Denver-based Montreux Energy, a producer of strategy roundtables on the future of global energy investment, will host a conference of national and international experts to discuss new ways to improve the efficiency and sustainability of urban energy, systems, and infrastructure.
CITYDESIGN + CITYBUILD 2010 will be held September 14-16 at the Hyatt Regency Convention Center in Denver. The conference is titled, “Clean Energy, Technology, and Design for the Networked City.” It will gather leaders from utilities, clean energy, and real estate development industries.
“More than half of the global population now lives in cities, so it is critical that our leaders effectively communicate the enormous opportunities and challenges for cities in creating a sustainable future,” said Andrew Bermingham, Montreux Energy’s CEO, in a press release.
Featured conference speakers will include:
- Nancy Pearson, Vice President BPM, SOA, and Websphere Marketing, IBM, Armonk
- Eric Marsh, President, EnCana Natural Gas Inc., Denver
- Carol Battershell, Acting Director, Golden Field Office, U.S. Department of Energy, Golden
- Geoff Zeiss, SmartGrid and Utilities Leader, Autodesk, San Rafael
- Monte Wilson, Director of Planning, HOK Group St. Louis
- Robert Welch, Vice President, Sustainable Generation Solutions, KEMA, Golden
- Bernd Wilke, Vice President, Swiss RE, Zürich
- Jeffrey Fulgham, Chief Marketing Officer, GE Water, Schenectady
- James McMahon, Department Head, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley
- Robyn McGuken, Director Resource Efficiency Managment, MWH Global, Broomfield
- David Hill, Vice President, Natural Gas Economy Operations, EnCana
- Mark Kapner, Senior Strategy Engineer, Austin Energy, Austin
- Alexon Khor, General Manager Low CO2 Solutions, Shell International, London
- Bill Mosher, Managing Director, Trammell Crow, Denver
- Mark Gelernter, Dean College of Architecture & Planning University of Colorado Denver
- Avinash Patwardhan, VP, Water & Mgr, Int’l Sustainable Solutions, CH2M HILL, W Palm Beach
- Jennifer Johnson, Studio Leader, Director of Aviation, Gensler, Denver
Ed Tauer, Mayor of Aurora, Colorado, will provide a luncheon speech and John Hickenlooper, Mayor of Denver and Democratic candidate for Governor of Colorado (left photo), will provide the keynote speech.
CITYDESIGN + CITYBUILD 2010 sessions have been designed to make connections between such issues as water and energy, smart grids and smart buildings, carbon, optimization and energy efficiency, sustainable transportation systems, and waste and waste-to-energy.
The conference will also showcase some new urban development projects from leading engineering, architecture, real estate development firms.
Conference sessions include:
- Rethinking Urban Design in the New Sustainability Paradigm
- Transport: Smart Urban Mobility
- Powering our Cities with Clean Energy and the Smart Grid
- Technology and the Networked City
The event formally opens with registration and reception starting at 4pm Tuesday, Sept 14, and an Opening Keynote panel beginning at 5:30pm. Registration for the entire three-day event is $350. The full CITYDESIGN + CITYBUILD agenda is available online at http://www.citydesign.com.
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