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8:00 a.m.Check-in and Continental Breakfast
View Exhibitor Display Booths and Research Posters
9:00 a.m.
Welcome by Robert Elde
IREE Executive Chair and Dean of the College of Biological Sciences
9:05 a.m.
Opening remarks by Provost E. Thomas Sullivan
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
9:15 a.m.
IREE: LOOKING AHEAD by Richard “Dick” Hemmingsen
IREE Director
9:30 a.m.
Lead Sponsors
Thomas Halverson, Piper Jaffray & Co. and Peter Ekberg, Faegre & Benson LLP
9:35 a.m.
THE TIMES (AND THE CLIMATE) THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’:
CONGRESSIONAL AND CORPORATE LEADERSHIP CALL FOR CLIMATE ACTION
Keynote Address by the Honorable Eileen Claussen
President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Introduced by Deborah Swackhamer, Interim Director of the Institute on the Environment
10:15 a.m.
Break to view Exhibitor Display Booths and Research Posters
10:45 a.m.
Breakout Session I (select one track)
Biofuels -- Next Generation Feedstocks
Solar Energy -- Advancements in Materials
Climate Change -- The Role of Business and Industry in a Global Challenge
Conservation -- Energy-Efficient Buildings
11:45 a.m.
Lunch and Research Poster Awards
Facilitated by Allen Levine, Dean of the College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences
12:15 p.m.
Keynote Address by Senator Amy Klobuchar
D.-Minn., U.S. Senate
12:30 p.m.
MAKING RENEWABLE ENERGY WORK
Keynote Address by Richard C. Kelly
Chairman, President and CEO of Xcel Energy
Introduced by Kathy Bryan, President and Co-Founder of BBI International
1:15 p.m.
Breakout Session II (select one track)
Biorefineries -- The Future is (almost) Here
Wind Energy -- Advanced Storage Technologies
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Projects -- Policy and Practice
Energy Systems -- Hybrid and Community-based
2:30 p.m.
INTEGRATED CORN CELLULOSE BIOREFINERY: VISION TO REALITY
Keynote Address by Mark D. Stowers, Ph.D.
Vice President, Research and Development, POET
Introduced by Kathy Bryan, President and Co-Founder of BBI International
3:00 p.m.
Break to view Exhibitor Display Booths and Research Posters
3:30 p.m.
Breakout Session III (select one track)
The Biofuels of Tomorrow -- Opportunities and Challenges
The Other Alternatives -- Hydropower, Geothermal and Hydrogen
Policy Scenarios -- Creating a Clean Energy Future
Transportation -- Plug-in Hybrids and the Vehicles of Tomorrow
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Renewable Energy Happy Hour
Sponsored by the Great Plains Institute
Dean Current, College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences
Dick Hemmingsen, IREE
Jon K. Hjelm, Piper Jaffray Companies
Laurie Hennen, College of Biological Sciences
Amy Johnson, The BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota
Sue Lewis, IREE
Georgiana May, College of Biological Sciences
Cheryl Miller, Minnesota Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration Project
Stacy Miller, Minnesota Department of Commerce
Rolf Nordstrom, Great Plains Institute
Melissa Pawlisch, Clean Energy Resource Teams
Todd Reubold, IREE
Connie Rutledge, Carlson School of Management
Martin Saar, Institute of Technology
Kelly Scanlan, Minnesota Natural Legacy Campaign
Sarah Schmitz, IREE
Deb Swackhamer, Institute on the Environment