We're proud to announce that Green Plug CEO, Frank Paniagua, Jr., will be speaking at the US-China Green Energy Conference in Beijing, on November 16-18, 2008.
The US-China Green Energy Council (UCGEC) brings together leading clean energy specialists from business, government, and academia from both the U.S. and China. The San Francisco Bay Area, Beijing, and Shanghai are rapidly becoming the global centers for clean energy technology promotion, development, and investment, and there are enormous gains to be achieved through enhanced collaboration between the regions.
On Tuesday, November 18th, Frank will be joined by the following esteemed Green IT panelists:
- Fei Zonglian, Chief Engineer (Former), Ministry of Machinery & Electronics Industries, China
- Jian-Yue Pan, Corporate Vice President, Synopsys
- Jack Shu, Vice President, HP
- David Sung, President, Greater China,VMware
- Doug Oathout, Director of Energy Efficiency Offerings, IBM
The mission of this conference is to kick-start long-term collaboration between clean energy policymakers, researchers, businesspersons, and investors in the two countries.
It also:
represents the first time that leaders in four communities – business, technology, academia, and government policy – from both China and the United States will come together to discuss energy issues of mutual interest.
Interestingly, China was the first country to regulate a standard for cell phone chargers (PDF). In 2007 China passed a law that stated that if a company wanted to sell a cell phone in China it had to be equipped with a charger with a USB interface.
