Program
Monday, August 3, 2009
Program Schedule:
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Schedule |
08:30am - 09:00am |
Registration |
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09:00am - 09:10am |
Welcome remarks |
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09:10am - 09:30am | Opening speeech |
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09:30am - 11:00am |
Session I: State of New Jersey's Clean Energy Solutions: Government, Academia, and Industry Working Together |
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11:00am - 11:20am |
Break |
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11:20am - 12:10am | Keynote speech |
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12:10am - 01:30pm |
Lunch |
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01:30pm - 03:30pm | Session II: Renewable Energy Opportunities: Business and Research |
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03:30pm - 03:50pm | Break |
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03:50pm - 05:50pm |
Session III: Renewable Energy Innovations - Generation, Storage, and Use |
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05:50pm - 06:00pm |
Closing remarks |
Registration
08:30am - 09:00am, Monday, August 3, 2009
Main Auditorium, TECO in New York
1 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017
Tel: 212-752-2340, Fax: 212-826-3615
Welcome remarks
09:00am - 09:10am
Amb. Kenneth Liao
Director General of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York
Opening speech
09:10am - 09:30am
Conference Co-Chair/Organizer: Dr. Hsin-Hsiung Chang, Director, Science & Technology Division, TECRO
Dr. Lou-Chuang Lee
Minister, National Science Council
Republic of China (Taiwan)
Session I: State of New Jersey's Clean Energy Solutions: Government, Academia, and Industry Working Together
09:30am - 11:00am
Session Chair: Ms. Jean Chang, International Trade Specialist, New Jersey Economic Development Authority
“New Jersey and Taiwan: Opportunities and Synergy”
Ms. Jean Chang
International Trade Specialist
New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA)
"New Jersey's Energy Master Plan"
Mr. Kenneth M. Esser, Jr.
Chief Energy Advisor to Governor Jon S. Corzine
Office of the Governor, State of New Jersey
"New Jersey's Clean Energy Solutions"
Mr. Joseph L. Fiordaliso
Commissioner, New Jersey Board of Public Utilities
"Smart Power Electronics for Commercial-scale Distributed Generation Interconnection"
Mr. Darren Hammell
Executive Vice President of Business Development
Princeton Power
“Technical, Environmental and Economic Advantages of Power Generation with Biofuels”
Mr. Marty Borruso
CEO, Fuel Bio Holdings
“New Jersey Is Pioneering Offshore Wind in the USA”
Mr. Nelson Garcez, Jr.
Vice President, Generation and Technical Services
PSEG Global
“Why We Chose New Jersey?”
Mr. Michael Stern
Director, North American Operations
CQM Ltd.
Break
11:00am - 11:20am
Keynote speech
11:20am - 12:10am
Session Chair:Prof. Minking Chyu, University of Pittsburgh
"Thermal Transport in Renewable Energy Systems"
Prof. Yogesh Jaluria
Board of Governors Professor
Interim Dean, School of Engineering
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Lunch
12:10pm - 01:30pm
Session II: Renewable Energy Opportunities - Business and Research
01:30pm - 03:30pm
Session Chair: Prof. Wei-Jen Lee, Director of the Energy Systems Research Center, the University of Texas at Arlington
"Hydrogen Economy in Utility Power Generation"
Prof. Minking Chyu
Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science
Leighton Orr Professor of Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
"Accelerate the Path to Renewable Energy by Business Model Innovation"
Dr. Sean Shaw-Hwa Wang
President, ITRI International
(a subsidiary of Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan)
“Enabling Technologies for Customer Demand and Budget Management in the Deregulated Environment”
Prof. Wei-Jen Lee
Department of the Electrical Engineering
Director, the Energy Systems Research Center
The University of Texas at Arlington
"Patented Environmentally Friendly Technology for Low-cost Solar-Grade Silicon Manufacturing"
Mr. Peter Mei
Founder & CEO, 21-Century Silicon, Inc.
Break
03:30pm - 03:50pm
Session III: Renewable Energy Innovations - Generation, Storage, and Use
03:50pm - 05:50pm
Session Chair: Dr. Jen-Yao Chung, Senior Manager, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
"Development of a Passive Micro Direct Methanol Fuel Cell"
Prof. Chin Pan
Dean, College of Nuclear Science, National Tsing Hua University
"Sensor-related Energy Saving Technologies"
Prof. Ping-Hei Chen
Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University
Program Director, Department of Engineering and Applied Science, National Science Council, Republic of China (Taiwan)
“Third Generation Solar Cell”
Prof. Wei-Fang Su
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
National Taiwan University
“Biomass-Ethanol Conversion: A Renaissance of Fermentation Technologies”
Prof. J.H. David Wu
Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Rochester
Closing remarks
05:50pm - 06:00pm
Conference Co-chair: Dr. Sean Shaw-Hwa Wang, President, ITRI International