3rd annual Maritime Business & Technology Summit, Nov. 29-30, 2012
Day One: Ocean Science & Business
Keynote Address: “SBA Programs to Support a Blue Tech Cluster”
Nick Manalisay, Deputy Area Director for Government Contracting, SBA (Area VI)
Panel 1: Desalination & Related Water Technologies – Selling to a US Plant
Jeff Green – Founder & CEO, NanoH20
Warren Teitz – Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
David Walker – Founder & CEO, Avista Technologies
Panel 2: Desalination & Related Water Technologies – the Export Market
Dr. Craig Bartels – VP of Technology, Hydranautics
Alec Burrell – Naval Shipboard Systems Division Manager, Village Marine
Hugh Constant – Executive Vice President, World Trade Center of San Diego
Ryan Furukawa – Technical Support Manager, PWT Chemicals
Panel 3: Visualization, Mapping & Tracking
Michael Bard – Advanced Visualization Sales, Immersion Grapjics, Inc.
Laura Engeman – Project Manager, State Coastal Conservancy
Eric Westreich – Defense Business Development Manage, Esri
Panel 4: Environmental Monitoring & Mitigation Technologies & Services
Dr. Jorge Cáceres Martinez – Professor, CICESE (Ensenada, Mexico)
Charles Cousin – President, Bellamare
Cynda Maxon – President, Maxon Consulting
Panel 5: Energy Savings & Innovation at the Port
Robert Miller – President, Merus California
Kevin Stull – Science Advisor, Naval Surface Forces, U.S. Navy
Michelle White – Green Port Program Manager, Port of San Diego
Day Two: Maritime Domain Awareness and Security
Keynote Address: “Technology Identification, Development and Integration”
Michael Bosworth – Deputy CTO, NavSea, U.S. Navy
Panel 6: Ocean Observation
Jennifer Patterson – Ocean Product Manager, SonTek
Dominique Rissolo – Executive Director, The Waitt Institute
Panel 7: Maritime Domain Awareness
Gary Golomb – Director, Business Development & Outreach, National Maritime Intelligence Center
Mark Guzman – MDA SME, Third Fleet, U.S. Navy
Panel 8: Port & Maritime Security
Tom Pastore – SPAWAR Systems Center, Pacific
Dan Suchman – Senior Technical Consultant, RESON, Inc.
Panel 9: Very Large Floating Platforms (VLFPs) – Opportunities and Users
Neal Brown – Vice President, Technology, Float, Inc.
Hank Glauser – Lawrence Livermore National Lab
George Petrie – Director of Engineering, Seasteading Institute
David Waller – President, Waller Marine
Markus Wernli – Project Manager, BergerABAM
Panel 10: Maritime Robotics
Omer Poroy – Director, Navigation Product Lines, Teledyne RD Instruments