Plenary Session

• 1.1 Energy Harvesting Applications and Architectures at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Bradley J. Mitchell, Product Development, The Boeing Company

  1.2 Power Management for Energy Harvesting Applications, Peter Spies, Group Manager, Fraunhofer Institute

  1.3 Practical Alternatives for Successful Energy Harvesting, Roy Freeland, CEO, Perpetuum, Ltd.

• 1.4 A High-Energy Source; Advantages of Lithium / Thionyl Chloride Batteries, Lou Adams, Regional Manager, Tadiran Batteries

System Design Considerations

• 2.1 Self-Powered Wireless Sensor Networks – Best Practice Cases, Armin Anders, CEO, EnOcean

  2.2 ZigBee and 802.15.4 - How Low Can You Go?, Zachary Smith, CTO, Daintree Networks and the ZigBee Alliance

• 2.3 Reliable Wireless Condition Monitoring, Jens Albers, CEO, Nanotron

Wireless Sensor Networks

• 3.1 Strategic Investment in Wireless Sensor Network R&D in Ireland, Cian O’Mathuna, Research Director, Tyndall Institute

• 3.2 Ultra-Low Power Communications for Implanted Medical Applications, Peter Bradley, Systems Engineering Manager, Zarlink Semiconductor

• 3.3 Ultra-Low Power Wireless Sensor Networks, Wim DeKimpe, CTO, Ubiwave

Roundtable Discussion

“Can energy harvesting support the power needs of low power devices?”

Panelists:
    Shad Roundy, Architect of Energy Harvsting, LV Sensors Inc.
    Roy Freeland, CEO, Perpetuum Ltd.
    Bob Chao, CEO and Founder, Advanced Linear Devices, Inc. 
    Andy Wheeler, CTO, Ember Corportation
    Kevin O'Handley, VP Business Development, Ferro Solutions, Inc.
    Lou Adams, Regional Manager, Tadiran Batteries

Continental Breakfast in Exhibit Hall

General Energy Harvesting - One

• 4.1 Efficient Low-Power RF Energy Harvesting and Power Management, Regan Zane, Asst. Professor, Colorado Power Electronics Center

  4.2 Making Wireless Sensor Networks Truly Wireless Using RF Power, Jesse F. Goellner, Program Manager, Industrial Products, Powercast

  4.3  Energy Harvesting for Wireless Autonomous Sensor Nodes, Philippe Mattelaer, Business Development Manager, IMEC-NL/Holst Centre

Batteries & Fuel Cells

• 5.1 A Passive Micro Fuel Cell with Hydrogen Generator as a Battery Replacement, Robert Hahn, Head of Portable Power Supply Group, Fraunhofer Institute

  5.2 Thin - Film Lithium Polymer Batteries, Mr. Eddie Shaviv, President,Varta Microbattery

  5.3 A  Micro Battery for Low Power Applications, Christo Brand, Project Manager, EaglePicher

• 5.4 Thin-Film Solid-State Rechargeable Lithium Battery, Jeffrey Arias, Vice President, Product Development, Front Edge Technology, Inc.

• 5.5 MEMS-Based Reformed Methanol Fuel Cell for Portable Power, Jeff Morse, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Center for Meso, Micro and Nano Technology

Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting

• 6.1 Energy Scavenging from Vibrations for Wireless Sensor Networks, Cian O’Mathuna, Research Director & Terence O'Donnell, Tyndall Institute

  6.2 Energy Harvesting with Thunder & Lightning, Jeff Rogers, CTO, The Face Companies

  6.3 Advances in Piezo Power Generation, Steve Leschin, Managing Director, Business Development, Advanced Cerametrics

  6.4 Active Broadband Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvesting, Yiming Liu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pennsylvania State University

• 6.5 A Novel Method of Harvesting Wind Energy through Piezoelectric Vibration for Low-Power Autonomous Sensors, S.K. Panda, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore

Continental Breakfast

General Energy Harvesting  - Two

• 7.1 Thermoelectric Thin-Film Power Generators, Fritz Volkert, Managing Director, Micropelt

  7.2 Multi-Source Ambient Energy Power Supplies, John Langley, CTO, Ambient Micro

  7.3 An Integrated Microsystem for Environmental Sensing Powered by Energy Scavenging, Dr. Pamela Obiomon, Asst Professor, Prairie View A&M University

Networking Break

Energy Harvesting Components

• 8.1 Zero-Power Circuitry Manages Energy Harvesting Sources for Mainstream Applications, Bob Chao, CEO and Founder, Advanced Linear Devices

  8.2 Boost Converter for Low-Power Energy Sources, Will Hadden, Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments

• 8.3 Dispenser printing of Thick-Film Batteries, Electrochemical Capacitors, and Energy Harvesting Materials, Dan A Steingart, Christine C Ho, James W Evans and Paul K Wright. UC Berkeley Department of Material Science and Engineering and UC Berkeley Department of Mechnical Engineering

• 8.4 Energy Harvesting Technologies for Today and Tomorrow, Kevin O'lHandley, VP Business Development, Ferro Solutions, Inc.