CONFERENCE PROGRAM SPEAKER CHANGES

(As of May 21, 2012)
 

Sunday, June 3     1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

WINDPOWER Industry Essentials: Maximize Your WINDPOWER
Speaker Change:
Tonney Insley, AWEA replaces Lori Rugh

WINDPOWER Industry Essentials: Communicators Summit
Speaker Cancellation:
Jake Brewer, Fission

Monday, June 4     1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Technology Updates – An Academic Perspective
Speaker Cancellation:
Etenia Ponder, Ohio University

Monday, June 4     3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Asian Wind Markets and U.S. Opportunities
Speaker Cancellation:
Jain Pramod, Innovative Wind Energy, Inc.

Plugging Wind into the Southeast
Speaker Change:
Kellie Metcalf, Power Marketing replaces Chris Shugart

How to Select Your Turbine Vendor
Speaker Cancellation:
Pierre Pesnel, VERGNET

Real World Impacts of Distributed Wind
Speaker Addition:
Thomas Wind, Wind Utility Consulting

Asian Wind Markets and U.S. Opportunities
Speaker Change:
Nurdin Bi, Goldwind Capital USA Inc. replaces Tim Rosenzweig

Tuesday, June 5     8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

WINDPOWER 2012 - General Session
Speaker Change:
David Flitterman, Gamesa replaces Jorge Calvert

Tuesday, June 5     10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

On Land and In the Water – What Does the Future Hold for Construction, Transportation & Logistics
Speaker Addition:
Jens Eckhoff, Ihoch5 GmbH
Mark Troughton, Georgia Ports Authority

Wind Turbine Gear Design
Speaker Additions:
Matthew Malkin, DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability

Tuesday, June 5     1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Wind Turbine Supply Chain Opportunities and Challenges
Speaker Change:
Bruce Hamilton, Navigant Consulting replaces Aris Karcanias

Full-Scale Wind Turbine Testing and Validation
Affiliation Change:
Rolando Vega, ABS Consulting now works at The University of Texas at San Antonio

Tuesday, June 5    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

How to Finance Wind Projects
Speaker Addition:
Paul Gaynor, CEO, First Wind
Steve Irvin, EDP Renewables North America, LLC

Utility Strategies for Wind Power: Case Studies
Speaker Cancellation:
Ty Bettis, First Wind

The Role of Wind Power in Economic Development and Jobs Creation
Speaker Change:
Stephanus Linkter, EnergyAgency NRW replaces Friedrich Wagner

Wednesday, June 6     8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

How Does Your EHS Program Measure Up?
Affiliation Change:
Grayling Vander Velde, Portland General Electric (PGE)

Turbine Reliability- Lessons from the Real World
Speaker Cancellation:
Summer DeRuyter, California Energy & Power

Wednesday, June 6     10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Large Wind Turbine Manufacturer Forum: Making it in the U.S. Market
Speaker Change:
Eric Zhan, Sany Electric replaces Behzad Bigdeli

Speaker Addition:
Bob Rugh, DeWind, Co.

Large Wind Turbine Manufacturer Forum: Making it in the U.S. Market
Session Cancelled

Siting, Wildlife & Public Acceptance - An Academic Perspective
Speaker cancellation:
Andrew Farnsworth, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

Wednesday, June 6    1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Power Performance - Observations from the Field
Speaker Change:
Heidi Tinnesand, DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability, replaces Luke Simmons

Emerging Applications and Issues for Wind Power
Speaker Change:
Mark Ahlstrom, WindLogics, Inc. replaces Lawrence Jones

CONFERENCE POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Presenter Changes:

Heidi Tinnesand, DNV KEMA replaces Kirk Martin
Reducing uncertainty in power performance testing through site-specific anemometer classification

Fabio Pollicino, Germanischer Lloyd Industrial Services GmbH replaces Andreas Kominek
Controller Assessment in GL 2010

Poster Cancellations:

Billy Muhando, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Toward Smart Microgrids in Isolated Wind-Diesel Systems Integrated with Advanced Energy Storage

Carlos E. Ramirez Valenzuela, Instituto De Investigaciones Electricas
Modeling the Synchronous Generator in a Hawt

Rene Midence, ERLPhase Power Technologies
Power System Analysis Process for Sub-harmonic Protection in Wind Farm Applications

Qin Sun, Georgia Institute of Technology
Financial Risk Analysis of Wind Power Investment

Beytullah Erdogan, Zonguldak Karaelmas University
Design of Buoys for Mounting Wind Turbines at Exposed Sites