Who's Who in Renewable Energy in India, 5th May 2011 - A step towards achieving Climate Change Goals

INAUGURAL SESSION (morning 5 May 2011)

Welcome Address: Mr. Glenn Ensor, Director of Events, Pennwell, UK
Address by: Dr. Uddesh Kohli, Advisor, Power-Gen India & Central Asia 2011, India
Address by: Mr. Arup Roy Choudhury, CMD, NTPC, India
Address by: Mr. B.P. Rao, CMD, BHEL, India
Keynote Address by: Mr. C. Balakrishnan, Secretary, Ministry of Coal & Mines, Govt. of India
Keynote Address by: Mr. Deepak Gupta, Secretary, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, Govt. of India
Keynote Address by: Mr. P. Umashankar, Secretary, Ministry of Power, Govt. of India
Chairman’s Address: Mr. B.K. Chaturvedi, Member – Energy, Planning Commission, India
Guest of Honor: Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Hon’ble Minister of New & Renewable Energy, Govt. of India
Chief Guest: Mr. Sushil Kumar Shinde, Hon’ble Minister of Power, Govt. of India
Vote of Thanks: Mr. Rajan Sharma, Managing Director, Inter Ads Exhibitions Pvt. Ltd, India


Afrenoon

Session 1
High Level Panel Discussion: Meeting the Power Capacity Challenge of the 12th Five-Year Plan

*Chair: Rakesh Mehta, Chief Secretary & Principal Secretary (Power), Govt. of NCT of Delhi, India

Speakers:* G.D. Gautama, Addl. Chief Secretary (Power), Govt. of West Bengal, India* Gurdial Singh, Chairman, CEA, India* Sudhir Kumar, Joint Secretary (Planning), Ministry of Power, India* Satnam Singh, CMD, Power Finance Corporation, India

Session 2
Renewable Energy Policy (20GW by 2020)

Chair: To be Confirmed

RE Policy Framework - India: To Sustain Wind Power Deployment PaceGuarav Ganghi, Assistant Manager, Suzlon Energy, India

Co-Authors: Chintan Shah, VP and Head, SBD, Suzlon Energy, India

How to Achieve Grid Parity: Solar Power GenerationVenu Birappa, Executive Engineer, Gujurat Energy Transmission Corporation, India

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           -DAY 2
           -DAY 3

Innovation Towards Sustainable Materials-Just what the Doctor ordered: meet the People, the Global Movers.

Big names, concerned scietists, engineers and business executives meet to work on what many consider to be millenium class issues- To Be Treated Fittingly on WWI & II rememberance, Amnesty Day 11-11 1945.   


Big meeting - constructive thinking for serious future planning  anticipated and expected from such a panel of experienced, highly professional specialist in their respective fields.


In all 10 sub-themes will be treated in this expert's approach to Sustainable Materials, Innovation.


1:Setting the Global Scene are: Start 10 Nov. 2010.

• Ian Christmas (Director General, World Steel Association)

• Per Sandberg (Director, International Projects, WBCSD)

• Peter Bonfield (Chief Executive, Building Research Establishment)

2:Materials Sourcing, Processing Technologies, Extractive Industries

• John Groom (Safety and Sustainable Development Adviser, Anglo American)

• Craig White (Wood Technology, White Design)

• Sevket Durucan (Professor of Mining and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College)

• James Anderson (Director of Sustainability, AMEC)

3:Construction and the Built Environment contributions from:

• Hank Dittmar (Chief Executive, Prince's Foundation, Built Environment)

• Beulah Keane (Project Manager, Marks and Spencer, Plan A; Sustainable Construction

• Jamie Smith (Skanska)

• Javed Sethi (Marketing Manager, Lafarge Cement UK)

4:ResourcEfficiency and Environmental Technologies


• Carolyn Roberts (Director, Environmental Sustainability KTN)

• Richard Swannell (Director, WRAP)

• Theo Lehner (Manager, Business Development, Bolidien)

• Edward Way (Chairman, Green Power Limited

5:Assessment Tools and Information Management

• Mike Ashby (Director, Granta Design)

• Rana Pant (European Platform on Life Cycle Assessment, European Commission)

• Norman Swindells (Managing Director, Ferroday Ltd)

• Angela Druckman (Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Mitigation,

Surrey University)

Guest Speaker: Tom Heap (Presenter, Costing the Earth, BBC Radio 4

Thursday 11th of  November

6: Setting the Forward Strategy

• Head of Climate Change, Tata Group
7: Product Design, Packaging and the Consumer

• Martin Charter (Director, Centre for Sustainable Design)

• Tony Taylor (Sustainability and Packaging Manager, Unilever UK)

• Stuart Patrick (Chairman, The Polymer Society, The Institute of Materials, Minerals

and Mining)

8: Transport and Infrastructure.

• Robin Haycock (Transport Energy Consultant, Arup)

• George Coates (Project Director, WorldAutoSteel)

• Geoff Scamans (Chief Scientific Officer, Innoval Limited)

• Pat Winfield (Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Head of Sustainable Vehicle

Engineering Centre, Oxford Brookes University)

9: Energy and Climate Change.

• Rosemary Albinson (Technology and Transport Strategy Advisor, BP Castrol)

• Markys Cain (Knowledge Leader, Functional Materials Team, NPL)

• Rod Martin (Chairman, British Composites Society, IOM3 and Chief Execuitve, MERL)

10: Sustainable Manufacturing and Processes

• Mike Gregory, CBE (Head of Manufacturing and Management Division, Institute for

Manufacturing, University of Cambridge)

• Pascal Payet-Gaspard (Secretary General, International Stainless Steel Forum

Closing Address

• Roland Clift, CBE (Distinguished Professor of Environmental Technology, Surrey

University)

 
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People working in the field of High Temperature Wear and Erosion - Meeting in Derby famous Engineering City Home of Rolls Royce Aero Engines

High Temperature Wear and Erosion
The People, The Subjects Covered, The Places where things happen 10 November 2010, Riverside Centre, Derby
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The programme features presentations on:

• Introduction to high temperature materials, with particular reference to their microstructure
  Professor Sarah Hainsworth, University of Leicester
  
  
• Multilayer coatings for erosion protection: Design, modelling and erosion testing
  Dr Richard Wellman, Cranfield University
  
  
• CFD modelling of particle erosion in high temperature corrosive environments
  Professor Margaret Stack, University of Strathclyde
  
  
• High temperature tribological testing
  Dr Mark Gee, NPL
  
  
• Challenges in the quantification of high temperature erosive wear
  S. Graça, M. Hadad, P. Hoffmann, H. Du, EMPA and Alstom Power Ltd
  
  
• High temperature wear and friction performance in a steam environment for power generation sealing applications
  Dr Louise Brown, NPL
  
  
• Recent approaches to developing and understanding nano-structured coatings which might have a future in high temperature wear and erosionapplications
  Professor Allan Matthews, University of Sheffield
  
  
• The design of present and future surface coatings to resist erosion and wear in aero turbines
  Dr David S Rickerby, Rolls-Royce, Derby

The fee to attend the conference is just £98.00 plus VAT for IOM3 Members (or £134.00 plus VAT for non-members).


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The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5DB, UK


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