SusTech 2024 Sustainability Forum Program
Wednesday April 17, 8:00 am - 4:45 pm
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.
| Time |
Session |
Topic |
Speaker(s) |
| 8:00 am |
Opening Remarks and Keynote 1: |
Electrification is a key strategy for decarbonizing all sectors of the U.S. economy |
Hellen Chen, Research Analyst in the Industry Program, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) |
| 9:00 am |
Keynote 2 |
Electrification and the Grid |
C. E. Ted Witham & Joe Cappeta, Eaton |
| 10:00 am |
Panel |
Promising Heat Pump Developments: Perspectives from the Pacific Northwest |
Organized by Stephanie Kruse, P.E., Oregon Dept. of Energy |
| 11:45 am |
Special Session |
Special Session: Hot Topics in Sustainability |
Maike Luiken, IEEE SusTech Initiative |
| 12:15 pm |
Lunch Break |
LUNCH (Willamette) |
|
| 1:15 pm |
Keynote 3 |
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 pm |
Keynote 4 |
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 pm |
Keynote 5 |
Off-shore Wind Power Studies |
Dmitry Kosterev, BPA |
| 4:15 pm |
Student Poster Awards |
Student Poster Awards |
Prof. Sean Monemi, Cal Poly Pomona |
| 4:30 pm |
Closing |
Closing Remarks & SusTech 2024 |
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