Agenda

Campus Center - Odeum

8:00 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m.	Welcome Dennis D. Berkey, President, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
9:10 a.m.	Keynote Address Honorable James P. McGovern, Congressman, Massachusetts 3rd Congressional District
9:25 a.m.	Massachusetts Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Road Map Brad Bradshaw, President, Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition Inc. "Putting the Pieces in Place to Achieve Commercialization"
9:45 a.m.	Massachusetts Legislative Perspectives on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells State Representative Barry R Finegold, Seventeenth Essex District, Massachusetts House of Representatives
10:00 a.m.	Break and Exhibits
10:30 a.m.	Commercial Successes in Massachusetts Session Chair: James P. Dunn, Center for Technology Commercialization Breaking Through to Manufacturing: The Protonex P2^TM Story Greg Cipriano, Vice President, Marketing and Military Development, Protonex Technology Corporation Selling One Thousand Units: The Parker-Hannifin TekStak^TM Story Scott Leahy, Parker-Hannifin Achieving Global Sales Through Early Market Penetration: The Nuvera FORZA Story Prashant Chintawar, Executive Director, Marketing, Nuvera Fuel Cells Inc. Five Years of Regular Production - The Hy9 HyPurifier^TM Story Jeffrey Altman, President and CEO, Hy9 Corporation Innovatoin Drive Commercial Success: The Acumentrics Story Tom Philbin, Senior Vice President, Acumentrics
Noon	Lunch
12:40 p.m.	Luncheon Keynote Warren Leon, Director, Renewable Energy Trust, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Driving the Engergy Innovation Economy
1:00 p.m.	Commercial Innovation in Massachusetts Session Chair: Jeffrey Bentley, President and CEO, CellTech Power Inc. Hydrogen Storage Breakthrough: The Safe Hydrogen Story Sigmar Tullmann, President and CEO, Safe Hydrogen LlC Solar Hydrogen Generation: The Nanoptek Story John Guerra, President and CEO, Nanoptek Corporation Next Generation Generation: The CTP Hydrogen Story Scott Rackey, President and CEO, CTP Hydrogen Direct Fuel Cells Using JP-8 and Diesel: The CellTech Power Story Jeffrey Bentley, President and CEO, CellTech Power LLC ZtekOn-site Hybrid Hydrogen Electric Technology Michael Hsu, President & CEO Ztek
2:30 p.m.	Massachusetts Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Institute Dr. William Durgin, Associate Provost, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
2:45 p.m.	Break and Exhibits
3:15 p.m.	University Innovation in Massachusetts Session Chair: Ravindra Datta, Professor and Director, Fuel Cell Center, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Composite Palladium/Porous-Metal Membranes for Hydrogen Generation Professor Yi Hua (Ed) Ma, Chemical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Single-Step Cofiring of Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells and MIEC Membranes for Hydrogen Generation Professor Srikanth Gopalan, Manufacturing Engineering, Boston University Fuel Gas Desulfurization and Catalytic Upgrade of Hydrogen for Fuel Cell Applications Professor Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Chemical & Biological Engineering, Tufts University Materials Challenges for Fuel Cells: From Fundamentals to Devices Professor Sanjeev Mukerjee, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University
4:30 p.m.	Closing Remarks Brad Bradshaw, President, Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition, Inc.
4:35 p.m.	Reception
4:35 to 5:30 p.m.	WPI Fuel Center Tours

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