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Keynote Speech
on
Leading with Green: The New Competitive Edge and Key to Success
by
Ms Laina Raveendran Greene
CEO and Lead Consultant, GET-IT Inc, United States
Synopsis
There is so much hype today about Clean Technologies that sometimes it is easy to focus on only the expected clear winners and those focused on solutions on a macro-scale level. There is a clearly a role for smaller yet significant measures such as Greening the ICT sector, using ICT as a tool to green other industries and micro-grid solutions. Challenges and opportunities of electrifying the 1.6 billion people without access to electricity will also be explored. Ultimately, “Green is Lean” and key to Economic Success.
Biography
Laina Raveendran Greene is the CEO and Lead Consultant of GET-IT Inc, a strategic marketing and business planning consulting company based in Silicon Valley. GET-IT focuses on issues regarding greening the ICT industry and the use of ICT to help reduce GHG in other industries. Laina was the co-producer of the Green Planet documentary and ebook at TELECOMTV, and has been actively involved in green related issues professionally as well as personally. She lives in a solar powered home. She organises green telecom sessions since 2008, most recently serving as Chair of the Green ICT subcommittee on the ITU World Telecom Program Advisory Committee. She is also co-founder of Bright Green Energy (US), in partnership with Bright Green Energy Foundation in Bangladesh, to take globally a proven model of success to deploy renewable energy to those earning $1/day or less through empowering grassroots entrepreneurs.
Laina started her career in telecoms in 1986 having worked at ITU in Geneva, INTELSAT in DC, and SingTel in Singapore. Her consulting track record goes back to 1996 with clients including Pacific Internet, Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Verisign, International Telecommunication Union, United Nations, Asia Pacific Network Information Centre, and International Development Research Centre in Canada. She also served as Secretary General of the Asia Pacific Internet Association, Board Director of Globetel Communications Corp, Entrepreneur in Residence for the Global Enterprise Marketing program at the Stanford, is current Board member of emota.net and previously founded and ran over 10 years, an interactive digital media company in Singapore, which she eventually sold.
Keynote Speech
on
Minimization of Resource Drain for Sustainable Development
by
Associate Professor Dr Peter Hing
Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam
Synopsis
Resource drains and environment damage cover a very wide area, and are complex and interconnected issues. Resources cover energy and materials use in land, sea and air transportation, buildings, manufacturing and mining industries, commercial establishments, agriculture, food processing, defense, communication as well as in power generation, storage and transmission. It also includes the mismanagement of organisations, industries, banks and stock markets and countries. Resource drains also intrude in the area of migration of trained medical, healthcare, scientific, technical and economic personnel from poor to developing and developed countries and the flight of capital from poor to rich countries.
In this presentation, Professor Hing will focus on major resource drains such as inefficient use of light sources in the homes, industrial and commercial establishments, and in public lighting. He will highlight the role of materials in the development of energy saving light sources such as compact fluorescent lamps and other high intensity discharge light sources. Recent advances in the development of high efficiency solid state white light sources from light emitting diodes (LEDs) and organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) will also be discussed. The amount of energy that can be saved with the adoption of solid state lighting is simply staggering. There is a need for greater awareness of the importance and use of solid state lighting to promote the development of a sustainable and green economy. The lighting industries and the governments are currently encouraging the use of solid state lighting to conserve energy and promote sustainable development. As some 20% of the world energy output is used in lighting, the use of more efficient light sources drastically reduces carbon emission to the atmosphere. Advances in materials and the technologies underpinning solid state lighting will be presented and discussed.
Biography
Associate Professor Peter Hing was Principal Materials Scientist at Thorn Lighting Ltd, Leicester UK and Principal Materials Engineer at Thorn Emi Central Research Laboratories in Hayes, UK. He worked in the area of transparent ceramics, ceramic-metal composites, glasses and glass-ceramics for high intensity discharge light sources from 1971 to 1991. He was appointed as Associate Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, Nanyang technological University, Singapore. Professor Hing has continued his research interest in advanced functional materials at Nanyang Technological University from 1991 to 2004. He was appointed Director of the Advanced Materials Research Centre at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from 1998 to 2002. He is currently Associate Professor in the Faculty of Science, University of Brunei Darussalam. His current research and interest are on the synthesis, characterization and applications of nanostructured materials for environment protection, energy generation, conservation, storage and distribution and sustainable development. Professor Hing has published over 130 peer reviewed journal papers and held several patents. He is currently leading a project on low cost and low temperature solid oxide fuel cells.
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