Sunday, August 21, 2016

• Arrival of Swiss participants in San Francisco
• Welcome Cocktail for the Swiss delegation

Monday, August 22, 2016

Conference at UC Berkeley Campus - Alumni House

• Welcome/Introductions: Christian Simm, CEO swissnex San Francisco
  and Walter Steinmann, Director SFOE
• Keynote by Mark Ferron, California Independent System Operator Corporation Board of Governors
• Interactive Panel Discussions
  
  #1: Net positive energy
  Michael Wetter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  Ken Munson, Sunverge Energy
  Peter Richner, Empa
  Adrian Altenburger, Belimo
  Moderator: Craig Lewis, Clean Energy Coalition
  
  #2: Emerging mobility modes
  Susan Shaheen, UC Berkeley
  Matthew George, Bridj
  Emily Castor, Lyft
  Hans-Joerg Dennig, Bicar
  François Vuille, EPFL 
  Moderator: Gerry Tierney, Perkins + Will
  
  #3: The energy cloud
  Andrew Tanner, Growing Energy Labs
  Leesa Lee, Bidgely
  Mario Paolone, EPFL
  Sabine Sulzer, University of Lucerne HSLU
  Moderator: Christina Wuerthner, enersis
• Networking dinner at University Club
  hosted by ABB - 125 years serving the world from Switzerland

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Site Visits and Mini-seminars

• Visit of Tesla's Factory in Fremont
• Visit of OSISoft in San Leandro
• Visit of San Leandro's community powered microgrid and Net Zero Energy Center
• Mini-Seminar: Cross-sector collaboration for smart, connected communities:
  Mayor Pauline Cutter, City of San Leandro
  Deborah Acosta, Chief Innovation Officer, City of San Leandro
  John Matranga, OSISoft
  Felipe Cano, ZipPower
  Christian Schaffner, ETHZ Energy Science Center
  Moderator: Greg Delaune, Urban Innovation Exchange
  
•  Open discussion with RWE New Ventures
• Networking reception at Cuckoo's Nest club
• Silicon Valley Networking dinner

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

1/2-day Interactive Workshop at swissnex San Francisco Pier 17
with Chris Luebkeman, Arup Foresight

• Our Prosumer Future: From Distributed Generation to Shared Mobility
• Farewell lunch