The third annual MIT Energy Conference, organized by the MIT Energy Club and Sloan Energy & Environment Club, will be held on April 11-12, 2008 at the Kendall Square Marriott. Please monitor the conference webpage for logistics and content information.
Contact MIT Energy Conference Managing Director, James Schwartz [jschwartz@sloan.mit.edu] for further conference information.
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Details on the the first and second annual MIT Energy Conference can be be found on the conference website.
The second annual student-organized "MIT Energy Conference:
Energy 2.0 - Solving Tomorrow's Energy Challenges ", co-organized by the MIT
Energy Club, the MIT Sloan Energy & Environment Club, and the MIT Sloan
Venture Capital Club, was held on March 9th and 10th, 2007, at the Kendall Marriott
Hotel.
This conference brought 500+ energy industry leaders, investors,
researchers, and students together at MIT to discuss practical,
multi-disciplinary solutions to the global energy problem.
The conference featured a welcome by MIT President Susan Hockfield and keynote addresses by General Electric CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, Cambridge Energy Research Associates chairman and founder, Daniel Yergin, and Khosla Ventures founder and partner, Vinod Khosla.
The conference also featured six focused topical energy panels exploring
key technology, policy, and business aspects of the global energy problem:
Also part of the conference was the "MIT - New England Energy Showcase" which highlighted some of the most exciting energy research currently underway at MIT (details).