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Thank you for attending Energy Expo 2007 |
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Note: The Public Property concert was cancelled due to rain damage to an electrical box. We apologize for any inconvenience. |
Schedule
Exhibits |
Open from 9 am to 5 pm on the UI Pentacrest and in the Old Capitol Town Center. |
Tours |
University of Iowa Power Plant tours will be conducted hourly between 9 am and 2 pm for groups of 18-21 people per tour. A sign up sheet is at the Power Plant/Quaker Oats booth. |
Speakers |
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Kirk Amrhein, Dell - "Plant A Tree For Me" Kirk Amrhein joined Dell in July of 1999 and has worked strictly with mid-western Higher Education customers during his eight year tenure. His partnership with the University of Iowa has assisted the campus in promoting the adoption of energy efficient technology products. He was instrumental in driving the migration of nearly 600 CRT monitors to Flat Panel displays during 2005 & 2006. He will be presenting on Dell's Environmental initiatives, such as, the Plant a Tree for Me program. The program is designed to provide Dell customers with the opportunity to offset the CO2 emissions related to their use of technology. |
10:30 am Old Capitol Museum |
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Doug Litwiller, PE,CEM, joined Interstate Power and Light (IPL) -Alliant Energy in March of 1998 and is currently a project engineer in the account management section of IPL. In addition to helping IPL’s large commercial and industrial customers find energy efficiency improvement opportunities, Doug is also the “go-to” person when it comes to bioenergy/biorenewable energy systems. Doug helps educate customers on such topic as biomass to energy systems, anaerobic digesters, landfill gas energy systems, and will also help the customers implement these systems. Read More... |
11:30 am Old Capitol Museum |
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Sally Mason, UI President, to give a brief talk and introduce Roya Stanley, Iowa’s new Director of the Office of Energy Independence. | 12:20 pm Pentacrest |
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Billy Parish is founder of the Climate Campaign and recent recipient of the Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Parish was recently elected to be a Fellow by Ashoka (http://ashoka.org), "the global association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs". “For my generation,” says the 23-year-old once-and-future Yale student, “global warming activism is a call to arms — because we are the ones who will have to deal with its growing consequences. And our efforts are at the same time a plea for accountability to the generation now in power; they have allowed the crisis to get to this point.” Read More... | 12:30 pm Old Capitol Museum |
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Peter Duprey joined Acciona Energy in May 2006 to lead the growth of the business across all of Acciona’s renewable technologies including wind, solar thermal, bio-mass and bio-fuel portfolios. Peter brings significant renewable energy experience from GE Energy where he was General Manager— Marketing for GE Energy’s wind business, where he was responsible for new product introductions and global strategy. Read More... |
1:30 pm Old Capitol Museum |
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Hunter Lovins is the president and founder of Natural Capitalism, Inc. and co-creator of the Natural Capitalism concept. In 1982 she co-founded Rocky Mountain Institute and led that organization as its CEO for Strategy until 2002. Under her leadership, RMI grew into an internationally recognized research center, widely celebrated for its innovative thinking in energy and resource issues. Read More... |
5:00 pm Macbride Hall |
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7:00 - 9:00 pm Pentacrest |
