Energy Efficiency Summit

S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu will be among the featured speakers. The event will take place May 1-2 at Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort on the Santa Barbara Waterfront.

Written by Yardi Blog Staff

04 / 04 / 13

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Yardi is proud to be a silver sponsor of the 2013 UC Santa Barbara Summit on Energy Efficiency, where U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu will be among the featured speakers.

The event will take place May 1-2 at Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort on the Santa Barbara Waterfront. The emphasis of this year’s summit, the fourth annual event, is “Materials for a Sustainable Energy Future.”

Session foci will include:

Materials for Energy Technologies: What are the key issues around extracting, processing and using the materials needed for our increasing global energy demands?
Innovations in Solid-State Lighting: The latest developments in this growing field.
Energy Efficient Information and Communications Technologies: The future of scalability and energy efficiency for next generation ICT core networks.
Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies: What are the latest technologies and materials that will enable more efficient, economical and reliable energy storage?
Utilities Discussion: The need for, and implementation of, new technologies for energy efficiency.
High Efficiency Power Electronics: Using materials to minimize energy loss and make power electronics more efficient on all levels.

Keynote speakers scheduled to appear at the summit include:

Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy. Co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997, Dr. Chu is a former Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and a distinguished professor of physics, molecular, and cellular biology.

Michael McQuade, CTO and Senior VP for Science & Technology, United Technologies Corporation, who provides strategic oversight and guidance for research, engineering and development activities at UTC.

George Crabtree, Director, Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Argonne National Laboratory. Also a Senior Scientist and Distinguished Fellow at Argonne, he has won numerous awards for his research, including the Kammerlingh Onnes Prize for his work on the physics of vortices in high temperature superconductors.

Kateri Callahan, President, Alliance to Save Energy. The Alliance promotes energy efficiency worldwide. Under her leadership, the Alliance worked for passage of both the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

Registration information and more details about the summit are available here: http://iee.ucsb.edu/summit2013