Programme

Registration

09:00-09:15

Welcome

· Helge Sander, Danish Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation

Opening of the Meeting

· Beth Burnside, Vice-Chancellor for Research, UC Berkeley

· Erik Rasmussen, Founder and CEO, Mandag Morgen, Denmark

· Lykke Friis, Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Copenhagen

The focus of this session will be to assess how innovation and industry transformation can be leveraged to mitigate and adapt climate change. What qualitative approaches and quantitative tools are needed, beyond existing efforts, to evaluate policy options and their implications for competitiveness and economic growth?

· James E. Rogers, Chairman and CEO, Duke Energy

· W. Michael Hanemann, Professor, Dept. of Agriculture and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley

· Laura D. Tyson, Professor of Business Administration and Economics, UC Berkeley

· Ditlev Engel, President and CEO, Vestas Wind Systems

Moderated by

· John Zysman, Professor of Political Science and Co-Director, BRIE, UC Berkeley

10:45-11:15

Break

Navigating the Complexities

The transition to a climate friendly economy is a complex one of adjusting policies to promote new models of growth and competition, managing a portfolio of potential technologies, and finding measures to assess and drive our progress. This session will explore the interdependencies, opportunities and trade-offs between these issues.

· Daniel M. Kammen, Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab, UC Berkeley

· Erika Mann, Member of the European Parliament (Germany)

· S. Shankar Sastry, Dean, School of Engineering, UC Berkeley

Moderated by

· Niels Christian Nielsen, Chief Executive Officer, Q Network

· Nick Rowley, Director, Kinesis

Lunch

Keynote session

· Steve Chu, Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Introduced by

· Steen Riisgaard, President and CEO, Novozymes

Breakout Sessions

These sessions will focus on technology topics - innovations within each field, potential for enhancing growth, policy implications and new, exciting business models. Topics will include:

· Wind power (Michael Zarin, Director, Government Relations, Vestas Wind Systems)

· Solar PV and thermal-electric (Daniel M. Kammen, Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, UC Berkeley)

· Nuclear energy (Riitta Kyrki-Rajamäki, Professor of Nuclear Energy Technology, Lappeenranta University of Technology)

· Energy-efficient manufacturing (R.C. Liang, Senior Technology Adviser, Delta Electronics)

· Bio-fuels (Jay Keasling, Director, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Steen Riisgaard, President and CEO, Novozymes; Dan Miller, CEO, Roda Group)

· Sensing energy use and the environment with Wireless Sensor Networks (Paul K. Wright, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Acting Director, CITRIS, UC Berkeley)

· Carbon capture and storage (Eli Aamot, Vice President R&D New Energy, Statoil)

· Growth and Policy: Transformations of growth models (John Zysman, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley; Murat Gursoy, Project Manager, UNDP Turkey; Koji Hirao, Professor of Economics, Senshu University)

· Efficient energy production (Rudolph Blum, General Manager, R&D, DONG Energy)

Break

Keynote session

· Shai Agassi, Founder and CEO, Project Better Place

Towards the 2009 UN Summit

A comprehensive summary of the results of the meeting with feedback and recommendations to the Danish government.

· Paul K. Wright, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Acting Director, CITRIS, UC Berkeley

· Katherine Richardson, Vice Dean, Faculty of Sciences, University of Copenhagen and Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee for the IARU Congress on Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions on 10-12 March 2009.

· Tim Flannery, Professor, Earth & Life Sciences, Macquaire University; Chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council

· James E. Rogers, Chairman and CEO, Duke Energy

Reception