Thursday, October 4, 2007

7:30 am Registration KI Center - Lobby
8:30 - 9:00 am Opening Remarks
  • 2007 WEDA President Andy Lisak
  • Welcome to Green Bay - Mayor Schmitt

City of Green Bay has a sustainable passport in regards to renewable energy

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 Ballrooms A1 & 2
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9:00 - 10:00 am Our Energy Future, a Balancing Act
  • Keynote Speaker: Charles A. Schrock, President, Wisconsin Public Service Corporation

What opportunities are facing the energy industry both locally & nationally, and how does WPS intend to meet these goals in the future.

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 Ballrooms A1 & 2
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10:00 - 10:20 am View Exhibits / Break Ballrooms A1 & 2
10:20 - 11:15 am Sustainability and Renewable Energy : Meeting the Goals
  • Rob Benninghoff, Director-Renewables & Special Projects, WI Public Service Corporation
  • Dean Rodeheaver, Coordinator of Campus Sustainability Initiative, UW-Green Bay
  • Steve Arndt, Director of Facilities Management, UW-Oshkosh

This session will get into how the UW Green Bay & UW Oshkosh Universities are going "Green" and the activities they are doing to eventually get off the Electric Grid. The session will also get in What Wisconsin Public Service is doing to meet the state Mandate of 10% Renewable Generation by 2015

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 Ballrooms A1 & 2
11:15 - 12:00 pm Green Roofs Now and in the Future
  • Don Mischo, Director of Special Projects, Hendricks Group

A unique way to deal with storm water runoff and enrich the environment.

 Ballrooms A1 & 2
12:15 - 1:30 pm Luncheon Buffet

Welcome from WEDA Board
Legislative Update

 Ballroom B3
12:15 - 1:30 pm Welcome from WEDA Board
1:30 - 2:30 pm Using Natural Resources to Attract Business Development
  • John Vetter, Vetter-Denk Architects

How to utilize natural aesthetics as a development draw

 Ballrooms A1 & 2
2:30 - 3:00 pm Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center - How will Wisconsin's groundbreaking federal grant to explore and enhance biofuels production help the state economy?

Learn more from UW-Madison College of Agriculture and Life Sciences about this $125 million biofuels research center.

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 Ballrooms A1 & 2
3:00 - 3:15 pm Bus Boarding Hotel Lobby
3:15 - 5:00 pm Tour of "Green" Green Bay and Alternative Fuel Demonstrations

Tour the new DNR environmentally designed prototype building. View UW Energy Institute's energy simulator and biodiesel demonstrations in the Advance Business Development Center.

  
5:00 - 6:30 WEDA Reception Regency Suites Hotel
West Atrium
7:30 pm - ? WEDA Hospitality Suite Suite 330