Discover Brilliant International Conference and Expo. Building the Sustainable Economy. MORE VALUE LESS IMPACT.

Discover Brilliant 2007. International Conference and Expo. Building the Sustainable Economy. September 17-19, 2007. MORE VALUE LESS IMPACT.

Featured Discover Brilliant Speakers

World leaders and market makers across many industry sectors and communities leveraging innovations with more value with less impact

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FUND H. Jeffery Leonard – President. With $800 million under management, GEF has been a strong voice on energy, environment and related issues both domestically and internationally.What are their next bets?		NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LAB Stan Bull - Associate Director of Renewable Electricity Science and Technology. What breakthrough technologies can we expect in renewables, buildings and more?
UNITED KINGDOM Dr. Liam Fox - Shadow Secretary of State of Defense of UK and a Member British Parliament. Along wwth other key world leaders, Where are the Europeans heading on climate?	.	GENERAL SERVICE ADMINISTRATION Donald Horn - Director for Sustainable Design. GSA has led by example in sustainable building advances in new construction, management, repair and leasing. What comes next ?
GOOGLE Bill Weihl - Green Energy Czar. Google has made a commitment to make Google Carbon neutral by 2008--how do they plan to accomplish it?		AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS R.K. Stewart - 83rd President. What government advocacy initiatives are impacting building and planning regulations, and how can we build the workforce necessary for sustainability?
U.S. FORCES JAPAN General Bruce Wright - Commander, US Forces Japan. How will our national security interests be impacted by resources and climate issues in Asia?		SUNCOR ENERGY Gord Lambert - VP of Sustainability at Suncor Energy and also currently a member of the Board of the Alberta Clean Air Strategic Alliance. What big changes can we expect from the industrial sector?
RELIANT ENERGY Mark Jacobs - President and Chief Executive Officer. This distribution utility serves more than a million people--how are they moving forward on demand-side management?		US COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Andrew Mangan - Executive Director. What is the national and global business response to the challenges of sustainable development?
PHILIPS MEDICAL SYSTEMS Cathy McCaffrey - Director of Sustainability. McCaffrey directs the development of sustainability programs to strengthen Royal Philips position as a world-class leader. What is really making the difference?		VERENIUM John Howe - Vice President Public Affairs. Verenium is the first public company with the integrated, end-to-end capabilities to make cellulosic biofuels a commercial reality. So will they?
HOK ARCHITECTS Sandy Mendler - Design Principal and Senior Vice President with over 20 years experience leading the charge on sustainable design. What high value/low impact approaches are they working towards now?		EPRI Clark Gellings - VP of Innovations. EPRI is striking new directions on the Grid, Climate, Baseload and more--where are we likely to see real innovation adoption in the utility sector?
XANTREX TECHNOLOGY, INC. Mossadiq Umeday - Chairman Umedaly led the charge to build a vision and implementation plan for British Columbia to capitalize on cleantech.		NORTH STREET PARTNERS LLC Sean Rodrigues – Principal. Rodrigues is leading the development of Shiloh Sustainable Village in Northern California, the first and largest carbon-neutral, mixed-use project in the region,.
BLUE HILL PARTNERS Joyce Ferris - Founder and Managing Partner, has over 20 years of experience in GreenTech. How are they working with the state to elevate Pennsylvania and Green tech?		WESTART-CALSTART John Boesel - President and CEO. Facilitates advanced transportation technologies and companies that will help clean the air, lessen our dependence on foreign oil, reduce global warming, and create jobs.
PIER, CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION Merwin Brown, PhD - Director of the PIER Transmission Research Program at The California Energy Commission (CEC) and the California Institute for Energy & Environment (CIEE), What vision for Smartgrid is California pursuing?		LAWRENCE BERKELEY LAB Steve Selkowitz - Director of Building Practice. This federal lab is leading the charge in building innovation in the U.S.--what breakthroughs can we expect?
STOEL RIVES, LLP Ted Bernhard, Stoel Rives LLP - Founder of the cleantech practice and regular advisor to leading companies in the emerging space. What advice does he have to grow successfully?

OTHER SPEAKERS INCLUDED:

SAIC, MG Thomas H. Neary, Vice President for Operations & Manager, Strategic Missions Division

BNSF Railway, Mark Stehly, Assistant Vice President of Environmental Research and Development

Austin Energy, John Baker, Chief Strategy Officer

Climate Change Journal, Grant Ferrier, Editor

Sterling Planet, Mel Jones, CEO

Microsoft Real Estate & Facilities, Barney Kinzer, Group Manager Americas

DTE Energy Ventures, Ganesh "Ananth" Ananthasubramaniam, Vice President

NIKE, Lorrie Vogel, General Manager, Considered Products Considered Products

Climate Solutions, K.C. Golden, Policy Director

Environmental Resources Trust, Wiley Barbour, Executive Director

Seattle Department of Planning and Development, Lucia Athens, Green Building Program Manager

Cleantech Network LLC, Nick Parker Founder and Chairman

Countrywide Home and Loans, David Porter, Division Builder Manager and Senior Vice President

Iconoculture, Rob Tregenza, Vice President, Consumer Strategist

Teragren, David M. Knight, CEO

REI, Kevin Hagen, Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility

Snohomish County, Aaron Reardon, County Executive

City of Bremerton, Mayor Carey Bozeman, Mayor

Detroit Edison, Hawk Asgeirsson, Supervising Engineer of Distributed Resource Planning

Bonneville Power Authority, Terry Oliver, Chief Technology Innovation Officer

Austin Energy, John Baker, Chief Strategy Officer

PG&E, VP of Energy Products

PIER, California Energy Commission, Gerry Braun, Renewables Team Lead

SAIC, Chris McCall, Program Manager

EnerNOC, Scott McGaraghan, Director of Business Development--West Coast

University of California—Davis, Andrew Frank, Professor

National Energy Technology Laboratory, Steve Pullins, Team Leader, Modern Grid Initiative

3E Strategies, Cylvia Hayes, Founder & Executive Director

Sustainable Seattle, Laura Musikanski, Board Member

Jones and Stokes, David Zippin, Principal and Senior Ecologist

The Sheltair Group, Angela Griffiths, PhD, CEO

Verdigris Capital, Walter Howes, Managing Partner & US DOE, Fmr-Director of Acquisition Reform

Imperium Renewables, Todd Ellis, Director of Business Development

Green Car Company, Greg Rock, Co-Founder

Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Canada, Alison Setton, P. Eng., MBA, Manager, Hydrogen Highway

MC Electric Vehicles, Steve Mayeda,

Flexcar, Mark Norman, CEO

Zenn Motors, Bill Williams, Regional Sales Director, California

Cascadia, Bruce Agnew, Program Director

American Automobile Association of Washington, Janet Ray

BC Trucking Association, Paul Landry

Cascade Sierra Solutions, Sharon Banks

Washington State Senate, Senator Edward B. Murray, Vice Chair Transportation Committee Vice Chair

Environmental Protection Agency, West Coast Collaborative, US EPA, Peter Murchie, EPA Coordinator

Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Canada, Alison Setton, P. Eng., MBA, Manager, Hydrogen Highway

Washington DOT, Jeff Doyle, Director of Public/Private Partnerships

Sustainable Business Consulting, Kevin Wilheim, President

Oregon Dept of Transportation, Allison Hamilton, Project Director, Office of Innovative Partnerships and Alternative Funding

Keiretsu, M. Todd Dean, President

Keiretsu Forum, Jonathan Bonanno, Chairman of the Cleantech Investment Committee

Ascent Partners Group, LLC, Byron McCann, Partner

Light Green Advisors, LLC, Jonathan Naimon, Managing Director

Sustainable Northwest, J. Martin Goebel, President (Moderator)

Environmental Home Center, Matthew Freeman-Gleason, Chief Knowledge Officer

Northwest Natural Resource Group, Ian Hanna, Director- Northwest Certified Forestry

Peter Goldmark, Rancher & Former Washington Secretary of Agriculture

Central Washington Biodiesel LLC, Steve Verhey, Ph.D, CEO

Kitsap SEED Project and Washington Clean Technology Alliance, Tim Botkins

Washington Community Trade and Economic Development, Tim Stearns

Oregon State Office of Economic Development, Glenn Montgomery, Sustainable Business Liaison

Washington Department of Ecology, Spencer Reeder, Western Climate Initiative

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,Carl Imhoff

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Rob Pratt

GridWise Architecture Council, Alison Silverstein