Green:Net 2010

Opening Remarks

Moderated by:Emcee – Chris Albrecht – Editor GigaOM TV, GigaOM
Speakers:Om Malik – Founder, GigaOM

So the Smart Grid Will Be Huge – Now What?

The smart grid market is forecast to grow to $210 billion over the next five years, and the U.S. government has funneled close to $4 billion into smart grid utility projects so far in this year alone. What will be the infrastructure used to deliver the efficient grid services that utilities need? Is the infrastructure debate over? What characteristics does the industry need to promote innovation?

Moderated by:Clint Wheelock – Managing Director, Pike Research
Speakers:Eric Dresselhuys – EVP, Silver Spring Networks

Progressive Utilities and Grid-Connected Cars

Utilities are getting ready for the coming influx of electric vehicles that will reshape the power grid and the relationship with customers. Meanwhile entrepreneurs, startups and investors are building the next-generation of technology for electric vehicle charging. Come hear what opportunities excite NRG Energy’s VP of Electric Vehicle Services, Michael Harrigan and Southern California Edison’s EVP of Power Operations, Pedro Pizarro and how these utility leaders are getting ready for the electric vehicle boom.

Moderated by:Todd Woody – Environmental Journalist,
Speakers:Michael Harrigan – VP of Electric Vehicle Services, NRG Energy

Silver Spring Networks Workshop – Room 1

Connecting with the Consumer: Notes from the Field

Silver Spring Networks, utility customers Pacific Gas & Electric and Oklahoma Gas & Electric and technology partner, Tendril, will discuss the build out of consumer-focused applications for the smart grid, including demand response, electric vehicle charging and home energy management. PG&E and OG&E will share what they’ve learned through their own rollouts of the Silver Spring Smart Home solution. What is working? What are the challenges? What is still needed?

Moderated by:Katie Fehrenbacher – Editor Earth2Tech, GigaOM
Speakers:Eric Dresselhuys – EVP, Silver Spring Networks

The Future of Greentech From the Viewpoint of an IT Pioneer

From the investor that brought you Hotmail, Interwoven and Kana during the dotcom boom, Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, is now leading DFJ to become one of the most active – and aggressive – investors in cleantech with foreward-thinking investments in electric vehicle firm Tesla and genetics and biofuel designer Synthetic Genomics.

Speakers:Steve Jurvetson – Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Software and Computing Will Deliver Low Cost Renewable Energy

Lifelong entrepreneur Bill Gross delivered pioneers of the Internet boom through his incubator Idealab in the mid-90s. Now Gross believes that cheap computation can be the key driver in low cost renewable energy and he’ll explain how and why.

Speakers:Bill Gross – CEO, Idealab

Policy Perspective: How to Use Government to Promote Energy Efficiency

As Commissioner for the California Public Utilities Commission, Dian Grueneich has spent the past 5 years helping shape how the state embraces and incentivizes ways to boost energy efficiency, much of it using IT. Learn how your company can work with – and influence – California energy efficiency policy and what’s next in store for state policies heading into the state’s 2010 gubernatorial election.

Speakers:Dian M. Grueneich – Commissioner, California Public Utility Commission

Innovating to Reduce Energy Consumption of Computing

Data center energy consumption will be the key concern of major Internet companies in 2010. With Google’s growing computing footprint, of course the search engine giant will be innovating on its energy needs. What are Google’s best computing energy reduction practices?

Speakers:Bill Weihl – Green Energy Czar, Google

The Future of Carbon Software

Carbon software is expected to create a huge market opportunity driven largely by regulation and consumer demand. But what are the opportunities, requirements and hurdles for this market now?

Moderated by:Jeff St.John – Staff Writer Earth2Tech, GigaOM
Speakers:Anirban Chakrabarti – SVP of SAP Carbon Impact, SAP

IBM Workshop – Room 1

Building an Ecosystem for Innovation Around Smart Grid

There is a growing consensus that it will take an ecosystem to deliver the large body of capabilities being touted for the smart grid. This workshop will discuss the importance and construction of such an ecosystem, and will catalyze the conversation around how companies large and small can collaborate in delivering the next generation of applications and services for smart grid.

Moderated by:Celeste LeCompte – Special Projects Editor, GigaOM
Speakers:Lee Burrows – Partner, VantagePoint Venture Partners

Dematerialization: Replacing Atoms With Bits

Call it a side effect or an intent, but virtual products — e-books, digital music, video conferencing — can cut a significant amount of carbon compared to their real-world counterparts. How real is this opportunity and how are companies leveraging it?

Moderated by:Alexis Madrigal – Staff Writer, WIRED.com
Speakers:Saul Griffith – Co-Founder, Squid Labs

Investing in the Intersection of Green and IT

Where green meets IT offers one of the most concrete, tangible and early markets for investors to put their money. Whether that consists of investing in making IT more efficient, or in the emerging smart grid, or electric vehicle industries, expect some sizable investments and exits (IPOs!) in this intersection in 2010.

Moderated by:Paul Kedrosky – Senior Fellow, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Speakers:Tom Baruch – Founder and Managing Director, CMEA Capital

Closing Remarks