Background:

Welcome and Overview

- Bob Vallario, AHGSET Planning Committee Chair
- Jim Roberto, Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- David Pumphrey, AHGSET Chair and IEA CERT Vice-Chair

Jim Decker, U.S. Department of Energy, Principal Deputy Director, Office of Science – DOE Overview and Perspective

Jack Marburger, Science Adviser to the President and Director, U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy
Meeting Our Energy Challenges in a Revolutionary Era of Science

Session 1- Pathways to Transformational Breakthroughs in Energy: The Technology “Pull” for Science and Opportunities through Science “Push”
Introduction (Session Chair: Graham Campbell, Director General, Office of Energy Research & Development, Canada; Chair, International Energy Agency’s Committee on Energy Research and Technologies)

Speaker (Bernard Frois, Director, Department of Energy, Transportation, Environment and Natural Resources, Ministry of Research, France),
Critical Barriers in Energy Technology

Patricia Dehmer, Director, Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy
Innovations in Science Management: Science for Energy Strategies

Don McConnell, Battelle Senior Vice President and COO of Laboratory Operations
Recent Research Discoveries and Their Compelling Energy Implications

Breakout Session Charge (Graham Campbell)

Breakout Leaders:

Sam Baldwin, U.S.
Steven Beale, Canada
Kristina Edstron, Sweden
Linda Horton, U.S.
John Kilner, U.K.
Juergen Sprekels, Germany

Dan Arvizu, Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Transforming the Efficient Distribution, Storage, and Use of Energy

Rob Goldston, Director, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Transforming Our Fusion Energy Future

John Grossenbacher, Director, Idaho National Laboratory),
Transforming Our Fission Energy Future

David Thomassen, Chief Scientist, Biological and Environmental Research, U.S. DOE
GTL: Transforming Our Energy Future Through Biology and Genomics

Bob Dixon, IEA Secretariat
IEA Perspectives

John Newman, OECD Global Science Forum
Update on the Conference on Basic Scientific Research for Meeting Future Energy Needs, 30-31 March, 2006, Paris

Justin Adams, BP
Transforming our Fossil Energy Future

Session 2- Strengthening Science and the Vital Connections: Integration, Collective Innovation, and Collaboration

Introduction (Session Chair: Jim Skea, Research Director, UK Energy Research Centre)

Joachim Luther – Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
A suite of innovative tools and approaches to enhance knowledge diffusion, information sharing and access, and research integration across the science-technology divide

Robin Batterham, Chief Technologist, Rio Tinto Limited; Former Chief Scientist, Australia),
Beyond the Horizon: “Mining” Science for Radically New Energy Concepts

Bao Xinhe, Director General, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences),
Issues and Opportunities for International Collaborations in Energy Science and Technology: The Chinese Perspective

Breakout Sessions
Breakout Leaders:

Peirre Beuzit, France
Gerd Eisenbeiss, Germany
Arthur Ellis, U.S.
Eduardo Fernandes, Portugal
Kevin Fitzgibbons, Canada
David Holland, Australia

Nate Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor and Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology),
Transforming our Renewable Energy Future