Title: 2 Annual Smart Grid Innovators Conf: The Transition to Electric Vehicles - Challenges/Opportunities for the Grid

Industry sector: Transportation

Second Annual Smart Grid Innovators’ Conference
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Marriott Courtyard Hotel
Concord Road, Billerica, MA.

WWW.MASGIC.COM/CALENDAR

8:00 – 11:30 AM

TRANISTION TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES:
Challenges and Opportunities to the Grid

PROGRAM

• Introduction of Keynote Speaker – Navigant Consulting

• Keynote Speaker: Andy Chu, Vice President Marketing and Communications, A123 Systems – The Electrification Roadmap to Energy Independence and Security and Reduced Emissions

• Presentation: Steven Tobias, National Grid – Electric Vehicles and the Grid: Moving Electric Vehicles to the Mainstream

• Panel 1: Grid Integration: Monitoring, Controlling and Communicating

 Chris Schairbaum, Director, Energy Technology Strategy, Texas Instruments
 Geoff Jue, Vice President, IBM/Energy & Utilities
 Bruce Sher, Sr. Vice President Business Development and Sales, Viridity Energy

• Panel 2: Grid Stability and Support: Operational Challenges and Business Models
 John Warner, Director Product Management Large Format Batteries, Boston Power
 Liz Hicks, Senior Principal Policy Design Evaluation, KEMA
 Steve Russell, Director, Alternative Transportation, Mass. Executive Office of Energy Resources

• Presentation: Arif Padaria, Managing Director of Investments, Mass. Clean Energy Center

Location: 270 Concord Rd., (directly off Rt. 3), Billerica, MA, 01821