Schedule

Sunday, November 8, 2009 – “Jewish Leadership in Clean Energy”

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Registration and mingling, booths, tables from initiatives

9:00 a.m. – 9:15a.m. Opening Video (AJC-Energy Crisis) and remarks from Jonathon
Axelrad and Lyuba Wolf, Conference Co-Chairs

9:15 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Opening Address: Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House

9:45 a.m. – 11: 45 a.m. Plenary Panel: “Launching a Generational Movement”
David Harris, Executive Director, AJC
Alan Salzman, CEO Vantage Point
Adam Werbach, CEO Satchi and Satchi
Andy Karsner, Former Assistant Secretary, DOE-EERE

11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m Lunch, networking and marketplace of initiatives; video messages
from Jewish clean energy thought leaders

1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m Break out Panels

Break out Panel I: “Sustainability Panel”
Susie Gelman, Vice President Goldman Enviromental Foundation and Chairwoman, Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
Michael Pollan, New York Times columnist and best selling author
Rabbi David Saperstein, Executive Director Reform Action Center
Nigel Savage, Executive Director, Hazan

Break out Panel II: Clean Economy
Ira Ehrenpreis, Partner, Technology Partners Venture Capital Firm
Matt Goldin, CEO, Sustainable Spaces
Mark Gottchalk, Cofounder Cleantech Open Partner WSGR
Mick Moore, Green Jobs Advocate, Jewish Funds for Justice

Break out Panel III "The US and Israel: Mutual Security through Cleantech Collaboration"
Sass Somekh, Partner Musea Ventures
Arnold Goldman, Chairman BrightSource
Meir Ukeles, General Partner Israel Cleantech Venture
Issac Berzin, Senior Fellow Interdisciplinary Center (IDC Herzalia)

3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m Concluding Plenary Panel, “Uniting for an oil-free transportation sector”
Mike Granoff, Energy Independence Policy, Better Place
Ann Korin, Set America Free Coalition
Richard Lowenthal, CEO Coulomb Technologies, Former Mayor of Cupertino
Jim Woosely, Former Director, CIA Vantage Point Venture

4:15 p.m. – 4: 30 p.m. Closing Remarks – David Bernstein, Lyuba Wolf, Jonathon Axelrad