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2009 Daily Schedule
- Thursday, October 1
- Friday, October 2
- Saturday, October 3
- Interactive Sessions
| 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) | ||
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | Dave Nielsen, Co-Founder, CloudCamp
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| 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 |
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| 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 | ||
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| ROOM | Cowell Theater |
C370 | C210 | C205 | Fleet |
| Keynotes | Sessions | Sessions | Interactive Salons |
Summits | |
| 8:00 | Networking Cafe | Networking Cafe | Networking Cafe | Networking Cafe | |
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| 9:00 | Saturday Keynote Cameron Sinclair, Co-Founder, Author, Architecure for Humanity,Design Like You Give a Damn Bill Reed, President, Integrative Design Collaborative |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Evening Activities | West Coast Green After Party at the California Academy of Sciences! | ||||