Speaker of the House Pelosi Welcomes Cleantechnology & Sustainable Industries Summit
October 29, 2007 04:24 PM US Eastern Timezone
The Summit kicks off Tuesday October 30th at the Marriott Renaissance Hotel Washington D.C.
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi today gave her welcome and inspirational best wishes to the Clean Technology & Sustainable Industries Organization (CTSI) for their Cleantechnology & Sustainable Industries Summit. The Summit kicks off Tuesday October 30th at the Marriott Renaissance Hotel Washington D.C.
The Cleantechnology & Sustainable Industries Summit brings together leading business and technology executives and government officials to present the state-of-art in sustainable industry practices and is hosted by the Clean Technology & Sustainable Industries Organization.
“We are very pleased the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has acknowledged the importance of the Summit and the National Clean & Sustainable Technology Initiative,” said Patti Glaza, Executive Director of Clean Technology & Sustainable Industries Organization (CTSI). “The Summit is the launch platform for the CTSI and National Clean & Sustainable Technology Initiative. The goal of the National Clean & Sustainable Technology Initiative is to establish the framework for a federally funded R&D program to coordinate multi-agency efforts in science, engineering, and technology related to clean technology and sustainable business innovation.”
John Marburger III, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy will be the keynote speaker for the event which focuses on looking at the needs across many industrial sectors, so the nation can begin to develop a roadmap to organize funding and research and development efforts across industry, academia and government coordinated manner.
Highlighted speakers include:
John H. Marburger, III
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Paul Dickerson
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Tom Allen
United States Congress
Imre Gyuk
U.S. Department of Energy
Kathleen Hogan
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
William G. Coit
Shell Global Solutions
Shyam Venkatesh
Omron Silicon Valley
Marc G. Stanley
NIST
Daniel L. Laird
Sandia National Laboratories
Joseph E. Turk
PWI Energy, Inc.
Barbara Tyran
EPRI
James E. Quinn
U.S. Department of Energy
Roger Duncan
Austin Energy
Loucas Tsakalakos
General Electric - Global Research
Tom Rose
Duke Smart Home Program
Joshua M. Dickinson
WateReuse Foundation
Paul H. Genoa
Nuclear Energy Institute
Mark Smallwood
Whole Foods Market
Gerald Brady
Siemens Corporation
Kevin Hurst
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Richard J. Kottenstette
Sandia National Laboratories
Susan Rochford
Council on Competitiveness
Lewis R. Norman
Halliburton Energy
Joel Serface
Austin Clean Energy Incubator
About CTSI
The Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization (CTSI) is a not-for-profit membership organization whose mission is to advance the commercialization and global adoption of clean technologies and sustainable industry practices through a community of industry, academic, and government leaders committed to a safer, cleaner and more productive world.