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]
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Jerry Huang
Chairman, U.S.-Asia Sustainable Development Summit
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Robert Hertzberg
Former Speaker of the California State Assembly
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Zhiqiang Zhang
Director of the Foreign Cooperation and Exchange Department, National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC) (Online Speech)
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Brad LI
President of Americas, DG LONGi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
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Xiaoguang Wang
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, CSCI
Panel 1: Green Technologies and Industrial Development
[12:40-13:40]
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Mitchell Presnick
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Super 8 Hotels
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Jing Li
Member of Supervisory Board,Director of ESG Management and Sustainability Department, Sustainability Officer, JA Solar
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Steve Weikal
Industry Chair of the MIT Center for Real Estate's Real Estate Technology Hub
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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
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Joel Li
EV.COM Founder & CEO
Panel 2: Green Finance and Technological Innovations
[13:50-14:50]
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Ji (Jim) Zhao
Founding Partner, Liquidmetal Ventures
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Mitchell Dong
Pythagoras Investments, Founder & CEO
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Wei Wang
Co-founder & CEO, Robostreet Trucks
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Gui (Russell) Chang
Founder, Infinitealgae
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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]
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Dorinda (Dinda) Elliott
Executive Director of the Fairbank Center of Chinese Studies at Harvard University and Harvard China Fund
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Benjamin Sovacool
Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability, Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment
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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
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Yi Jian
Founder of Good Food Fund
Panel 4: Green Cities and Buildings
[16:00-17:00]
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Elence Chen
Instructor in Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Jonathan Buonocore
Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health
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Holly Samuelson
Associate Professor of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Siqi Zheng
STL Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability; Faculty Director, MIT Center for Real Estate; Faculty Director, MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab
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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]
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Baihe Gu
Associate Research Fellow, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Science
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Shen Wang
Senior Research Fellow, Green Development Institute
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Sufang Zhang
Professor, economics and management, North China Electric Power University
Closing Ceremony
[18:00-19:00]
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Jerry Huang
Chairman, U.S.-Asia Sustainable Development Summit
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Fan Dai
Director, California-China Climate Institute
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Santiago Creuheras
Former Deputy Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Energy of Mexico
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Tony Chan
Chief Financial and Operating Officer at the Bezos Earth Fund (Online Speech)