HAWP 2009 Conference
November 5-6, 2009
California State University at Chico
400 West 1st Street
Chico, CA 95929
Cleantech Innovation Center at Oroville, CA
2015 Challenger Avenue
Oroville Airport Business Park
Oroville, CA 95965
CALL FOR SPEAKERS
The High Altitude Wind Power Conference invites additional speakers to submit abstracts of their 15-20 minute presentation proposals for the afternoon session at the Cleantech Innovation Center on November 5, 2009. We are seeking speakers from academia,private industry, government, and non profit organizations as well as inventors of airborne devices intended to capture wind energy. Presentations must be relevant to the theme of capturing wind energy with airborne devices or quantifying this power resource. In order to facilitate finalizing the conference schedule in time to allow you to make travel arrangements, the selection committee will make a final decision on the acceptance of additional speakers no later than October 16th.
Please email us directly with an attached biography of up to 150 words and a abstract of your proposed presentation as it pertains to the conference theme, ‘The Power of Wind in High Places”.
hawp@ncen.org with "speaker" in the subject line.
To Learn more about High Altitude Wind Power
THURSDAY MORNING: NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN HIGH ALTITUDE WIND POWER
Time: 9am - 12:30
Location: CSU Chico,“This Way to Sustainability” conference, Bell Memorial Union, BMU 210
10:00 Cristina Archer California State University, Chico High Altitude Wind Power Resource
10:15 Len Shepard Sky WindPower Flying Electric Generators
10:30 Anthony Asterita Magenn Power Inc
10:45 BREAK
11:00 Corwin Hardham Makani Power Makani Power: Crosswind Kite Power
11:15 JoeBen Bevirt Joby Energy High Altitude Wind Energy and Joby Technology
11:30 Scott Eichelberger 3Tier High Altitude Wind Resource Assessment
11:45 Q&A
12:30 Complimentary Shuttle Buses leave Chico for the Cleantech Innovation Center (CIC) in the Oroville Airport Business Park
THURSDAY AFTERNOON: STATE OF THE INDUSTRY AND RESEARCH
Time 1:00 - 5:00
Location Cleantech Innovation Center, Oroville
1:00 Lunch served at the Cleantech Innovation Center, catered by Checkers Restaurant.
2:00 Cristina Archer California State University, Chico
2:20 Scott Webster SkyMill Introduction of Sky Mill's HAWP System
2:40 Archan Padmanabhan Joby Energy Resource Modeling of High Altitude Wind
3:00 BREAK
3:20 Colm O'Gairbhith Carbon Tracking LTD The Journey of 1,000 miles Begins With One Step
3:40 Robert Creighton Windlift Mobile WindPower for Agriculture and Economic Development
4:00 Allister Furey Sussex University student Use of Two Key Tools of Evolutionary Robotics to assist in the Modelling and Control
4:20 Dave Santos KiteLab Passive Control Techniques
4:40 Q&A
5:00 Closing Remarks
5:15 Complimentary Shuttle Buses Leave to Chico
6:30 Dinner in Mezzanine Room at Sierra Nevada Brewery, Chico, CA
FRIDAY MORNING STATE OF THE INDUSTRY AND RESEARCH
Time: 8:30-12:15PM
Location: Cleantech Innovation Center, Oroville
8:00 Complimentary Shuttle Buses will depart CSU Chico
8:30 Complimentary breakfast
9:00 Saul Griffith Foundation Capital KEYNOTE: Building a High Altitude Wind Power Industry Segment
9:30 Mario Milanese Turin Politecnico Energy Potential of High Altitude Wind Technology Assessments and Experimental Verications
9:50 Adel Gandhakly California State University, Chico Energy Management and Control
10:10 Mike Hennesey Lineman College
10:30 BREAK
10:50 Wayne German
11:10 Joe Faust Energy Kite Systems Airborne and Energy Systems With a Methods Overview
11:30 Corey Houle SwissKitePower Kite Testing and Research into Feedback Sensors and Automated Control Strategies
11:50 Alexander Bormann Aeroix CyberKite - an automated Hybrid Ram Air Wing Kite System
12:15 LUNCH
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
1:00 2009 HAWP Conference Innovator of the Year Award
1:15 Doug Selsam USWindlabs Current Challenges in Wind Energy
Friday afternoon working group discussions:
2:00 What should be addressed through university research to further development of an Airborne Wind Energy Conversion Systems industry?
AWECS Test Center: site requirements determination to include all tethered Airborne Wind Energy Conversion Systems.
3:00 BREAK
Session choices
3:15-4:00 Session One: In what ways might forming a AWECS association benefit advancement of this new wind industry segment? Identify goals.
Session Two: Open Source Vs. Proprietary: compile a list of patents that are in the public domain surrounding AWECS could be useful to everyone.
4:00-4:45 Session Three: Development of AWECS operating standards - safety, etc. for proposal to various regulators as needed. Form industry team?
Session Four: Development of an approach for acquiring special use airspace rights for safe operation of AWECS. Form Industry team?
4:15 First complimentary shuttle bus departs from CIC for CSU Chico
5:15 Conference Center closes and last complimentary shuttle bus departs from CIC for CSU Chico