2011 list of confirmed speakers as at 27 June

  • Micheline Calmy-Rey, President of Switzerland
  • Andris Cukurs, CEO, Suzlon Wind Energy Corporation
  • Prof. Dr. Patrick Aebischer, President, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
  • Philip Lowe, Director General for Energy, EU Commission
  • Prof. Dr. Kornelis Blok, Founder and Director of Science, Ecofys
  • Louis Palmer, CEO, Zero Race
  • Michael Butler, Chairman and CEO, Cascadia Capital
  • Bertrand Piccard, President, Solar Impulse
  • Neville Hargeaves, CEO, Ortus Energy
  • Dharik Mallapragada, Graduate Research Assistant, Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
  • Raphaël Goldstein, Senior Manager, Energy Storage/Fuel Cell Systems, Germany Trade and Invest
  • Mihan Adrian Ionescu, Director, Nano Devices Laboratory (NANOLAB) EPFL
  • Ira S. Rubenstein, Partner, Traficon s.r.o.
  • Binny Prabhakar, Head of Corporate, Business Development Strategy, Ecofys
  • Greg Story, Partner, Solar Energy Partners Limited
  • Heinrich Münch, Market Development Manager, SunCarrier
  • Diego Fischer, CTO, Flexcell
  • Dr. Christoforo Benvenuti, Head of R&D and Innovation activities, SRB Energy Research
  • Raphaël Domjan, Project founder, Initiator and President of the Solar Planet Foundation
  • Giacomo Benvenuti, CTO, 3D-Oxides and Founder at ABCD Technologies
  • Ben Caldecott, Head of European Policy, Climate Change Capital
  • Dr. Rolf Hartl, President, Swiss Energy Council
  • Pierre-François Unger, Council of State of Geneva
  • Ed Colby, CTO, Sentec
  • David Hart, Director, E4tech
  • Richard Hindmarsh, Snr. Associate Professor, Environmental Politics & Policy and STS Griffith School of Environment, and, Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University
  • Paul Jordan, Director for Clean Energy, Ricardo plc
  • Wolfgang Lange, Managing Director, Solar Frontier
  • Richard Taylor, Executive Director, International Hydropower Association
  • Stefan Odenthal, Managing Director, Industry and Energy, Hilti
  • Ben Hill, Global VP of Sales and Marketing, PV, German Trade and Invest
  • Tobias Homann, Senior Manager, PV, German Trade and Invest
  • Prof. Mario Paolone, Smart Grids Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
  • Alistair Pim, Vice President Strategic Alliances, Schneider Electric
  • Guy Dufraisse, Vice President Energy Efficiency Solutions, Schneider Electric
  • Scott Henneberry, Vice President Smart Grid Strategy, Schneider Electric
  • Walter Steinmann, Director, Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE)
  • Mike Winkel, CEO, E.ON Climate and Renewables
  • Nick Beglinger, President, Swiss Cleantech
  • Peter Johnson, VP Smart-Grid Business Development, Alcatel-Lucent
  • Stewart Dodd, Architect and Founder of Satellite Architects
  • Renat Heuberger, Chairman, Southpole Carbon Asset Management
  • Henri Winand, CEO, Intelligent Energy
  • Fiona Harvey, Environment Correspondent, The Guardian
  • Markus Wråke, Head, Energy Technology Perspectives, International Energy Agency
  • Dragomir Markovic, General Manager, Electric Power Industry of Serbia
  • Peter Seger, Project Leader, DTE Engineering
  • Eric Weiss, Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, Florida Power & Light
  • Roland Pfeuti, Senior Investment Director, Head Private Equity Team Switzerland, SAM