innovation beyond boundaries: partnerships for advancing smart

Innovation Beyond Boundaries: Partnerships for Advancing Smart, Green Living

June 29 - 30, 2011

Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall, Stanford University

SPEAKER, CHAIR AND DISCUSSANT PROFILES

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WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS

Jin-Fu Chang is Minister without Portfolio, Executive Yuan in Taiwan. Dr. Chang received a degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1970 and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977. He has held teaching and research positions at National Taiwan, Central, and Chi-Nan Universities. He has served in many leadership roles in Taiwan’s university and government, including as Director of Science and Technology Advisory Group (Ministry of Education), Deputy Minister of National Science Council, and President of National Chi Nan University.

Henry S. Rowen is Co-Director of SPRIE, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a professor of Public Policy and Management emeritus at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a senior fellow emeritus of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Rowen is an expert on international security, economic development, and high tech industries in the U.S. and Asia. His current research focuses on the rise of Asia in high technologies. In 2004-05, Professor Rowen served on the Presidential Commission on the Intelligence of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. From 2001-04, he served on the Secretary of Defense Policy Advisory Board. Rowen was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the U.S. Department of Defense from 1989 to 1991. He was also chairman of the National Intelligence Council, president of the RAND Corporation, and was assistant director, U.S. Bureau of the Budget. Rowen's most recent work is as co-editor of Greater China's Quest for Innovation (Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2008). He also co-edited Making IT: The Rise of Asia in High Tech (Stanford University Press, 2006) and The Silicon Valley Edge: A Habitat for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2000). Rowen earned a bachelors degree in industrial management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a masters in economics from Oxford University.

SESSION 1: PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP

The Honorable Kristina M. Johnson served as Under Secretary of Energy at the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. from May 2009 until October 2010. Prior to her appointment as Under Secretary, Dr. Johnson was Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at The Johns Hopkins University (September 2007 to April 2009), and Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University from July 1999 until September of 2007. She received her B.S. (with distinction), M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. After a NATO post-doctoral fellowship at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, she joined the University of Colorado-Boulder’s faculty in 1985 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to full Professor in 1994. From 1994 to 1999 Dr. Johnson directed the NSF/ERC for Optoelectronics Computing Systems Center at the University of Colorado and Colorado State University.

Recognized for her work in technology transfer and entrepreneurship by the States of Colorado and North Carolina (1997, 2001); she received the 2010 Milton Steward Award from the Small Business Technology Council (SBTC), and is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, International Electronics and Electrical Engineering (IEEE), SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering (former Board Member) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Johnson serves on the Board of Directors of Boston Scientific Corporation, and AES Corporation. She also co-founded several companies, including SouthEast Techinventures, and ColorLink, Inc., which was sold to RealD, and is responsible for 3D effects in movies such as Avatar, Monster House, Chicken Little, Meet the Robinson’s, Hannah Montana and others. Dr. Johnson has published 142 refereed papers and proceedings and holds 45 U.S. patents (129 U.S. and international patents) and patents pending, and has received honorary degrees from University of Alabama at Huntsville, Tufts University and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.


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T.J. Glauthier is President of TJG Energy Associates, LLC, a California based energy consulting firm since 2005. Mr. Glauthier has a long record of accomplishment in business, government, and technology. He is an Advisor to companies in the energy and cleantech sector, including venture capital firms and their start-up companies, private equity firms, alternative energy companies, electric utilities, and global energy and transportation companies. He also is an advisor to organizations in the energy and clean tech sectors through his firm, TJG Energy Associates, LLC, and through association with Booz Allen Hamilton's global energy practice. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Glauthier served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Electricity Innovation Institute, a not-for-profit affiliate of the Electric Power Research Institute. He has also served as the Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. Department of Energy from 1999 to 2001 and Associate Director for Natural Resources Energy and Science at the U.S. White House Office of Management and Budget from 1993 to 1998. He is a Director of Union Drilling, Inc. and Enernoc, Inc. He serves on the advisory boards of Solazyme, Inc., SunRun, Inc., and previously for Serious Materials, Inc. and GridPoint, Inc. His pro bono activities include serving as an advisor to Stanford University's Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency and to the University of California's oversight advisory board for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He holds an A.B. in Mathematics from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

SESSION 2: PARTNERSHIPS FROM SILICON VALLEY

William F. Miller has spent about half of his professional life in business and about half in academia. He was the last faculty member recruited to Stanford University by the legendary Frederick Terman, who was then Vice President and Provost of Stanford. Miller himself later became Vice President and Provost of Stanford. He conducted research and directed many graduate students in Computer Science. In 1968 Dr. Miller also played a role in the founding of the first Mayfield Fund (venture capital) as a special limited partner and advisor to the general partners. As President and CEO of SRI International, Miller opened SRI to the Pacific Region; he established the spin-out and commercialization program at SRI and established the David Sarnoff Research Center (now the Sarnoff Corporation) as a for-profit subsidiary of SRI, and he became the

Chairman and CEO of SRI. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Sentius Corporation; he is also Founder and Chairman of Nanostellar, Inc, and a Founder and Chairman of Luminette, Inc. In 1982 Miller was appointed to the National Science Board. He is a Life Member of the National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science, Life Fellow of IEEE, and a Member of the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame. He received the Okawa Prize in 2000, the Dongbaeg Medal from the Republic of Korea in 2000, and the David Packard Civic Entrepreneur Award in 2008, In 2009 Konkuk University in Seoul, Korea opened the William F. Miller School of Management of Technology and name Miller as Honorary Dean. Stephen J. Eglash is Executive Director of the Energy and Environment Affiliates Program, Industry Liaison for the Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium, and a staff member in the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. As Executive Director of the Energy and Environment Affiliates Program he is responsible for developing and managing interactions for corporations and other organizations having an interest in Stanford’s research, faculty, and graduate students in energy-related and environmental fields. Steve brings to this position a background in renewable energy, business, technology, and finance. Previously, Steve was President and CEO of Cyrium Technologies, a solar energy startup company, and a consultant and advisor to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy. Before that, Steve was a venture capitalist at Worldview Technology Partners where he emphasized investments in semiconductors, displays, lighting, and energy. Steve was also Vice President at SDL (JDSU) where he managed businesses in telecommunications, printing, optical amplifiers, and industrial lasers. He began his career as a research scientist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Steve received a PhD and MS from Stanford University, and a BS from the University of California at Berkeley, all in Electrical Engineering. He has more than 40 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and four patents, and is a fellow of the SPIE and a member of the IEEE and OSA. Steve is a member of the City of Palo Alto Utilities Advisory Commission and is involved in humanitarian projects such as the Tech Museum Awards for Technology Benefiting Humanity and the Global Social Benefit Incubator at Santa Clara University.


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Russell Hancock is President & CEO of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, a position he has held since 2003. Dr. Hancock is also the founder of the annual State of the Valley conference, a “town hall” meeting attracting more than 1,500 leaders for a day spent in dialogue and discussion about the Valley’s opportunities. The conference features the release of Joint Venture’s Silicon Valley Index. In 2011 the United States Government Accounting Office will launch a national indicators project modeled on Joint Venture’s Index, with Russell providing high-level advice. Dr. Hancock's leadership in the Silicon Valley region builds on earlier work he led as Vice President of the Bay Area Council. There, he spearheaded the campaign extending BART to the San Francisco Airport. He also directed a broad-based effort which ultimately

created the Bay Area Water Transit Authority, charged with delivering a high-speed ferry system to the San Francisco Bay. Educated at Harvard in the field of government, Russell received a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University where he currently teaches in the Public Policy Program. Fluent in Japanese, Russell returned to Stanford in 2000 to become the inaugural director of the Shorenstein Forum for Asia-Pacific Studies. Michael L. Marlaire is Director of NASA Research Park, NASA Ames Research Center. He has been working at Ames since 1991, and directs organizations in charge of the NASA Research Park’s partnership development, land use planning, leasing, and property management. Michael’s prior work experience includes as Director for External Relations and Development, Chief Development and Communications, and Chief External Affairs at NASA. Earlier he served as the Attorney for U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee in 1988-89 and U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in 1987. Michael holds a J.D. from Southern Illinois University, Masters in Public Financial Administration (M.P.A.), Masters in American History (M.A.) and B.A. History and Political Science. Michael also has been a recipient of several awards from NASA including the U.S. General Service Administration national award for Real Property Innovation.

Asim Hussain is the Director of Product Marketing at Bloom Energy, where he focuses on marketing, product management, and strategy. Prior to Bloom Energy, Asim worked for CURRENT Group, a Smart Grid solutions provider, in roles focused on executive leadership, marketing and business development. Asim previously also worked for Deloitte Consulting where he focused on strategy and systems integration engagements for electric utility and telecommunication clients. Asim earned a BS in Commerce with Distinction from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.

SESSION 3: LINKAGES AMONG UNIVERSITIES/RESEARCH INSTITUTES,

GOVERNMENTS AND COMPANIES Chintay Shih serves as the Chairman of Institute for Information Industry (III), and the Morris Chang Chair Professor, Institute of Technology Management in National Tsing Hua University (NTHU). Dr. Shih also acts as a Technology Advisor to the Executive Yuan of the government of Taiwan and member of Economics Advisory Committee to the Vice President of Taiwan. Before joining NTHU in 2004, he worked with ITRI since 1976 and ran the Electronics Research Service Organization (ERSO) from 1984-89, the Executive Vice President of ITRI from 1989 – 94, and served as president from 1994 – 2003. While at ITRI, Dr. Shih played key roles in the spin-off United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Vanguard Semiconductor (VIS), and Taiwan Mask Company (TMC), foundations of semiconductor industry in Taiwan. As the President of ITRI, he established the open laboratory program to strengthen the collaboration ties with the industry, as well as initiated the Advanced Research Program to excel ITRI as a world-class research institute. Dr. Shih received his Ph.D. in EE from Princeton University, M.S. in management from Stanford University, and his B.S. in EE from National Taiwan University.


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Henry Etzkowitz is Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh Business School, United Kingdom, and General Adviser to the International Institute of Triple Helix (IITH) of LaSalle University, Madrid, Spain. Professor Etzkowitz is a scholar of international reputation in innovation studies as the originator of the Entrepreneurial University and Triple Helix concepts that link university with industry and government at national and regional levels. He is also the co-founder of the Triple Helix International Conference Series, which has produced a series of books, special journal issues and policy analyses since it started in Amsterdam, 1996. Professor Etzkowitz is the author of Triple Helix: University, Industry Government Innovation in Action (Routledge, 2008), MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science (Routledge, 2002). He publishes regularly in Research Policy, Science and Public Policy,

R&D Management, European Planning Studies and Minerva. Prior to coming to Stanford as a visiting scholar, Professor Etzkowitz held the Chair in Management of Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise at Newcastle University Business School and served as Visiting Professor in the Department of Technology and Society, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Stony Brook University. Sean S. H. Wang is President of the International offices of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a major research institution in Taiwan that has been instrumental in developing many new technologies and improving current industries. ITRI has contributed to many industrial areas including semiconductors, optics, automotive, machinery, textiles, among others. Before joining ITRI at the Director General level in 2004, Dr. Wang was with SRI International/SRI Consulting for about 15 years. At SRI, he developed and implemented international projects on technology evaluation, feasibility studies, strategic planning, identification of new business opportunities, licensing strategy, buy-or-build issues, and new plant investment decisions. Dr. Wang received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at West Virginia University.

Jon Sandelin is Senior Associate Emeritus at Stanford University Office of Technology Licensing. Jon graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Chemistry in 1962, then served four years in the U. S. Naval submarine service. He then returned to school, obtaining an MBA from Stanford University in 1968. He returned to Stanford in 1970 as the Financial Officer and then later as the Associate Director of the Stanford Computer Center. Jon was recruited to join Stanford's Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) in 1984, where he has been responsible for licensing all forms of intellectual property, including inventions, computer software, and university trademarks. Jon has served as a consultant on the licensing of research-related inventions to other universities, non-profit research organizations, and governments, and has provided services for clients in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Africa, Arab League, and Latin America.

He is the author of over 20 published articles on technology transfer through licensing and has given workshops, seminars, and presentations on this topic throughout the world. Jon served two terms as a Vice President of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), where he was responsible for developing AUTMs overseas relationships, and is Past President of the Association of Collegiate Licensing Administrators (ACLA).


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SESSION 4: LIVING LABS

Stephen Su is the General Director of Industrial Economics & Knowledge Center (IEK) in Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). Stephen has more than 20 years of experience in industry and business consulting. His professional specialties include strategy, performance improvement, business process redesign, and marketing. Previous to his role at ITRI, he was a Principal in Roland Berger Strategy Consultants based in Shanghai. From 2000-2008 he was a Senior Director of Consumer Electronics in Primax Electronics Ltd. based in Taipei. From 1994-1998 he served as a Project Leader in Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Hong Kong. From 1992-1994 he was an Applications Engineer in the Semiconductor Group of Motorola Phoenix. Stephen received BSc in Electronic/Computer Engineering from UC Berkeley, MSc in Electronics from California Institute of Technology, and MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Ted Howes joined Advisory Services of Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) in 2011 and leads the Consumer Products practice and innovation. Ted is passionate about using innovation and design thinking to integrate sustainability in organizations and to explore the intersection of sustainability and business. Prior to BSR Ted co-led the sustainability and cleantech domains at the innovation and design consultancy IDEO. He’s worked throughout the energy ecosystem from cleantech start-ups to utilities to the Department of Energy on projects that range from making energy efficiency sexy to developing a culture of conservation to designing an in-home display to help residential users visualize, control and connect with their energy use. As the Vice-President for CSR and Supply Chain Strategies at Scientific Certification

Systems, he developed a portfolio of innovative sustainable supply chain programs. Ted led the design, development, global implementation and audit of the much-lauded Starbucks sustainable green coffee sourcing program, C.A.F.E. Ted serves on the Net Impact Advisory Council, the World Economic Forum's agenda council on sustainable consumption and CEO advisory boards. He has a MBA from UC Davis in Environmental Management and Strategy and concurrently completed the Corporate Environmental Management program at UC Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. For his BA in Chinese History at UC Berkeley, Ted explored the development and use of gunpowder to compare cultural and technical approaches to innovation between China and Europe. Paul Chao-Chia Huang is Deputy General Director of Service Systems Technology Center (SSTC) of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan. He aims to accelerate the application of technologies for innovative services that will ultimately bring significant new transformational opportunities to Taiwan’s industries. Dr. Huang founded several companies in the area of Risk Management focusing on credit, market and operational risk (including a Managed Data Center for Internet Security). Previously, Dr. Huang was the Department Manager of the High Speed Network Access Department for Computer and Communications Research Laboratory in ITRI and jointly held an Adjunct Associate Professorship at the Department of Information Science for National Chia-Tung University. Dr. Huang graduated from MIT with M.S. and B.S. degrees in EECS and from the University of Tokyo with a Ph.D. degree also in EECS. He has multiple research and technical publications in various books and IEEE, IEICE and SPIE journals.


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SESSION 5: INSIGHTS FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR

Marguerite Gong Hancock is the Associate Director of the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE), an interdisciplinary and international research program at Stanford University. Educated at Harvard University, Brigham Young University, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Marguerite joined Stanford in 1987. She has led international research programs at the intersection of business, technology, and policy first at the Graduate School of Business and then the Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center. Marguerite currently leads research initiatives, conferences, and publications on topics ranging from "China 2.0: The Rise of a Digital Superpower" to "Smart Green Cities: New Technologies, New Models, New Strategies” to “The Next Silicon Valley.” Marguerite is passionate about education and actively mentors students, participates in the Stanford Entrepreneurship Network, as well as co-directs an executive education

program for international policymakers at Stanford, "Leading Innovation and Entrepreneurial Regions in the Global Economy." Active in the life of Silicon Valley, she has served as an advisor for the annual Index of Silicon Valley and was featured in the best-selling book, Multipliers, for her role as a community leader. A frequent speaker, Marguerite has delivered keynotes or presentations in more than a dozen countries and briefed government national and local government leaders from the US, Europe, and Asia. She is co-editor of three Stanford books on innovation and entrepreneurship: The Silicon Valley Edge (2000), Making IT: Asia's Rise in High Tech (2006), and China's Quest for Innovation (2008) and she is currently working on a book on the rise of China in the Internet industry. Alan Beebe is a Managing Director with the China Greentech Initiative (CGTI), the leading commercial platform to uncover, promote and accelerate greentech opportunities in China. CGTI clients include major international and Chinese corporations, private equity and venture capital organizations, governments and non-government organizations (NGOs). Alan leads the strategic research and advisory services of CGTI across six major greentech sectors: cleaner conventional energy, renewable energy, electric power infrastructure, green building, cleaner transportation and clean water. Prior to joining CGTI, Alan held Executive positions with IBM China (Beijing) and global management consulting firms AT Kearney and PRTM. Alan has lived and worked in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other Asian countries for nearly 20 years. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. He holds a Master’s degree from Yale University in International Relations and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Computer Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. He is a Board of Advisor of the Yale Club of Beijing and in that capacity promotes academic and cultural exchange programs between the United States and China.

Tim Schweikert is President & CEO of China Region for GE Technology Infrastructure, General Electric. Tim graduated from Marquette University in 1984 with a BS in mechanical engineering. Upon graduation Tim joined GE Aviation as a manufacturing development program engineer. During this time, Tim earned his masters in science in industrial engineering from University of Cincinnati. During his 19 years with GE Aviation, Tim served in a variety of leadership positions in engineering, product management, marketing and sales. Tim was appointed to General Manager, Global Locomotive Operations in December 2003, overseeing the launch of the Evolution Series locomotive and the acceleration of GE’s global locomotive business. In February of 2006, Tim was appointed President, GE China Transportation, leading one of GE’s fastest growing businesses in China. In November of 2007 Tim was appointed President & CEO China Region GE Technology Infrastructure. In

June 2008, Tim was promoted to a GE Corporate Vice President. From December of 2010, Tim’s role is expanded to include commercial activities for South East Asia region in addition to his responsibilities in China. Tim now oversees South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, in business development and commercial excellence.


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Gordon Feller is Director of Urban Innovations at Cisco Systems. He works with innovative leaders who are making their cities more connected and more sustainable. Among his various duties, Gordon leads initiatives designed to support urban development initiatives underway within North American and EU-based cities. In addition, Gordon supports Cisco’s numerous China urban initiatives -- including through his role as leader of Cisco’s City Leader Program, which provides intensive learning programs to Chinese mayors, Communist Party secretaries and national government ministers. Prior to joining Cisco, Feller was CEO of Urban Age, an international institute fostering leadership and innovation within and between cities. Urban Age focuses on the needs of city leaders in strategic planning, innovative public policy, sustainable development and dynamic economic development. For nearly 30 years Gordon has advised the elected and appointed leaders of cities and states, heads of corporations, NGOs, foundations, national government agencies. His clients have included the national governments of Canada and Germany, IBM, Metropolis, Reuters, The World Bank, The United Nations and Chevron. Grants made by a long list of philanthropies, including Lincoln Institute and Rockefeller Foundation, enabled his projects to flourish in numerous countries. Gordon received both his undergraduate degree and his Masters from Columbia University in New York City, where he graduated cum laude with several honors and several fellowships.

Kung Wang is currently Chair Professor of the Department of Business Administration at China University of Technology in Taiwan since 2007, and he was Professor of the Graduate Institute of Industrial Economics at National Central University since 1985. From 2000-2004 Dr. Wang served as General Director of Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center in Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI); he also established ITRI’s market analysis and consulting service division. He also joined International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1980s. Dr. Wang has held numerous Taiwanese governmental positions, including advisor for Nation Science Council and Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), Director General of Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park, and Commissioner of Fair Trade Commission, Executive Yuan. He has also served on boards of directors for state-owned enterprises and

venture capital funds, and as an advisor to the Taiwanese government and industrial and commercial associations. His current research is focused on regional innovation and entrepreneurship, competitive strategy and industrial policy. Dr. Wang received the BS and MS from National Taiwan University and the Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

SESSION 6: PARTNERSHIPS FOR SYSTEMS INNOVATION Jonathan Woetzel is a Director with McKinsey & Company based in Shanghai. In his 25 years with the firm, Dr. Woetzel has advised clients in a range of industries – including energy, materials, technology and industrial – helping transform local companies into global leaders, and developing policy recommendations for government. Dr. Woetzel has led McKinsey’s Asia Energy and Materials practice, the McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey’s macroeconomic research institute, in Asia, and its Corporate Finance practice in China. He led the establishment of McKinsey’s China practice in the 1990s including managing its Shanghai location. He co-chairs the Firm’s Urban China Initiative with Columbia University and Tsinghua University. Dr. Woetzel actively participates in international fora, particularly in the area of US China-relations, including the US-China Clean Energy Forum, the Joint US-China Coalition for Clean Energy, and the Aspen Strategy Group. He has written three books on China including Capitalist China: Strategies for a Revolutionized Economy (Wiley & Sons, 2004) and co-authored with Jimmy Hexter Operation China: From Strategy to Execution (Harvard Business Press, 2008). He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Southern California, where his work focused on China’s political economy. He is a lecturer at Beijing University’s Guanghua School of Management. Dr. Woetzel, a U.S. citizen, is proficient in Mandarin, Spanish, and German.


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Dennis Bracy is Chief Executive Officer of US-China Clean Energy Forum and Chairman of Avatar Studios. He also served as Chair of Washington State China Relations Council. Combining a long-time commitment to strengthening US-China relations and a passion for finding solutions to global energy and environmental issues, Bracy has led the US team for the US-China Clean Energy Forum since the inception of the organization in 2007. Over the past 20 years, he has served as a key advisor to Senators, Governors and Members of Congress and is considered a leading strategist on political and public affairs issues. As Chairman of Avatar Studios, he heads a company that produces television programs for clients around the world. In the early 1990s, Bracy led the team that developed the first prime-time television co-produced by foreigners in China and he continues to produce several documentaries and videos in China every year. His previous professional positions include

president of Hill & Knowlton Technology, vice president of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation, and press secretary for the Watergate trials.

Rohit T. “Rit” Aggarwala is an environmental policy expert, transportation planner, and historian. Dr. Aggarwala currently serves as Special Advisor to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in his capacity as Chair-elect of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. From 2006 to 2010, Aggarwala was the Director of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability for the City of New York. In that role, he served as the chief environmental policy advisor to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, and led the development and implementation of New York City's sustainability plan, PlaNYC: A Greener, Greater New York. Aggarwala's achievements included the passage into law of a landmark set of mandates that will make all large buildings in New York City more energy efficient, by requiring benchmarking, periodic energy audits and operations tune-ups, widespread lighting retrofits, and submetering for commercial tenants. He also led the effort to make New York City's 13,000 yellow taxis convert to hybrids, clean up the heating oil used in New York City's buildings, and develop a greener construction code for New York. Prior to joining the Bloomberg Administration, Aggarwala was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. In addition to work at the New York State Assembly and the Virginia Railway Express, he began his career at the Federal Railroad Administration. He is an active member of the Transportation Research Board, where he chairs Subcommittee AR010-1, Socio-Economic and Financial Aspects of Intercity Passenger Rail. A native of Manhattan, NY, Aggarwala holds BA, MBA, and PhD degrees from Columbia University, as well as a Master’s from Queens University in Ontario. Aggarwala is also the author of several articles on transportation policy and on the history of New York City.

SESSION 7: INNOVATIONS IN SMART GREEN BUILDINGS AND CITIES

Jonathan Thorpe serves as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of Gale International and is responsible for international and domestic project financing, investments, business planning, strategy and operating/development matters. Having worked on the Songdo International Business District (IBD) project since 2002, shortly after its inception, Jonathan has been involved in structuring and closing all major equity and debt financing transactions for Songdo IBD, one of the largest single privately-financed and owned developments currently underway in the world. Jonathan has been affiliated with Gale International, formerly The Gale Company, since 1985 and has been additionally responsible for the successful financing, development and disposition of the Company’s portfolios of office, retail and industrial properties in the New York/New Jersey area and in California. Prior to joining Gale International, Jonathan

worked in the Los Angeles Real Estate Investments Office of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, where he was responsible for joint venture, mortgage and purchase investments in commercial real estate properties throughout Southern California. Jonathan received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Architecture from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and a Masters degree in Business Administration from the Haas School of the University of California, Berkeley.


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Allan King joined Institute for Information Industry (III) in 2008 as Senior Manager at Networks & Multimedia Institute’s Marketing & Business Development Center. III was incorporated in 1979 as a Non-Government Organization (NGO) to support the development and applications of information industry as well as information society in Taiwan. His role consists of product/services promotion to the industry in IOT (Internet of Things), Smart Devices, 4G communications, and Internet Security. Prior to join III, he worked for SRI International, Exar Corp., and Destiny Technology. At SRI International, he led SRI’s Asia operations for technology transfer from SRI to Asia based companies. Also he was in charge of SRI’s Innovation programs to help customers on reducing time-to-market for new products, with state-of-the-art technology implementations. He had led multidisciplinary product development teams, in various software and firmware domains, for daily life high tech. products. Allan earned his M.S. degree from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, in Applied Math & Computer Science.

David Nieh serves as General Manager for Shui On Land for Knowledge Community Developments, and has served also as General Manager for Planning and Development. He is a registered architect and certified planner, as well as an accredited professional in sustainable design. He formerly directed the studio for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill’s (SOM) Shanghai office, and was chief architect for the City of San Jose and Redevelopment Agency. He has taught architecture, urban design and urban studies at Stanford University, was a faculty affiliate of the Graduate School of Business, Center for Social Innovation, Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering and Center for Design Research. He is an honorary member of the International Society for City and Regional Planners and a member of the China Planning Network.

Mr. Nieh is currently a Board Member for the Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy, Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Cogswell College in Silicon Valley, the foremost digital media and animation institution in Silicon Valley. He advises the One-North Development in Singapore, the US-China Clean Energy Forum, the China Greentech Initiative, and the Cleantech Group in China. Mr. Nieh is also an Advisory Board Member for the Nobel Forum China and the Fudan University Center for Housing Policy. With social benefit and energy sustainability as key principles, his projects are large-scale and urban in nature, focusing on the translation of strategic planning initiatives into the implementation of infrastructure, architecture and built form. His work has won numerous awards and he has been a guest speaker in Asia, North America and Europe. Mr. Nieh holds a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design degree from Harvard University and a Masters of Architecture degree from the University of California/ Berkeley. Jeffrey Heller is president and founder of Heller Manus Architects. Jeffrey’s experience covers a broad range of professional endeavors. He is a leader in the profession and green movement with some of the first sustainable architecture and large scale urban planning projects in the US and China, including the first LEED Gold office towers in the sister cities of San Francisco and Shanghai; the first LEED Platinum neighborhood development master plan; and sustainable/livable master plans for Guangzhou’s North and South Axes, Shanghai’s Yangpu Waterfront, and the city expansion area of Ulanhot, Inner Mongolia. His work in China often now involves high-speed rail land use implications. Jeffrey serves on several boards and prominent organizations, including the International Green Growth Leaders’ Council in Copenhagen, Bay Area Council (Co-Chair of Climate Change Committee), Yangpu Shanghai Senior Urban Planning Advisor, ULI Leadership Council, Asia Society Advisory Board, California Architects Board Member and Past President, CTBUH Senior Member, SPUR Advisory Board, ChinaSF Advisory Board, and Lambda Alpha International Honorary Land Use Organization. Jeffrey has been recipient of several awards and honors, including the National AIA Honor Award, ‘Citation for Excellence in Urban Design’, for his participation with a team of architects who performed volunteer urban design work in Soviet Armenia after the 1988 Spitak earthquake. He has been guest lecturer and speaker at various academic and professional venues for more than 20 years, and has been published in various newspapers and magazines. Jeffrey is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. (Photo © Deddo)


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SESSION 8: INNOVATION IN INTELLIGENT GREEN TRANSPORTATION

Sven Beiker is Executive Director Revs Program at Stanford and Executive Director of Center for Automotive Research at Stanford. Since 2008 Dr. Beiker has been overseeing the strategic planning, resources management, and project incubation for the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS). Besides managing the industry relationships, he holds teaching positions at Stanford's School of Engineering and the Graduate School of Business. He is also the Executive Director of the Revs Program, where he oversees the operations of the program. Before coming to Stanford, Dr. Beiker worked at the BMW Group for more than 13 year where his responsibilities included technology scouting, innovation management, systems design, and series development. He primarily applied his expertise to chassis and powertrain projects, and holds several patents in respective technology fields.

Jaching Chou is currently a senior transportation analyst in the Institute of Transportation (IOT), Ministry of Transportation and Communications, Taiwan. Dr. Chou received his PhD from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Utah State University in 1994. Prior to that, he received his Master’s degree in Computer Science also from Utah State University. He has been involved in the planning process of intelligent transportation system (ITS) development in Taiwan since 1998, especially in the area of urban traffic control and management. In recent years, Dr. Chou has also been in charge of several projects that adopt RFID, GPS, GIS, wireless communication, and the concept of clouding computing into the operations and information sharing of baggage and cargo in airport.

Gerald Jay (“Jerry”) Sanders, former Israeli Navy SEAL and General Counsel (USA) to Israel’s Ministry of Defense, is the Chairman and CEO of SkyTran Inc. Mr. Sanders, the subject of a popular Harvard Business School case study on entrepreneurship (The Jerry Sanders Case, HBS 9-498-021 January 20, 1998), also served as an Associate with the Wall Street firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and as the Director of International Development for Hyatt Hotels. Mr. Sanders is an honors graduate of Queens College and of The University of Texas Law School, and he holds postgraduate Certificates in German Socio-economics, from The Goethe Institute of Bonn, Germany, and in Comparative Constitutional Law, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico. Today, in addition to his work for SkyTran, he serves as an Associate Fellow and member of the faculty at Oxford University’s Saïd Graduate School of Business, and as an

advisor to the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI). In support of his PCCI work, Jerry co-founded FASE: The French American Society of Entrepreneurs, the sponsor and the host of the annual “FACE”: the French American Conference of Entrepreneurs, also known as the “Louvre Conference”. Jerry serves as US State Department accredited Honorary Consul for The Republic of Haiti. In that role, Jerry was instrumental in California’s earthquake relief efforts for Haiti. In his spare time, Jerry is the proprietor of Shayneh Vista Vineyards™, a California Certified Organic Farmers family winery. Ann Bordetsky leads Better Place North America efforts in Federal and California policy, government affairs, and strategy. Prior to joining Better Place, Ann worked in federal policy and advocacy for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, D.C., where she focused on energy security and climate policy for the transportation sector. Ann holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s in Environmental Science, Policy and Management from UC Berkeley.


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CLOSING KEYNOTE

Curtis R. Carlson became SRI International's president and CEO in 1998. Previously, Dr. Carlson spent more than 20 years with Sarnoff Corporation (previously RCA Laboratories), an SRI subsidiary that was fully integrated into SRI in 2011. In 1973, Carlson joined RCA Laboratories, where he started and helped lead the high-definition television (HDTV) program that became the U.S. standard. His team won a 1997 Emmy® Award for outstanding technical achievement. In 2000, another of his teams won an Emmy for a system to optimize satellite broadcast image quality. Dr. Carlson is widely sought as a speaker and thought leader on innovation and global competitiveness. He serves as co-chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Singapore National Research Foundation. He is a founding member of the Innovation Leadership Council for the World Economic Forum and was selected to serve on President Obama's National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Dr. Carlson received his B.S. in physics from WPI. His M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are from Rutgers University. Carlson has published or presented numerous technical publications and holds fundamental patents in the fields of image quality, image coding, and computer vision.

CLOSING REMARKS

Hsin-Sen Chu has been Executive Vice President of the Industrial Technology Research Institute since 2004. Dr. Chu previously served as General Director of Energy and Resources Laboratories, ITRI, from 2001-2004. In 1984, he joined as a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Chiao Tung University. During that period, he served as the department chair from 1991-1995. He also served as Vice Dean at the university’s College of Engineering. Dr. Chu is a Fellow in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and has received numerous research and teaching awards. His interests include energy technology, energy policy, hydrogen energy and fuel cells, micro-cooling technology as well as micro/nanoscale heat transfer technology. He received his Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering from National Cheng Kung University.

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