Crossing Boundaries: Uniting for Sustainable Future

Connecting Industry, Academia and Policy-Making for Sustainable Future in U.S. and Asia

Opening Ceremony

[11:40-12:40]

  • Jerry Huang

    Chairman, U.S.-Asia Sustainable Development Summit

  • Robert Hertzberg

    Former Speaker of the California State Assembly

  • Zhiqiang Zhang

    Director of the Foreign Cooperation and Exchange Department, National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC) (Online Speech)

  • Brad LI

    President of Americas, DG LONGi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd.

  • Xiaoguang Wang

    Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, CSCI

Panel 1: Green Technologies and Industrial Development

[12:40-13:40]

  • Mitchell Presnick

    Founder, Chairman and CEO of Super 8 Hotels

  • Jing Li

    Member of Supervisory Board,Director of ESG Management and Sustainability Department, Sustainability Officer, JA Solar

  • Steve Weikal

    Industry Chair of the MIT Center for Real Estate's Real Estate Technology Hub

  • Yi Zheng

    Tenured Professor with expertise in sustainable energy and clean technology in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Director of Nano Energy Laboratory at Northeastern University

  • Joel Li

    EV.COM Founder & CEO

Panel 2: Green Finance and Technological Innovations

[13:50-14:50]

  • Ji (Jim) Zhao

    Founding Partner, Liquidmetal Ventures

  • Mitchell Dong

    Pythagoras Investments, Founder & CEO

  • Wei Wang

    Co-founder & CEO, Robostreet Trucks

  • Gui (Russell) Chang

    Founder, Infinitealgae

  • Nalin Kilatilaka

    Wing Tat Lee Professor of Finance at Questrom School of Business at BU and Co-Founder of NineDot Energy

Panel 3: Academic and Policy Research Collaboration

[14:50-15:50]

  • Dorinda (Dinda) Elliott

    Executive Director of the Fairbank Center of Chinese Studies at Harvard University and Harvard China Fund

  • Benjamin Sovacool

    Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability, Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment

  • Desheng Huang

    Deputy Director of the Department of Economics, Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China

  • Yi Jian

    Founder of Good Food Fund

Panel 4: Green Cities and Buildings

[16:00-17:00]

  • Elence Chen

    Instructor in Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design

  • Jonathan Buonocore

    Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health

  • Holly Samuelson

    Associate Professor of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design

  • Siqi Zheng

    STL Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability; Faculty Director, MIT Center for Real Estate; Faculty Director, MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab

  • Yuna(Serena) Shu

    Founding member of The EnergyEfficiency Institute(EEl); Strategic Marketing & BusinessAnalyst at Oxford Energy

Panel 5: Globalization of Renewable Enterprises

[17:00-18:00]

  • Baihe Gu

    Associate Research Fellow, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Science

  • Shen Wang

    Senior Research Fellow, Green Development Institute

  • Sufang Zhang

    Professor, economics and management, North China Electric Power University

Closing Ceremony

[18:00-19:00]

  • Jerry Huang

    Chairman, U.S.-Asia Sustainable Development Summit

  • Fan Dai

    Director, California-China Climate Institute

  • Santiago Creuheras

    Former Deputy Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Energy of Mexico

  • Tony Chan

    Chief Financial and Operating Officer at the Bezos Earth Fund (Online Speech)

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