DENVER, CO, August 28, 2010 (Press-News.org) Montreux Energy (www.montreuxenergy.com), a premier organizer of strategy roundtables on the future of global energy investment, announced that it will host a gathering of national and international experts to discuss new ways to improve the efficiency and sustainability of urban energy, systems, and infrastructure.
CITYDESIGN + CITYBUILD 2010 will be held September 14-16 at the Hyatt Regency Convention Center in Denver. The conference theme, "Clean Energy, Technology, and Design for the Networked City" will engage thought leaders from a variety of industries, including utilities, clean energy, and real estate development in a series of roundtables at the three-day event.
"More than half of the global population now lives in cities, so it is critical that our leaders effectively communicate the enormous opportunities and challenges for cities in creating a sustainable future," said Andrew Bermingham, CEO OF Montreux Energy LLC. "CITYDESIGN + CITYBUILD 2010 is one way to initiate that dialogue with thought leaders from around the world."
Featured conference speakers will include:
▪ Autodesk Geoff Zeiss, SmartGrid and Utilities Leader, San Rafael
▪ BASF Jack Armstrong, Building & Construction Markets Leader, Florham Park
▪ CH2M HILL, Avinash Patwardhan, VP, Water & Mgr, Int'l Sustainable Solutions, W Palm Beach
▪ City of Aurora The Hon. Ed Tauer, Mayor, Aurora
▪ Colorado Public Utilities Commission Ron Binz, Chairman, Denver
▪ Encana Eric Marsh, President, Encana Natural Gas Inc., Denver
▪ GE Water Jeffrey Fulgham, Chief Marketing Officer, Schenectady
▪ Harvard University Graduate School of Design Pierre Belanger, Assoc Professor, Cambridge
▪ HOK Monte Wilson, Director of Planning, Atlanta
▪ Honeywell Diane Beauchamp, Director, Clinton Climate Initiative, Minneapolis
▪ Hogan Lovells Andrew Spielman, Partner, Denver
▪ IBM Nancy Pearson, Vice President BPM, SOA, and Websphere Marketing, Armonk
▪ Joint Inst for Strategic Energy Analysis at NREL Douglas Arent, PhD, Exec Dir, Golden
▪ Jones Lang LaSalle Dan Probst, Global Chairman, Energy & Sustainability Services, Chicago
▪ MWH Global Robyn McGuken, Director Resource Efficiency Managment, Broomfield
▪ Shell International Alexon Khor, General Manager Low CO2 Solutions, London
▪ Suez Environment Henry Saint Bris, Senior Vice President Strategy, Paris
▪ Swiss RE Bernd Wilke, Vice President, Zürich
▪ U.S. Department of Energy Carol Battershell, Acting Director, Golden Field Office, Golden
▪ Xcel Energy Randy Huston, Project Delivery Executive, Smart Grid, Denver
CITYDESIGN + CITYBUILD 2010 sessions will make the crucial connections between such vital issues as water and energy, smart grid and smart buildings, carbon, optimization and energy efficiency, sustainable mobility and transportation systems, and waste and waste‐to‐energy. It will also showcase exciting new major global urban development projects from the world's leading engineering, architecture, real estate development firms.
Conference sessions will focus on:
• Rethinking Urban Design in the New Sustainability Paradigm
• Transport: Smart Urban Mobility
• Powering our Cities with Clean Energy and the Smart Grid
• Technology and the Networked City
A special 3-hour workshop will be held Tuesday, September 14 from 12:30 to 3:30 pm, titled "Videogames as Tools to Design Cities of the Future." The cost of the Workshop is $25. Seating is limited.
The event formally opens with registration and reception starting at 4pm Tuesday, Sept 14, and an Opening Keynote panel beginning at 5:30 pm. Registration for the entire three-day event is $350.
The full CITYDESIGN + CITYBUILD agenda is available online at http://www.citydesign.com. To spread the conference information to future generation and emphasize the magnitude of challenges of the built environment, special pricing available to teachers and educators.
About Montreux Energy
Montreux Energy is a leading global organizer of global strategy roundtables on the future of energy investment. Since 1990, more than 6000 leaders have participated in Montreux Energy roundtables. The firm hosts key regulators and policy officials, from local, state, federal, and international organizations to engage in new, creative thinking on how to modify, guide, and incent consumer behavior, responsibility, and leadership.
Contact:
Andrew Bermingham, CEO
andrew@montreuxenergy.com
Tel: 303-534-2500
Cell: 303-875-8174
CityDesign + CityBuild 2010 Major Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Conference Comes to Denver
CITYDESIGN + CITYBUILD 2010 Conference to Bring Energy and Infrastructure Experts Together to Focus on Risks and Opportunities in the Global Built Environment.
2010-08-28
ELSE PRESS RELEASES FROM THIS DATE:
Twenga: British ladies want perfect nails for the summer
2010-08-28
Whatever the weather, with flip flops or wellingtons, British women are looking for flawless nails: nail care searches increased by 159% during the past 30 days on Twenga, the shopping search engine. Women are asking for salon results at home as visits for UV manicure lamps surged by 204%.
Here are this season nail trends:
o The emphasis is put on keeping fingernails healthy and strong. The most searched for nail polishes have to protect from the sun, whiten, energise, or have matte or shiny effects.
o With top 5 favorite colours being purple, coral, pink, brown and ...
Make your household eco-friendly with GREEN SHINE
2010-08-28
DIRE Studio announces the release of Green Shine for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Containing 135 solutions for more than 103 everyday housekeeping tasks, Green Shine is a helpful app for anyone who wants to reject harsh chemicals and commercial cleaners in their daily lives. Green Shine Lite, a variant containing 27 solutions for 20 tasks is also available as a free download.
"I was shocked when I realized how many dangerous chemicals are in use in everyday cleaners. As a housewife, I wanted to take care not only the cleanness of our home, but my family's health, too. ...
OrionGadgets Adds New iPhone 4 Accessories: Charging Dock, Cases and Holster
2010-08-28
OrionGadgets is a retailer and manufacturer of cell phone accessories with over 10,000 listings available for the most popular new smart-phones, PDAs, iPod / iPad, and e-readers. The latest additions to OrionGadgets' selection of iPhone 4 accessories add utility and variety to the product mix. See complete listing of available accessories at OrionGadgets iPhone 4 accessories page.
Charge and sync files from the desktop with the Apple iPhone 4 USB Sync & Charge Cradle (w/ AC Charger). This charging dock is designed to fit an uncovered iPhone 4 perfectly, holding it at ...
CLP launches online digital CSR campaign; Love the Earth, Plant a Tree
2010-08-28
CLP has set a target of planting 100,000 virtual trees by participants across Asia-Pacific
Through CLP Green Park, for every virtual tree that is planted, HK$5 will be donated to green
projects being implemented by partner organizations in five Asia-Pacific markets including
Hong Kong, Chinese Mainland, Australia, India and Thailand.
âEURœTackling the climate change problem is at the heart of CLPâEUR s green initiatives. Green Park
is unique in the way it reaches out to a diverse demographic in Asia, using an online gaming
platform,âEUR said Andrew Brandler, CEO ...
Information Transport Solutions, Inc. (ITS) ranks in the 2010 INC. 5000
2010-08-28
Information Transport Solutions, Inc., a full service provider of technology solutions focused in the southeast, earned the honor of ranking No. 1930 on the 2010 Inc. 5000 list. This is the company's seventh consecutive year appearing on the annual ranking.
The Inc. 5000 conducted by Inc. Magazine, is the annual ranking of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the country. It is a comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy- America's independent-minded entrepreneurs. Taken as a whole, these companies represent the backbone of the U.S. economy. ...
Text Message Marketing Firm Introduces Turnkey VIP Managed Services
2010-08-28
Pocket-Promo LLC, a premier provider of text message marketing software for small to mid-sized businesses, announces the roll-out of their VIP Managed Services offering. Clients using their VIP Managed Services will get a fully-managed turnkey solution, helping to leverage the mobile marketing expertise of the company and its senior managers.
"We designed our web-based application to be quite intuitive and easy to use for our clients," says Jeffrey Arnold, President of Pocket-Promo. "However, through our market analysis and interviews with business owners, we have found ...
Knexus Launches Major Upgrade on K'nex-us 2.2 Social Platform and Apps
2010-08-28
Knexus, a leader in social software solutions, today announced a major upgrade to its K'nex-us 2.2, the innovative social platform and apps to make content social. The improved version enables companies to utilize rich media content (e.g. videos, podcasts) to increase engagement & save time, combine professional (company or brand generated) & user generated content (UGC), and wrap social interactions around content to generate high value conversation and interactions.
K'nex-us 2.2 delivers business customers everything they need to make their content more engaging, collaborative ...
Silanis delivers insurance best practices over the cloud with new dedicated e-signing service
2010-08-28
Insurance providers looking to quickly move to paperless processing of customer transactions now have a new cloud-based, e-signing service at their disposal, said Silanis Technology - the electronic signature solution provider for 21st Century , Country Financial, , Liberty Mutual and other leading carriers.
The company today released the first dedicated e-signing service for the insurance industry. This transaction-based service combines Silanis' electronic signature enterprise platform with configurable process and web templates that leverage insurance best practices ...
movemanSKG Wheelchair Lift Keeps Church DDA Compliant
2010-08-28
Gracious Street Methodist Church in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, comprises a nineteenth century hall and an adjacent modern church. It is a beautiful historic site that serves the town and its surrounding area. A movemanSKG platform lift ensures the church is accessible to less able visitors.
The church carried out a GBP1.4m refurbishment and modernisation project to open its premises up to the community. It installed a large fully-fitted hygienic kitchen, added new wheelchair-accessible toilets, and built an amalgamating link between the two buildings called 'The ...
Bormioli Rocco's wine glasses come top of the class in the AIS course for Japan's future sommeliers
2010-08-28
The professional sommelier course dedicated to Japanese participants and organised by AIS Japan was highly successful. Aspiring sommeliers from the Land of the Rising Sun carried out their "studies" using Bormioli Rocco's special wine tasting glasses. In its capacity as technical sponsor, the company supplied the "educational material", namely wine glasses, glass water tumblers, and all the accessories needed for mastering the art of wine tasting.
In a well-known restaurant in Pescia (Province of Pistoia), the participants attended lessons given by speakers and wine ...
LAST 30 PRESS RELEASES:
#16to365: New resources for year-round activism to end gender-based violence and strengthen bodily autonomy for all
Earliest fish-trapping facility in Central America discovered in Maya lowlands
São Paulo to host School on Disordered Systems
New insights into sleep uncover key mechanisms related to cognitive function
USC announces strategic collaboration with Autobahn Labs to accelerate drug discovery
Detroit health professionals urge the community to act and address the dangers of antimicrobial resistance
3D-printing advance mitigates three defects simultaneously for failure-free metal parts
Ancient hot water on Mars points to habitable past: Curtin study
In Patagonia, more snow could protect glaciers from melt — but only if we curb greenhouse gas emissions soon
Simplicity is key to understanding and achieving goals
Caste differentiation in ants
Nutrition that aligns with guidelines during pregnancy may be associated with better infant growth outcomes, NIH study finds
New technology points to unexpected uses for snoRNA
Racial and ethnic variation in survival in early-onset colorectal cancer
Disparities by race and urbanicity in online health care facility reviews
Exploring factors affecting workers' acquisition of exercise habits using machine learning approaches
Nano-patterned copper oxide sensor for ultra-low hydrogen detection
Maintaining bridge safer; Digital sensing-based monitoring system
A novel approach for the composition design of high-entropy fluorite oxides with low thermal conductivity
A groundbreaking new approach to treating chronic abdominal pain
ECOG-ACRIN appoints seven researchers to scientific committee leadership positions
New model of neuronal circuit provides insight on eye movement
Cooking up a breakthrough: Penn engineers refine lipid nanoparticles for better mRNA therapies
CD Laboratory at Graz University of Technology researches new semiconductor materials
Animal characters can boost young children’s psychological development, study suggests
South Korea completes delivery of ITER vacuum vessel sectors
Global research team develops advanced H5N1 detection kit to tackle avian flu
From food crops to cancer clinics: Lessons in extermination resistance
Scientists develop novel high-fidelity quantum computing gate
Novel detection technology alerts health risks from TNT metabolites
[Press-News.org] CityDesign + CityBuild 2010 Major Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Conference Comes to DenverCITYDESIGN + CITYBUILD 2010 Conference to Bring Energy and Infrastructure Experts Together to Focus on Risks and Opportunities in the Global Built Environment.