pv recycling, llc has been selected to present at

9:00 – 9:05
CONFERENCE OPENING

Chairperson:
• Michael Schmela, PHOTON International, Germany

Invited speakers

9:05 – 9:30
KEYNOTE

9:30 – 10:15
FUNDAMENTALS
• Joe Muscat, Ernst & Young, USA
»Overview of VC flow into the PV sector«
• Martha Symko-Davies,
US National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL), USA
»Start-up funding in the US«
• Sylvain Goiran, France Innovation Scientifique et Transfert (FIST), France
»Patent distribution in PV technologies«

10:15 – 10:45
VC
• Guido Agostinelli, Good Energies, Switzerland
• Wen Sieh, Kleiner Perkins, USA

10:45 – 11:00
PANEL – FUNDAMENTALS & VC

11:00 – 11:30
Coffee-Break

11:30 – 12:15
C-SI WAFERS, CELL AND MODULES
• Jennifer Woolwich, PV Recycling, USA
»Solar module recycling«
• Mehrdad Moslehi, Solexel, USA
»Lift-off cell from Si wafer substrates«
• David O’Connor, Spectrawatt, USA
»From traditional c-Si to up-converter cells«

12:15 – 12:45
CONCENTRATING PHOTOVOLTAICS (CPV)
• Shondip Ghosh, Banyan Energy, USA
»Low CPV«
• Joseph Carr, Semprius, USA
»High CPV«

12:45 – 13:00
PANEL – C-SI & CPV

13:00 – 14:00
Lunch

14:00 – 15:00
THIN FILMS
• Michael Bartolomeusz, AQT, USA
»CIS cells«
• Dave Pearce, NuvoSun, USA
»Thin film Modules«
• Dennis Flood, Vanguard, USA
»Roll-to-roll manufacturing of a nanostructured,
high-efficiency thin-film solar cell«
• Alan Chin, nLiten, USA
»Substrates for thin-film modules«

15:00 – 15:45
BALANCE OF SYSTEMS (BOS)
• Paul Engle Enecsys, UK
»Microinverters«
• Ron van Dell, SolarBridge, USA
»Microinverters«
• Glenn Harris, AC Module, USA
»AC Modules«

15:45 – 16:00
PANEL – THIN FILMS & BOS

16:00 – 16:20
Coffee-Break

16:20 – 17:30
THIRD GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES
• Mike Clary, Solasta, USA
»A-Si/carbon nanotubes on glass substrates«
• Tony Defries, Matter, USA
»Plasmonics-based solar cells«
• Andreas Rückemann, Heliatek, Germany
»Organic cells«
• Chris Shannon, QuantaSol, UK
»Quantum dot cells«

17:30 – 18:30
EXECUTIVE PANEL:
»Mastering start-up challenges in times of cheap silicon«
• Sunil Gupta, Morgan Stanley, Singapore
• Christopher Moran, Applied Ventures, USA
• Florian Holzapfel, Q-Cells, Germany