9:00 - 9:05 CONFERENCE OPENING Chairpersons: Michael Schmela, PHOTON International, Germany Roy Johnson, CaliSolar, USA Kristina Petersen Invited speakers 9:05 - 10:00 FUNDAMENTALS & VC • Jeff Grabow, Ernst & Young, USA »Overview of VC flow into the PV sector« • Abe Yokell, Rockport, USA »What's hot in the PV business« • Martha Symko-Davies, National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), USA »The role of startups under the Department of Energy's SunShot Initiative« 10:00 - 11:15 CRYSTALLINE SILICON CELLS – TODAY AND TOMORROW • Conrad Burke, Innovalight, USA »Lessons in driving silicon solar start-up to market« • Peter Fath, Centrotherm, Germany »Evolutionary path to cut c-Si cell cost« • Frank van Mierlo, 1366, USA »Kerfless solar cells« • K.V. Ravi, Crystal Solar, USA »Very thin (<50 microns) single crystal silicon solar cells manufactured by epitaxy« 11:15 - 11:30 Coffee Break 11:30 - 13:00 DEVELOPING SOLAR POWER SYSTEMS • Rob Morgan, Agile Energy, USA »Utility-scale solar systems« • Peter Hennessy, Paul Huelskamp, White River Solar, USA »Utility-scale PV« • Paul Detering, Tioga, USA »Commercial-scale PV« • Andrew Boyd, Tangerine, USA »Internet-based community solar financing« 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 16:00 SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY – FROM MODULES TO INVERTERS • Peter Gish, Apparent Energy, USA »Micro grid inverters« • Andre Willis, HiQ, USA »Mini-inverter system« • Helmuth Treichel, Sunsonix, USA »Wafer cleaning for increased efficiency« • David Dunnison, Clarian Power, Canada »Plug and play PV systems« • Vikas Desai, PVT, USA »Hybrid PV/hot water« • Bert Wank, Infinirel, USA »Fault prognosis electronics for PV systems« • Jenna Gelgand, Xtreme Power, USA »Ultra cap storage« 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break 16:30 - 17:45 CPV & THIRD GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES • Vijit Sabnis, Solar Junction, USA »High efficiency III-V solar cells for CPV« • Brendan Dillon, Pythagoras Solar, USA »Solar windows« • David Follette, REhnu, USA »Large-scale CPV« • Nicolas Morgan, Morgan Solar, Canada »CPV« 17:45 - 18:30 EXECUTIVE PANEL