"GREEN BUILDING "
Where are Spaces for Entrepreneurship in Green Building?

Saturday, November 8, 2008

at the California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Registration and Continental Breakfast:
8:00 a.m. Baxter Hall
Program:
9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
Networking:
11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
Cost: $40 on-line registration fee.  $50 at-the-door.  $10 for students with full-time student ID (must show at door); free to Caltech students. Registrations are taken on-line up to 5:00 p.m., November 6, 2008. There are no refunds for no-shows.

Change is in the air. State, local and federal government are all now taking climate change seriously, nowhere more so than California. The state legislature passed AB32, which mandates greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions. Meanwhile, the City of Los Angeles unveiled their Green L.A. Initiative with aggressive targets for GHG reductions, and many other municipalities have similar plans.

Critical to combating climate change will be new approaches to building design. According to the Department of Energy, buildings in the U.S. account for 39% of total energy consumption and 36% of GHG emissions. As such, building "green" is a large component of many climate action plans. A number of cities have adopted the Green Building Ordinances, which fast-track construction approval of buildings that meet LEED standards, and save builders money by shaving months off of construction time in a bid to encourage buildings with a lower environmental impact.

With the carrot in place and the stick coming, the industry is set to explode and it is huge: green building runs the gamut from high tech to innovative uses of low tech in order to reduce environmental impact, energy use and GHG, the ultimate goal being zero net energy use and no GHG emissions. Methods employed in green building include using recycled building materials, more efficient insulation, lighting, wind and solar power.

The opportunities for entrepreneurs are here now and more are coming, but what are they? And how does a green building startup receive funding? To answer these questions, the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum is bringing together entrepreneurs, investors and builders to discuss the needs of green building and opportunities for innovation in order to bring the U.S. closer to a sustainable economy while turning a tidy profit.

Keynote Speaker

Lance A. Williams, Ph. D.
LEEDR Accredited Professional
Executive Director
U. S. Green Building Council-Los Angeles Chapter

Confirmed Speakers and Panelists

Waqidi Falicoff
Executive Vice President
Light Prescriptions Innovators (LPI), Pasadena, CA

Yan Xiao, Ph.D., PE.
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Eric L. Miller
Executive-in-Residence
Mohr Davidow Ventures

Krista Kline
Urban Planning & Design Coordinator
L.A. City Mayor's Office of Commercial & Residential Development

Adam Winnick
Managing Director
Pacific Capital Group

Moderator/Producer

Ira Moskatel
Attorney
Arnold & Porter LLP

Producers

Kentaro Funaki
Technology Director
JETRO - Japan External Trade Organization

Rogelio Nochebuena
President
Nochebuena R&D

Date
Saturday morning, November 8, 2008

Location
Registration and Continental Breakfast:
8:00 a.m. at Baxter Hall, Caltech
Program:
9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
Networking:
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon at Baxter Hall, Caltech

Cost
$40 on-line registration fee.  $50 at-the-door.  $10 for students with full-time student ID (must show at door); free to Caltech students. Registrations are taken on-line up to 5:00 p.m., November 6, 2008. There are no refunds for no-shows.

Sponsor for this Program

	Caltech Industrial Relations Center
	Caltech Alumni Association
	MIT Alumni Association

OPERATING SPONSOR

Caltech Office of Technology Transfer

The Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum is administered in
conjunction with Caltech Office of Technology Transfer