2008 Speakers by Educational Track
The following is intended to provide an overview for the conference session speakers by track. Stay tuned – the program is updated daily!
- Affordable Single and Multi-Family Housing
- Architecture & Design
- Building & Construction
- Communities & Development
- Economics of Green Building
- Energy Efficiency & Renewables
- Government & Policy
- Healthy Building
- Initiative Development
- Innovation, Clean Tech & Idea Funding
- Marketing & Branding Green
- Keynote
- Stories from Luminaries
- Sustainable & New Business Strategies
- Technology & Materials
- Water & Landscaping
Affordable Single and Multi-Family Housing
Heather Larson
California Multifamily New Homes Program Manager
www.h-m-g.com/multifamily/cmfnh
Jeff Oberdorfer, AIA CDS,
Executive Director, First Community Housing
www.firsthousing.com
Nehemiah Stone,
Director of DSM Implementation, KEMA Services, Inc.
Julieann Summerford,
Associate Director of Implementation, Heschong Mahone Group, Inc.
www.h-m-g.com
Wayne Waite,
Western Region Energy Advisor, US Department of Housing and Urban Development
Walker Wells,
AICP LEED AP, Global Green
www.globalgreen.org
Architecture & Design
Allison Arieff,
Editor, Sunset Magazine and "By Design" Columnist, New York Times
Steve Bishop,
Sustainability Domain Lead, IDEO
www.ideo.com
Eric Corey Freed,
Principal, organicARCHITECT
www.organicarchitect.com
Michelle Kaufmann,
Principal, Michelle Kaufmann Designs
www.mkd-arc.com
Michael Kloefkorn,
Co-chair Residential Green Building Advocacy Committee, USGBC Northern California Chapter
Piper Kujac,
Co-chair Residential Green Building Advocacy Committee, USGBC Northern California Chapter
Sarah Susanka,
Author of The Not So Big House
www.notsobighouse.com
Chris Waugh,
Practice Lead, Consumer Experience Design, IDEO
www.ideo.com
Building & Construction
Gordon Cooke,
Trainer & Marketing Specialist, Building Knowledge Inc.
www.buildingknowledge.net
Mark LaLiberte,
Building Specialist & Trainer, Building Knowledge
www.buildingknowledge.net
Todd Lukesh, LEED AP, CGBP, GPR,
Sustainability Manager, Webcor Builders
www.webcor.com
Matt Golden,
President, Sustainable Spaces
www.sustainablespaces.com
Debbie Mackey,
President, NARI of San Jose, Daniel Mackey Construction Incorporated
Bob Massaro,
CEO, Healthy Buildings Management Group, Inc.
www.healthybuildingsusa.com
Carl Seville,
Principal, Seville Consulting
www.sevilleconsulting.com
Communities & Development
Allison Arieff,
Editor, Sunset Magazine and "By Design" Columnist, New York Times
Economics of Green Building
Shyam Kannan,
Vice PresidentDirector of Research and Development, RCLCO
www.rclco.com
Hunter Lovins,
Founder & President, Natural Capitalism Group
www.natcapsolutions.org
Energy Efficiency & Renewables
Panama Bartholomy,
Advisor to Chairperson Pfannenstiel, California Energy Comission
www.energy.ca.gov
Government & Policy
Panama Bartholomy,
Advisor to Commissioner Karen Douglas, California Energy Comission
www.energy.ca.gov
Cal Broomhead,
Energy Manager, City of San Francisco
www.sfgov.org
Bob Chase,
Chief Building Official, City of Sacramento
www.cityofsacramento.org
Rich Chien,
Residential Green Building Coordinator, SF Dept of the Environment
www.sfenvironment.org
Gil Friend,
CEO, Natural Logic
www.natlogic.com
Richard Lyon,
Senior Advocate, California Building Industry Association
www.cbia.org
Dana Papke,
Senior Air Pollution Control Specialist and Green Building Lead, California Air Resources Board
Chris Pyke,
Climate Change Team Lead, CTG Energetics
www.ctg-net.com/energetics/Default.aspx
Bob Raymer,
Senior Advocates, California Building Industry Association
www.cbia.org
Janill Richards,
Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General
Nick Zigelbaum,
Energy Analyst, NRDC
www.nrdc.org
Healthy Building
Mary Cordaro,
President and Founder, H3Environmental
www.h3environmental.com
Leif Magnuson,
Pollution Prevention Coordinator, U.S. EPA Region IX, WST-7
www.epa.gov/region09/p2
Jennifer Roberts,
Author Of Good Green Kitchens
www.goodgreenhomes.com
Initiative Development
David Delgato,
Mars Public Engagement Outreach Coordinator, Imagine Mars Project JPL/NASA
www.jpl.nasa.gov, imaginemars.jpl.nasa.gov
Michael Sammet,
Sustainable Design Program Director, UC Berkeley Extension
www.unex.berkeley.edu/gogreen/
Innovation, Clean Tech & Idea Funding
Fahri Diner,
Managing Director, Sigma Partners
www.sigmapartners.com
Paul Holland,
General Partner, Foundation Capital
www.foundationcapital.com
Jim Robbins,
Executive Director, Environmental Business Cluster
www.environmentalcluster.org
Trae Vassallo,
Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers
www.kpcb.com
Marketing & Branding Green
Celia Canfield,
Principal, Eco Vertex
www.ecovertex.blogspot.com
Gordon Cooke,
Trainer & Marketing Specialist, Building Knowledge Inc.
www.buildingknowledge.net
Sean Dunn,
Partner/Account Executive, Groove 11
www.groove11.com
Mark LaLiberte,
Building Specialist & Trainer, Building Knowledge
www.buildingknowledge.net
Keynote
Chris Jordan,
Photographer and Designer
www.chrisjordon.com
John Knott,
Managing Director/ CEO, The Noisette Company, LLC
www.noisettesc.com/res_noisetteco.html
Mayor Chuck Reed,
Mayor, San Jose
www.sanjoseca.gov/mayor
Sarah Susanka,
Author of The Not So Big House
www.notsobighouse.com
David Suzuki,
Chair, David Suzuki Foundation
www.davidsuzuki.org
Stories from Luminaries
Allison Arieff,
Editor, Sunset Magazine and "By Design" Columnist, New York Times
David Gottfried,
Co-Founder, USGBC
www.worldbuild.com
Randy Hayes,
Senior Staff, IFG
Michelle Kaufmann,
Principal, Michelle Kaufmann Designs
www.mkd-arc.com
Hunter Lovins,
Founder & President, Natural Capitalism Group
www.natcapsolutions.org
Sarah Susanka,
Author of The Not So Big House
www.notsobighouse.com
Sim Van der Ryn
Principal, Van der Ryn Architects
www.ecodesign.org
Carol Venolia,
Architect and Director, Carol Venolia, Architect
Alex Wilson,
Founder & President, Building Green, Inc.
www.buiildinggreen.com
Sustainable & New Business Strategies
Shyam Kannan,
Vice President Director of Research and Development, RCLCO
www.rclco.com
Technology & Materials
Mark Johnson, FAIA,
Senior Manager of Architecture & Design Marketing, Whirlpool
Alex Wilson,
Founder & President, Building Green, Inc.
www.buildinggreen.com
Peter Yost,
Program Manager, Building Green, Inc.
www.buildinggreen.com
Water & Landscaping
Josiah Cain,
Landscape Architect and Ecological Designer, Rana Creek Living Architecture
www.ranacreek.com
Andrew Mannle,
Senior Editor, Arcwire.org
www.arcwire.org