Monday, April 13, 2009
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Wong Auditorium
Tang Center, Building E51
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Session One - Energy and Global Warming: The Scientific and Political Challenges

Congressman Edward J. Markey
7th Congressional District of Massachusetts; Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming (Chair); Energy and Commerce (Chair of Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment)

Dr. John P. Holdren
Assistant to the President for Science and Technology; Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy; Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology

Dr. Susan Hockfield
President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Session Two - Green Energy / Green Jobs

Dr. Daniel Yergin
Chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Inc. (CERA)

Dr. Ernest Moniz
MIT Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems; Director of MIT Energy Initiative

Keynote Address: President Obama’s Energy Independence
and Global Warming Agenda

The Honorable Carol Browner
Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change in the Obama Administration