Sustainability Forum 2024
Sustainability Forum
The Sustainability Forum is a unique conference track at SusTech 2024 that focuses on the aspirations and goals of industry practitioners and technical professionals. This one-day event features a unique blend of experts in policy, leadership, and technology. It features talks on energy efficiency; the affect of electrification on the modern-day grid; hot topics in sustainability; microelectronics energy efficiency scaling; improved polymers for fuel cells; and off-shore power generation. There will be a panel on ”Promising Heat Pump Developments: Perspectives from the Pacific Northwest’ organized by the Oregon Dept. of Energy.
Attendees can receive PDH/CEU credit for attendance.
Agenda
All Times and dates shown in Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7)
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April 17 (Wednesday) 8:00 am – 4:30pm |
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SusTech 2024 Sustainability Forum |
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| 8:00 – 8:50 am | Electrification is a key strategy for decarbonizing all sectors of the U.S. economy | Opening Remarks and Keynote: Hellen Chen, Research Analyst in the Industry Program, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) |
| 9:00 – 9:50 am | Electrification and the Grid | C. E. Ted Witham & Joe Cappeta, Eaton |
| 10:00 – 11:30 am | Panel: Promising Heat Pump Developments: Perspectives from the Pacific Northwest | Organized by Stephanie Kruse, P.E., Oregon Dept. of Energy |
| 11:45 am – 12:15 pm | Special Session: Hot Topics in Sustainability | Maike Luiken, IEEE SusTech Initiative |
| 12:15 – 1:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:15 – 2:00 pm | Increasing Computing Energy Efficiency is Key Requirement for Sustainability | Tina Kaarsberg, Acting Program Manager, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) |
| 2:15 – 3:00 pm | Efficient, Cost-Effective Polymeric Materials Design for Clean Energy and Biomedical Technologies via Biomass Valorization | Shudipto Konika Dishari, Ross McCollum Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| 3:15 – 4:00 pm | Off-shore Wind Power Studies | Dmitry Kosterev, BPA |
| 4:15 pm | SusTech 2024 Student Poster Awards | |
| 4:30 pm | Closing Remarks & SusTech 2025 | |