Driving Sustainability ´08 – Draft Agenda Sept 7th
Wednesday September 17 th
17:30 Reception for speakers and sponsors, Höfði House Hosted by Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir, Mayor of Reykjavík 19:30 Dinner for speakers at Vox Driving Sustainability ´08 – Draft Agenda Sept 7th
Thursday September 18 th / Morning
08:30 Coffee & Registration
09:00 Welcome Teitur Torkelsson, Managing Partner, FTO, organizer of Driving ´08 Telma Tómasson, Moderator
09:05 Opening Address Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland Patron of the Driving Sustainability Conference
09:20 Minister’s Address Össur Skarphéðinsson, Minister of Industry
09:35 Iceland & Clean Energy – The Future is Already Here Sigurjón Th. Árnason, CEO, Landsbanki – The National Bank of Iceland One of three hosts of Driving Sustainability Conference
09:50 Keynote 1 Around the World in a Solar Airplane - An unachievable goal without pushing back the current technological limits in all fields... -Bertrand Piccard, Scientist-Adventurer, Solar Impulse
10:30 Geir Haarde, Forsætisráðherra, hleypir vistakstursátaki Landverndar af stokkunum Geir Haarde, Prime Minister of Iceland, launches The Icelandic Environment Association’s Eco-Driving Campaign
Björgólfur Thorsteinson, formaður Landverndar / Chairman of The Icelandic Environment Association
Keppni í vistakstri/Eco-Driving Race: Geir Haarde, forsætisráðherra / Prime Minister of Iceland Guðmundur Örn Gunnarsson forstjóri VÍS / CEO VIS Insurance Magnús Kristinsson, stjórnarformaður Toyota á Íslandi / Board Chairman, Toyota Iceland Sigurður Friðleifsson, framkvæmdastjóri Orkuseturs / Managing Director, Energy Agency
10:50 Coffee
11:05 Keynote 2 Towards the Ultimate Eco-Car: Hybrid Synergy Drive as a Core Technology for all Toyota Powertrains -Piet Steel, Vice President for European Affairs, Toyota Europe
11:35 The Coming Electric Vehicle Revolution: Impact of Materials Advances on Automotive Batteries -Yet-Ming Chiang, co-founder A123 Systems and Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, MIT, Massachusetts, USA
12.05 Lunch & Test drive of selected EV´s available outside Hilton Reykjavík Nordica. Driving Sustainability ´08 – Draft Agenda Sept 7th
Thursday September 18 th / Afternoon
13:30 Wind Generated Electricity, Second Generation Biofuels, and Better Place Denmark: Electric Cars and Recharging Infrastructure in Denmark -Knud Pedersen, Vice President, Group R&D, Dong Energy, Denmark
14:00 Design & Potential of High Performance Electric Vehicles -Bill Dubé, creator of Killacycle the most powerful electric motorcycle in the world
14:30 Coffee
14:45 CO2 Free Power and Plug-in Hybrids in the Nordic Countries -Johan Tollin, Program Manager, Plug-in co-operation of Vattenfall, Saab, Volvo and ETC Battery and Fuel Cells, Vattenfall Energy, Sweden
15:15 The Next Generation Utility: Blending Energy Efficiency, Renewable Generation and Plug- in Vehicles to Eliminate Carbon Emissions -Joel Swisher, Senior Fellow, Rocky Mountain Institute, Colorado, USA
15:45 Panel 2: Clean Tech, Electricity & System Change in the Transport Sector
16:15 Closing remarks day one
16:30 End day one
19:30 Dinner at Domo Restaurant* Driving Sustainability ´08 – Draft Agenda Sept 7th
Friday September 19 th / Morning
08:30 Coffee
09:00 Minister’s Address Þórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir, Minister for the Environment
09:15 Keynote 3 Advanced Battery Technology Development for Hybrid, Plug-in Hybrid, Fuel Cell, & Electric Vehicles at Ford -Ted Miller, Senior Manager, Energy Storage and Research, Ford Motor Company, USA
09:45 Present Status & Future Prospects of Electric Vehicles in China -Shi Yan Qing, International Sales Manager, JiaYuan Electric Vehicles, makers of the Ze-O Electric Car
10:15 The Role of Vehicles in the Sustainable Energy Infrastructure -Ichiro Fukue, Senior Executive Vice President, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
10:35 The i MiEV Electric Car -Tetsuro Aikawa, Managing Director In Charge of Product Development, Mitsubishi Motors Corporation
10:55 Brunch & Test Drive of EV´s Test drive of selected EV´s available outside Hilton Reykjavík Nordica
Driving Sustainability ´08 – Draft Agenda Sept 7th
Friday September 19 th / Afternoon
12:30 Keynote 4 Better Place: A Mobility Operator Enabling EV Mass Adoption -Sven Thesen, Director, Strategic Operations, Better Place
13:00 Shell Future Fuels Scenarios until 2020: Electricity & Hydrogen for Transport -Steven Rouvroy, European Operations Manager, Shell Hydrogen, Future Fuels & C02
13:30 The Death & Resurrection of the Electric Car: Carmakers, Big Oil, Environment & Battery Developments -Chris Paine, Director of Who Killed The Electric Car?, California, USA
14:00 Panel 2: Future Cars & “Fuels” – The Next Five Years
14:30 Closing: Common Conclusions
15:00 Free Time, Meetings, Networking, EV testing
16:00 Depart Hilton Reykjavík Nordica for Clean Energy Excursion Hellisheiði Geothermal Powerplant
17:00 Reception at the Powerplant hosted by Reykjavík Energy
19:00 Arrive Reykjavík
* Separate booking
** Reflects speaker confirmations as of September 7th – May be subject to modifications