Sponsor Showcase Presentation in Cooperation with JETRO and The VerdeXchange Conference 2016
Monday, January 25, 2016
Presentation and Panel Discussion: 4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Hosted Cocktail Reception and Hors d'oeuvres to Follow
The L.A. Hotel Downtown
333 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Valet parking $15 per day
Opportunities for California and Japan:
Deregulating Japan’s Electricity Market
April of 2016 is bringing big changes to Japan’s retail electricity market, with the break-up of the ten regional monopolies, and a deregulation process aimed at lowering electricity costs to consumers and creating a more robust power grid. Getting to these ambitious goals will provide many opportunities for global firms. The process will also create many new entry points for the application of new technologies and new ways of doing business.
This panel will provide an overview of Japan’s electricity deregulation program and explore how innovation in California and Japan can find a market in the new niche being created by the deregulation process. We will also look to officials from California to speak on their experience in policy evolution, and how new policies can drive innovation.
Confirmed Speakers:
Tatsuya Shinkawa
Director, Market Surveillance Division, Electricity Market Surveillance Commission, Japan Ministry of the Economy, Trade and Industry
Tatsuya Shinkawa is the Director, Market Surveillance Division, Electricity Market Surveillance Commission (EMSC) in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan. He worked on the electricity policy, nuclear safety policy and, economic and industrial policy in the METI from 1991. His former position is the Director, Nuclear Accident Response Office, the Agency for Natural Resource and Energy (ANRE), METI. He earned his Master degree at Kyushu University, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Japan in 1991. He was a visiting researcher in Stanford University in 1999 and the Chief Representative, Representative Office in Washington, DC of New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) from 2010 to 2013.
Woodrow Clark II, PhD., Founder, Clark Strategic Partners
Woodrow "Woody" Clark II is an internationally recognized and respected expert, author, lecturer, public speaker and consultant on global and local solutions to climate change. A qualitative economist, Clark is co-author of Agile Energy Systems: Global Lessons Learned from the California Energy Crisis, along with ten additional titles and over 70 peer reviewed articles. He was the senior policy advisor to Gov. Gray Davis′ Office of Planning and Research from 2000 to 2003, where he was responsible for starting the planning and implementation of California′s hydrogen economy and its "hydrogen freeway." In the 1990s, Clark was managing director of the Center for New Venture Alliance at California State University, Hayward, then manager of Strategic Planning for the Energy-Environmental Directorate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He also worked with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel and Framework Convention for Climate Change, which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He chaired the first Research Team for the UN FCCC. A Fulbright Scholar, Clark earned master′s degrees at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Roosevelt University and Loyola University, Chicago, and his Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley.
Louis Stewart
Deputy Director for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (iHubs)
Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development
Louis Stewart currently serves as the Deputy Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz), where he oversees the coordination and promotion of innovative programs, activities, and emerging technologies throughout the state of California. At GO-Biz, Mr. Stewart manages a robust statewide innovation-based economic development support network of regional innovation clusters called the California Innovation Hubs (iHubs). The 16 iHubs were designed to stimulate local, regional, and statewide job creation as well as enhance the awareness, visibility, and opportunities for commercialization of the technologies emerging from GO-Biz’ iHub partners. Mr. Stewart’s role includes a priority to develop an ecosystem that endorses entrepreneurship as well as promotes approaches that will augment strategic business development opportunities. High profile business opportunities are coordinated and managed in order to retain and expand business investment, assist in job creation, and enhance economic opportunities through collaboration and innovation.
(additional panelists awaiting confirmation)
RSVP by email or calling: Dominic LoBuglio at LAG-TEC@JETRO.GO.JP or 213-624-8855 X 116
