October 24, 2006

Session I:Features and Challenges within National Energy Systems

Speaker(s):

Robert Donkers, Environment Counselor, Delegation of the European Commission to the United States

• Presentation: Energy & Environment: An Integrated Approach to Tackle Climate Change

Bill Grant, Izaac Walton League

• Presentation: The Upper Midwest’s Transition to a Sustainable Energy System – Features & Challenges

S. K. Sarkar, Director of Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Studies, and Governance, The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI), India

• Presentation: Features and challenges within National Energy Systems: Indian experience

Session II:Envisioning the Future

Moderator:

Jennifer Kuzma, Assistant Professor & Interim Director, Center for Science, Technology and Public Policy, University of Minnesota

• Presentation: Envisioning the Future

Speaker(s):

Kenneth Keller, Director, Bologna Center, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

• Presentation: Envisioning the Future

Rolf Nordstrom, Director, Upper Midwest Hydrogen Initiative, Great Plains Institute

• Presentation: Upper Midwest Energy Transition Roadmap

Session III: Providing Energy Services

Speaker(s):

Lester Lave, Harry B. and James H. Higgins Professor of Economics and Finance, DirectorH. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management Carnegie Mellon Green Design Initiative, Carnegie Mellon University

• Presentation: A Sustainable Energy Future

M. K. Gajendra Babu, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

• Presentation: Providing Energy within a sustainable Future

Armin Rosencranz, Visiting Professor, Graduate Schoool of Public Policy, University of Maryland & Professorial Lecturer, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

• Presentation: Energy And Development

Session IV: A Special Focus on Bioenergy and Biofuels

2:15-3:30 p.m.

Speaker(s):

Bob Elde, Dean of the College of Biological Sciences & Chair, Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment, University of Minnesota

• Presentation: The Future of Bioenergy and Biofuels

• Presentation: Biodiesel Production Technology & Feedstocks for India

Nick Jordan, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota

• Presentation: Sustainable Development of Renewable Biomass Energy: Towards the ‘Multifunctional Fuelshed’

Session V: Synthesis Panel---Energy within a social, political and economic context

Speaker(s):

David Morris, Vice President, Institute for Local Self-Reliance

Elizabeth Wilson, Assistant Professor, Center for Science, Technology and Public Policy, University of Minnesota

• Presentation: Technology Deployment within a Complex World: Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Don Shelby, Anchor and Reporter, WCCO-TV