Program

Tuesday, April 26

8:00-8:30AM	Registration Continental breakfast & networking
8:30-8:45AM	Welcome Henry Yang, Chancellor, UC Santa Barbara Gene Lucas, Executive Vice Chancellor, UC Santa Barbara John Bowers, Director, Institute for Energy Efficiency
8:45-9:30AM	Opening Keynote Bill Brinkman, Director, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy Clean Energy Research
9:30-10:55AM	The Sunshot Initiative The Department of Energy's newest program aimed at reducing the cost of solar power to $1/Watt. Moderator: Shayle Kann, Managing Director, Solar Research, Green Tech Media Research Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Program Manager, Solar Energy Technologies Program, U.S. Department of Energy; Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory The Sunshot Program Ryne Raffaelle, Director, National Center for Photovoltaics, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Current Trends in Photovoltaics Jack Peurach, Executive Vice President, R&D, SunPower Corporation SunPower's Approach to the SunShot Initiative Lynda Ziegler, Executive Vice President, Power Delivery Services, Southern California Edison Utility Perspectives On Possible $1/Watt Solar Power
10:55-11:15AM	Break
11:15AM-12:30PM	Tomorrow's Grid – Prospects for a Smarter Energy Future The current state of smart grid technology, integrating renewables into the grid, potential opportunities for energy efficiency, and issues including standards and security. Moderator: Richard Harris, Science Correspondent, NPR Chris Knudsen, Director, Technology Innovation Center, Pacific Gas & Electric Building Facility Energy Efficiency Steve Hauser, Vice President of Grid Integration, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Building a Smart Green Grid Paul De Martini, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Innovation, Connected Energy Group, Cisco Connected Grid: Powering End-to-End Communications
12:30-2:00PM	Networking Lunch On the Monte Vista Lawn
2:00-3:15PM	Research Highlights from the Institute for Energy Efficiency The latest advances in energy efficiency research at UCSB, featuring new work on silicon photonics, battery storage, and solid-state lighting. Moderator: Michael Witherell, Vice Chancellor for Research, UCSB John Bowers, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Director, Silicon Photonics Center, Institute for Energy Efficiency, and Center for Energy Efficient Materials, UCSB The Energy Efficient Photonics Revolution Dan Morse, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, UCSB Biologically Inspired High-Power Batteries Jim Speck, Professor of Materials and Director, Interdisciplinary Centre for Wide Band-Gap Semiconductors, UCSB The end of the light bulb as we know it: the dawn of Solid State Lighting
3:15-3:45PM	Break
3:45-5:00PM	Energy-Efficient Supercomputing and Datacenters at Large Scale A preview of the next generation of supercomputers and the enormous challenge exascale supercomputers face with regard to energy efficiency. Moderator: Fred Chong, Computing Solutions Group Head, Institute for Energy Efficiency Horst Simon, Deputy Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Exascale Computing: Applications Performance and Energy Efficiency Pradeep Dubey, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel Exascale Computing: Challenges and Opportunities Bikash Koley, Senior Network Architect, Google Scaling Challenges for Warehouse Scale Computers
5:00-6:30PM	Reception At the Coral Casino Beach and Cabana Club, featuring local Santa Barbara wineries and seasonal fare

Wednesday, April 27

8:00-8:30AM	Registration Continental breakfast & networking
8:30-9:00AM	Welcome David Auston, Executive Director, Institute for Energy Efficiency Jeff Henley, Chairman, Oracle Corporation
9:00-10:00AM	California Perspectives on Energy and Efficiency Innovation Highlighting advancements in energy efficiency and sustainable energy in the state. Chair: Lois Capps, Congresswoman, California - 23rd District, U.S. House of Representatives Moderator: Gregg Ander, Chief Architect, Southern California Edison David Stone, Senior Vice President, Chevron Energy Solutions A Plug for Energy Efficiency and Renewables JB Straubel, Chief Technology Officer, Tesla Motors Electric Vehicle Technology Roadmap and Grid Integration
10:00-10:30AM	Office of Naval Research Efforts Supporting Energy Efficiency Targets Dr. Julie Christodoulou, Director of the Naval Materials Division, Office of Naval Research Efforts Supporting Energy Efficiency Supported by the Office of Naval Research
10:30-11:00AM	Break
11:00AM-12:15PM	Commercialization of Energy Efficient Technologies Expediting innovation from the lab to market in today's economy. Moderator: Bill Barber, President, Southern California Chapter, Maverick Angels, LLC and Co-founder & CEO, ISOmatrix, Inc. James G.P. Dehlsen, Principal, Ecomerit Technologies, LLC The Role of a Commercial Development Laboratory for Sustainability Technologies Umesh Mishra, CEO, Transphorm Want Watts? Waste Not KT Moortgat, Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures Cleantech innovation and funding : a venture capital perspective
12:15-2:00PM	Lunch and Closing Keynote Matt Rogers, Director, McKinsey & Company; former Senior Advisor to Energy Secretary Steven Chu

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