SOLARETECH/CAlSEIA SUMMIT

SOLAR LEADERSHIP SUMMIT
Accelerating the Solar Economy


SolarTech, in collaboration with partnering organizations, is pleased to invite you to its second annual summit this spring in San Ramon, California. The Solar Leadership Summit is an interactive event bringing together hundreds of experts across many disciplines of the solar industry.  

We are honored to have a broader diversity of partners and supporting organizations to offer this landmark two-day event. Together we will continue to shape our industry's future. Be at the table, leverage best practices and drive future standards!

Confirmed Speakers
  • John Lushetsky - Manager, Solar Energy Technologies Program, DOE Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE)
  • Ronnie Lott, NFL Hall of Fame Member & Founder, All Stars Helping Kids (Dinner)
  • Nancy McFadden - Senior VP & Advisor to the Chairman & CEO, PG&E  (Dinner)
  • Jane Weissman - Executive Director, IREC
  • Ezra Auerbach - Executive Director, NABCEP
  • Paul Detering - CEO, Tioga Energy
  • Barry Cinnamon - CEO, Akeena Solar
  • Jeff Wolfe- CEO, groSolar
  • Angiolo Laviziano - CEO of REC Solar,
  • Bill Watkins - CEO, Bridgelux
  • Charlie Gay - President of Applied Solar, Applied Materials
  • Jon Guerster - CEO, Groom Energy
  • Scott Clavenna - CEO, Greentech Media
  • Bob MacDonald - CEO, Skyline Solar
  • Jose Millan - Vice Chancellor, CA Community College Chancellor's Office
  • Ed Feo - Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
  • Nancy Hartsoch - VP Marketing and Sales, SolFocus
  • Bill Brooks - PE, Brooks Engineering, DOE Solar ABCs
  • Sue Kateley - Executive Director, CALSEIA
  • Merideth Tirpak Sterkel - California Solar Initiative Program Manager, CPUC
  • Adam Browning - Co-Founder & Executive Director, VoteSolar

All Speakers - See Agenda

Why Attend the Solar Leadership Summit?

The Summit's innovative format to collaboration enables you to network, problem solve, and share openly through break-out sessions with top thought leaders in the solar industry. We provide and ensure a constant two-way dialogue contrary to many conferences.  

Underpinning all sessions will be integrated, business driven methods to reduce system costs and cycle times, accelerating the adoption of solar on a broad basis.    

You will address critical issues to the solar industry ranging from permitting and performance best practices, to workforce readiness, interconnection, and streamlining of financing transactions.

NEW in 2010: Innovation & Commercialization Forum

This year we are introducing a second day to this ground-breaking event! The Innovation & Commercialization Forum will look at streamlining industry processes for bringing new technologies and products to market, while minimizing potential impacts on current standards and best practices.

We will explore strategic trends in international testing and certification standards and examine current gaps relative to new product commercialization efforts.

Join this event and uncover emerging concepts to streamline adoption of new technologies and learn how pending public policy developments might impact industry dynamics.

We’ll reveal near and long-term workforce trends, identify current opportunities and seek creative solutions to ensure workforce readiness on all levels of the value chain as new products come to market.

Workshops will provide guidance to professionals in transition, the changing industry, and preparation for the next opportunity.


Who Should Attend?
  • Appointed and Elected Officials
  • Photovoltaic and solar thermal equipment and module manufacturers
  • System integrators, contractors, installation professionals
  • Project developers involved in sales, marketing and strategic planning
  • Members of the financial community
  • Industry analysts and market researchers 
  • Utility decision makers
  • City building permitting, code officials, inspectors and staff representatives
  • Economic Development agencies, Venture Capitalists
  • Parallel industry professionals from the Built Environment, Energy Efficiency, Sustainability

NEW! Tour of the PG&E San Ramon Technology Center
A limited number of participants may register on a first-come first-served basis for a tour of the PG&E San Ramon Technology Center. See the famous high voltage testing dome that was featured on the Discovery Channel program "Myth Busters".  

Also included is a visit to the Modular Generation Test Facility, which has capabilities for testing and evaluating distributed generation and storage equipment and their interactions with a utility grid. PG&E is aggressively contracting for renewables, including a 5-year 500MW PV Program.  


The tours will take place over the lunch break at the Summit on both days -- come and see some of the exciting work going on at the PG&E Technology Center, which is located right across the street from the Summit venue at the San Ramon Valley Conference Center. More


NEW! California Solar Initiative (CSI) Public Forum

The California Solar Initiative (CSI) Public Forum provides a venue for public stakeholders to identify and discuss priority issues related to the administration and implementation of the CSI program with the California Public Utility Commission and the three Program Administrators: Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Southern California Edison and the California Center for Sustainable Energy.

The CSI Public Forum will take place on Thursday, April 22nd from 4:30pm - 6:30pm at the San Ramon Valley Conference Center.