Dr. Saul Griffith has multiple degrees in materials science and mechanical engineering and completed his PhD in Programmable Assembly and Self Replicating machines at MIT. He is the co-founder of numerous companies including: Low Cost Eyeglasses, Squid Labs, Potenco, Instructables.com, HowToons and Makani Power. Saul has been awarded numerous awards for invention including the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Collegiate Inventor's award, and the Lemelson-MIT Student prize.
Brian Sager manages Nanosolar's government programs, its intellectual property portfolio, and its relationships with customers in the United States. Prior to co-founding Nanosolar, he led a high-growth biotechnology practice at Ernst & Young where he advised industry-leading companies on corporate finance issues, R&D portfolio management, and technology licensing. He has worked with both private and public companies at all stages of growth, including Genentech, Hewlett-Packard, Maxygen, Genencor, and Symmyx. Dr.
Cristina L. Archer is an assistant professor of energy, meteorology, and environmental science in the Department of Geological and Environmental Science of California State University Chico, as well as a consulting assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. Her research interests include wind power, meteorology, air quality, climate change, and numerical modeling. She received her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University in 2004.
Dr. Dawn Manley is the manager of the Systems Research and Analysis Department at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. She is responsible for developing and leading programs in transportation energy systems analyses as well as in chemical and biological terrorism preparedness. Prior to this, Dawn served as manager of the reacting flow research department, which studies the fundamental science of chemistry-fluid dynamic interactions via advanced laser diagnostic and high performance computer simulations, as part of Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility.
Christina Page is the first Director of Climate and Energy Strategy at Yahoo!, the largest knowledge-sharing community on the Web. Ms. Page began her career in 1992 as an Editorial Assistant with National Public Radio. She then served as a Field Instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School, from 1995 to 2000. Prior to joining Yahoo! in June 2007, Ms.
Danny Kennedy is Sungevity’s President. A long time social entrepreneur, Danny has achieved global recognition as an environmental activist, spokesperson, and opinion leader. Most recently, Danny was the Campaigns Manager for Greenpeace Australia Pacific where he managed 35 staff in 5 offices in 4 countries. In 2001, he ran Greenpeace’s California Clean Energy Campaign, the successes of which helped lead to the current California Solar Initiative. Danny was the founder and first Executive Director of Project Underground and has served on several nonprofit boards.
Ron Stoltz is a Manager at Sandia National Laboratories, where he helps lead the National Energy Innovation Initiatives program in its integration of energy security, climate and environmental stability, and economic development. Previously, Stoltz managed Sandia's California Energy Liaison Office and the lab's Center for Homeland Security state and local government assistance activities. From 1992 to 2000, as a government relations officer representing Sandia in Washington, D.C., he focused on international competitiveness and global technology development in the semiconductor industry.
Bonnie Nixon and her green team of dedicated sustainability experts are responsible for the short and long term vision, strategy, marketing, messaging and stakeholder relations program for Hewlett Packard. Over the last decade as Director of Ethical Sourcing at HP, Ms. Nixon has worked with top level management on environmental, health, safety and social policies and procedures and designed and implemented a world class ethical sourcing and supplier relationship management program.
Jamais Cascio writes about the intersection of emerging technologies, environmental dilemmas, and cultural transformation, specializing in the design and creation of plausible scenarios of the future. His work focuses on the importance of long-term, systemic thinking, emphasizing the power of openness, transparency and flexibility as catalysts for building a more resilient society. Cascio's work appears in publications as diverse as Metropolis, the Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Policy.
Asher became the Executive Director of Post Carbon Institute in October 2008, after having served as the manager of the Relocalization Network. He's worked in the nonprofit sector since 1996 in various capacities. Prior to joining Post Carbon Institute, Asher founded Climate Changers, an organization that inspires people to reduce their impact on the climate by focusing on simple and achievable actions anyone can take.
