4th Annual SEMI North American PV Fab Managers Forum
The 4th annual SEMI North American PV Fab Managers Forum will address the current and future state of the U.S. photovoltaic market. The PV Fab Managers Forum brings together senior manufacturing and supply chain executives along with experts in finance, policy, investment, insurance, business and cost modeling to provide both perspective and actions needed to identify and support the transformative technology, manufacturing and business models required to support a sustainable global and regional manufacturing supply chain that serves the fast-growing US solar market.
Included in:
Full Conference Package
Photovoltaics Package
Full Day Ticket Monday
Program
Monday, July 8, 2013 | ||
9:00am - 9:05am | Welcome and Introduction Bettina Weiss, Vice President Business Development, SEMI, U.S. Kevin Lally (Forum Moderator), Marketing & Account Manager, Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) US Holdings, U.S. |
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9:05am - 9:30am | Opening Keynote: Shadow the Rising Sun Casts Stefan Heck, Director, McKinsey & Company, U.S. |
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9:30am - 9:50am | Session 1 Keynote: US Solar, How to grow Manufacturing, Secure Market Deployment as well as expand into Latin America Dr. Pradeep Haldar (Session Chair), Vice President for Clean Energy Programs, College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering, U.S. |
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9:50am - 10:10am | The Future of U.S. Residential & Commercial Solar Jimmy Chuang, Chief Structured Finance Officer, SolarCity, U.S. |
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10:10am - 10:30am | Utility Scale Solar: Evolving Cost and Competitive Landscape Sean Kiernan, Vice President and General Manager, Solar Plus Storage, Green Charge Networks, U.S. |
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10:30am - 11:00am | Coffee Break |
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11:00am - 11:20am | Promising Innovations in Solar Financing David Arfin, Chief Executive Officer, First Energy Finance, LLC, U.S. |
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11:20am - 11:45am | Session 1: Panel Discussion & Q&A |
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11:45am - 12:10pm | Session 2 Keynote: Economics of solar: Supply Chain Implications Bang Nguyen (Session Chair), Vice President & General Manager, Emerging Business, MEMC Solar Materials, U.S. |
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12:10pm - 12:30pm | Basic Elements and Effective Integrated Solutions for Commercially Viable Polysilicon Production Dr. Milind S. Kulkarni, CTO and Vice President, Supply Chain & Solar Materials Business Unit, MEMC Solar Materials, U.S. |
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12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch Break |
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1:30pm - 1:50pm | Wafer Market under the Impact of Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Jake McKee, Sr. Director of Engineering, SunEdison, U.S. |
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1:50pm - 2:10pm | Manufacturing Challenges and Innovation in the Solar Industry Scott Graybeal, Vice President, Business Development, & Sales, Energy, Flextronics, U.S. |
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2:10pm - 2:35pm | Session 2: Panel Discussion & Q&A |
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2:35pm - 3:00pm | Session 3 Keynote: SunShot: Sustaining Innovation, Revitalizing Competitiveness. John Benner, Executive Director Bay Area PV Consortium, Bay Area PV Consortium, U.S. |
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3:00pm - 3:30pm | Coffee Break |
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3:30pm - 3:50pm | Solar, The Impact and What’s Next |
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3:50pm - 4:10pm | How North America can Regain Solar Leadership through Thin Film Brad Mattson, Chief Executive Officer, Siva Power, U.S. |
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4:10pm - 4:30pm | Scaling Thin Film GaAs Dr. Nasreen Chopra, Vice-President, Alta Devices, U.S. |
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4:30pm - 5:00pm | Session 3 Panel Discussion & Q&A |
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5:00pm - 5:00pm | Closing Ray Morgan, Director, SEMI, U.S. |
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