Program & Speakers
Sustainably Energizing New York's Creative Core

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Choice of two Optional Field Trips (minimum of 10 people required)

• East Tour - The excursion to the east will begins with SUNY ESF's biorefinery and bioplastics, proceeds to the Willows in Tully, Fenner Wind Farm, SUNY Morrisville ending in Skaneateles with a dinner boat cruise.
• South Tour - Explore first-hand sustainability operations, research and entrepreneurship underway in Ithaca and at Cornell.  Tour Lake Source Cooling, bio-feedstock fields, and meet sustainability leaders from business and academia.  Details coming soon.
  

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Time	Conference Session and Room
8:00 - 8:30 am	Registration and Continental Breakfast in Atrium
8:30 - 9:00 am	Welcome and Opening Remarks by Cornelius Murphy, President, SUNY-ESF in Ballroom East
9:00 - 10:30 am	Keynote Panel Panel members: Robert Callender, Vice President for Programs, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority Tom King, President, Electricity Distribution and Generation, National Grid
10:30 - 10:45 am	Break in the foyer with exhibitors and displays in Ballroom West
10:45 - 12:15 pm	Sustainable Research Panel moderated by Darlene Kerr, President, Syracuse Chamber of Commerce Panel members: Cornelius B. Murphy, President, SUNY-ESF Raymond W. Cross, President, SUNY Morrisville Frank DiSalvo, Director, Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future (CCSF) Ed Bogucz, Syracuse Center of Excellence Tony Collins, President, Clarkson University
12:15 - 1:30 pm	Formal Lunch with speaker: Mel Jones, CEO, Sterling Planet in Ballroom East Presentation title: Carbon and Renewable Energy - Options for the Corporate World
1:30 - 2:15 pm	Keynote Speaker, Raymond Orbach, Under Secretary for Science, Department of Energy in Ballroom East
2:15 - 3:00 pm	Patrick Brennan, USDA Rural Development State Director in Ballroom East
3:00 - 3:15 pm	Break in the foyer with exhibitors and displays in Ballroom West
3:15 - 4:30 pm	Three Concurrent Panel sessions
	High Performance Buildings moderated by Susan Anagnost, Chair, Construction Management and Wood Products, SUNY-ESF in Room 1 Jeff Holmes, Principal Engineer, Genzyme Corporation Ron Beruta, Business Development Manager of Energy Services, Honeywell Building Solutions Michael Loth, Director of Solutions Marketing for Johnson Controls Fil L. Fina, III, PE, Vice President, Aztech Technologies, Inc.	Corporate Drivers moderated by Susan Crossett, Vice President, National Grid in Room 2 Manuel Patino, Vice President, Energy Services, Morgan Chase Matthew DeLuca , Manager of EMS and Social Compliance, Green Mountain Coffee J. Michael Younis, Resident Engineer, Anheuser Busch	Renewable Supply moderated by Carol Murphy, ACENY in Room 3 Tim Conboy, Acciona Energy, Fred Zalcman, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Sun Edison Jim Torpey, Director of Market Development, Sunpower
4:30 - 6:00 pm	Reception / Poster session and Networking in the Atrium
6:00 - 7:30 pm	Plated Dinner with Speaker in Ballroom East

Friday, July 18, 2008