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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 from 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM (ET)
Join us to explore the US’s role in SMART 2020, and how US innovation can enable local and global climate change
Event Background
A recently released research report* predicts that the IT sector could help other industries reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 15% and deliver savings of over $750 billion to the global economy by 2020. How? By collaborating with other industries to deliver energy efficiency through innovative solutions such as smart logistics, smart buildings and smart grid technologies. Join us for an intriguing dialogue that will explore this tremendous opportunity – and the public policy needed to support it. We will also present details of a new, follow up study conducted by The Boston Consulting Group on behalf of GeSI which details specific US policy recommendations.
* SMART 2020: Enabling the low carbon economy in the information age, published by The Climate Group and McKinsey & Company on behalf of the Global e-Sustainability Initiative.
(draft) Event Agenda
11:00 Registration and light lunch
11:45 Opening Remarks: Luis Neves, Chair, GeSI and Chris Walker, Director of North America, The Climate Group
11:55 Global SMART 2020 report findings: Molly Webb, ICT Programme Director, The Climate Group
12:10 US Addendum findings: Philipp Jung, Partner and Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group
12:25 Panel: Smart 2020 The Transformation
What standards, investments and policies are needed to scale the uptake of ICT for energy efficiency and dematerialization? What are the latest in incentives, practices and partnerships that will make this happen?
Speakers will include:
Chair: Markus Loeffler, Principal, McKinsey & Company
Kathryn C. Brown, Senior Vice President of Public Policy Development and Corporate Responsibility, Verizon Communications
Stephen Harper, Global Director, Environment and Energy Policy, Intel
Adam M.Golodner, Director, Global Security and Technology Policy, Global Policy and Government Affairs, Cisco Systems, Inc
Kathleen Hogan, Director of Climate Protection Partnerships Division, EPA
Kim Nelson, Executive Director of EGov and Health and Safety, Microsoft
Joseph Romm, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress and Editor, ClimateProgress.org
1:30 Keynote Speaker: Bill McKibben, award-winning author and environmentalist
2:00 Event concludes
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