9:00
CONFERENCE OPENING
Chairpersons:
• Michael Schmela, PHOTON International, Germany
• Matt Cheney
9:00 - 9:10
WELCOME WORDS
• Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting,
City and County of San Francisco, USA
9:10 - 9:30
KEYNOTE
• Nancy Pfund, DBL Investors, USA
9:30 - 10:45
FUNDAMENTALS & VC
• Joe Muscat, Ernst & Young, USA
»Overview of VC flow into the PV sector«
• Martha Symko-Davies,
US National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL), USA
»Start-up funding in the US«
• Sylvain Goiran, France Innovation Scientifique et Transfert (FIST), France
»Patent distribution in PV technologies«
• Guido Agostinelli, Good Energies, Switzerland
10:45 - 11:00
PANEL – FUNDAMENTALS & VC
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee-Break
11:30 - 12:00
C-SI CELLS AND MODULES
• Jennifer Woolwich, PV Recycling, USA
»Solar module recycling«
• Damoder Reddy,
Solexant, USA
»Nanocrystal thin-film cells«
12:00 - 12:30
CONCENTRATING PHOTOVOLTAICS (CPV)
• Shondip Ghosh, Banyan Energy, USA
»Low CPV«
• Joseph Carr, Semprius, USA
»High CPV«
12:30 - 13:00
PANEL – C-SI & CPV
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
THIN FILMS
• Michael Bartholomeusz, AQT, USA
»Second generation CIS technology«
• Dave Pearce, NuvoSun, USA
»Thin-film modules«
• Dennis Flood, Vanguard, USA
»Roll-to-roll manufacturing of a nanostructured,
high-efficiency thin-film solar cell«
• Alan Chin, nLiten, USA
»Substrates for thin-film modules«
15:00 - 15:45
BALANCE OF SYSTEMS (BOS)
• Paul Engle, Enecsys, UK
»Microinverters«
• Ron van Dell, SolarBridge, USA
»Microinverters«
• Glenn Harris, AC Solar, USA
»AC modules«
15:45 - 16:00
PANEL – THIN FILMS & BOS
16:00 - 16:20
Coffee-Break
16:20 - 17:30
THIRD GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES
• Mike Clary, Solasta, USA
»A-Si/carbon nanotubes on glass substrates«
• Tony Defries, Matter, USA
»Plasmonics-based solar cells«
• Andreas Rückemann, Heliatek, Germany
»Organic cells«
• Chris Shannon, QuantaSol, UK
»Quantum dot cells«
17:30 - 18:15
EXECUTIVE PANEL:
»Mastering start-up challenges in times of cheap silicon«
• Christopher Moran, Applied Ventures, USA
• Dan Shugar, Solaria, USA
• Rob Stone, Cowen, USA
• Mark Farber, PHOTON Consulting, USA
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