Previous Corporate Summit Topics:

2009 – Environmental Applications and Implications of Nanomaterials

2008 – Energy & Water: Partners in a Critical Dynamic

2007 – Doubling or Quadrupling Energy and Resource Efficiency: A Matter of Future Competitiveness

2006 – The Science, Management, and Economics of Catastrophes

2005 – Mobility

2004 – Energy

2003 – The Business of Sustainability

More about Bren School Corporate Partners and the Corporate Partners Program

For more information about any aspect of the Corporate Partners program or the Corporate Partners Summit, please call Jennifer Purcell Deacon, Assistant Dean, Development, at 805-893-5743, or send her e-mail.

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Previous Corporate Summit Speakers

2009

Environmental Applications and Implications of Nanomaterials

• Patricia Holden, Professor, the Bren School: Manufactured Nanomaterials, Organisms, and the Environment—Discerning the "Nanoparticle Effect"

• Fred Klaessig, Pennsylvania Bio Nano Systems: A View of New Product Development in an Uncertain Regulatory Climate

• Dr. Paul Smokler, Vice President, AECOM Environment: "Nanotechnology in Consumer Products: Challenges and Opportunities for Environmental Health and Safety"

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2008

Energy & Water: Partners in a Critical Dynamic

• Dr. Arturo Keller, Professor, the Bren School: Energy & Water Sustainability

• Michael Murray, Director, Corporate Environmental Policy, Sempra Energy: The Water-Energy Nexus

• Steven Ow, President, CEO, Mica-Tech: Demand Response

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2007

Doubling or Quadrupling Energy and Resource Efficiency: A Matter of Future Competitiveness

Presentations:

• Dr. Ernst von Weizsacker, Dean, the Bren School: Quadrupling is Twice as Good as Doubling

• Dr. Roland Geyer, Associate Professor, the Bren School: From Corporate Environmental Management to Green Business Models

• Joshua Levine, Bren School alumnus, Financial Advisor, UBS Financial Services, Inc.: Risks and Opportunities of Climate Change in Capital Markets

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2006

The Science, Management and Economics of Catastrophes: Business Forecast and Opportunities

Presentations:

• Dr. Ernst von Weizsacker, Dean, the Bren School, The Ecological Mindset; Current and Future.

• Ms. Lindene Patton, Senior Vice President & Associate General Counsel Zurich Specialties, Zurich North America Title, Insurance and Natural Catastrophe: Environmental Insurance at a Crossroads.

• Dr. John Melack, Associate Dean, the Bren School, Science of Catastrophes.

• Dr. Charles Kolstad, Environmental Economist Faculty, the Bren School, Climate Catastrophes.

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2005

Mobility: What Every Corporation Needs to Know About Policy Implications, the Environment and Innovative Strategies in this Decade

Presentations:

• Paul D. Leinberger, Senior Vice President, RoperASW

• Randall Crane, UCLA Professor of Urban Planning

• Thomas Peters, Vice President, CH2MHill

• Dan Werbin, Director, Volvo North America

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2004

Energy: What Every Corporation Should Know About Reliable, Renewable, and Distributed Generation

Presentations:

• William L. Bryan, Division Vice President, Southern California Edison Company

• Steve Meheen, consultant, BHP Billiton International

• Timothy Tutt, Technical Director of the California Energy Commission.

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2003

The Business of Sustainability

Presentations:

• Mary Jane McQuillen, Vice President & Analyst, Citigroup Asset Management /Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

• Roberto Piccioni, Director of Environmental Health & Safety, Baxter BioScience.

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