The May Report: 6/22/2011: At last, Matt McCall reappears: New World Ventures invests $15MM in Chicago based SMS Assist; Built in Chicago debuts Thursday and the Chicago Clean Energy Alliance has 300 scheduled to attend Thursday as well; MoMo meeting Monday drew about 45, but the speaker did not go to Cupertino; and co-organizer Trace Johnson has all the personality of three day old sushi; Peggy Smedley and Mike Carrozzo on the whole debate over counting connected devices

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Scoop section:

– New World Ventures Invests $15 million in Chicago-based SMS Assist
– Thursday, June 23: Built in Chicago Launch Party – 6-8pm – Merchandise Mart
– Baby #68 from Save Abandoned Babies and Dawn Geras
– A report for TMR on what was said at MoMo Monday evening at Navteq at 425 W. Randolph by Dan Slowinski of www.nerdery.com
– Monday, June 27: Social Media Club event at Microsoft — Happy b-day JWillie and Jeff’s age is about as murky as his waste size, somewhere between 47 and 49
– A really nice “get lost” note to Ron May from Trace Johnson of MoMo whom Ron does not know and he’s never been to a MoMo meeting to boot — thank goodness there was a much nicer note from Jeff Schwartz of MoMo
– Tom Bennett: Dr. James Nachman: A Hero for Kids
– Executive Summary of The Coming Age of M2M and Connected Devices issued by Peggy Smedley and Mike Carrozzo, copyright 2011, Connected World Magazine
– Glossary from above report, The Coming Age of M2M and Connected Devices
– Nigel Cameron: Why groupthink is killing us; and how to talk about the future
– Cards Ron collected at the Connected World Conference on 6/15/11 at the Marriott in Lincolnshire
– Thursday, June 23: Chicago Clean Energy Alliance Quarterly Event 4-7pm Mayer Brown 71 South Wacker Drive and Peggy Smedley, I’m sorry to have to sully the report with a reference to a ghost of Christmas past — even though he’s Jewish — Darrin Stern, the gift that never gave — and Darrin, you better sign me up for this!

[Editor's note: Ron May here. This report is the calm before the storm. Tomorrow you'll have the Connected World conference, things I found out at the SAB Poker Charity on Saturday, the Executives' Club and Bootstrapper Breakfast for entrepreneurs which I attended this morning. Nancy Sullivan and Phil Tadros and more. The Bootstrapper meeting is held at the 300 N. LaSalle Cafe overlooking the river and also in the same building as BCG and a really big law firm whose name has escaped me right now. But even though I am now in MoMo, they did not allow me to attend because my RSVP was not in time and even though Trace Johnson seems to have all the personality of three day old sushi, I hope to meet him and attend in July. It is true that the security at the Navteq building is ridiculous, possibly because of Boeing and possibly because of a data center there.

But there is a problem with the MoMo meeting that I feel compelled to tell you about. The speaker, Dan Slowinski of www.nerdery.com, did not go to Cupertino. Their advertising for the event says that he did, but he did not and the attendees, about 45 in all, got second and third hand info. The presentation was a PP of about 30 minutes and the whole place was cleared out by 7:15pm, unless you wanted to hang out for cold pizza. Since I was not there, I am relying on those who were for this info. But last month when my buddy Mike Rhodes attended, he told me that the event was "uneventful." There was little value, Rhodes told me. I am excited about attending MoMo, but my info. is that since Anthony Hand left for the left coast, the new curators are pretty lame and they also were warned to make the organization more democratic rather than cliquish, I am hearing. On top of that, As Seen on Phone seems to be doing more than nipping at the heels of MoMo. Thanks BTW to my buddy who wrote up the event and cannot reveal his name because the firm he works for would have to pre-approve it.]
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The Scoop section:
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New World Ventures Invests $15 million in Chicago-based SMS Assist

Subject: New World Ventures Invests $15 million in Chicago-based SMS Assist
Date: 6/22/2011 2:39:56 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: tatvshow@yahoo.com
To: ron@themayreport.com
CC: RONALDMAY@aol.com

New World Ventures Invests $15 million in Chicago-based SMS Assist
SMS Assist’s proprietary technology platform simplifies facilities maintenance for chain retailers

CHICAGO – (www.twitter.com/techaccesstv) – New World Ventures, Chicago’s largest technology venture capital firm, today announced a $15 million investment in Chicago-based SMS Assist, a national facilities maintenance company that uses technology to simplify critical maintenance services.

SMS Assist’s robust technology platform enables it to access and manage more than 10,000 sub-contractors nationally. SMS Assist’s system tracks service orders, bills customers, provides compliance reports and manages quality. Customers also benefit from real-time visibility into work orders and expenses by store, service type and geography – data that is unique to SMS Assist. Over the past 5 years, SMS Assist’s proprietary technology and unique approach to customer service have driven rapid growth. The company today provides services at more than 20,000 locations for national clients including big- and small-box mass merchants and specialty retailers.

Using its proprietary online platform, ServiceTrack™, SMS Assist manages and provides critical maintenance services, such as floor cleaning, snow removal, landscaping, HVAC maintenance and other interior and exterior services. SMS Assist dramatically simplifies facilities maintenance, offering retailers a single, automated source for multiple services at all their retail locations.

“SMS Assist brings facilities maintenance into the 21st century,” said Matt McCall, partner at New World Ventures. “We are impressed by their exponential growth and the amazing amount of automation and technology SMS has deployed in what is traditionally a very labor-intensive industry. SMS has developed a platform that provides the highest quality service with the lowest cost structure.”

“Most large and small retailers are looking to consolidate their facilities maintenance but have been unable, until now, to find a provider with the systems to manage a complex, national network,” said Mike Rothman, SMS Assist founder and CEO. “With the backing of New World Ventures, we will accelerate market penetration and push our technology lead even further.”

McCall will join the SMS Assist board of directors.

SMS Assist is the latest of New World Ventures’ investments in interconnected platforms and services, a primary focus area for the group. Other New World investments in this area include Active Networks (NASDAQ: ACTV), Playdom, TicketsNow, Alliance Health Networks, Sittercity and Zinch.

About New World Ventures

Founded in 1996, New World Ventures is Chicago’s largest and most innovative technology venture investor. With a combined 75 years of venture capital and entrepreneurial experience, a broad network of strategic relationships, thought leadership and multi-stage investment capital, New World helps entrepreneurs and management teams build market-leading information technology companies. The firm has five focus areas: next-generation commerce technologies, enterprise applications, interactive health, interconnected platforms and services, and intelligent energy systems. Unique for its tremendous flexibility with size, structure and duration of investment, New World Ventures stands on the same side of the table with entrepreneurs who simply want to build great businesses. Along with more than 50 venture investments made and the backing of The Pritzker Group run by J.B. Pritzker and Tony Pritzker, New World’s partners bring a strong reputation for integrity. The firm’s engagement with local and national entrepreneurship organizations, close relationships with industry-specific mentors and partners, and strong track record of success allow New World Ventures to add value for entrepreneurs and companies on day one.

For more information visit www.newworldvc.com.

Press Contact:
for New World Ventures
Sheridan Chaney, 312.629.9400

Bruce Eric Montgomery
Executive Producer & Host
Technology Access Television
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Chicago, IL 60606-5865
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Thursday, June 23: Built in Chicago Launch Party – 6-8pm – Merchandise Mart

Subject: Built in Chicago Launch Party – June 23 – 6-8pm – Merchandise Mart
Date: 6/21/2011 5:24:52 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: tatvshow@yahoo.com
To: ron@themayreport.com
CC: RONALDMAY@aol.com, melanie_adcock@msn.com

Built in Chicago Launch Party
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Location: Merchandise Mart
Street: 222 W Merchandise Mart Plaza 19th Floor
City/Town: Chicago, IL 60654
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Join us for the Built in Chicago Launch Party, Sponsored by Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy. A night of connecting, celebrating and sharing–plus, we will unveil the new logo (A project sponsored by crowdSPRING) and hear from some innovative startups!

5 Min Company Presentations Include:

-A Space Apart

-Timelines

-Zaarly

-VLinks Media

Cost: $10 donation at the door. Or, bring a printed copy of a blog post you contributed to Built in Chicago the week of the launch party (6/16-6/23) and we will waive the $10.

Bruce Eric Montgomery
Executive Producer & Host
Technology Access Television
200 S. Wacker Drive, 15th Floor
Chicago, IL 60606-5865
(312) 725-8601
tatvshow@yahoo.com
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www.facebook.com/brucemontgomery
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Baby #68 from Save Abandoned Babies and Dawn Geras

“As we are gathered here tonight for our fund raiser on Father’s Day weekend, I have the best news of all to share. You are the first to hear this. Today, as we are gathered together right now, baby #68 is going home from the hospital to meet his new father and mother. He will be celebrating his first Father’s Day made possible through your support of the Save Abandoned Babies Foundation. Yes, a baby was “saved” yesterday and being placed right now in his new adoptive families arms and hearts. A truly special, magical Father’s Day made possible by you!”

Dawn Geras
President
www.SaveAbandonedBabies.org
www.facebook.com/SaveAbandonedBabies
Phone: 312-440-0229 Fax: 312-440-0805
55 E. Erie St., #2905
Chicago, IL 60611-2255
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A report for TMR on what was said at MoMo Monday evening at Navteq at 425 W. Randolph by Dan Slowinski of www.nerdery.com

Subject: MoMo report
Date: 6/21/2011 5:50:44 A.M. Central Daylight Time
From: [Name withheld upon request]
To: ronaldmay@aol.com

Sent last nite

[Name withheld]‘s iPhone 312-xxx-yyyy

—–Original Message—–
From: [Name withheld upon request]
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 09:29 PM Eastern Standard Time
To: ‘RONALDMAY@aol.com‘
Subject: RE: [Name withheld], thanks! I’m signed up for MoMo Chicago and for tonight.

Composed on iPhone from notes and memory so excuse inaccuracies. Would you proof name of organizer please

Partner Development executive led off program as host of the space.
Navteq wants to partner with “sustainable” firms that need locational services and a means to get paid for it. In other words “show me the money”. Very Chicago, love it. Navteq is a b2b company, very dependent on partners, so not much motive to compete with their partners.

Mr. Schwartz, co-organizer, introduced program and presenter. Here is all you need to know about mobile Monday. Schwartz asked for those looking for jobs = zero, none nada. Employers looking to hire = four including Lextech and Crowd Savvy. If you can program iOS or AndroidOS or java script you are hired in Chicago.

Dan Slowinski summarized the apple development conference in Vegas. Dan works @Nerdery.com. Logo for Nerdery is shirt-pocket with A pen. Perfect dont you think? Though multiple pens is the engineer caricature, right? You get it though. I don’t know anyone under 30 that can write with a pen anyway, so this engineering joke has a limited lifespan.

iCloud will give you 5g free, but not competition for drop box. Basically a hard drive for all the content that is valuable to you: pictures music movies documents calendars email and even your preferences for viewing or using a program. What is different is that iCloud will push all this content to all your devices and synchronize updates.

iOS5 mobile phones – this fall launch
TOTALLY PC free. So you don’t need iTunes to update software etc.
Steals Android notification feature
Twitter integration
Crop photos
Location based to-do not just time based.
Big deal and very promising per Dan is improved memory management
Backward app compatibility, better upgrade your apps per Dan . Not likely to be stable.

OSX iLion – in July for $29.00
Trying to keep look and feel consistent across iPad iPhone Mac or iCloud.
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Monday, June 27: Social Media Club event at Microsoft — Happy b-day JWillie and Jeff’s age is about as murky as his waste size, somewhere between 47 and 49

Subject: Social Media Club event June 27 at Microsoft
Date: 6/20/2011 3:14:46 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: jwillinger@rightpoint.com
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com

SMC Chicago Search & Social June 27 5:30pm

Microsoft 200 E. Randolph ste 200 Chicago, IL 60601

t.co/CwHFhWz

www.smcchicago.org

Best regards,

Jeff

……

Jeffrey S. Willinger
312.622.2300 cell

jwillinger@rightpoint.com

rightpoint
626 W. Jackson Street Suite 100
Chicago, Illinois 60661
(312) 920-8390 office
(312) 920-8384 fax
www.rightpoint.com

www.linkedin.com/in/jeffwillinger

twitter.com/jwillie

www.meetup.com/sharepoint
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A really nice “get lost” note to Ron May from Trace Johnson of MoMo whom Ron does not know and he’s never been to a MoMo meeting to boot — thank goodness there was a much nicer note from Jeff Schwartz of MoMo

Subject: Re: Trace, Ron May here. I registered this morning. Please be sure I’m on the list.
Date: 6/20/2011 12:41:44 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: trace.johnson@gmail.com
To: RONALDMAY@aol.com, jeff@schwartz-tribe.com

Hi Ron -

We appreciate your interest in MoMo. Unfortunately, your response did not make the RSVP list we sent to Navteq, and your attendance will not be necessary this evening.

Thank you -

Trace Johnson
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Ron May here. Trace, my “attendance will not be necessary”?! Who’s writing your material, Fred and Terry?
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Tom Bennett: Dr. James Nachman: A Hero for Kids

Subject: Dr. James Nachman: A Hero for Kids
Date: 6/20/2011 2:11:52 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: tomrbennett@yahoo.com
To: ron@themayreport.com, ronaldmay@aol.com
CC: tb_25@hotmail.com

FYI.

While Blagojevich was extorting sick kids at Children’s Memorial Hospital, Dr. Nachman was taking care of cancer-stricken kids.

TRB

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U of C expert in kids’ cancers dies

June 14, 2011

(AP) – An internationally known University of Chicago expert in childhood cancers died while on a rafting trip in the Grand Canyon.
Dr. James Nachman was 62. The university said Monday it’s believed he had a fatal heart attack.

Nachman was an authority in treating leukemia and lymphoma. He helped develop a special treatment regimen for acute lymphoblastic leukemia and did research that helped lead to a high cure rate for the disease.

He also served as the medical oncologist for a University of Chicago program aiming to save the arms and legs of teens with bone cancer.
Nachman, a Chicago native, never married and had no children.
He died Friday. The university is planning a memorial service for early July.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
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Executive Summary of The Coming Age of M2M and Connected Devices issued by Peggy Smedley and Mike Carrozzo, copyright 2011, Connected World Magazine

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The question of whether or not we will see 50 billion connected devices by the year 2020 all depends on how you define the marketplace. But therein lies the rub. These days it seems everyone has his or her own definition for what is considered a connected device. Without a clear and concise definition of connected devices, as well as M2M (machine-to-machine) for that matter, we cannot accurately project how big the market will grow going forward.

Machine-to-machine data connections are growing. So too is the number of connected devices. In the first portion of this report definitions for both types of connected devices were established. In the second section of this report, the market for U.S. carriers is examined with regard to how each network operator separates and counts devices when it is tallying up its total number of connections.

To appreciate the total number of M2M connections that exist today it’s important to separate the M2M data connections from the connected devices and grasp the anomaly in the marketplace. While carriers have a clear distinction in the way in which they are disclosing such numbers, others’ methods for tabulating numbers may not be as evident.

For years, the M2M industry and the companies it served kept a somewhat low profile. Outside of the industry itself, few people knew what M2M was, and those who did formed a somewhat exclusive club. Those days are gone. Today, M2M is a well-known concept across many vertical markets, whether it goes by the name Internet of Things, embedded intelligence, or another of the many terms available. But what exactly is machine-to-machine? Now that M2M is a recognizable term, it needs a consistent definition.

M2M connects people, devices, networks, and everyday objects while communicating and interpreting data that can be acted upon in a timely manner. This is true whether the M2M deployment is geared toward business or consumer use.

Common M2M data connections include such things as smart meters, POS (point-of-sale) terminals, asset tracking devices, and remote monitoring systems, to name a few, and are typically deployed in an enterprise environment. But there is also a subset of M2M, called consumer-facing devices. Such devices that fall into this category include ereaders, connected pedometers, and personal navigation devices. These consumer-facing devices serve a single purpose–the transfer of data for the purposes of making realtime decisions.

Then you have such devices as an ereader, tablet, or netbook. While it is true they can perform M2M functions, this is not the sole purpose of these devices. Therefore, these always-connected devices fall into a different category called connected devices.

Along with a consistent definition of M2M and connected devices, the industry needs consistency in the way it tracks true M2M connections. Research analysts often report the number of M2M connections, but it can be difficult to compare the findings, as not everyone agrees on what qualifies as an M2M connection. Cellular carriers also do not all report M2M connections in the same way, nor do they all agree on what is considered M2M versus a connected device.

In fact, many carriers continue to use traditional methods of reporting voice subscribers in a pre-subscriber and post-subscriber manner and are intent on applying the same methods when reporting data connections. By and large, cellular carriers are basing their definition of M2M by the relationship they have with the subscriber rather than by pure function of the device. The new data-intensive nature of how we live and work requires greater accuracy and specificity as to the classification of devices.

By adopting a standard method of counting connections, a standard way to define the M2M market can be achieved. This will allow businesses that are thinking of adopting M2M systems or that are supplying M2M components to acquire a true vision of the market and where it is going. By tracking the growth of M2M connections consistently, it can be assured that everyone, from investors to start-up companies, is looking at the same picture to draw conclusions. Ultimately, this can help determine the right course for the future and the bottomline.
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Glossary from above report, The Coming Age of M2M and Connected Devices

GLOSSARY

ARPU (average revenue per user)
This term is used by telecommunications companies as a measure of revenue generated per user of per unit.

CHURN
Telecommunications companies use the term churn to describe the level ot attrition of customers from a particular device or service.

CDMA (code division multiple access)
This digital wireless technology is a spread-spectrum technology, which decreases potential interference while achieving privacy. CDMA is the basis for 3G wireless technologies and is used U.S. carriers Sprint and Verizon Wireless.

Consumer-Centric Device Utilization
An M2M scenario in which two-way communication is occurring between a machine and a connected device. Typical scenarios include using a smartphone to adjust the settings on your smart meter remotely or a doctor using a tablet to remotely access patient data

Connected Device
General purpose products with embedded intelligence designed to collect, communicate, and relay data in realtime.

Consumer Connected Devices
Consumer-facing devices have the primary purpose of transferring data in order to make a realtime decision. The main function of these devices is to carry out an M2M function and would typically be purchased and used by consumers. Examples include GPS (global positioning systems), PNDs (personal navigation devices), connected photo frames, and ereaders.

EDGE (enhanced data rates for GSM evolution)
As a 3G, high-speed data technology, EDGE has peak theoretical network rates of 474 kbps and average throughout of 70-130 kbps. These average rates are fast enough to support a wide range of advanced data services and EDGE also supports PTT (push-to-talk) services.

Embedded Connected Devices
General-purpose products typically with no human intervention which contain embedded intelligence designed to collect, create, communicate, and relay data in realtime for monitoring and control.

EV-DO (evolution data optimized)
This 3G cellular data protocol can provide broadband wireless connectivity at high speeds.

GPRS (general packet radio service)
A packet-data technology, GPRS allows GSM operators to launch wireless data services. GPRS is often referred to as 2.5G technology because it is a GSM operator’s first step towards 3G and is also the first step in wireless data services.

GSM (global system for mobile communications)
A 2G (second generation) wireless technology, GSM provides high-quality voice and circuit-switched data services in a wide variety of spectrum bands, including 450, 850, 900, 1800, and 1900 MHz.

Oftentimes the catch-all term ‘GSM family of technologies’ is used to refer to GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSPA, and LTE. This provides a smooth and cost-effective evolution to 3G (third generation) wireless technology. U.S. carriers AT&T and T-Mobile use the GSM technology.

HSPA+ (high speed packet access plus)
HSPA+, also known as HSPA Evolution and Evolved HSPA, will apply some of the techniques developed for LTE (long-term evolution) and allow operators to extend the life of their HSPA networks. As an affordable and incremental upgrade to existing HSPA networks, HSPA+ is being used by some operators as a companion to LTE.

iDEN (integrated dispatch enhance network)
A communications standard that allows users to access phone calls, two-way radio transmissions, paging, and data from one wireless device.

Internet of Things
This term was originated in the late 1990s from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and refers to the networked interconnection of objects and devices. In essence, Internet of Things, IoT , is another term used to describe what M2M enables.

LTE (long term evolution)
LTE is a rather new radio platform technology that is expected to provide downlink peak data rates up to 326 Mbps with 20 MHz bandwidth, and uplink peak data rates up to 86.4 Mbps with 20 MHz bandwidth.

M2M (machine-to-machine)
M2M connects people, devices, networks, and everyday objects while communicating and interpreting data that can be acted upon in a timely manner.

Machine-Centric Device Utilization
An M2M scenario in which two-way communication is occurring between two machines. Examples include remote monitoring, smart devices, and RFID.

Mobile Broadband
Wireless Internet access via a mobile device, such a computer, PC card, or cellphone, is often defined within the industry as mobile broadband. This term is becoming more widely used at the carrier level to define a new generation of products that provide access on the go, such as tablets and netbooks, to name a few.

Multi-Purpose Device
Products connected over a network that receive and transmit data enabled by human intervention.

Postpaid
When a customer is charged for usage in the month prior to using the service and has no limitations on the service used, this is referred to as a postpaid.

Prepaid
When fees for a device or service have been paid for upfront, this is referred to as prepaid. In most instances, prepaid customers have some sort of limit or cap to the amount of data they can use in a given period.

Single-Purpose Device
Self-contained microprocessors and sensors embedded into everyday objects and connected to networks interpreting and transmitting data without the need for human intervention.

UMTS (universal mobile telecommunications system)
As a voice and high-speed data technology, UMTS is part of the Intl. Telecommunication Union’s IMT-2000 family of third- generation wireless standards. The radio technology used in UMTS is WCDMA (Wideband CDMA), which results in the two terms often being interchanged. UMTS is based on IP technology with data rates of up to 350 kbps, with average speeds of 200-300 kbps for both the uplink and the downlink.

WiMAX (wireless interoperability for microwave access)
As the name for the family of IEEE 802.16 wireless standards, WiMAX provides high-throughput broadband connections over long distances with applications including “last mile” broadband connections and hotspots.

Wireless Spectrum
This refers to a band of frequencies in which wireless signals
travel, carrying voice and data.
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Nigel Cameron: Why groupthink is killing us; and how to talk about the future

Subject: Why groupthink is killing us; and how to talk about the future
Date: 6/17/2011 9:21:16 A.M. Central Daylight Time
From: nigel.m.cameron@c-pet.org
To: ronaldmay@aol.com

June 17, 2011

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I have just returned from one of the best weeks I can remember.

Australian financial services corp. AMP host every two years a week-long conference on innovation and thought leadership called the Amplify Festival. I was privileged to be invited together with quite a galaxy of luminaries from the digital, futures, and innovation space. Traveling out from Washington, DC, was also internet guru Mike Nelson (a member of C-PET’s Board of Directors) and corporate blogging maven Debbie Weil. Amplify is an innovative approach to introducing innovation into a major company. Everyone in the company is invited to take time off to attend. The Chairman, CEO, and key board members, were there session after session.

If you would like to sample, here is my opening keynote on how to handle the future.
Also, the link to the Amplify Festival main page here.

And below is something a little different – an op-ed published in the Sydney Morning Herald on the power of groupthink and the vital importance of outliers and mavericks in shaping knowledge and framing choices in the context of very rapid change. As ever, your responses will be appreciated.

Best,

Nigel Cameron

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Groupthink hasn’t worked, it’s time to embrace the maverick

Nigel M. de S. Cameron

Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies

As the Arab spring continues to unravel into an Arab summer, the most important lesson is that hardly anyone knew it was coming. Much like the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Wall Street could it be that as much as conventional wisdom may be conventional it is not always reliably wise?

I recently hosted a conference in Washington on the future of nanotechnology. All kinds of experts were round the table talking tech and policy and business. Then one of them made a stunning statement. She was there on behalf of a big, mainstream environmentalist group. “I have never,” she stated, “been on such a diverse panel in Washington.” There was a brief but palpable intake of air around the room. I thanked her for the compliment before adding that I was now more concerned for Washington than I was before.

Whom do we invite round the table when the questions are big and the stakes high? It tends to be those in the centre; the mainstream thinker whose wisdom is regarded as conventional.

When will we ever learn? We are still paying for the lesson we learned from Wall Street in 2008.

Conventional wisdom can be dead wrong, even in the hands of the smartest people because they tend to agree with each other. People with way-out views are kept at arm’s-length.

Whatever the issue, if your views deviate too far from the mean, however articulate you may be, you are unlikely to get invited, funded or promoted.

We have learned a lot this past generation about the value of diversity in age, gender, and ethnicity but we have learned little about the enormous and growing value of diversity of opinion.

Of course, we do disagree about a lot of things. With friends, and with co-workers. But we live in communities of ideas that set boundaries around acceptable diversity of thinking, and make sure we keep out those who challenge our shared assumptions.

We don’t want to rehash old issues we regard as closed. We don’t want to give room to opinions we find deeply objectionable – or threatening. Most of us find it challenging to take forward our thinking when there is someone in the room always, always asking why?

So our natural tendency is to put unconscious faith in Groupthink, the tendency for everyone’s thinking to move in the same direction to the exclusion of any serious questioning.

People in management know all about this as a problem for work groups and other teams. But it is more insidious and far more dangerous on the grand scale.

What brought Wall Street down, and with it threatened the entire global order? The G-word. And on smaller scales: what led Monsanto into huge losses in the late 1990s and ensured that Europe rejected genetically-modified food? What led Detroit to near-oblivion as they insisted on producing 1950s-style autos into the 21st century? What about the power company TEPCO and the nuclear disaster that the entirely predictable tsunami sparked in Japan?

Knowledge is building very fast, disciplines are converging, globalisation is changing the ground-rules of everything. Change powered by Moore’s Law, the digitisation process and the revolution in communication is driving shifts in the technical, economic and social order that most of us strain to grasp. Yet the faster change takes place and the greater its disruptive, innovative power, the harder it will be to make good choices.

So who should be party to the conversation? This is where the outliers come in; people who are articulate and serious, but outside the mainstream assumptions that generally drive conversations. Experts tend to resist the participation of thosewith unorthodox opinions. It needs to become the norm for them to sit round the table in every discussion. All articulate voices round the table; all the time.

This approach is hardly new. The century before last, US poet, essayist and journalist Walt Whitman asked the question his own way. “Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?” In the 21st century, great value lies at the extremities of opinion; and we need to harvest it as we move through change faster than we have ever known before.
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Cards Ron collected at the Connected World Conference on 6/15/11 at the Marriott in Lincolnshire

Frederick C. Yentz
President/ CEO
ILS
www.ilstechnology.com
fyentz@ilstechnology.com
Boca Raton, Florida

Brian Murphy
Head of M2M America’s
Vodafone
bmurphy@vodafone.com
Walnut Creek, California

Gerald A. Theis
CEO/ Founder
Theis and Associates
www.mycrisisrecords.com
jtheis@rmwc.us
Greendale, Wisconsin

John Rouse
VP Business Development
Mesh Systems
www.mesh-systems.com
john.rouse@mesh-systems.com
Carmel, Indiana

Frank Banks
Vice President of Business Development
Hitachi
www.hitachi-cta.com
frank.banks@hitachi-cta.com
Norcross, Georgia

Kevin G. Christensen
Senior Director of Business
Cal Amp
www.calamp.com
kchristensen@calamp.com
Irvine, California

James Lahey
Consultant
laheyj@hotmail.com

Phil Hiller
Strategic Account Manager
Kontron
www.kontron.com
phil.hiller@us.kontron.com
Poway, California

Richard V. Baxter, Jr.
President & Chief Executive Officer
Mesh Systems
richard.baxter@mesh-systems.com
Carmel, Indiana

Michael Beightol
Chairman
Barrington Area Chamber of Commerce
www.barringtonchamber.com
Barrington, Illinois

Samuel Ropert
Consultant
Idate
www.idate.org
s.ropert@idate.org
Montpellier, France

Peter H. Wilson
Manager
Rogers Communications
pete.wilson@rci.rogers.com
Toronto, Ontario

Kevin Bross
Modular Systems Architect
Intel
www.intel.com
kevin.bross@intel.com
Beaverton, Oregon

Maurizio Arienzo, Ph. D.
VP of Business Development
Bug Labs
www.buglabs.net
maurizio@buglabs.net
New York, New York

Henry S. Rosen
Vice President
Numerex
www.numerex.com
hrosen@numerex.com
Dallas, Texas

Richard Scwartz
President/ CEO
Macheen
www.macheen.com
richard@macheen.com
Austin, Texas

Kent Libbey
VP Marketing
Macheen
www.macheen.com
kent@macheen.com
Austin, Texas

Angel Mercedes
Business Development Manager
T-Mobile
angel.mercedes1@t-mobile.com
Richmond, Virginia

Mike Luscombe
Director Telecom Solutions
Tridium
www.tridium.com
mluscombe@tridium.com
Richmond, Virginia

Sean Horan
Sales Manager
AT&T
www.att.com/imap

Plano, Texas

Paul Osborn
Business Development Manager
Symantec
www.symantec.com
paul_osborn@symantec.com
Dallas, Texas

Matthew D. Ramsay
Senior Associate
Canaccord
www.canccordgenuity.com
mramsay@canaccordgenuity.com
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Francisco Clavarall IV
Head Business Products & Services
Globe
www.globe.com.ph
fjclavarall@globetel.com.ph
Makati City, Philippines

Janet Schyns
janet.schyns@verizonwireless.com

Joseph Zaloker
Director, Technical Marketing
Arrow Electronics
jzaloker@arrow.com
Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Laura Black
Managing Editor
Constructech
www.constructech.com
lblack@constructech.com
Carol Stream, Illinois

Matthew Howard
Co-Founder, CEO
Zoom Safer
matt@zoomsafer.com

Harish Viswanathan
Director
Alcatel-Lucent
www.alcatel-lucent.com
harishv@alcatel-lucent.com
Murray Hill, New Jersey

John Hubler
VP of Business Development
Raco Wireless
www.racowireless.com
jhubler@racowireless.com
Cincinnati, Ohio

Greg Le Beau
Marketing Manager
Qualcomm
www.qualcomm.com
gregl@qualcomm.com
San Diego, California

Stephen Nagy
Sr Product Manager, M2M
AT&T
www.att.com/m2m

New Haven, Connecticut

John Kugel
Tapco
www.tapconet.com
johnk@tapconet.com
Elm Grove, Wisconsin

Sachin Andhare
Product Manager
Laird Technologies
www.lairdtech.com
sachin.andhare@lairdtech.com
Holly, Michigan

Anna Clark
Inside Sales Manager
Data Online
aclark@dataonline.com
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey

Jim McKenzie
Senior Global Product Manager
Philips
www.philips.com/respironics
jim.mckenzie@philips.com
Monroeville, Pennsylvania

W.J. Sauber
Manager
Volvo Construction Equipment
www.volvoce.com/na
bill.sauber@volvo.com
Asheville, North Carolina

Joe Ranalletta
Director, Advanced Concepts
Baxa
www.baxa.com
joe.ranalletta@baxa.com
Englewood, Colorado

Laura Crisp
Manager
N Phase
www.nphase.com
lcrisp@nphase.com
Chicago, Illinois

Mark E. Cratsenburg
Vice President
Aeris Communications
mark.cratsenburg@aeris.net
San Jose, California

John Keough
Research Associate
Yankee Group
www.yankeegroup.com
jkeough@yankeegroup.com
Boston, Massachusetts

John Horn
President
Raco Wireless
www.racowireless.com
jhorn@racowireless.com
Cincinnati, Ohio

Vince Mow
Connected Vehicle Product Manager
Applus Technologies
vmow@applustech.com
Chicago, Illinois

Sue McCain
Fleishman-Hillard for Corporate Communications
AT&T

Atlanta, Georgia

Andrew C. Fligel
Director
Intel
www.intelcapital.com
andrew.fligel@intel.com
Santa Clara, California

Ricardo J. Rengifo
Regional Vice President
Evolving Systems
www.evolving.com
ricardo.rengifo@evolving.com
Englewood, Colorado

Alejandro Lopresti
Business Development
Evolving Systems
www.evolving.com
alejandro.lopresti@evolving.com
Englewood. Colorado

Mark Miles
Senior Engineer
Sasktel
www.sasktel.com
mark.miles@sasktel.sk.ca
Saskatchewan, Canada

Ryan Rangel
Chief Technical Officer
Clear Connex
www.clearconnex.com
ryan@clearconnex.com
Raleigh, North Carolina

Manuel Zepeda
President
Clear Connex
www.clearconnex.com
manuel@clearconnex.com
Raleigh, North Carolina

Kevin D. Johnson
Director, Connected Devices
Intel
www.intel.com
kevin.d.johnson@intel.com
Hillsboro, Oregon

Jim Williams
Senior Director
Enfora
www.enfora.com
jwilliams@enfora.com
Richardson, Texas

Mohamed Madkour, Ph.D.
Senior Director
Huawei
www.huawei.com
mmadkour@huawei.com
Plano, Texas

Anand Kamath
Manager, Solutions Engineer
Jasper Wireless
anand@jasperwireless.com
Sunnyvale, California

Jordan Carlton
Strategic Account Manager
Clear 2 There
www.clear2there.com
jcarlton@clear2there.com
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Sharath Prasad
General Manager
Sasken
www.sasken.com
sharath.prasad@sasken.com
Rolling Meadows, Illinois

Kathy Hutton
VP
SeeControl
www.seecontrol.com
khutton@seecontrol.com
Mountain View, California

Bethanie Hestermann
Associate Editor
Connected World
www.connectedworldmag.com
bhestermann@connectedworldmag.com
Carol Stream, Illinois

Kevin Rhoads
Vice President
Kontron
www.kontron.com
kevin.rhoads@us.kontron.com
Poway, California

Jeff Cheng
Solution Manager
Telamon
www.telamon-corp.com
jeff.cheng@telamon.com
Carmel, Indiana

Gail Bass Kilker
Business Development Executive
Tridium
www.tridium.com
gkilker@tridium.com
Richmond, Virginia

Hans Rempel
Chief Executive Officer
Exosite
www.exosite.com
hansrempel@exosite.com
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Dan Kaskel
Sr. Solutions Engineer
Applus
dkaskel@applustech.com
Chicago, Illinois

R. Adrian Bishop
Senior Director
Inter Digital
www.interdigital.com
r.bishop@interdigital.com
Melbourne Beach, Florida

Joshua DeCock
Director of Product Management
Pedigree Technologies
www.pedigreetechnologies.com
joshua.decock@pedigreetechnologies.com
Fargo, North Dakota

Ian McPherson
Vice President Sales & Marketing
Pedigree Technologies
www.pedigreetechnologies.com
ian.mcpherson@pedigreetechnologies
Manhattan Beach, California

Loren Anderson
Sr. Director Enterprise Sales
Enfora
www.enfora.com
landerson@enfora.com
Richardson, Texas

Dennis Lottero
Vice President
Walsh Vision
www.walshvision.com
dennis.lottero@walshvision.com

Thomas Mooney
Regional Sales Manager
Kore Telamatics
www.koretelematics.com
tmooney@koretelematics.com
Alpharetta, Georgia

Charlotte Rubin
Senior Director, Public Relations
Novatel Wireless
www.novatelwireless.com
crubin@nvtl.com
San Diego, California

Anthony R. Gonzales
President
ARG
www.argtactical.com
arg@argtactical.com
Naperville, Illinois

Harry J. Schechter
CEO
Temperature Alert
www.temperaturealert.com
harry@temperaturealert.com
Boston, Massachusetts

Bill Ingle
Editor
Beecham Research
www.beechamresearch.com
bingle@beechamresearch.com
Boston, Massachusetts

Kevin N. Flynn
Regional Manager
Sprint
kevin.flynn@sprint.com
Chicago, Illinois

Gregor E. Bleimann
President
Jazz Wireless Data
gregor@jazzwirelessdata.com
Raleigh, North Carolina

Sara E. Fest
Marketing Project Manager
Kontron
www.kontron.com
sara.fest@us.kontron.com
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

Tom L. Nelson
Group Manager
Sprint
tom.nelson@sprint.com
Overland Park, Kansas

Steve Casperson
Director
Feeney Wireless
www.feeneywireless.com
scasperson@feeneywireless.com
Fairfax, Virginia

Bryant Butler
Business Development Executive
Tridium
www.tridium.com
bbutler@tridium.com
Richmond, Virginia

Steve Quinn
Partner Sales Manager
Axeda
www.axeda.com
squinn@axeda.com

Marzie Salarie
Marketing Program Manager
Intel
www.intel.com
marzie.salarie@intel.com
Hillsboro, Oregon

William J. Tiso
Principal Soultions Architect
Intel
www.intel.com
bill.tiso@intel.com
Columbia, South Carolina

Jeff Healey
Product Marketing Manager
Axeda
ww.axeda.com
jhealey@axeda.com

Scarlett M. King
National Sales Manager
Numerex
www.numerex.com
sking@numerex.com
Atlanta, Georgia

Jerry Keithline
Field Sales Engineer
Richardson RFPD
www.richardsonrfpd.com
jkeithline@richardsonrfpd.com
Kansas City, Missouri

Michael J. Oslin
Sales Operations Manager
Numerex
www.numerex.com
moslin@numerex.com
Atlanta, Georgia

Tom Gricius
Senior Vice President
PWS
www.pws.bz
tom@pws.bz
Mountain View, California

Michael G. Levine
Xact
www.xacttechnology.com
mlevine@xacttechnology.com
New York, New York

Vince Giacomini
CEO
PWS
www.pws.bz
vince@pws.bz
Mountain View, California

Steve Smeenge
Regional Sales Manager
IPS Group
www.ipsgroupinc.com
steve.smeenge@ipsgroupinc.com
San Diego, California

Sara Brown
President
SaBrown Marketing Strategy
sara@sabrownmarketing.com
Cary, North Carolina

Tom Johnson
Account Executive
Connected World
www.connectedworldmag.com
tjohnson@connectedworldmag.com
Troy, Michigan

Alexander Warner
President & CEO
Pedigree Technologies
www.pedigreetechnologies.com
alex.warner@pedigreetechnologies.com
Fargo, North Dakota

John Riley
Director of Marketing
Sensor Logic
www.sensorlogic.com
jriley@sensorlogic.com
Boston, Massachusetts

Charlie McNiff
Director
ILS
www.ilstechnology.com
cmcniff@ilstechnology.com
Boca Raton, Florida

Brian Vargyas
Managing Director
Baltic Networks
www.balticnetworks.com
brianv@balticnetworks.com
Aurora, Illinois

Eddie Meyersick
National Sales Manager
T-Mobile
eddie.meyersick@t-mobile.com
Draper, Utah

Chris Kirtley
Regional Sales Manager
Sierra Wireless
www.sierrawireless.com
ckirtley@sierrawireless.com
Castle Rock, Colorado

Mike Simmons
Account Executive Indirect
Clear
www.clear.com
michael.simmons@clear.com
Atlanta, Georgia

Paul Su
Senior Director
Aplix
www.aplixcorp.com
paulsu@aplixcorp.com
San Francisco, California

Robert M. Rogers
Account Executive
Oracle
www.oracle.com
robert.m.rogers@oracle.com
Burlington, Massachusetts

George Chou
Chief Executive Officer
The Cloudnomics
www.thecloudnomics.com
george.chou@thecloudnomics.com
Irvine, California

John Rathnam
CFA, President
Rathnam Capital
www.rathnamcapital.com
john.rathnam@rathnamcapital.com
McLean, Virginia

Scott S. Sprague
Vice President
Integron
www.integron.com
scott.sprague@integron.com
Rochester, New York

Jim Ballard
President & Chief Operating Officer
Smart Start
www.smartstartinc.com
jballard@smartstartinc.com
Irving, Texas

Andy Sallee
Director of Sales
Med Apps
www.medapps.com
andy.sallee@medapps.com
Scottsdale, Arizona

Chris Butler
COO
Phrazer
www.myphrazer.com
chris.butler@geacom.net
Duluth, Minnesotta

Thom Rizzo
Photography
www.rizzoandrizzo.com
Buffalo Grove, Illinois
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Thursday, June 23: Chicago Clean Energy Alliance Quarterly Event 4-7pm Mayer Brown 71 South Wacker Drive and Peggy Smedley, I’m sorry to have to sully the report with a reference to a ghost of Christmas past — even though he’s Jewish — Darrin Stern, the gift that never gave — and Darrin, you better sign me up for this!

Subject: Chicago Clean Energy Alliance Quarterly Event June 23 4-7pm Mayer Brown 71 South Wacker Drive
Date: 6/22/2011 2:31:15 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From: tatvshow@yahoo.com
To: ron@themayreport.com
CC: RONALDMAY@aol.com

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Please join the Chicago Clean Energy Alliance for our next quarterly event to be held on June 23rd.Our Presenting Sponsor, Mayer Brown, will be hosting a panel to address a hot topic that is on everyone’s mind: transmission development. The lack of available transmission in areas of high wind and solar resources affects developers nationwide. With changing FERC rulings on the privatization of transmission development, is transmission poised to become the next big boom? A reception and open networking will follow the conclusion of the panel.

The CCEA & Mayer Brown have assembled the following panel of energy experts:

Confirmed: Dan Foley, CEO, Acciona
Confirmed: Hans Detweiler, Director of Development, Clean Line Energy
Confirmed: John Flynn, VP, Strategic Planning & Business Development, American Transmission
Confirmed: Steven T. Naumann, Vice President of Wholesale Market Development for Exelon Corporation
Moderator: Paul J. Astolf, Partner, Mayer Brown
This panel will address:

Cost allocation issues between developers, utilities, and governments.
How to create a supportive policy environment to foster privatized transmission development.
What necessary policy steps does the renewable industry need to take to put more steel in the ground.
How utilities analyze transmission and interconnection issues when analyzing PPA bids.
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Cost: Free to energy professionals. Hors d’oeuvres and a liquor bar will be provided courtesy of Mayer Brown.

Schedule:

4:00pm: Opening remarks
4:10pm: Panel Presentation
(Transmission Development–One of Renewable Energy’s Biggest Hurdles)
4:50pm: Q&A
5:15pm: Reception Starts
7:30pm: Close
Location: 71 South Wacker Drive (corner of Monroe), Mayer Brown Offices Please note you will need to enter on the Franklin side of the building. 72 S. Franklin Ave.

Attendance: We are expecting 300+ Energy Related Professionals so please sign up before space runs out. Please note — this is a business-to-business networking event for those in the energy industry! If you are a job seeker please contact Darrin Stern dstern@theccea.org for volunteer opportunities. CCEA reserves the right to refuse entrance to those unrelated to the industry.

About the CCEA: The Chicago Clean Energy Alliance was formed to connect professionals in Chicago who are related to the energy industry. The CCEA provides thought leadership on power generation issues with a particular focus on renewable technologies. We are always thinking about new ways to expand and bring new value to the CCEA and our audience. If you have an idea or would like to be involved, please email Bryan Villano at Bryan@TheCCEA.org.
Attendee ListSort by: Date | First Name | Last NameJoseph Aamidor, Senior Sales Engineer, ENXSUITE

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Bob Accarino, Director, Global Energy Strategy, Abbott

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Pete Agrawal, Project Mgr, RR Donnelley

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David Almeida, Partner, Sedgwick LLP

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Foster Amoako, Research Scientist, StembiGen Inc

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Jakob Andersen, General Consul/Trade Commissioner, The Consulate General of Denmark

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David Anderson, Proprietary Trader, Jaypee International

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Tim Artz, Trade Advisor, French Embassy Trade Office

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Paul J. Astolf, Partner, Mayer Brown

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Marc Atlas, Director – Finance, Invenergy LLC

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Hamed Baatout, Structured Finance, Acciona Energy North America Corp.

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David Bamlango, Associate, DLA Piper LLP

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Irene Banas, Regulatory Compliance Manager, Self

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Rachel Barach, Green Tech Columnist, Tech.li

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Caroline Becvk, Account Coordinator, CBD Marketing

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laurel bergren, Vice-president, ARC Perspectives, Inc.

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Richard Bernet, Assistant General Counsel, Exelon Corporation

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Martina Beverly, principal, Beverly & Beverly

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Yves Bienvenu, Senior Analyst, globalinfrastructurellc

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Jacques Bingue, CEO, Innovative Energy Solution

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David Bird, Consultant, Self employed

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Erik Birkerts, Partner, Evergreen Growth Advisors LLC

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Bruce Bloom, President/Founder , Career Consulting Services

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Nevin Boparai, Counsel, Corporate Transactions, Abbott Laboratories

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Kevin Borgia, Executive Director, Illinois Wind Energy Association

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Tracey Bosman, Co-Leader, Clean Energy Practice Group, Grubb & Ellis

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Bertrand Boulin, Vice President Strategic Accounts, BP America

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Kevin Bourque, Finance Director, Lincoln Renewable Energy, LLC

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cynthia brady, Senior Counsel, Constellation Energy

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Claudia Brazzale, Executive Vice President, Safety Power Inc

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Robert Brazzale, President, Safety Power Inc

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Gary Breden, Business Performance Advisor, Insperity

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Franklin Bristol, Director, Transmission, Acciona Energy

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Kim Brokhof, Program Associate, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability USA

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Meredith Brooks, Associate, Foley & Lardner LLP

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Jerry Brown, Attorney, Foley & Lardner LLP

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David Brown, Attorney, Ungaretti & Harris LLP

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Eirn Brush, Wind Energy Developer, Invenergy LLC

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Richard Casey, Chief U.S. Legal Officer & Secretary, Nordex USA

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Alain Castro, President, Akuo Energy USA

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Paul Chason, Energy Consultant, Alfa Energy

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Christine Chleboun, Account Supervisor, CBD Marketing

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Dale Cocca, ., ..

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Emily Colantino, Attorney, Baker & McKenzie

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Joe Condo, VP/General Counsel, Invenergy

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Tim Condon, Principal, Verde Investment

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Ashley Craig, Environmental Business Specialist, Environmental Law and Policy Center

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Greg Crowther, Partner, Sustainable Venture Partners LLC

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David Culver, CEO, Funding Feeding Frenzy

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Jack Curley, Patent Agent w/power focus, self-employed

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Thomas Cushing, Principal, TMC, LLC

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Jack Darin, Director, Sierra Club, Illinois Chapter

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Tully Davia, Partner, Half The Energy, LLC.

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Paul Davidovitch, Partner, Fulcrum

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Warren Davis, President/Owner, .

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Shena Davis, VP , .

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Leticia Davis, Principal, Peralta Garcia Solutions

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m debacker, urban planner, parsons brinckerhoff

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Barton Delacy, Manager, Cushwake

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Gerry DeNotto, President, Indeck Energy

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Andre DeRosa, Chairman, Balanced Wind

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Kevin Desharnais, Partner, Mayer Brown LLP

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Hans Detweiler, Director of Development, Clean Line Energy

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Ian Dezen, Commissioning Engineer, SBA

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Trisha Diamond, Owner, SMAS

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Doug Dobben, President, Hawkwood Consulting

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Larry Doody, Managing Director, Renovate America

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Andrew Dorn, Attorney, Thorn & Associates

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Ralph Dudziak, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP

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Nurul E, SVP, BAC

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Michael Edds, Senior Manager Electrical Engineering, Nordex USA, Inc.

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Jack Edelbrock, Counsel, Mayer Brown LLP

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Michael Elam, Partner, DLA Piper

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Hal Emalfarb, Partner, Emalfarb Swan & Bain

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Mark Epton, Consultant, elaton energy services

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Steven Estes, President, STAR Energy

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Bob Fanelli, Senior Director, Planet Forward

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John Fanning, Executive Director, Chief Engineers Association

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Doug Farr, President, Farr Associates

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John Federico, Owner, Qrious

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Daniel Fedor, Board Member, CCEA

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Barry Fladeboe, Senior Manager, Invenergy LLC

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Russell Flinchum, Graduate Student, University of Denver

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David Flint, Co-Founder, SwitchWind

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John Flynn, VP, Strategic Planning & Business Development, American Transmission

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Kendra Fogarty, Env and Econ Affairs Officer, Canadian Consulate

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Dan Foley, CEO, Acciona

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Marc Folladori, Partner, Mayer Brown

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J. Paul Forrester, pARTNER, Mayer Brown LLP

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Jef Fort, Partner, SNR Denton US LLP

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Latreta Foster, Office Manager, Butler Pappas

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Dan French, Associate, Brownfield Management Associates

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Marla Gabie, Trevel Management, Career Consulting Services

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Nate Galer, Senior Associate, Mayer Brown LLP

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Rob Getz, Director of Land Strategies, V3 Companies

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Gary Ginter, Chairman/Interim CEO, VAST Power Systems, Inc.

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Patrick Giordano, President & CEO, GEV CORP.

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Edie Goldstein, Insurance Broker, H. Beck

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Jonathan Gonsky, GM, Zipcar

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Paul Goodman, Principal, Kingfisher Group

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Michelle Grace, Transaction Practices Marketing and Business Devel, Mayer Brown

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Daren Gretz, Vice President, Willis

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Michael Gruber, Co-Founder, VentureLab

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Sarah Gulezian, Clean Energy Advocate, Sierra Club

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Ravi Gupta, Associate , Cornerstone

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Maher Haddad, Attorney, Winston & Strawn LLP

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David Hagen, Managing Principal, Eco-Industrial Development

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Erik Hale, Wind Resource Manager, PNE WIND USA

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Mark Handy, Principal / CEO, KenJiva Energy Systems

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Elizabeth Hanigan, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP

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Allison Hannon, Senior Finance Sector Manager, The Climate Group

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Louis Harris, Consultant, Lakeview Energy and Regulatory Consulting

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Ken Harris Harris, Principal, 4 Thought Energy LLC

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Bill Harrison, Vice President, BBVA Securities Inc.

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Lyle Harrison, CEO, Mercury Wind

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Peter Harsy, Associate Counsel, Lincoln Renewable Energy

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Phil Harvey, Vice President, Conestoga-Rovers& Associates

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Audrey Henderson, Founder and Owner, Knowledge Empowerment

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Anastasia Herasimovich , Associate, Baker & McKenzie LLP

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Philipp Hirche, Vice President, J.P.Morgan Capital Corporation

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Peter Hirschboeck, Midwest Sales Manager, EcoGenius LLC

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Michael Hoadley, VP, UGL

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Alice Hoffman, President, Hoffman Management Partners

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Martin Hollander, CIO, Aggregated Micro Power

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Eric Horn, N/A, n/a

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Kate Houlihan, Development Manage, E.ON Climate & Renewables

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Katharine Houlihan, Development Manager, E.ON Climate & Renewables

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Hoyt Hudson, Managing Principal, Eco-Industrial Development

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Therese Hummel, IT Consultant, Independent

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James Hung, CEO, The Hive

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edward hurley, partner, foley &lardner

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Edward Hurley, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLC

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Tiffany Ingram, Attorney, Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan

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Christa Iwanski, Financial Strategies, Water Tower Financial Partners

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vincent jenels, Director of Channel Sales, BlueStar Energy

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Carl Jost, Group Leader, BNC

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Vitalij Kaleinikovas, Managing partner, Vysky Energy, LLC

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Kelly Kamstra, Student, DePaul University College of Law

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Laurent Kanago, Partner, EcoHill Solutions

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Abha Kapila, Administration, Administration Consulting

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Michael Kaplan, Wind Energy Developer, Invenergy LLC

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Alex Kelley, Solar Specialist, VELUX America

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Christopher Kelley, Director of Operations, Mecury Wind Energy, LLC

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Jay Kelly, BPA, Insperity

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Pat Kennedy, Executive Vice President, V3 Companies

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John Kerastas, President, JK Marketing Consulting

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Ben Kerl, Project developer, Self

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Ron Kirschner, President, Heartland Angels, Inc.

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Steve Kismohr, Sr. Technical Manager, Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance

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Cynthia Klein-Banai, Associate Chancellor for Sustainability, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Nadav Klugman, Associate, Mayer Brown LLP

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Emily Kohl, Marketing & Business Development Specialist, Mayer Brown

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Konstantin Kostov, President and CEO, SolAir Ltd

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Greg Kozak, NA GHG Business Manager, ERM CVS

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Fritz Kreiss, president/managing member, Community Green Energy, LLC

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Seema Kumbhat, Medical Director, Hospira

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John Kunkle, Project Finance, Allstate Investments, LLC

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Mary Kupjack, Consultant, Economics, Strategic P&A

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Mark Kurland, Underwriting Manager, Chubb

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Galen Kutlubay, Research Scholar , Southern Illinois Univeristy

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Eric Lane, Associate, Loop Capital Markets

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Bruce Lanzerotti, CEO, Plug-In Vehicle Solutions

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Jim Laukes, Coordinator, …

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Ana Auxiliadora Lebron Moreno, DePaul students, DePaul

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Kyong Lee , Intern, Chicago Clean Energy Alliance

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Jane Lee, Accounting Manager, Lincoln Renewable Energy, LLC

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John Lee, Financial Advisor, New England Financial / Met Life Company

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Steve Leopoldo, Vice President, Fako & Associates, Inc.

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Tim Levandoski, Business Development, Eurex

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Mitchell Levin, Attorney, Self

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Neal Levin, President, The SKAN Project, LLC

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David Levine, CEO, R1

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Luke Lewandowski, Advisor, MAKE Consulting

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Kate Liebelt, President, Chicago Health Executives Forum

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Dan Litchfield, Business Developer, Iberdrola Renewables

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Jamie Loucks, Sustainability Strategy, MWH

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Heidi Lubin, CEO, Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technologies, Inc.

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Adam lund, Associate, Farr Associates

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Dave Lundy , President, Aileron Communications

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Bradford Lystra, Manager of State Campaigns, AWEA

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Larry Mack, Attorney/Business Development, r1solar

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Jordan Mackey , Energy Management Specialist , BlueStar Energy Solutions

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Laura Malkani, CEO, VySkyEnergy

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Jay Marhoefer, CEO, Intelligent Generation

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Raymond Markman, ., .

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Jayme Marquez, Project Manager, SoCore Energy

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Catherine Mason, Vice President Dem,and Side Management, BlueStar Energy Solutions LLC

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Andrea Massa, Senior Associate, Sargent & Lundy LLC

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Lou Matson, Marketing Manager, Shamrock Green Electric, Inc.

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Ann McCabe, President, Ann McCabe & Associates, Inc.

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Lesley McCain, Director of Business Development, Community Energy Inc.

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Raymond McGaugh, Managing Member, Kiwanja Capital Partners

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Michael McGinn, Manager, Cardno

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Casey McGrath, Assistant Vice President , The BSC Group

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Casey McGrath, Assistant Vice President, The BSC Group

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Chris McKissack, Engineering Director, Lincoln Renewable Energy, LLC

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Adam Meek, Principal and CEO, Brownfield Management Associates, LLC

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kevin mehta, Manager, KPMG LLP

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sanjeev menon, VP- Finance, Lincoln Renewable Enbergy

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Joshua Milberg, First Deputy Commissioner, City of Chicago-Department of Environment

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Timothy Milburn, Consultant, MIlburn Consulting

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Larissa J. Miller, Teaching Assistant, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Michael Minea, Associate, Mayer Brown LLP

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Andy Mitchell, Sales Manager, BlueStar Energy

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George Modrovic, Managing Partner, ELFI Wall System

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Bruce Montgomery, Chief Technology Officer, Technology Access

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Alfred Moore, President, Alfred Moore, CPA

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Andrea Moran, CEO, Marengo Hampshire Partners

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constance moylan, President , Moylan LTD

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Rudolph Murgo, Structured Finance, Acciona Energy NA Corp

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Brian Murphy, Member, West Monroe Partners

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Doni Murphy, Partner/PM, ERM

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George Nassos, President, Sustainable Energy Systems, LLC

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Steven Naumann, Vice President, Wholesale Development, Exelon

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Adon Navarette, Affinity Sales Manager, BlueStar Energy

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Jeff Nemcher, Designer, Alden Design

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Ernst Nemeth, President, ARC Perspectives, Inc.

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Bess Ng, Manager, Next Energy

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Bill Nielsen, Director, Marketing & Sales, Edison Mission Marketing & Trading

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William Nielsen , Director, Marketing & Sales , Edison Mission Marketing & Trading

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Patrick Norton, Project Developer, Nordex USA

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Christopher Nugent, Self-employed, CNE Inc

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Kevin O’Reilly, Vice President, Howard Ecker + Company

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Keith Oldewurtel, Vice President Central/West Regions, Veolia Energy

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Raul Ortiz, Network Integration Consultant, Onshore Networks

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Nick Owens, Project Manager, ERM

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Brita Pagels, Senior Regional Officer, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability

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Arpan Patel, MBA Student, Kellogg School of Management

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Hemali Patel, Vice President, H&A Holdings Group

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Bo Patel, Associate, VentureLab

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Mason Payne, Consultant, Mason Payne Consulting

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Mette Petersen, President, Koelnmesse, Inc.

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Stephen Philip, Partner, Sustainable Venture Partners LLC

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James Philip, Partner, Sustainable Venture Partners LLC

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Alexander Pichs, Sales Manager, Nordex USA

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Jean Pickering, President & Social Media Director, The Tektite Group, LLC

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Michael Piskur, Planner, Complete Communities

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Sabrina Placeres, MBA Candidate, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

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Steve Plocher, Assistant Vice President – Commercial Underwriting, Chubb Insurance

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Lindsey Pohlmann, Counsel, Nordex USA, Inc.

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John Porterfield, VP, eZing, Inc.

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Camilo Posada, Sr. Underwriting Specialist – Assistant Vice Presi, Chubb & Son

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Donna Prestel, PhD geologist, independent scientist/consultant

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Fredric Prohov, President, Prohov & Associates, Ltd.

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Mark Pruitt, Executive Director, Illinois Power Agency

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Saad Qais, Vice President, Corporate Finance, Mainstream Renewable Power

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Nathan Reed, Sales Manager, GoGreenLED Alternatives

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Jeff Reinkemeyer, ., Iberdrola Renewables

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David Rengel, MBA Graduate, University of Michigan – Ross School of Business

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Jim Rhodes, Business Development, Zipcar

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James Rhodes, Business Development Mgr, Zipcar

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Chris Richardson, Sr. Associate, Norbridge, Inc.

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Anngie Richter, Regional Director, JFNew

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Jeff Riley, President, Riley Public Affairs

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victor rojas, Deputy Commissioner, City of Chicago – Department of Environment

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Timothy Rosenzweig, CEO, Goldwind USA

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Sky Rudokas, Vice President, Vysky Energy, LLC

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Michael Rutkowski, Managing Director, Navigant Consulting

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Steven Ryzner, Director, Sagin, LLC

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Peggy Salazar, Director, Southeast Environmental Task Force

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Sidney Salvadori, Trade Commissioner, Consulate General of Canada

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Dane Sanders, Chief Marketing Solutionist, The Marketing Solutions Lab

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Nathan Saper, Law Clerk, Exelon Corporation

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John Schehl, President, RoofMax Consulting

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Rebekah Scheinfeld, Associate, Mayer Brown

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Gene Schlesinger, Founder, Solar Training School

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Kate Schrank, Founder/CEO, Sustainability Partners Inc.

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Jeff Schulman, Director of Corporate Partnership, Illinois State Chamber

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James Schulte, Law Clerk, Exelon

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Robert Schultz, VP Sales & Business Development, Great Lakes Control Energy Corporation

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David Schwalb, President, Schwalb Realty Group, Inc.

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David Scriven-Young, Associate, Peckar & Abramson, P.C.

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Laura Seeber, Owner, Cenvir Environmental

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Sharon Segner, Director, LS Power Development LLC

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William Severino, Executive Communications-Strategic Planning Manage, Toyota

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Hasmita Shahani, Vice President, JPMorgan Capital Corporation

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Ryan Shandley, Account Coordinator, CBD Marketing

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Tina Shang, Associate, Baker & McKenzie LLP

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Alexa Shea, Associate, Mayer Brown LLP

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Charlie Shields, Investment Analyst, British Consulate-General

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Alice Sieges, Project Manager , Gold Wind America

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Ralf Sigrist, President & CEO, Nordex USA, Inc.

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Marc Silvestri, Interactive Marketing Coodinator, Mayer Brown

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Brandon Simmons, Sales Manager, Nordex

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Adele Simmons, Vice Chair, Metropolis Strategies

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Cathy Small, Marketing & Sales Consultant, Professionals On The Run, LLC

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Marlon Smith, Managing Director, Loop Capital

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Robert Spatz, National Sales Manager, Plug-In Vehicle Solutions

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Joel Spenadel, Executive Director, JPMorgan Capital Corporation

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Eric Spigelman, Analyst, Lincoln Renewable Energy, LLC

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Lisa Sromek, Benefits Advisor, US Department of Labor, EBSA

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Dany St-Pierre, VP Sales, Nordex USA

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Michael STAVY, Principal, Michael Stavy, Energy Economist

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Gail Steffen, Principal, Peralta Garcia Solutions

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Suzanne Stelmasek, Associate, Pebble Creek Partners, LLC

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Darrin Stern, Director of New Business Development, Koelnmesse

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Sandra Stipp, Associate, Mayer Brown

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John Stites, CEO, Quant Savant

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David Streicker, Senior Counsel, Holland & Knight LLP

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Milton Sumption, Consultant, SSR Financial

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Richard Sypniewski, Managing Director & CFO, SAGIN, LLC

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Paul Szczesny, President & Project Manager, Eco-Solar Solutions, Inc.

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Jett Tackbary, Sr Manager, West Monroe Partners

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Ariel Tesher, Assocaite, SNR Denton US LLP

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Matt Thompson, Owner, Dawn’s Edge Technology, LLC

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Stephen Thorn, Attorney, Thorn & Associates

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Marc Thrum, VP, Bus. Dev & Mktg, Intelligent Generation

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Charlotte Toerber, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, E.ON Climate & Renewables North America, LLC

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Rick Tonielli, Associate, GreenPoint Partners

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Edmundo Toro, Transmission Manager, PNE WIND USA

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Christopher Townsend, Partner, DLA Piper LLP (US)

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Cliff Turner, General Manager, DNArP Consulting, LLC

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Bryan Villano, Founding Board Member, The Chicago Clean Energy Alliance

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Kent Vincent, Managing Principal, I S & R Services

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Jason Vincent, Sr. Vice President, The Saint Consulting Group

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Eric von Bauer, President, Capital Strategy Management

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Jennifer Walling, Executive Director, Illinois Environmental Council

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Pete Walsh, Managing Director, Amherst Securities

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Michael Walsh, EVP, Climate Exchange

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michael walsh, EVP, CCX

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Greg Walthers, Energy Advisor, Franklin Energy

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Brad Ware, Senior Underwriter, Chubb

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David Weiner, Prinicpal/Member, EcoPrintMail/Citizens Utility Board

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Julie Wernau, Reporter, Chicago Tribune

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Richard Whitehouse, Senior Account Manager, Blackstone Group

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Erin Wiedower, Environmental Project Manager, Akuo Energy

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Tom Wieser, Vice President, GreenSpark Energy Solutions

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Thomas Wieser, Vice President & General Manager , GreenSpark Energy Solutions

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Raymond Willis, President, ISoyTechnolgies

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Robert Winner, Attorney, Ungaretti & Harris

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Tom Wolf, Executive Director, Energy Council, Illinois Chamber of Commerce

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Elizabeth Young, Asset Management & Finance Support, independent

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Jeffrey Yuknis, Director, Exelon Transmission Company

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Britney Zilz, Student, DePaul University College of Law

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Jeff Zitnik, Trader, self-employed

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Joe Zlotnicki, COO, Green Light Industries Inc

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