Business Forum, San Diego 11^th August, 2011
“The World’s Top Cleantech Clusters coming together”

CLEANTECH BUSINESS FORUM: Cleantech & CleanICT

Thursday August 11, 2011

8:00 am Registration and networking breakfast
Cleantech Showroom open at 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Moderation of the Business Forum:
Shawn Lesser co-founder of GCCA, Watershed Capital Group and Nina Harjula co-founder of GCCA, Finnish Cleantech Cluster

8:30 am World’s Top Cleantech Clusters coming together
Dr Mari Pantsar-Kallio, Programme Director, Finnish Cleantech Cluster
Mr Ben Taube, Chair, Global Cleantech Cluster Association, GCCA
 

8:50 am Video Greetings from the Ambassadors
U.S. Ambassador to Finland, Mr Bruce J. Oreck and Finnish Ambassador to U.S. Mrs Ritva Koukku-Ronde

9:00 am Topic 1. Future of Sustainable Energy

9:00 – 9:30 Keynote Speaker: Mr Risto Lehtimäki, Senior Vice President,
Marketing & Communications, Metso Group, Energy and Environmental Technology
"Making sustainable energy feasible" 

9:30 – 10.10 Panel discussion: Future of Sustainable Energy

Moderation: Mr James Thompson, Editor, Waste Business Journal

Panelists:

Mr Risto Lehtimäki, Senior Vice President, Metso Group
Mr Esa Ekholm, Business Director, Lahti Science and Business Park

Mr Kris Skrinak, President, adaptiveARC Inc
 

10:10 am Topic 2. Energy efficiency, intelligent energy management & smart grids

10:10 – 10:40 Keynote Speaker: General Electrics, Smart City San Diego –project
Mrs Michelle Lesh, Smart Grid Sales Director, GE, Western Region

10:40 – 11:30 Panel discussion: Smart Energy – what are the next steps?

Moderation: Mr John Crockett, Business Development Manager SDSU Technology Transfer

Panelist:

Mr Seppo Yrjölä, Sr. Principal Innovator, Nokia Siemens Networks

Mr Anders Viden, Vice President of Product Management, BaseN

Mr Jukka Järvinen, Founder, Transition Company Oy

Mr Ted Reguly, San Diego Gas & Electric

11:30 am Networking break

12:00 am Topic 3. Water technology

12:00 – 12:30 Keynote Speaker: Mr Donald F. Rutz, Vice President, Kemira Oyj

“Technology Development through Collaboration”

12:30 – 1:10 pm Panel discussion: Water technologies

Moderation Mr Kari Herlevi, Expert, Tekes, The Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation

Panelists:

Mr Brad Donaldson, Clewer North America

Mr Tommi Uhari, CEO, Liqum

Mr Francesco Dorigo, Owner and Founder, Advanced Greywater Recycling Systems

1:10 – 2:00 pm Networking Lunch

2 :00 – 5:00 pm Pre-arranged one on one meetings

Parallel: Showroom open