Organizing Committee

Program

Provisional Program

The Energy 2030 Conference Technical Program will be comprised of fourteen Invited Lectures by top executives and distinguished experts from academia and industry around the world.  The Program is designed by invitation only, to solicit contributions from leading experts in each topical area of the conference.  These Invited Speakers will share their vision of resources and technologies spanning fossil and alternative fuels (hydrogen, methanol and ethanol), energy from waste and biomass, solar and nuclear energy, energy efficiency and environmental initiatives.  Energy economics and the security of energy supply are also at the heart of the debate. 

The confirmed Keynote Lectures to date are:

• Technological Innovation and the Future of the Oil and Gas Industry
  Prof. David G. Victor, Director, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Stanford University, USA
  
  
• Energy and Reason: Securing and Sustaining Global Reach for the US Air Force
  Dr. Donald R. Erbschloe, Chief Scientist, US Air Mobility Command, USA
  
  
• Innovation for a Sustainable Energy Future: Renewable Energy’s Role
  Dr. Michael Pacheco, Director for Program Development, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA
  
  
• Biomass as Renewable Energy Source for Sustainability
  Prof. Ramesh K. Agarwal, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
  
  
• Reducing the Carbon Footprint during Power Generation and Chemical Synthesis
  Prof. Adel Sarofim, Presidential Professor at the University of Utah, and Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  
  
• Clean and Sustainable Energy Supply: The European Approach
  Prof. Klaus Hein, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  
  
• Energy Research and Education
  Prof. Avram Bar-Cohen, Distinguished University Professor and Chair, University of Maryland, USA.
  
  

Full details of the Invited Speaker Program will be announced by August 18, 2008.