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Programme

 

 

The program includes:
  • Industry overview and outlook by PV data analyst Professor Travis Bradford
  • Presentations by leading PV experts from Germany, the USA, Japan, Spain, Italy, Greece, and France
  • Analysis of the global PV market and industry by Stephen O’Rourke from Deutsche Bank Securities in New York and Peter Lorenz from McKinsey's Houston Office
 
  • Interactive networking lunch
  • Presentation and discussion of the PV demand development survey among all participating experts
  • Network drink reception
 09:00 Registration + Coffee
 09:30Opening conference Chairman: Edwin Koot (CEO SolarPlaza)
 09:45

In perspective: the global supply dynamics and solar industry growth

Travis Bradford; President Prometheus Institute (author of the book: The Solar Revolution)

 10:15

Germany: growth dynamics of the world’s largest PV market

Gerard Stryi-Hipp; Managing Director BSW (German Solar Industry Association) 

 10:40 

Spain: the exploding - and world’s second largest and rapidly growing PV market

Javier Anta; President ASIF(Spanish Solar Industry Association)

 11:05 

Coffee break

 11:45 

Japan: will Japan pick-up the growth curve again?
Hiroshi Matsakuwa; RTS Corporation 

 12:10 

Greece: Will this country follow Spain with a spectacular growth?

Stelios Psomas
Policy Advisor,  HELAPCO (Hellenic Association of Photovoltaic Companies)

 12:35 

Italy: Analysis of the rapidly growing Italian PV market
Gerardo Montanino; Director of Operations Department at GSE (Gestore Servizi Elettrici), managing the feed-in tariff applications

 13:00 

Interactive joint business lunch

 14:45 

France: the emerging new Mediterranean tiger?

Richard Loyen; Managing Director at Enerplan (l’association professionnelle de l’énergie solaire), the French Solar Energy Business Association  

 15:10 

USA: Market dynamics of the giant market just awakening …
Jigar Shah; Chief Strategy Officer and founder of SunEdison, one of the leading solar PV companies in the US A

 15:35 

Tea break

 16:15 

The Wall Street translation of the Solar PV industry and market outlook

Stephen O´Rourke; Senior analyst Deutsche Bank Securities in New York

 16:45 

The economies of solar power; the growing competitiveness  of solar power
Peter Lorenz; Associate principal in McKinsey's Houston Office 

 17:15 

Presentation of global demand forecast based on survey + interactive debate with key-note speakers 

Travis Bradford, Prometheus Institute

Stephen O'Rourke; Deutsche Bank Securities

Peter Lorenz; McKinsey

 18:00 

Closing of event and Informal drink