Derrick Mains
Chief Executive Officer
GreenNurture.com
OPENING (FOR MODERATOR)
"Going green and making gr$$n"

Paula Mints
Navigant Consulting Inc.
Analysis photovoltaic (PV) technologies and markets, The Real World Benefits of Green Power, Financen"

Mark Crowdis
Chief Executive Officer
Think Energy, Inc.

• Where do companies need to go and whom do they need to appeal to initiate research projects to innovate and transform themselves to go into the green industries?

• Who is financing green technologies and innovations?
  
  
• ¿Why it is beneficial to invest in environmental technological innovations; why it is advantageous to invest in energy, which benefits could bring these investments?
  
  
• ¿Which funds and/or financial options have companies, who wish to become environmentally responsible? What benefits could this bring? What impact could this have on consumers?
  
  
• ¿What must be done to create awareness among companies and consumers about the use of renewable energies and green products? Which strategies could be implemented so that consumers break mental barriers that have in terms of the “poor quality” of renewable energies and green products? - How to change consumer’s notion that green products are made of bad materials and are against progress?
  
  
• ¿How can companies reduce costs without affecting the quality of their products through the use of green energies and resources? How can companies save and what do they need to do?

Sep.15th
Conferences:
2:30am-5:15 pm

Ralph Avallone
Chief Executive Officer
Green Energy Council

Robert Pollin.
Department of Economics,
University of Massachusetts

• ¿How will the economic behavior and labor opportunities be in the renewable energy field in the next 5 years?
  
  
• ¿Which jobs opportunities are there in a Green Economy; which are the positions that could have more impact and relevance when constructing a Green Economy; how is the growth of the employment market in a Green economy?
  
  
• ¿How green investments can contribute to generate more employment opportunities in a society?
  
  
• ¿What are the tendencies in the Green Jobs field for the next years; what do people think about green jobs; do people prefer green jobs over traditional jobs; why; which benefits are there when working in green industries for people?

Sep.16th
Conferences:
10 A.M.-1 P.M.

Steven Mandzik
Navstar Inc. / Director Green IT
OPENING (FOR MODERATOR)

• ¿Why should companies invest in technological environmental innovations; how should they do it; which environmental fields are more expensive and which more profitable to do so; which environmental areas could bring more benefits to society?

• ¿What should governments do to show, implement and encourage technological transformation in the different fields on renewable energy?

Roger Feldman
Co-Chair
Clean and Renewables Energy Group

Vincent de Vito
Partner Boston, MA/ USA

Jack Jacobs
Founder and managing partner
Cleantech Law Partners

• ¿Which are the incentives used by governments to encourage enterprises and the general public to adopt green technologies in their daily lives?

• ¿What is the process that needs to be followed by states that want to implement within their law tax and incentives system in order to promote environment conservation?

• ¿Why is important to create stimulus; how they can benefit those countries that adopt tax incentives?

• ¿What kind of incentives could be offered by states to the companies and individuals to introduce them in the renewable energy and green industries era; what kind of stimulus could be applied to people and which to businesses?

• ¿Are there some international conventions on the issue of tax incentives; if there are not, why they haven’t been created; which aspects have put barriers to the legislation on this subject?

• ¿What does restrictive regulation means; how does it work; what are its objectives; what has been its impact on the environmental and renewable energy field; positive and negative effects; which kind of initiatives have been developed to abolish these restrictions.