Abstract
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
7:45-8:30am Check-in and Registration at the Fess Parker Resort
Continental Breakfast & Networking
8:30-8:45am Summit Welcome
John Bowers
Director, Institute for Energy Efficiency
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
UC Santa Barbara
Mike Witherell
Vice Chancellor for Research
UC Santa Barbara
8:45-9:10am Opening Keynote Address
Secretary Steven Chu
Secretary of Energy
U.S. Department of Energy
9:10-9:40am Fireside Chat
Jeff Henley
Chairman, Oracle Corporation
with Secretary Steven Chu
9:40-10:15am Networking Break
10:15-10:45am Keynote Presentation
Michael McQuade
Senior Vice President of Science & Technology
United Technologies Corporation
10:45-12:00pm Critical Materials for Energy Technologies
What are the key issues around extracting, processing and using materials needed for our
increasing global energy demands?
Moderator:
Barbara Goss Levi
Contributing Editor, Physics Today
Panelists:
Tom Graedel
Professor, Industrial Ecology, Chemical Engineering, Geology and Geophysics,
Yale University
Robert Jaffe
Professor, Department of Physics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alex King
Director, Ames Laboratory, DOE Critical Materials Hub
Sangwon Suh
Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UC Santa Barbara
12:00-1:45pm Networking Lunch at the Plaza del Sol
1:45-3:00pm Innovations in Solid-State Lighting
Discussions on the latest developments in this rapidly growing field.
Moderator:
Waguih Ishak
Division Vice President, Corning
Panelists:
Steven DenBaars
Co-Director, Solid-State Lighting & Energy Center and Professor, Department of
Materials, UC Santa Barbara
Kelly Gordon
Program Manager, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
James Ibbetson
Manager, Advanced LED Group, Cree
Mike Krames
Chief Technology Officer, Soraa
3:00-3:30pm Networking Break
3:30-4:45pm Energy Efficient Information & Communications Technology
The future of scalability and energy efficiency for next generation ICT core networks.
Moderator:
Craig McCaw
Chairman and CEO, Eagle River Investments
Panelists:
Steve Alexander
Senior Vice President, Ciena
John Bowers
Director, Institute for Energy Efficiency and Professor, Electrical and Computer
Engineering, UC Santa Barbara
Ashok Krishnamoorthy
Architect & Chief Technologist, Oracle
Mario Paniccia
Director, Photonics Research, Intel
5:00-6:30pm Reception at Plaza del Sol
Thursday, May 2, 2013
8:00-8:30am Continental Breakfast & Networking
8:30-8:40am Welcome
David Auston
Executive Director, Institute for Energy Efficiency
UC Santa Barbara
8:40-9:10am Keynote Presentation
George Crabtree
Director, Joint Center for Energy Storage Research
Argonne National Laboratory
9:10-10:25am Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies
What are the latest technologies and materials that will enable more efficient, economical and
reliable energy storage?
Moderator:
Richard Harris
Science Correspondent, National Public Radio
Panelists:
Jeremy Cowperthwaite
Vice President and General Manager, Engine Starting Group, Maxwell Technologies
David Eaglesham
Chief Executive Officer, Pellion Technologies
Jun Liu
Laboratory Fellow, Department of Chemical and Materials Science, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory
Galen Stucky
Professor, Department of Materials, UC Santa Barbara
10:25-10:50am Networking Break
10:50-11:30am Utilities Discussion
The need for, and implementation of, new technologies for energy efficiency.
Moderator:
Dave Auston
Executive Director, Institute for Energy Efficiency, UC Santa Barbara
Panelists:
Seth Kiner
Vice President, Customer Programs and Services, Southern California Edison
Steven Malnight
Vice President, Integrated Demand Side Management, PG&E
11:30-12:45pm High Efficiency Power Electronics
Using materials to minimize energy loss and make power electronics more efficient on all levels.
Moderator:
Lisa Margonelli
Author and Journalist, New America Foundation
Panelists:
Hari Harikumar
VP, Advanced Technology, Ingersoll Rand
Umesh Mishra
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Santa Barbara
CEO and Co-founder, Transphorm
Rajeev Ram
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
JB Straubel
Chief Technology Officer, Tesla Motors
12:45-1:30pm Lunch & Keynote Presentation
Kateri Callahan
President, Alliance to Save Energy
1:30-2:00pm Fireside Chat
Dan Burnham
Retired President and CEO, Raytheon Company
with Kateri Callahan