Hotel AC Barcelona

As every year, the b_TEC Foundation will organize its prestigious conference on Energy and Water in Barcelona, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA), addressed to director generals and executives in strategic business areas.

For two days, the most relevant forthcoming changes in key technology sectors such as Solar Energy, Offshore Wind Energy, Energy Efficiency and Water will be discussed. The opportunity will also be used to present the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan, which establishes the technology options that will penetrate the market over the next 15 years, and MIT’s emblematic Energy Initiative in Europe. Conference MIT Program

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Registration Instructions for ILP members
To register: email your details (name, surname, contact email, full address, company and title) to info@btec.org and specify MIT|ILP MEMBER REGISTRATION in the subject line.

You will receive a confirmation email. Also, you can email info@btec.org in case you need assistance for booking accommodations. b_TEC has blocked rooms for attending this demand.

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THURSDAY · June 19th

Welcome
Miguel Sebastián, Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Government of Spain (TBC)
Antoni Castell, Minister of Economy and Finance, Government of Catalonia (TBC)
Miquel Barceló, Vice-President of Fundació b_TEC
Karl Koster, Director, Office of Corporate Relations,MIT
Rafael Miranda, CEO of ENDESA; Chairman of EURELECTRIC

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

11 h Coffee Break

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

12.15 to 12.45 h
Iñigo Sabater, Directorate-General for Energy and Transport, European Commission. “The European Strategic Energy Technology Plan”

12.45 to 13.30 h
Round Table. “The vision of the Industry” Moderator: (journalist)
· Carlos Itoiz, Director of Innovation & Technology and Deputy General Manager of Acciona Energía
· Tony Kaiser, Director. of. ABB Alstom Power Technology
· Luis Ángel Gutiérrez, Director d'R+D+i d'Agbar - Director General de CETaqua

13.30 h Lunch

15 to 15.45 h
Moshe Ben-Akiva, Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Director, Intelligent Transportation Systems Program, MIT
“Forecasting Transportation Demand in the Movement of Commodities”

15.45 to 16.30 h
Steven B. Leeb, Professor, MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT. “No Watt Left Behind”

16.30 h Coffee Break

17 to 17.30 h
Antoni Martínez, Manager of the Energy Park, Fundació b_TEC
“The Energy Park: An Innovative Relationship between Research, Industry and Government”

17.30 to 18 h
Mark Van Loosdrecht, Technical University of Delft, “Treating Wastewater with Less Energy” (TBC)

FRIDAY · June 20th

9 to 9.30 h
Pedro Luís Marín, General Secretary of Energy, Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Government of Spain
“The Main Lines of the Spanish Energy Policy” (TBC)

9.30 to 10 h
José Arrojo, Manager of Innovation and Technology, ENDESA

10 to 10.30 h
John Polak, Professor of transport Demand and Director of the Centre for Transport Studies, Imperial College London
"The BP Urban Energy System Project"

10.30 to 11 h
Paulo Ferrão, National Director, MIT Portugal.
“The MIT Portugal Program in Sustainable Energy and Transportation Systems”

11 h Coffee Break

11.30 to 12:15 h
Paul D. Sclavounos, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering.
“Off-shore Wind Energy: Floating Wind Turbines”

12.15 to 13 h
Manuel Fariñas, Director of Technology and R&D, ACCIONA Agua,
“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
“Conference Summary”

13.15 to 13.30 h
Closing Session:
· Antoni Giró, Rector, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)
· Josep Samitier, Rector, University of Barcelona (UB)
· Josep Huguet, Minister of Innovation, Universities and Enterprise. “Closing Remarks” (TBC)

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Open to an unlimited number ILP members for free