Supporting America’s Breakthrough Energy Innovators

The Inaugural ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit held March 1 -3, 2010 at the Gaylord Convention Center, just outside Washington, D.C. brought together the nation’s key players in energy innovation: scientific researchers, VC investors, technology entrepreneurs, large corporations, and government officials.

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Keynote speakers and key participants included: Steven Chu Secretary of Energy U.S. Department of Energy Arun Majumdar Director ARPA-E Carol Browner Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Vinod Khosla Founder Khosla Ventures Thomas L. Friedman “Foreign Affairs”, Columnist The New York Times Daniel Yergin Chairman IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Inc. (IHS CERA) Daniel B. Poneman Deputy Secretary of Energy U.S. Department of Energy Bart Gordon United States Representative Lamar Alexander United States Senator Jeff Bingaman United States Senator Byron L. Dorgan United States Senator Jeffrey R. Immelt Chairman and CEO General Electric Company (GE) John Doerr Partner Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Michael R. Splinter Chairman of the Board of Directors, President & CEO Applied Materials, Inc. Karen G. Mills Administrator U.S. Small Business Administration John P. Holdren Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Kristina M. Johnson Under Secretary of Energy U.S. Department of Energy Steven E. Koonin Under Secretary for Science U.S. Department of Energy Deborah Wince-Smith President and CEO Council on Competitiveness R. James Woolsey Venture Partner VantagePoint Venture Partners Donald L. Paul Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute, Former CTO of Chevron Desh Deshpande Chairman and Co-Founder Sycamore Networks David Sandalow Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs U.S. Department of Energy Matt Rogers Senior Advisor to the Secretary for Recovery Act Implementation U.S. Department of Energy Roger M. Natsuhara Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Environment) Acting James E. Rogers Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Duke Energy Corporation F. Neal Hunter Co-founder and former CEO Cree, Inc.