THURSDAY · June 19th

9.30h Welcome
Jesús María Canga, President of Fundació b_TEC and Mayor of Sant Adrià del Besòs
Andreu Morillas, Secretary of Economy Promotion, Economy and Finance Department, Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya)
Ramón García-Bragado, President of the Besòs Interuniversity Consortium and Fourth Deputy Mayor of the Barcelona City Council
Miquel Barceló, Vice-President of Fundació b_TEC
Antonio Jerez ,General Manager-Barcelona of ENDESA     Presentation
Karl Koster, Director, Office of Corporate Relations,MIT
Josep Escolano, General Manager of Fundació b_TEC

10.30 to 11 h
Robert Armstrong, Associate Director, MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)   CV     Presentation
Miquel Barceló, Vice-president of Fundació b_TEC
“The MIT _b_TEC Collaborative Project”.

11 h Coffee Break

11.30 to 12.15 h
Paul Waider, Senior Policy Analyst, International Energy Agency   CV     Presentation
"Technologies and Policies of Energy Efficiency"

12.15 to 12.45 h
Bettina Wittneben, Rotterdam School of Management.   CV     Presentation
“The business strategic challenges that the climate change and the coming new energy technologies have to be faced” (TBC)

12.45 to 13.30 h
Round Table. “The vision of the Industry”
· Moderator: Keith Hays, Emerging Energy Research  CV     Presentation
· Carlos Itoiz, Director of Innovation & Technology and Deputy General Manager of Acciona Energía
· Tony Kaiser, Director - Future Technology of Alstom Power
· Maria Salamero, Director of Development, CETaqua

13.30 h Lunch

14.15 to 14.30 h
Xavier de Caso, University-Business Network of Fundació b_TEC
“ b_TEC University Business- Networking (informative talk)”

14.30 to 15.15 h
John Polak, Professor of transport Demand and Director of the Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London   CV     Presentation
"The BP Urban Energy System Project"

15.15 to 16.00 h
Steven B. Leeb, Professor, Ma  CVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT.   CV     Presentation
“No Watt Left Behind”

16.00 h Coffee Break

16.30 to 17.00 h
Miquel Barceló, Vice-President of Fundació b_TEC
Rafael Argullol, writer and professor, Humanities Department, Pompeu Fabra University.   CV
"Conversations: Thoughts on Human Habitat"

17.00 to 17.45 h
Shahid Chaudhry, Water-Energy Efficiency Program Manager, California Energy Commission.   CV     Presentation
"Water, Energy & Carbon: A California Perspective”

FRIDAY · June 20th

9.00 to 9.30 h
Antoni Martínez, Manager of the Energy Park, Fundació b_TEC   CV     Presentation
“The Energy Park: An Innovative Relationship between Research, Industry and Government”

9.30 to 10 h
José Arrojo, Manager of Innovation and Technology, ENDESA   CV     Presentation
"Electric Technologies Trends"

10 to 10.45 h
Moshe Ben-Akiva, Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Director, Intelligent Transportation Systems Program, MIT     Presentation
"Intelligent Transportation Systems: How to Anticipate Traffic Congestion?”

10.45 to 11.15 h
Paulo Ferrão, National Director, MIT Portugal.     Presentation
“The MIT Portugal Program in Sustainable Energy and Transportation Systems”

11.15 h Coffee Break

11.45 to 12:30 h
Paul D. Sclavounos, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering.   CV     Presentation
“Off-shore Wind Energy: Floating Wind Turbines”

12.30 to 13 h
Manuel Fariñas, Director of Technology and R&D, ACCIONA Agua   CV     Presentation
“Global Water Needs and Technological Challenges for the Next Few Decades”

13 to 13.15 h
Antoni Martínez, Manager of the Energy Park, Fundació b_TEC.   CV
“Conference Summary”

13.15
Closing Session:
· Antoni Giró, Rector, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)
· Josep Samitier, Rector, University of Barcelona (UB)
· Joan Majó, General Manager of Universities, Government of Catalonia