• Buying Green
• Climate Risk & Resilience
• Education & Engagement

• Energy Procurement & Management
• Green Facilities
• Information & Communications Technology

• Supply Chain & Lifecycle Management
• Third Party Financing

Note: This workshop requires a separate online registration (no fee will be charged for GreenGov full conference pass registrants and individuals who registered for the September 26 day pass).

Session Lead:

• Gerard Nelson -- Environmental Instructor, DLA Training Center, Defense Logistics Agency

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• Chris Baglin -- Principal, AEA-Project Performance Corporation
• Brian Bidolli -- Executive Director, Greater Bridgeport Regional Council
• Ann Kosmal -- Architect, U.S. General Services Administration
• Barbara Thomson -- Senior Associate, First Environment
• Emily Wasley -- Informed Decisions & Adaptation Science Program Associate, U.S. Global Change Research Program
• Adam Whelchel -- Director of Conservation Programs, The Nature Conservancy

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• What does this mean today to agency professionals responsible for energy, sustainability, or critical facility infrastructures?
• What are the long-term planning issues?
• What are the regional variations?
• What are the uncertainties and range of predicted energy effects?

• Lee DeBaillie -- Principal Project Manager, Energy Center of Wisconsin
• Bill Goran - Director, Center for the Advancement of Sustainability Innovations, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Sam Higuchi -- Staff Engineer for the Environmental Management Division, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Vaidyanathan Krishnamurthy -- Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering Sciences Building (ENS), The University of Texas at Austin
• Drury Crawley -- Director, Building Performance Products, Bentley Systems, Inc
• Chris Pyke -- Vice President of Research, U.S. Green Building Council

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• Common success attributes and best practices for overcoming barriers;
• Opportunities for aggregating interests and collaboration across meta groups; and
• Integrating community efforts with Federal Government stakeholders and interests.

• Brian Bidolli - Executive Director, Greater Bridgeport Regional Council
• Maria Sanders - Energy & Climate Analyst, City of El Cerrito, Small Cities Climate Action Partnership

• Candice Carr Kelman -- Assistant Director, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
• Vicki Arroyo -- Executive Director, Georgetown Climate Law Center

How to Empower and Engage Senior Leadership

• Timothy Cooke -- Director, Martinsburg VA Hospital, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
• Garry Hall -- Vice President and Senior Account Executive, Siemens Government Technologies
• Jennifer MacDonald -- Director, DOE Sustainability Performance Office, U.S. Department of Energy

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• Jeff Eagan -- Sustainable Acquisition and Electronics Stewardship Coordinator, U.S. Department of Energy
• Shabnam Fardanesh -- Sustainable Acquisition Coordinator, U.S. Department of Energy
• Christopher Payne -- Research Scientist and Leader, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Energy Analysis Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

This session will provide an overview of CP with real-world examples from Silicon Valley and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region. Attendees will come away with an understanding of the opportunities, the strategic and financial considerations, and guidance for pursuing CP across their own portfolios.

• Blaine Collison -- Program Director, Green Power Partnership Program, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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The Federal Green Challenge uses EPA's Regional teams and resources to bring technical assistance to individual facilities in Federal field offices. Come hear how participation in the FGC can be leveraged to deliver your mission more effectively within your community.

The session will also include training on how to use the new FGC data management system which allows participants to measure, manage and document progress, conduct analyses of results, and formulate results reports.

• David Iacono -- Federal Green Challenge Manager, Region 3 (Philadelphia and National Capitol Area), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Viccy Salazar -- Sustainability Coordinator and National Federal Green Challenge Co-Lead, Region 10 (Pacific NorthWest), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Ron Vance -- Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery, National Federal Green Challenge Co-Lead and Materials Conservation and Recycling Branch Chief, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• Thadd Buzan - Facility Investment and Management Directorate Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment), U.S. Department of Defense
• Mark Gillem - Principal, The Urban Collaborative, LLC
• William (Bill) J. McQuaid - Senior Program Analyst, Investment Branch, National Security Division, Office of Management and Budget
• Jerry Zekert - Master Planning Team Leader, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

• Erin Zayko -- Sustainability Manager, Lockheed Martin Energy Services

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Leading by Example: The Federal Government’s Expanding Use of ICT to Advance Sustainability Goals

This proposed roundtable discussion will focus on one important area -- the expanding use of information and communications technology (ICT) to achieve energy efficiency and productivity enhancements across a range of federal building, fleet, and technology applications. It will bring together a distinguished group of leaders from both the public and private sector to gain their perspectives on what types of innovative approaches used by the federal government are most successful and have the greatest potential for expanded use.

The goal of the session is to identify successful approaches to delivering real world benefits to agencies in reducing costs and meeting their sustainability goals. The session will also evaluate former barriers to these approaches and how agencies have overcome these obstacles.

The participants in the roundtable will include leaders from both federal agencies and private sector companies with hands-on experience managing and implementing programs using ICT applications to meet sustainability goals. Representatives from several key agencies (possibly GSA, DoD, and DOE) would represent federal government experiences. Private sector representatives would be drawn from members of the Digital Energy and Sustainability Solutions Campaign. Steve Seidel from the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) will organize the speakers and chair the roundtable. In pulling together this session, he will draw from a major study he is conducting highlighting innovative ways the federal government is utilizing ICT applications to help in achieving its sustainability goals.

• Philip Klokis -- Chief Information Officer, Public Buildings Services, U.S. General Services Administration
• Larry Melton -- Assistant Commissioner, Public Building Services for Facilities Management & Program Services, U.S. General Services Administration
• Larry Plumb -- Executive Director, Verizon
• Steve Seidel -- Senior Advisor, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
• Joseph Sikes -- Director for Housing and Competitive Sourcing, Office of the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Installations & Environment, U.S. Department of Defense
• John Sullivan -- Business Development Manager, Autodesk

This session will feature a tour of FedCenter's vast information resources and web-based collaboration and reporting capabilities. A roundtable discussion will allow participants to share their experiences with FedCenter discuss new ways it can help agencies' sustainability efforts. Participants will be encouraged to share their current and future needs with FedCenter management.

• Steve Luzzi -- FedCenter Manager, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Peter Wixted -- FedCenter Board Chair, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• Donna Schell -- FedCenter Content Manager, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Using IT to Engage and Educate Employees Workshop

• Discussion of the pros and cons of how employee surveys are used to capture feedback on sustainability issues and further engage employees;
• Identify education and training needs across different job roles and functions that promote engagement and help overcome challenges;
• Develop guidelines for organizing, building and supporting ‘green teams’ in ways that become integrated with operations and foster cross-functional support; and
• Explore ways to quantify the multiple sources of ROI and value that come from increased employee engagement, including direct benefits and indirect value drivers.

• Jim French -- Sustainability Integration Specialist, U.S. Postal Service
• Grant Ricketts -- CEO, Tripos Software, Inc.
• Dianne Shoaf -- Sustainability Integration Specialist, U.S. Postal Service
• Justin Yuen -- President, FMYI [for my innovation]

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Electronics Stewardship Roundtable

• Build incentives for design of greener electronics, and enhance science, research and technology development in the U.S.;
• Ensure that the Federal Government leads by example;
• Increase safe and effective management and handling of used electronics in the United States; and
• Reduce harm from U.S. exports of electronic waste and improve safe handling of used electronics in developing countries.

This roundtable will highlight solutions to help better address the full lifecycle of electronics products in operations. Panelists will share operational best practices on how standards for sustainable design can be used as an evaluation tool for purchasing greener electronics, discuss leading solutions for third-party certification, and end-to-end electronics recycling and reuse.

• Darren Beck -- Manager, Sprint Corporate Responsibility
• Holly Elwood -- Senior Program Manager, EPEAT, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Bob Holcombe -- Director, Personal Property Policy Management, Office of Governmentwide Policy, U.S. General Services Administration
• Elizabeth Resek -- Chief, Municipal Source Reduction Branch, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Session sponsored by:

• Anticipated research to identify disclosure requests and supply chain questionnaires that climate and sustainability professionals are responding to on behalf of their companies, government entities and academic institutions;
• Process of analyzing questions from analyzed materials, and a report on commonalities between the various inquiries; and
• Conducting interviews with supply chain managers to assess the core business values and missions driving key questions.

• Daniel Kreeger -- Executive Director, Association of Climate Change Officers
• Nancy Gillis -  Director, Federal Supply Chain Emissions PMO, U.S. General Services Administration

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• David McAndrew -- Project Lead, UESC & Renewables, Federal Energy Management Program, U.S. Department of Energy
• Karen Thomas -- Senior Program Leader, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

• Calvin Kawamura -- Project Manager, Renewable Program Office, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, U.S. Navy
• Andrea Kincaid -- Energy Renewables Chief, Defense Logistics Agency
• Margaret Simmons -- Huntsville Center Chief of Counsel, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Chandra Shah -- Senior Project Leader, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Tracy Logan -- Program Analyst, Utility Acquisitions, Federal Energy Management Program, U.S. Department of Energy

• Andrea Kincaid -- Energy Renewables Chief, Defense Logistics Agency
• Margaret Simmons -- Huntsville Center Chief of Counsel, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Tracy Logan -- Program Analyst, Utility Acquisitions, Federal Energy Management Program, U.S. Department of Energy
• Cassandra Walbert -- Attorney Advisor, Procurement Law Division, U.S. Coast Guard

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