SHANGHAI, June 9 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- The International Green Energy Forum will be held on June 19th and the 20th at Westin Hotel in Shanghai, China, during the San Francisco Week (June 17th - 25th, 2010) at The World Expo. in Shanghai to celebrate the 30 years of San Francisco-Shanghai Sister City and in conjunction to The Third Annual US-China Green Energy Conference to be held on June 21st - 23rd in Suzhou, China. The Forum brings together the policy makers from the government, industry leaders, academic researchers, and global investors to discuss the technology and market trends of green and clean technology, promote joint research, facilitate international collaboration: technologies meets markets and money meets innovation. The Forum is organized by UC-China Green Energy Council (UCGEC) and VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. Established in 2008, UCGEC is a non-profit organization to facilitate and sponsor high impact green energy collaboration initiatives and projects between US and China.
To facilitate the interaction among different disciplines and to provide landscape of green energy industry, the forum will run single track in the form of panel sessions including Green IT, Smart Grid, Electric Vehicle, Venture Capital and Private Equity for green and clean technologies. Each panel will start with a keynote speech which covers the market trends, the state of art of the technologies, in particular, the top three issues of Green IT, Smart Grid, and Electric Vehicle we are facing today. The distinguished panelists then focus on the top three issues and come up with top three predictions for the next three to five years as the major consensus of the panel. In addition, we will have a Solar Power CEO Round Table to discuss the impact of recent changes of government energy policies in Europe and discuss the challenges and opportunities of different alternative technologies for solar electricity generation.
Organized by:
-- US-China Green Energy Council (UCGEC)
-- VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd.
Corporation with:
-- Silicon Valley CTO Forum
-- JA Solar
General Co-Chair:
-- Robert Wu, Chairman and CEO, UCGEC
-- Robert E. Larson, President, UCGEC and former President of IEEE
Program Co-Chair:
-- Wayne Dai, President and CEO, VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd.
-- Ahmad Bahai, CTO, National Semiconductor and Adjunct Professor,
University of California at Berkeley
Keynote Speaker:
-- Robert E. Larson, President, UCGEC and former President of IEEE
-- Robert Wu, Chairman, US-China Green Energy Council (UCGEC)
-- Sehat Sutardja, President and CEO, Marvell
-- Gang Zhao, Deputy Director, Office of International Science and
Technology Cooperation Program of New and Renewable Energy, Ministry of
Science and Technology and the National Development and Reform
Commission.
-- Ahmad Bahai, CTO, National Semiconductor and Adjunct Professor, EECS,
University of California at Berkeley
-- Jianming Liu, General Manager of Information and Telecommunication
Company, State Grid of China
-- Sunil Gupta, Managing Director of Morgan Stanley
-- Brian M. Storms，Chairman and CEO, APX Inc.
-- Richard Cantwell, President, Odell Engineering, Board Advisor to
DesignLine, Inc.
Distinguished Panelists:
-- Costas Spanos, Professor and Chairman of EECS, University of California
at Berkeley
-- Anthony Brunello, Deputy Secretary Energy & Climate Change, Natural
Resources Agency, California
-- Min Wang, the Director of HP Labs., China.
-- Howard Yang, CEO of Montage
-- Zhihua Wang, Professor of TsingHua University
-- Stephen T. Lee, Executive Managing Consultant, IBM Global Delivery
Center, China
-- Tang Yuan, Director, Department of Industry, Transportation and Trade,
Research Office, State Council
-- Zhaoguang Hu, Vice President, State Grid Energy Research Institute
(SGERI)
-- Xiaomin Bai, Deputy Chief Engineer, China Electric Power Research
Institute
-- The Honorable Jim Cunneen, Former California State Assemblyman;
Principal, California Strategies LLC
-- Charles H. Wells, OSI-soft
-- Edward G. Cazalet, President, Megawatt Storage Farms, Inc.
-- Sandra Magnani, CEO and Founder of Samares
-- Zhengrong Shi, Chairman and CEO, Suntech
-- Peng Fang, CEO, JA Solar
-- Ahmad Chatila, CEO of MEMC USA
-- Tony Liu, president of General Solar
-- Marco Landi, Chairman and President, Enerqos Italy
-- Cliff Nakayama, Managing Director of Mostwell International LLC.
-- Zhen Huang, Vice Chancellor of Shanghai Jiaotong University
-- Chuan-Fu Wang, CEO, BYD
-- Tadao Saito, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo
-- Richard Li, CTO and General Manager of China Operation, CNano
-- Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. Harold H. Buttner Chair of EECS at the
University of California at Berkeley
-- Scott S. Williams, Vice President, Coulomb Technologies
-- Chuck Ng, Managing Director, Suma Ventures
-- Sean Peng, Managing Director, WI Harper Group
-- Yimin Zimmerer, Managing Director, Walden International
-- Tina Ju, Head, KPCB China
-- Xi Yang, DFJ China
-- Nikunj Jinsi, Chief Investment Officer, IFC
-- Yong Zhang, Cleantech Practice Partner, Qiming Venture Partners
