2018 UCGES Programs

US China Green Energy Roundtable Forum
August 3, 2018 (Friday)

Venue: HYATT Regency, San Francisco Airport, 1333 Bayshore Highway, Burlingame, CA 94010
Time: 1:30 pm to 9:30 pm, 8/3/2018 (Friday)

1:30-2:00 pm Registration and Networking
2:00-4:00 pm

Roundtable Forum 1 [ Conference room 1 ]

➤ Renewable Energy, Energy Storage and Energy Internet

Moderators:   

  • Dr. Jeffrey Chapman, President and Co-founder, EnDimensions LLC;
  • Dr. George Zhou, VP, UCGEC
2:00-4:00 pm

Roundtable Forum 2 [Conference room 2]

➤ Internet of Things (IoT), AI, Big Data, and Energy Markets, etc.

Moderators:    

  • Dr. Guangyi Liu, GEIRI North America, State Grid Corporation of China
  • Dr. Stephen Lee, BOD of UCGEC
4:00-4:20 pm Break Time: 20 minutes
4:20-6:20 pm

Roundtable Forum 3 [Conference room 1]

➤ Silicon Valley Innovation and Smart Cities:
Developing Green Energy to Combat Climate Change (Silicon Valley Mayors, Venture Investments and Entrepreneurs)

Moderators:

  • Dr. Ruomei Li, Senior Consultant, Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering
  • Dr. James Caldwell, BOD of UCGEC
4:20-6:20pm 

Roundtable Forum 4 [Conference room 2]

➤  Green Transportation: New Energy Vehicles & Demand Management

Moderators:

  • Dr. Feng Gao, EIRI, Tsinghua University
  • Ms. Xiaoli Tian, Future Car Corporation (invited)
6:30-7:00 pm Break 30 Min.
7:00-9:00 pm

Dinner [Main Dining Hall]
UCGEC 10th Anniversary Celebration Forum [Main Hall]

➤ Innovative Energy Solutions: Fueling Our Future
Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs and Investments Developing Green Energy to Combat Climate Change

Moderators:

  • Dr. Qi Wang, Acting CEO, UCGEC
  • Ms. Sunny Sun, Sunny Touch Studio (Invited)

Speakers:

  • Robert Wu, Chairman; Robert Larson, President, US-China Green Energy Council
  • Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr (invited)
  • Dr. Fan Dai, Special Advisor, Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. (invited)
  • Dr. Gang Zhao, Institute of Strategic Studies, Ministry of Science and Technology

2018 US-China Green Energy Summit
August 4th, 2018 (Saturday)

Venue: HYATT Regency, San Francisco Airport, 1333 Bayshore Highway, Burlingame, CA 94010
Time: 7:00 am to 6:30 pm, 8/4/2018 (Saturday)

7:00-8:20 am Registration
  Opening Remarks and Keynote Session [ Conference Room 1]
8:20-9:30 am

Moderators:

  • Xiaofeng Zhang, Executive Vice President, US-China Green Energy Council
  • Mingliang Xie, Vice President & Secretary-General, China Society for Electrical Engineering

Opening Remarks:

  • Robert Wu, Robert Larson, Chairman , President, US-China Green Energy Council
  • Leader, Consul General of the P.R. China in San Francisco
  • Baosen Zheng, President, Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE)
  • Ruijin Liao, Vice President, Chongqing University
  • Bing Liang, Vice President, Sichuan University(Invited)
  • Zhiwei Wang, President, GEIRI North America, State Grid Corporation of China.
9:30-10:00 am Break Time 30 min.
10:00-12:00 am

Moderators:

  • Xiaofeng Zhang, Executive Vice President, US-China Green Energy Council

Keynote Speakers

  • Steven Chu, Nobel Prize Laureate, Former US Secretary of Energy (confirmed)
  • Xiaoxin Zhou, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Honorary President of China Electric Power Research Institute (confirmed)
  • Robert Weisenmiller, Chair of California Energy Commission 
  • James Sweeney, Director of the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, Professor of  Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University; Senior follow of The U.S. Association for Energy Economics
  • Xiaohong Guan, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Professor of Xian Jiaotong University.
  • Rong Zeng, President and Professor, EIRI, Tsinghua University
12:00-1:15 pm Lunch Break:  75 min
  Special Session: [ Conference Room 1]
1:15 -2:15 pm

Battery Technology and Electric Cars: Smart EV Car Network Eco-System

Moderators:

  • Yi Liu, Sichuan EIRI, Tsinghua University

Panelists:

  • Professor Yi Cui, Stanford University
  • Bing Jiang, Chairman, EVCar Corp., State Grid Corporation of China
  Conference Panel Sessions
2:30-4:00 pm

Panel Session 1: [ Conference Room 1]

➤  Energy Innovation in Clean Generation - Renewable Energy and Climate Change

Moderators:

  • Bing Jiang, Chairman, EVCar Corp., State Grid Corporation of China
  • Dr. Peng Fang, CEO, GCL New Energy International

Panelists:

  • Professor Zhaohong Bie, Dean, School of Electrical Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University.
  • Dr. Jihong Cheng, Site Lead, Nice America Research Inc. (invited)
  • Scott McHugo, Sr. Product Manager, SunPower, USA (invited)
  • Dr. Jeffrey Chapman, President and Co-founder, EnDimensions LLC;
  • Xing Wang, Vice President, Centrica, Bellevue, WA, USA
2:30-4:00 pm

Panel Session 2: [ Conference Room 2]

➤  Energy Innovation in Smart Grid- Energy Internet and Energy Market

Moderators:

  • Professor Ruijin Liao, Vice President, Chongqing University
  • Dr. Shanshan Liu, SVP, UCGEC
Panelists (5):
  • Dr. Shucheng Liu, Principal, Market Development, CAISO
  • Professor Zhaoxia Jing, Dean, School of Electric Power, South China University of Technology
  • Professor Jian Li, Dean, School of Electrical Engineering, Chongqing University
  • Dr. Edward Cazalet, CEO and Founder, TeMix Inc. (invited)
  • Mark Esguerra, Principle, Transmission and Distribution, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) (invited)
  • Professor Dunnan Liu, Director, Energy Internet Research Center, North China Electric Power University (invited)
4:00-4:20 pm Break time: 20 min
4:20-5:50 pm

Panel Session 3: [ Conference Room 1]

➤  Energy Innovation in Smart Transportation- New Energy Vehicles and Battery Storage

Moderators:

  • Yunshi Wang, Director, China Center for Energy and Transportation, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis, USA
  • Jinghan He, Professor and Dean, School of Electrical Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, China

Panelists: 

  • Dr. Tony Han, CEO, Jingchi (Invited)
  • Professor Dan Sperling, UC Davis, USA
  • Dan Bowermaster, Program Manager Electric Vehicle, Electric Power Research Institute Inc., USA (Invited))
  • Ken Morgan, Director of Government Affairs, Tesla Motors (Invited)
  • Dr. Junli Gu, Vice President, Xiaopeng (Invited)
  • Xiao Yan, Professor, Automotive Engineering College, Shanghai University of Engineering Science
4:20-5:50 pm

Panel Session 4: [ Conference Room 2]

➤  Energy Innovation in Information Technologies- Smart City, AI, Big Data, etc.

Moderators:

  • Shankar Sastry, Dean, College of Engineering, UCB (Invited)
  • Professor Junyong Liu, School of Electrical Engineering and Information, Sichuan University

Panelists (5):

  • Dr. Renchang Dai, Manager, GEIRI North America, State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC)
  • Dr. James Caldwell, Board of UCGEC
  • Dr. Steve Chen, Founder and CEO, Third-Brain Research Institute,
  • Member of U.S.; National Academy of Engineering and Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Jeffrey Heller, Chair of Heller Global Inc., USA
  • Chuck Fan, Analyst of GE's Predix Platform for IoT, General Electric Company, USA
6:00 -9:00 pm Free Time