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2009 Daily Schedule

Schedule Topics Tracks
Dave Nielsen, Co-Founder, CloudCamp
ROOM Cowell
Theater
Southside
Theater
C370 C210 C205 Fleet
  Keynotes Sessions Sessions Sessions Interactive
Salons
Summits
8:00     West Coast Green Alumni Orientation & Networking CafeMary Ann Gallagher, Conference Design Director, West Coast Green West Coast Green Newcomer Orientation & NetworkingCelia Canfield, Chief Development Director, West Coast Green A Discussion With Urban Land Institute Marketing Your Green Products and Services: trends, technologies and success stories (Room 260 in Building C)
8:30    
9:00 - 10:30 Thursday Keynote Daniel Kammen, Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy, Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley
Peter Darbee, CEO, PG&E
       
       
       
11:00 am - 12:00 pm The New Symbiosis: Business & Society

John L. Knott, President & CEO, The Noisette Company
Hazel Henderson, Founder, Ethical Markets Media, LLC
Greening Existing Buildings: The Biggest Piece of the Low Carbon Puzzle

Panama Bartholomy, Advisor to Commissioner Douglas, California Energy Commission
Brian Gitt, Principal, BKI
Solar Permitting Forum

Greg Sellers, President, Burnham Energy
Steve Pantazes, Representative, Solar Sonoma County
Andrew Yip, PG&E
Brightest Bulb in the Box: Lighting Ideas

Michael Kanellos, Editor in Chief, Greentech Media
Warner Philips, Managing Partner, Tendris
Michael D’Amour, President & CEO, Lumenergi, Inc.
Solving the Upfront Cost Barrier for Retrofits: Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Financing

Cisco Devries, President, Renewable Funding
Michael Martin, Development Project Manager, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Rodney Dole, Treasurer, Sonoma County
 
12:30 - 1:30 pm   Green by Design: Looking at the House as a System

Peter Pfeiffer, Principal, Barley & Pfeiffer Architects
Delivering on our Promise: Sustainable Solutions to Achieve our Climate and Economic Goals
Matt Golden, President & Founder, Sustainable Spaces
What’s Smart About Solar

Gary Gerber, President, Sun Light & Power Co.
Carbon Accounting for the Building Industry

Frankie Ridolfi, Director of Marketing, Climate Earth
Rachel Roberts

Krystal Kayney,
Summit: Game Changing Energy Solutions

Dave Nielsen, Facilitator, CloudCamp
This session has been brought to you by PG&E

Jeff Brown, Director of Service & Sales, PG&E
2:00 - 3:00 pm The California Academy of Sciences Design-Build Team Panel

Leslie Guevarra, Associate Editor, GreenerBuildings.com, GreenBiz.com
Alison Brown, Chief of Staff & CFO, California Academy of Sciences
Paul Switenki, Mechanical Engineer, ARUP
Jes Pedersen, Senior Vice President & Project Executive, Webcor Builders
Harry O’Brien, Partner, Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass – Lead Counsel
Don Young, President, D.R. Young Associates – Development Manager
Meagan Levitan, Board Member, San Francisco Recreation & Parks Commission
America's Moment: The Next Agenda for Truly Transforming Energy

Peter Leyden, Founder & CEO, Next Agenda
The Energy Dashboard Dashboard

Josh Becker, General Partner & Co-founder, New Cycle Capital
Gene Wang, CEO, People Power Co.
Integrating Water Systems into the Whole Building

Gary Klein, Managing Partner, Affiliated International Management, LLC
The Art of Selling Green to Commercial Buyers

Lewis Perkins, Principal, New House LLC
Kirsten Ritchie, Director of Sustainable Design, Gensler Architecture Design and Planning Worldwide
Martin Flaherty, President, ecoScorecard
Zorana Bosnic, Vice President, Sustainable Design Director, HOK
3:30 - 4:30 PM Ecotone: Where Top Down Meets Bottom Up

Celia Canfield, Chief Development Director, West Coast Green
Adam Werbach, Global CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi S
Steve Newcomb, CEO & Co-Founder, Virgance
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Look at Green & Not-So-Green Building Products

Alex Wilson, Founder & President, Building Green, Inc.
Sustainability Measurements and Metrics: ABC’s and More

Sara Ellis Conant, Manager, Enterprise Sustainability, Deloitte Consulting
The Passive House Standard for Deep Energy Retrofits - Zero Net Energy Buildings

Prudence Ferreira, CEO, Integral Impact Inc.
Nabih Tahan, Principal, BauTechnologies
Graham Irwin, Principal, Essential Habitat
Connected Sustainability, Innovation and the New Economy

Jeff Weinberger, Chair, Cisco WebEx Green Initiative, Cisco WebEx
Summit: Lasting Behavior Change Through Dashboard Technologies

Dave Nielsen, Facilitator, CloudCamp
Gil Friend, CEO, Natural Logic, Inc.
Josh Becker, General Partner & Co-founder, New Cycle Capital
Janet Peterson, Co-Founder, Our Home Spaces
5:00 - 6:00 PM The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act: An Economic Stimulus Overview

Panama Bartholomy, Advisor to Commissioner Douglas, California Energy Commission
Making Sustainable Residential Design Affordable: How Does Certification Affect Your Value?

Piper Kujac, Co-Chair, Northern California Chapter RGB Advocacy Committee
Heather Larson, Program Manager, Stopwaste
Mike Kerwin, Co-Founder, Lorax Development
Laura Billings, , Sage Green Development
Show Me The Money! An Overview of Venture Trends

Paul Holland, General Partner, Foundation Capital
Best Practices in Residential Water Use & Reuse

Steve Lehtonen, Managing Director, GreenPlumbers USA
Brod Street, Senior Policy Officer, Department of Sustainability and Environment
Your Guide to Navigating Green Remodeling Standards

Tenaya Asan, Program Manager, GreenPoint Rated, Build It Green
Paul Welschmeyer, Principal, Welschmeyer Architects
ROOM Cowell
Theater
Southside
Theater
C370 C210 C205 Fleet
  Keynotes Sessions Sessions Sessions Interactive
Salons
Summits
8:00     Faculty (current and former) Networking Cafe SF School District Networking Cafe San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Networking Cafe SF School District Networking Cafe
8:30    
9:00 Friday Keynote
Ray Anderson,
Chairman & Founder, Interface, Inc.; Author, Confessions of a Radical Industrialist
Andrew Winston, Founder, Winston Eco-Strategies and Author, Green Recovery and Green to Gold
Rebecca Costa, Futurist and Author, The Watchman's Rattle
       
9:30        
10:00        
11:00 Blended Building Design: The Positive Social Impact of Sustainable Structures

Dev Crews, Chief Sustainability Officer, Luminesa- Illuminated Marketing
Stefan Mühle, General Manager and Regional Director, Orchard Hotels / Portfolio Hotels & Resorts
Alison Brown, Chief of Staff & CFO, California Academy of Sciences
Erin Carson, Development Specialist, Housing, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
Sustainable Principles Meet Sustainable Practices

Martin Melaver, CEO, Melaver, Inc.
David Orr, Chair of Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College
This session has been brought to you by Urban ReVision
The Big Pitcher - Integrated Water Systems

Andy Mannle, Sustainable Strategy and Communications
Paul Kephart, President, Rana Creek
Bry Sarté, Principal & CEO, Sherwood Design Engineers
Implementing the Triple Top Line: Exponential Greening for Maximum Building Performance

Tom Paladino, President, Paladino and Company
Social Media for Real: Engaging Strategies

Ian Bryan, President & Founder, The Sensible City, Inc
Nick Aster, Co-Founder, Triple Pundit
David Phillips, CEO, NaturalPath Media
Debra Berman, Managing Director, Justmeans
Michael Penwarden, CEO, Matter Network
Summit: Green Building 3.0 - Creating Demand For Retrofitting and Remodeling

Leif Magnuson, Residential Green Building CoordinatorEPA
Matt Golden, President & Founder, Sustainable Spaces
Brian Gitt, Principal, BKI
Bruce Mast, Development Director, Build It Green
Mary Ann Dickinson, Executive Director, Alliance for Water Efficiency
Panama Bartholomy, Advisor to Commissioner Douglas, California Energy Commission
George Kopf, Program Director, Green Energy Training Services, Rising Sun Energy Center
11:30
12:30   Let’s Green That Job

Panama Bartholomy, Advisor to Commissioner Douglas, California Energy Commission
Jared Blumenfeld, Director, Department of the Environment, City and County of San Francisco
Carla Din, Director, East Bay Green Corridor Partnership
Next Gen Design: Out of the Cradle, Now What?

Jessica Switzer, Partner, Blue Practice
Jason Kibbey, Founder, Pact Apparel
David Johnson, Director of West Coast Studio, William McDonough and Partners
Gadi Amit, Principal Designer & Founder, NewDealDesign
Telling Your Sustainable Brand Story

Pam Van Orden, President, Enlightened Brand
Susan Bierzychudek, Principal, Green Ideals
Exponential Change: Examples & Strategies

Jon Alexander, President, Sunshine Construction LLC
Elliott Lemenager, Social Media Strategist, Projectline, Online Community Manager, Microsoft
Greening Fort Mason Design Slam

Sean Culman, AIA, LEED AP, Solutions
Bill Burke, Assistant Director, Pacific Energy Center
Ken Kortkamp, Associate, Sherwood Design Engineers
Michael Kloefkorn, Associate, Van Meter Williams Pollack, LLP
Bry Sarté, Principal & CEO, Sherwood Design Engineers
James Stickley, Principal, Wallace Roberts and Todd
Laurie Durnell, Director of Consulting, The Grove Consultants International
1:00
2:00 Beyond Bucky: Anticipatory Perspectives & Comprehensive Solutions

Bonnie DeVarco, Founder, Media X, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
Gil Friend, CEO, Natural Logic, Inc.
David McConville, Director of Noospheric Research, The Elumenati, Buckminster Fuller Institute
Integrative Design Mashup: Building & Living Systems

Bill Reed, President, Integrative Design Collaborative
The Smart Grid Meets Smart Buildings

Brian Duggan, Director of Thought Leadership Programs, West Coast Green
Andrew Tang, Senior Director, Smart Energy Web, PG&E
Drew Clark, Director of Sustainability, IBM Venture Capital Group
Michael Terrell, Energy Policy Counsel, Google Inc.
ARRA: Managing the Risk and Reaping the Reward

Paul Campbell, Principal, Deloitte
Green From the Beginning: Roofing Solutions With Concrete Tile

Chris Doelle, VP Sales & Marketing, MonierLifetile
John Renowden, Product Manager, MonierLifetile
2:30
3:30 Human Evolution as it Relates to Environmental Change

Rebecca Costa, Trendist, Biodiversity Foundation and Author,, The Watchman's Rattle
Pragmatic Idealism: The Principles & Problems of Visionary Leadership

John Marshall Roberts, Co-Founder, Conceptual Age Media
Sim Van der Ryn, Chief Wizard, Ecodesign Collaborative
Marketing Green: Leveraging Value Through Winning Marketing Practices

Celia Canfield, Chief Development Director, West Coast Green
Sandy Skees, Founder & CEO, Communications4Good
Amy Hebard, Chief Research Officer & Co-Founder, Earthsense
Deep Retrofits of Commercial Buildings

Matt Macko, Principal, Environmental Building Strategies
Jose Guevara, Property Manager, Cushman & Wakefield of California, Inc.
Developing to Scale : Critical Steps on the Path to Zero Carbon Communities

Jonathan Scharfman, Land Development Director, Universal Paragon Corporation
Jennifer Devlin, Principal, EHDD Architects
Alisdair McGregor, Principal, ARUP
Summit: Defining Business in The New Economy

Gordon Starr, CEO, Starr Consulting Group
Paul Dolan, President, Mendocino Wine Group
Tom Paladino, President, Paladino and Company
4:00
5:00 Entrepreneurs Pitch Brilliant Ideas to Investors

Kathleen Gilligan, Partner, EcoStrategy Group
Peter Liu, Founder & Vice Chairman, New Resource Bank
Esther Park, Director, Lending Program, RSF Social Finance
Adam Boucher, CEO & Founder, The Ethos Fund, LLC
Rex Northen, Executive Director, Cleantech Open
Jon Bonanno, Chairman, Principle Power & Keiretsu Cleantech Investment, Committee Chairman,
Rachel Sheinbein, Senior Associate, Energy and Materials, CMEA Capital
Housing 2.0: Re-Thinking the Prefab Model

Michelle Kaufmann, Principal, Michelle Kaufmann Studio
House Talk with GreenBuildingAdvisor.com

Peter Yost, Director of Residential Services, GreenBuildingAdvisor.com
Ann Edminster, M.Arch, Green Building Consultant, Design AVEnues
Matt Golden, President & Founder, Sustainable Spaces
Bruce King, Grand Pooh-bah, Green Building Advisor
The Water and Energy Connection: San Francisco Case in Point

Gary Klein, Managing Partner, Affiliated International Management, LLC
Mary Ann Dickinson, Executive Director, Alliance for Water Efficiency
Rosey Jencks, Stormwater Planner, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
 
5:30

ROOM Cowell
Theater
C370 C210 C205 Fleet
  Keynotes Sessions Sessions Interactive
Salons
Summits
8:00   Networking Cafe Networking Cafe Networking Cafe Networking Cafe
8:30  
9:00 Saturday Keynote
Cameron Sinclair,
Co-Founder, Author, Architecure for Humanity,Design Like You Give a Damn
Bill Reed, President, Integrative Design Collaborative
     
9:30      
10:00      
11:00 Moving Business Forward

David Hopkins, Co-Author, The Tactics of Hope: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Changing Our World
Gordon Starr, CEO, Starr Consulting Group
Lynne Twist, Author, The Soul of Money and Co-Founder, The Pachamama Alliance
Says Who? Deciphering Ratings, Certifications & Eco-labels

Tom Lent, Policy Director, Healthy Building Network
Heather Gadonniex, Managing Partner, Sustainability, MindClick SGM
EPA Presents: Lifecycle Building Challenges & Solutions

Scott Shell, Senior Associate and Sustainability Expert, EHDD Architects
Saskia van Gendt, Lifecycle Building Challenge and Energy Coordinator, EPA - Region 9
How to Guarantee Your Building is Working-- or Prove It Is Not

Rick Chitwood, President, Chitwood Energy Management, Inc.
Detroit, Dallas & Despotism: 3D View of Sustainability

Eric Corey Freed, Principal, organicARCHITECT
11:30
12:30   Affordable, Zero Energy Buildings Will Lead to Economic Rebound and Climate Recovery

Naomi Porat, CEO, ZETA Communities
Peter Rumsey P.E, Founder & President, Rumsey Engineers
Biomimicry: Nature as Mentor

Jeremy Faludi, Associate Professor, Stanford University, Project FROG
A Traditional Building Medium Revisited: Innovations in Wood

Peter Moonen, Co-Leader, Sustainability Coordinator, SustainableBuilding Coalition / Wood WORKS!
Summit: Creating Social and Sustainable Economic Development in West Oakland

Kirstin Miller, Executive Director, Ecocity Builders, Inc.
John L. Knott, President & CEO, The Noisette Company
Allison Arieff, By Design Columnist, New York Times
Marcel Diallo, Executive Director, Village Bottoms Community Development Corporation
This session has been brought to you by The Home Depot Foundation
1:00
2:00 New Models of Finance: More Than For Profit

Lisa Michelle Galley, Managing Principal, Galley Eco Capital LLC
Esther Park, Director, Lending Program, RSF Social Finance
Adam Boucher, CEO & Founder, The Ethos Fund, LLC
Strategies for Integrated Water Management

Josiah Cain, Principal, Design Ecology
Home Energy Auditing & Retrofitting-– The Standards

Bob Knight, President, Bevilacqua-Knight, Inc.
Larry Zarker, CEO, Building Performance Institute
 
2:30
Evening Activities West Coast Green After Party at the California Academy of Sciences!