Keynote Presenters:
David Helliwell, Founder and CEO, Pulse Energy
Dr. Mark Jaccard, Professor, School of Resource and Environment Management, Simon Fraser University
Jessica Matthews, Co-Founder & CEO, Uncharted Play, Inc
Peter Mansbridge, Chief Correspondent CBC News
Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Director-General of TERI (Tata Energy Research Institute)
Dianne Dillon-Ridgley, Board of Directors at Interface, Inc
Julia Silverman, Co-Founder of the Soccket
Scott Tudman, President and Co-Founder, Energy in Common
Breakout/Panel Presenters:
Robert Abenante, Managing Director at International Eco Endeavor
Ross Beaty, Chairman and CEO, Alterra Power Corp
Professor Duane Bratt, Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Policy Studies at Mount Royal University
Christopher Brownfield, A former US Naval Officer and author of My Nuclear Family
Professor Michael Byers, Liu Institute for Global Issues & Political Science University of British Columbia
Dr. Maxwell Cameron, Professor of Political Science at UBC specializing in Latin American studies
Lisa Coltart, Director of Power Smart, BC Hydro
Al Cormier, Founding Executive Director of Electric Mobility Canada
Glen Darou, President and CEO, Clean Current
Michael Delage, VP Business Development at General Fusion
Dr. Chris Edwards, HiPER Fusion Project Director
Bob Elton, Executive Chair, Powertech Labs
Dr. José Etcheverry, Assistant professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University
Dr. Hassan Farhangi, SM-IEEE, Director, Group for Advanced Technology, British Columbia Institute of Technology
Kate Gasner, Prize Manager, Imagine H20
Dr. Ursula Goodenough, Washington University in St. Louis
Dr. David Goodstein, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Caltech and Author: Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil
Jennifer Grant, Oilsands Program Director, Pembina Institute
Dr. Dale Griffin, Advisory Council Chair in Consumer Behaviour Professor
Emily Grubert M.S., Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Chris Henderson, Co-Founder, Delphi Group
Dr. George Hoberg, Professor, Dept of Forest Resources Management
Dave Hughes, Fellow, Post Carbon Institute
Jeanette Jackson, CEO of Light Based Technologies
Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Wenran Jiang, Chair of the China Institute at the University of Alberta and Senior Fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.
Antonia Juhasz, Author of Black Tide:The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill and Energy Program Director at Global Exchange
Dallas Kachan, Managing Partner, Kachan & Co.
Stephen Kaufmann, Director of Business Development, Suncor Energy
Gary Killack Chief Operating Engineer, Southeast False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility (SEFC NEU)
Ron Klopfer, CEO of Etalim
Erik Kyeang, Professor of Mechatronic Systems Engineering, School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University
Janice Larson, Renewable Energy Development, BC Ministry of Energy
Dr. Andrew Leach, Assistant Professor, Energy and Environment, Alberta School of Business
Dr. Michael A. Levi, Senior Fellow for Energy and Environment, Council on Foreign Relations
Professor Giacomo Luciani, Senior Advisor, Gulf Research Center and Senior Consultant, The Gulf Research Center Foundation, Geneva
Richard MacKellar, Managing Director, Chrysalix
Dr. Ana Brito Melo, Wave Energy Centre, Portugal Executive Secretary of the Implementing Agreement on Ocean Energy Systems of the International Energy Agency (OES-IA)
Naeem Mawji, Fourth Year UBC Chemical Engineering student and recipient of UBC’s prestigious: International Leader of Tomorrow award
Dr. John S. Macdonald, Co-founder of MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates and CEO of Day4 Energy Inc
Timo Mechler, Senior Associate, Pittsburgh Equity Partners and Co-Founder and CEO POW Solutions
Dr. Mohamed A. Ramady Associate Professor Of Economics KFUPM (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals)
Alexander Munro, Environmental Opportunity Fund Advisor at Cenovus Energy
Roger Ramcharita, Director, Clean Energy Branch, Alberta Environment
Jonathon Rhone, CEO, Nexterra Doug Richardson, CEO, General Fusion
David M. Rubenstein, Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change
Dr. Blake Simmons, Vice-President, Deconstruction, Joint BioEnergy Institute Manager, Energy Systems Department, Sandia National Laboratory
Dr. Ralph Sims, Professor of Sustainable Energy, and Director, Centre for Energy Research, Massey University, New Zealand
Ted S. Singh, Business Development Manager, Co-Founder, Embedded Automation, Inc.
Doug Stout, Vice President, Energy Solutions and External Relations, FortisBC
Dr. Mehrzad Tabatabaian, Mechanical Engineering Program Head, School of Energy, British Columbia Institute of Technology
John W. Tak, President and CEO, Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (CHFCA)
Dr. James Tansey, Director, ISIS Research Centre & CEO and Founder of Offsetters
John Walker, President and Chief Executive Officer FortisBC
Dr. Don Witt, Senior Instructor, Theoretical Physics / Particle & Subatomic & String Theory, University of British Columbia
Dr. John Zhou, Executive Director, Environmental Technologies at Alberta Innovates-Energy and Environment Solutions
Joshua Zoshi, President and Co-Founder of Saltworks Technnologies |
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