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Registration is full             and there will be no walk-ins allowed.                                       Clean and green technology has quickly taken center stage in the public arena as well as in boardrooms.  The promise of new wealth creation, job growth for the ailing economy, and the opportunity to reduce cost through sustainability practices are all driving the industry forward.  Yet, not everyone is moving forward at the same pace. Clean technology may have taken over in the world as the pre-eminent sector for development but in many areas, the United States is playing catch up.  The third annual SDForum conference on clean energy will take a critical look at the country-level adoption gap and what the leaders are really doing.  Where are the leaders? How has public policy accelerated development and what needs to be done? In Silicon Valley, what are corporations, start ups, investors, universities and governments doing? Where are we ahead, where are we behind and what&rsquo;s next? This conference brings together global leaders to share best practices and connect with industry movers and shakers. This is an exceptional opportunity to learn and collaborate on how to move the industry forward.Quotes from this years conference:&quot;I thoroughly enjoyed the conference and found the presentations and networking stimulating and valuable.&quot;Bruce S. Klafter, Sr. Director, EHS Head, Corporate Responsibility &amp; Sustainability, Applied Materials&quot;The candid and genuine discussions by the panelists provided an outstanding opportunity to learn about what industry leaders are doing not only to reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions, but how to leverage the reach of their products to reduce future emissions of their clients. High quality exchanges like this provide insights into just how big the opportunity is to make an impact&hellip;and create a competitive advantage by getting ahead of the curve.&quot;Sally M. Benson, Director of Global Climate &amp; Energy Project, Stanford UniversityAgenda with Confirmed Speakers:                         8:30 - 9:00 am            Registration and Networking                            9:00 - 9:45 am            USA Opening Keynote - Commissioner Dian Grueneich, California Public Utilities Commission                            9:45 - 10:45 am                        The Greening of Corporations                Scott C. Bolick, SAP                Mukesh Khattar, Oracle                Bruce Klafter, Applied Materials                Rich Lechner, IBM                 Moderated by: Lynelle Cameron, Autodesk                                        10:45 - 11:00 am            Morning Break                            11:00 - 11:30 am            Technologies and Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Future            Sally M. Benson, Stanford University                              11:30 - 12:30 pm                        The Role of Public Policy and Research in Private Innovation                Patrick Bray, PacificVision Partners, Osaka City Investment                  Advisor                 Hal LaFlash, PG&amp;E                Marc LePage, Embassy of Canada                Dean Arthur Ramirez, UCSC School of Engineering                Moderated by: Cassandra Sweet, Dow Jones Newswire                                        12:30 - 1:15 pm            Lunch and Exhibit Hall                            1:15 - 1:45 pm            China's Cleantech Big Leap            Hing Wong, Walden International                            1:45 - 2:30 pm            Leaders in Innovation: Global Success Stories in Clean Energy                Gregg Dixon - EnerNoc                Kate Sherwood, Recurrent Energy                Moderated by: Brad Rock, DLA Piper                                        2:30 - 3:15 pm            Early Stage Investors: What Does This Mean for Entrepreneurs?                Dan Lankford, Wavepoint Ventures                Bruce Pasternack, CMEA Capital                Dylan Steeg, Intel Capital                Robert Walker, Sierra Ventures                Moderated by: Camille Ricketts, VentureBeat                             3:15 - 3:30 pm            Break                            3:30 - 4:15 pm                        Financing the Next Level: Global Investment Climate                Tim Carey, PricewaterhouseCoopers                Larry Kellerman, Goldman Sachs                Randy Lewis, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &amp; Rosati                Prakash Ramachandran, Nordic Windpower                Moderated by: Mike Kanellos, Greentech Media                                                                4:15 - 5:00 pm                        Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit: Ten Technologies to Save Our World            Tom Rand, MaRS Discovery District                            5:00 pm            Closing            Online Registration Pricing $150 SDForum Members; $180 Non Members; $100 Platinum Pass; $75 StudentsRegistration Pricing at the Door$170 SDForum Members; $200 Non Members; $120 Platinum Pass; $75 StudentsFor Sponsorship Opportunities, click here or contact: Julie Welch, Programs and Events Manager 408-414-5964 or julie@sdforum.orgSpeaker Bios:Sally M. Benson, Director of the Global Climate and Energy Project, Stanford University. The Global Climate and Energy Project develops innovative low carbon energy supplies to meet global energy needs. She received her B.A. from Barnard College in Geology and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California in the Material Science and Mineral Engineering Department. Prior to joining Stanford, Benson worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), serving in a number of capacities, including Division Director for Earth Sciences, Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences, and Deputy Director for Operations. Also a Professor (Research) in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Benson works on carbon dioxide capture and sequestration in deep underground geological formations. A ground water hydrologist and reservoir engineer, Benson has conducted research to address a range of issues related to energy and the environment. For the past ten years she has studied how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by capturing carbon dioxide from power plants and pumping it into deep underground formations for permanent sequestration. Benson was a coordinating lead author on the 2005 IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Renewal Energy Laboratory and Climate Central. Scott C. Bolick, Vice President, SAP Sustainability, SAP Labs. Scott works within SAP&rsquo;s Sustainability Organization.  He leads a core team of sustainability experts that define and ensure the execution of our sustainability strategy as well as orchestrate our participation in the portfolio process. Previously, Scott was a VP for SAP Portfolio Strategy Group (PSG), which is responsible for the company&rsquo;s portfolio governance process and drives key cross-topics portfolio priorities.  In addition to overall governance, Scott focused on software-as-a-service, mergers &amp; acquisitions, and sustainability solutions.  He has also led projects focused on corporate positioning, identification of overall market trends for office of the CFO and head of sales, and enablement of business users. Scott holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS from the United States Military Academy (West Point). Patrick Bray, Osaka Investment Advisor and Director of PacificVision Partners. PacificVision Partners is an international business development firm focused on assisting US and Japanese companies in forming strategic alliances.  He is also an Investment Advisor for the City of Osaka promoting overseas companies to take advantage of the business opportunities in the greater Osaka area. Mr. Bray received a BS degree in Management at Sacramento State University and an MBA from San Francisco State University.  He also studied at MITI's (now METI) Institute for International Studies and Training in Japan.Lynelle Cameron, Director of Sustainability, Autodesk. Lynelle Cameron is Director of Sustainability at Autodesk, a leading provider of design innovation software.  Lynelle joined the company with a bold vision   to simplify and democratize sustainable design.  By providing the millions of Autodesk users in many different industries with software tools that enable them to make smarter, more sustainable design decisions at every step in the design process, she hopes to transform how we are designing the world around us.  Although software is at the heart of Autodesk&rsquo;s sustainability efforts, Lynelle is also focused on optimizing the company&rsquo;s environmental footprint.  More information about both can be found at: www.autodesk.com/sustainabilityreport.Tim Carey, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Tim Carey, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers. Tim Carey is the US Leader of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Cleantech practice and has worked with numerous companies in the renewable energy and transportation sectors within Cleantech. He is the firm's liaison to VC Cleantech funds and is responsible for PwC's thought leadership efforts within the sector. Tim joined PricewaterhouseCoopers' Detroit office in 1992 and was admitted to the partnership in 2000. He has experience working in both Europe and Asia. Gregg Dixon, Sr. Vice President of Marketing, EnerNoc. Gregg has led various sales, marketing, and business development efforts at EnerNOC and currently leads marketing efforts worldwide to utility and end-use customers. Gregg is primarily responsible for leading the development of EnerNOC's go-to-market strategy, product and service development, and the execution of marketing mechanisms that accelerate profitable sales growth and brand recognition through creative and customer-driven insights. Gregg graduated from Boston College with bachelor's degrees in Business Administration and Computer Science and he is a Certified Energy Manager, Certified Demand Side Management Professional, and Certified Sustainable Development Professional with the Association of Energy Engineers.Dian M. Grueneich, Commissioner, California Public Utilities.  Commissioner Grueneich is a nationally recognized expert in energy and environmental issues, with over 30 years experience.  She was appointed to the California Public Utilities Commission in 2005 by Governor Schwarzenegger and confirmed unanimously. Commissioner Grueneich serves as lead Commissioner at the Commission on energy efficiency, overseeing energy efficiency programs delivered by California investor-owned utilities. She provided leadership for the development of the California Long-Term Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan (www.californiaenergyefficiency.com) and in August 2008, received the National Champion of Energy Efficiency Award by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy for outstanding career-long leadership in the energy efficiency field and innovation in utility regulation. Michael Kanellos, Editor in Chief/Senior Analyst, Greentech Media. Michael Kanellos is Editor in Chief/Senior Analyst at Greentech Media, where he covers emerging technologies and companies in the green world. Prior to joining the company in 2008, he worked for CNET Network's News.com for eleven years. Among other jobs at CNET, he launched the company's push into clean technology. He has appeared on NPR, CBS, CNBC, Fox News and other media outlets and has spoken at CES, the Japan Business Strategy Summit, Ceatec, the Irish Software Association, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, the Flash Memory Summit and Clean Energy Venture Summit. A graduate of Cornell University and the University of California (Hastings), he has worked as an attorney, a travel writer and a busboy at a pancake house.Larry Kellerman, Managing Director, Fixed Income, Currencies &amp; Commodities Division, Goldman Sachs. Larry is responsible for the management of the North American electric power asset organization. He serves as President and Chief Operating Officer of Cogentrix Energy, which owns interests in 18 coal, waste coal, natural gas and solar thermal power plants in the U.S. and operates 17 of these plants, as well as owning hydroelectric power plants in Turkey.  Larry joined Goldman Sachs in 2002 to lead Goldman's entry into the power generation business, and the power business he has managed has generated an annualized return of over 60% during its seven years of existence.  The Goldman Sachs/Cogentrix portfolio, at its peak included net equity ownership in approximately 6,000 MW of generation in 35 power plants.  He has 25 years of power industry experience, where he has initiated or led the restructuring of seventeen power contracts during his career.Dr. Mukesh Khattar, Energy Director, Oracle. Dr. Khattar leads Oracle&rsquo;s commitment to reducing energy use in facilities and data centers. His responsibilities include strategic planning and implementation of energy efficiency and carbon foot print reduction plans for existing as well as new construction globally. Under his leadership, Oracle has made several no- and low-cost efficiency enhancements which continue to yield over $2 million annually in direct energy cost savings. Dr. Khattar has a unique set of skills: besides as an end user at Oracle, his past experience includes research management at the Electric Power Research Institute, research at Florida Solar Energy Center, teaching at Florida Institute of Technology; and HVAC&amp;R systems design, sales, construction and project management.Bruce Klafter, Sr. Director, Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS), Applied Materials, Inc.  Bruce also serves as Head, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability for the company.  Bruce heads up Applied&rsquo;s EHS department, which is responsible for assisting business units worldwide with compliance, industrial hygiene, product safety and various strategic initiatives.  The Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability role encompasses a wide variety of reporting, employee engagement and other projects aimed at enhancing Applied&rsquo;s global citizenship programs.    Bruce presently serves as an Advisory Council member for Sustainable Silicon Valley, the Association of Climate Change Officers and for Next Ten&rsquo;s Green Innovation Index.Hal LaFlash, Director, Emerging Clean Technology Policy, Pacific Gas &amp; Electric (PG&amp;E).Hal LaFlash is the director of emerging clean technologies in the energy procurement organization at Pacific Gas and Electric Company. His duties include assessing the state of technologies that will affect how PG&amp;E fills its future resource needs, which includes understanding, evaluating, and supporting emerging renewable energy and other clean energy technologies. Hal has been at PG&amp;E for 29 years where he has held various positions in energy efficiency, non-utility generation, gas transportation, resource planning, and renewable energy policy. He also held positions at PG&amp;E Corporation in corporate development and business planning. Dan Lankford, Managing Director, Wavepoint Ventures. Dan brings more than 30 years of experience in the telecommunications equipment, software, semiconductor, and energy technology industries to Wavepoint, including senior leadership roles at AT&amp;T/Bell Labs/Agere Systems and several early-stage companies. Prior to Wavepoint, Dan was Chairman and CEO of BOLDER Technologies, where he took the company from early-stage through IPO and raised more than $100 million in the private and public markets. BOLDER was an energy technology company that, among other things, supplied the batteries for the original Chrysler hybrid electric vehicle project. Dan is a former commissioner on the Colorado Governor's Commission on Science and Technology and has presented at the White House Conference on Alternative Energy. Rich Lechner, Vice President, Energy &amp; Environment, IBM. Rich was named Vice President of Energy &amp; Environment in September 2008. In this role, he leads IBM&rsquo;s efforts in helping clients address the issues and opportunities around energy, the environment, and sustainability. He is responsible for defining strategy and managing the broad portfolio of capabilities and offerings that leverage IBM&rsquo;s technology innovation, deep industry insight, and business process strategy. Mr. Lechner has a strong track record for driving key cross IBM initiatives that deliver value to clients of all sizes including virtualization, Project Big Green, and IBM&rsquo;s New Enterprise Data Center Strategy.Marc LePage, Special Advisor, Climate Change and Energy, Embassy of Canada. Marc was appointed Special Advisor, Climate Change and Energy in September 2009.  Prior to his appointment Marc was the Consul General at the Consulate General of Canada, San Francisco | Silicon Valley with responsibility for northern California, Nevada and Hawaii. Formerly with Genome Canada, Marc brings extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry, biotechnology, and venture capital.  Mr. LePage joined the Trade Commissioner Service of the Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce in 1980 and has served abroad in Stockholm, Havana and at San Diego, California.  In 1994, Mr. LePage moved to the Medical Research Council of Canada (now the Canadian Institutes of Health Research) to serve as Director of Business Development. Upon its launch in July of 2000, he joined Genome Canada as Executive Vice-President of Corporate Development, the capacity in which he has served to date. He holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Moncton, New Brunswick.Bruce Pasternack, Venture Partner, CMEA Capital. Bruce focuses on cleantech energy opportunities.  He returned to the Bay Area in 2007, after serving as President and CEO of Special Olympics Inc. Previously, Bruce spent almost thirty years as a Senior Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton where he was Managing Partner of the firm&rsquo;s worldwide Energy, Chemicals, and Pharmaceuticals Practice; its Organization and Strategic Leadership Practice, and its SF office. From 1992-2000, he participated in the Governors for Energy of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he also moderated several CEO panels on various energy industry topics.  He was a frequent participant in the annual Aspen Energy Policy Forum.  He is currently on the Board of Quantum Corp., Symyx Technologies, Codexis Inc., Foro Energy, ACORE (American Council on Renewable Energy), and The Cooper Union (his alma mater).  Bruce has co-authored two books: The Centerless Corporation and Results, as well as articles in Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Strategy &amp; Business, etc.Prakash Ramachandran, CFO, Nordic Windpower. Prakash is a finance professional with over 25 years experience in USA and Asia. Prakash is currently Chief Financial Officer of Nordic Windpower, a company that provides two bladed utility scale turbines to the wind energy industry. Nordic is funded by Khosla Ventures, NEA, Novus Energy Partners, Goldman Sachs, Impax Asset Management, I2BF Venture Capital and Pulsar Energy Partners. The Company is based in Berkeley, CA with offices in UK, Sweden and manufacturing operations in Pocatello, Idaho. Prakash is responsible for all financial matters of the company including corporate financing as well as project financing. Prakash has a masters&rsquo; degree in Management from Stanford Business School (Sloan Fellows Program). He is a Chartered Accountant from India (where he scored 13th rank among 10,000 candidates all over India) and is also a Chartered Management Accountant of U.K.Arthur P. Ramirez, Dean of Jack Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz.  Art Ramirez received both B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Yale University.  His doctoral thesis dealt with the thermodynamic signature of solitons in a quasi-one dimensional ferromagnet.  Art then did a postdoc at Bell Labs and studied the interplay of superconductivity and magnetism in heavy fermion materials. Between 1986 and 2000 he was Member of Technical Staff at Bell and worked on a variety of different topics in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, including superconductivity in high-Tc cuprates and buckyballs, colossal magnetoresistance in magnanites, and geometrical frustration in magnetic and structural systems.  In 2009 he moved to the University of California Santa Cruz where he is Dean of the Baskin School of Engineering. At UCSC, Art is also setting up a materials characterization lab to do research in devices from novel materials and the development of novel multifunctional systems.Tom Rand, Practice Lead, Cleantech and Physical Science Venture Group, MaRS. Tom has a successful Normal0MicrosoftInternetExplorer4/* Style Definitions */table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";}entrepreneurial background, including the founding of Voice Courier Inc. in 1991 and leading its expansion to 100 employees in three countries. He founded VCi Green Funds in 2005, a private venture fund to provide angel and venture capital to companies developing emission-reduction technologies. This included taking hands-on leadership roles in cleantech companies ranging from geothermal to wind to green buildings to hydrogen. He has Board experience on leading cleantech organizations and was the manager for the Green Bonds public policy team, a high profile initiative that was part of the Federal Liberal party's platform in the last election. Recently, Tom was appointed an Action Canada fellow and his book &quot;Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit: Ten Technologies to Save Our World&quot; will be released in the US in Spring, 2010. John Randall (Randy) Lewis, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &amp; Rosati. Randy has extensive experience in many areas of corporate and securities law, including public offerings, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital and private equity financings. Randy is a leader in the firms clean technology and renewable energy practice, his practice focuses on the representation of clean technology and other growth companies, ranging from start-ups to large public corporations.Camille Ricketts, GreenBeat Writer, VentureBeat. Camille Ricketts is the green technology writer for VentureBeat. She reports on the intersection of money, policy and conservation in the energy, manufacturing and IT industries. Before joining the VentureBeat staff in 2008, she worked at Google in television and offline advertising tools. A journalist by trade, Camille Ricketts started her career as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, covering arts and culture in both London and New York. Her interest in technology writing stems from her years at Stanford, during which time she served as editor in chief of the Stanford Daily and received the Daniel Pearl Memorial Internship prize. Camille Ricketts holds a B.A. in women&rsquo;s history from Stanford University.Brad Rock, Partner, DLA Piper. Brad concentrates in mergers and acquisitions; corporate securities, venture financings, and public offerings; public company securities law compliance; and software and hardware licensing and distribution. Recent Matters include: Representation of semiconductor start-ups in the negotiation of strategic partnerships involving technology licensing, foundry commitment, and equity investment.  He advised software companies in initial public offerings and also represented har rdware, software, and multimedia companies in venture capital financings.Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4/* Style Definitions */table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}                                                                                                                Kate Sherwood, Director of Development, Recurrent Energy . Kate leads the commercial and municipal utility development efforts for Recurrent Energy.  Prior to joining the company, Kate was a Project Development Manager at SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWRA), where she developed over 10 megawatts of solar projects under PPA and direct purchase agreements with Applied Materials and Macy&rsquo;s.  Kate has also held consulting, sales, finance, and management positions with Accenture, Sun Microsystems, the U.S.-India Business Council, and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Kate holds a MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BS cum laude from George Mason University.Dylan Steeg, Director, Intel Capital. Dylan is currently a Director at Intel Capital, Intel Corporation&rsquo;s global venture capital organization, and responsible for several cleantech and semiconductor sectors, including photovoltaics, smart grid, datacenter energy efficiency, and semiconductor manufacturing. Prior to Intel Capital, Dylan was a Process and Metrology Engineer within Intel&rsquo;s Technology and Manufacturing organization, leading the development of processes and manufacturing equipment which were proliferated throughout Intel&rsquo;s global fab network.  Dylan&rsquo;s projects included the development of fully automated metrology systems to monitor the quality of Intel products throughout the manufacturing line, and several elements of Intel&rsquo;s flip chip assembly line. Dylan received a MBA in Finance from the Columbia Business School and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University&rsquo;s College of Engineering.  Cassandra Sweet, Reporter, Dow Jones Newswires. Cassandra Sweet writes about energy and environmental markets for Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal. She began her journalism career in 1996 covering Bosnia's post-war reconstruction and for the last eight years has focused on energy markets, including power, renewable energy, natural gas and oil.Robert C. Walker, Ph.D.,Principal, Sierra Ventures. Sierra Ventures is a private venture capital firm that manages nine venture capital partnerships which together have more than $1.5 billion of committed capital. Current investments include companies based in the United States, Canada, China and India. Dr. Walker focuses on investments in solid state lighting, displays, clean technology, solar energy and semiconductors. Prior to Sierra he was CEO of BridgeLux, a high power LED lighting company, from 2005-2007, and served on its Board of Directors from 2004. In 2003 Dr. Walker founded YEBY Associates, a Silicon Valley-based consultancy specializing in the Solid State Lighting industry, and continues to serve as a Principal there. Hing Wong, Managing Director - China/USA, Walden International. Hing Wong focuses on semiconductors and clean technology, especially in China. Mr. Wong leverages extensive resources in portfolio companies and industry networks to build value and opportunities. He earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley.    Platinum Sponsors:                                                                                                              Gold Sponsor:    Marketing Sponsor:                                                                                                                                                   Host Sponsor:                                        
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