• Carol Browner, Assistant to the President, Energy and Climate Change Policy
• John Holdren, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Senator Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico

9:15 - 9:45 Keynote: “Innovation vs. Punditry: Escaping Conventional Thinking” - View Material (PDF 1.4 MB)

• Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures

9:45 - 10:45 Panel: “What is Transformation? How do you Identify Game Changers?”
How do you identify real game-changers: is there a system or is it random? What are the game-changers we should be looking for and the grand challenges we need to solve?

• Tom Kalil, Deputy Director for Policy, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (moderator)
• Yet-Ming Chiang, Co-Founder, A123 Systems
• Arati Prabhakar, General Partner, US Venture Partners

10:45 - 11:45 Panel: “DOE’s Role in Energy Innovation”
Members of the Department of Energy’s senior leadership team will discuss accelerating energy innovation through DOE ’s Office of Science, applied R&D programs, and Recovery Act programs.

• Kristina Johnson, Under Secretary for Energy, U.S. Department of Energy - View Material (PDF 1.4 MB)
• Steven Koonin, Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy - View Material (PDF 1.1 MB)
• Matt Rogers, Senior Advisor to the Secretary for Recovery Act Implementation, U.S. Department of Energy - View Material (PDF 3.7 MB)

11:45 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 2:15 Panel: “Energy Technology: A Critical Pillar for National Security”
How can energy technologies enhance our national security? How does energy affect economic (and military) power?

• Daniel Poneman, Deputy Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy (moderator)
• Daniel Yergin, Chairman, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Inc.
• James Woolsey, Venture Partner, VantagePoint Venture Partners
• Roger Natsuhara, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations and Environment

2:15 - 3:30 Panel: “Building Regional Energy Innovation Clusters”
How can we leverage public-private partnerships to build regional innovation clusters and drive economic development and job growth?
Karen Mills, Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration (featured speaker)
Susan Rochford, Senior Vice President, Council on Competitiveness (moderator)
Peter Rothstein, Senior Vice President, New England Clean Energy Council
Amy Francetic, Executive Director, Great Lakes Alliance for Sustainable Energy Research
Marc Cummings, Director of Policy & External Affairs, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Dan Mote, President, University of Maryland

3:30 - 3:45 Summit Closing Remarks