean and alternative energy. These companies include Ausra (solar concentrator), GreatPoint Energy (coal to gas conversion), Fisker Automotive (plug-in hybrid car), Th!nk NA (electric car), Luca Technologies (biologically enhanced gas recovery from fossilized hydrocarbons), Xsigo Systems (virtual I/O switch for datacenters), SpikeSource (open source platform for integration and testing), MEVIO (social media network), Vertica Systems (data warehousing solutions) and Elance (marketplace for services). He also serves on the board of Quest Software.

Panelists:
	Philip Giudice, Commissioner Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources
	Mindy Lubber, President, Ceres (www.ceres.org)
	Dan Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment

Moderator:

Dan Goldman, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Great Point Energy

Program Organizers: Pearl Freier, Cambridge Biopartners, and Daniel P. Goldman, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, GreatPoint Energy

Immediately following the program at 8:00 p.m. we'll have a special networking reception for registered attendees.

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• Is "Clean Coal"  really clean?
• What opportunities are there for Investors and Entrepreneurs?
• What are the latest advances in Coal Gasification and /or fluidized bed coal combustion? 
• Can the processes be scaled for full commercialization?
• What are role should the US Government play?
• What are the economic drivers for the conversion of coal to liquid hydrocarbon fuels?
• Where are Chemical Engineers needed in this expanding industry?

On Thursday March 11th,  at the Foley Hoag Emerging Enterprise Center in Waltham, MA,  Dr. Jay Agarwal, a well-known expert in this field, will discuss new advances and emerging trends in Clean Coal Technology.

Speaker’s Bio

Dr. Jay Agarwal has been selected by the Department of Energy to serve on a panel of experts to help DOE evaluate Clean Coal technology projects. 

Dr. Agarwal is Vice President / co-founder of CRA International and Managing Director, New England Equity Group, LLC.
 
Jay has more than 40 years of experience as a senior technical executive with CRA. He has saved Fortune 500 companies millions of dollars by identifying potential problems and determining ways to avoid them when commercializing new technologies. He has also held positions as Director of Development at Kennecott Copper / Peabody Coal, Vice President at Amax Corporation, and Division Chief of Process Analysis at US Steel.

Dr. Agarwal is a fellow of the AIChE and TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.) He has authored over 100 papers and has 22 issued U.S. patents. (click here for complete bio... www .newenglandequity.com/principals. php)