Think Green Global Forum

4 - 7 p.m.

Pre-registration (F/8)

6:30 - 9:00 p.m.

VIP Dinner (invitation only)

8 - 9 a.m.

Registration (F/8)

9 - 9:15 a.m.

Opening Remarks from Chairpersons

• Dr. Edward Guiliano, President, New York Institute of Technology
• Dr. Yang Zhen, President, Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications

9:15 - 10 a.m.

Government Official Speeches

Host: Prof. Huang Wei, Deputy President of NUPT

• Lady Barbara Judge, Chairman, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
• Mr. Martin J. Schoenbauer, Executive Director, US Department of Energy - China
• NUPT VIPs (Government officials from Jiangsu Province and Nanjing city)

10 - 10:20 a.m.

Networking break

10:20 - 11:10 a.m.

Keynote Speeches

• Lady Barbara Judge, Chairman, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
• Dr. Yun Le, General Manager for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo Project
• Mr. Zhang Xinsheng, former Vice Minister of Education Ministry of China

11:10 a.m. - noon

Plenary 1: Post-Copenhagen, Pre-Vancouver Climate Change

Host: Dr. Roger Yu, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, NYIT
Global warming, energy efficiency standards, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards, carbon taxes and cap-and-trade, reflections on Copenhagen. After Copenhagen, what next? What are the goals and how do we achieve them within the context of existing policy and markets? The trade-off between economic growth and clean energy costs.

Panelists:

• Dr.Veronika A. Rabl, Principal, Vision & Results
• Prof. Dr. Junhao Chu, Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Eastern China Normal University
• Paul T. Haenle, Director, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace-Tsinghua University Center for Global Policy and former China Director, National Security Council, The White House

12:10 - 1:10 p.m.

Lunch

1:10 - 1:30 p.m.

Keynote Speech

• Dr. Edward Guiliano, President, New York Institute of Technology

1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

Plenary 2: Innovations in Education for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability

Host: Dr. Jim Nolt, NYIT Nanjing Campus Dean
A look at programs, centers, and initiatives that have worked around the world; funding incentives and partnerships with industry; green micro-enterprises; and empowerment of women through  sustainable education.

• Prof. Wu Pei Heng, Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor from Nanjing University
• Dr. Joanne Fox-Przeworski, Consultant, Environment & Sustainable Development Projects Chair, Board of Distinguished Advisors, ENCSS
• Dr. Miriam Heller, Senior Fellow, World Resources Institute
• Dr. Glenn Schrader, Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering, University of Arizona

2:30 - 3 p.m.

Keynote Speeches

• Ms. Nicole Porter, US Department of Transportation, Senior International Transportation Specialist
• Mr. Martin J. Schoenbauer, Executive Director, US Department of Energy - China

3 - 4 p.m.

Plenary 3: Carbon Sequestration and Management

Host: Dr. Nada Anid, Dean, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, NYIT
Given the abundant supply of coal in China and the challenges of substantially scaling up renewable power, fossil fuels are likely to remain a significant source of electricity in this country for decades to come. To limit CO2 emissions from large point sources such as power plants, one promising option is Carbon Capture and Storage: capturing, compressing and transporting CO2 and injecting it into carefully chosen and monitored underground geological formations. This session will bring together experts from different sectors to discuss the status of technologies and efforts to safely and reliably capture and sequester CO2 underground on a scale large.

• Dr. Heriberto Cabezas, Director, Sustainable Technologies Division, EPA
• Prof. Ruan Honghua, Secretary General of Ecological Society of Jiangsu Province, Professor from Nanjing Forestry University, Speech“Riparian Zone:Biogeochemical Hot Spot and Hot Moments at the Interface of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems”
• Alan Weakly, Consultant, Innovative Mining Solutions
• Dr. Darlene Schuster, Executive Director, Institute for Sustainability, AIChE
• Zhang Jianqiang, vice director, Steering Committee of Changshu Economic Development Zone, Jiangsu Province

4 - 4:15 p.m.

Networking Break

4:15 - 5:30 p.m.

Plenary 4: Green Building and Architecture

Host: Mr. Frank Mruk, Associate Dean, NYIT Architecture & Design
Sustainable architecture and the environmental impact of buildings through measures of efficiency and choice of materials will be explored. How can we incorporate design to positively impact the built environment for today as well as for future generations?

• Mark Strauss, Senior Partner, FXFOWLE
• Robert Arthur Ouellette, VP Special Projects, Zerofootprint.net
• Bert de Muynck, Co-director of MovingCities, a Beijing-based think tank
• Dr. Yunsheng Su, Chief  Engineer, Shanghai Tongji Urban Planning Design Institute
• Mr. Kevin Mo, Senior Sustainable Building Specialist, Natural Resources Defense Council, China

6 - 8 p.m.

Dinner hosted by NUPT

8:30 - 9:45 a.m. 

Plenary 5: Green Investing and Market Trends

Host: Dr. Scott Liu Professor, School of Management, NYIT
This session will explore green technologies and green businesses in clean energy, energy efficiency, green building, water, waste and recycling, and present growth trends and projections over the next several decades.

• Zhang Jianqiang, vice director, Steering Committee of Changshu Economic Development Zone, Jiangsu Province
• Peter Corne, Managing Director, Eversheds, Shanghai
• Richie Lee, Executive Director, Energy and Sustainability/Asia, CB Richard Ellis
• Jack Perkowski. Author of "Managing the Dragon" and Founder and Managing Partner, JFP Holdings, Ltd.
• Mr. William Kung, Ecovane Enrivonmental
• Dr. Sean Lee, CEO, Cornerstone Technology Partners Inc.

9:45 - 10 a.m.

Networking Break

10 - 11:15 a.m.

Plenary 6: Next Generation Energy Technologies

Host: Prof. Li Jingbo, Research fellow from Institute of semi-conductors of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Assistant research fellow from National Renewable Energy Laboratory, U.S.A
The focus of this session is on the next generation energy technologies that will be serving the needs of developed and developing nations as the entire planet combines efforts to meet the challenges of global climate change in the coming decade. Speakers will focus on advanced battery and renewable energy technologies and storage looking at both the business, technical  and economic aspects of solar (both for heating and electric generation). To put important context to the program, speakers will also discuss advances in clean coal and waste-to-energy technologies.

• Dr. Nada Anid, Dean, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, NYIT
• Prof. Dr. Junhao Chu, Academician from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Eastern China Normal University
• Mr. Zhibo Liu, Vice President and executive assistant to CEO of Suntech Power Holding
• Dr. Chen Huailin, Deputy Chief Engineer,Shuang Deng Power Group, a Battery Company affiliated to Jiangsu Provincial Communication Committee
• Dr. Jun Ma, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, NYIT

11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Plenary 7: Green IT

Host: Prof. Shi Yuhui, Director of Research and Postgraduate Office, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
This session will explore how to design environmentally sustainable and energy efficient computing systems; and how to dispose of computing waste streams, servers, and associated equipment and processing. Further discussion will include lifecycle analysis and cost-effective maximization of e- products' energy efficiency.

• Dr. Alan Mickelson, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder
• Min Youli, Senior Engineer,Deputy General Manager, "Green Mobile" by Jiangsu Subsidiary of China Mobile Communication Corporation;

12:30 p.m.

Closing Remarks by Chairpersons

• Dr. Edward Guiliano, President, New York Institute of Technology
• Dr. Yang Zhen, President, Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications

12:45 - 2 p.m.

Lunch

2 p.m.

Forum Ends