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

Svend Andersen, GHG Accountant and carbon credits and carbon management Consultant

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

Alberto Cayuela, Associate Director, University Sustainability Initiative, University of British Columbia  

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

Malcolm Shield, PhD Student(Engineering), University of British Columbia  

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