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.
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