TRACK DESCRIPTION: *New for 2011* Designed to encourage discussion between peers and industry experts, this small, facilitator-guided forum will address a variety of facility and federal energy management topics. Focus areas include challenges, best practices, and lessons learned. Learn strategies and solutions for improving your energy management program.
| SESSION TIME & LOCATION: Monday, Room: 230/231 | SESSION TITLE: Contracting: Identifying and Overcoming the Toughest Challenges PRESENTERS:
| TRACK: GovEnergy Roundtable SESSION INTENT: Discover how to conquer today's toughest contracting challenges and get armed for tomorrow's. SESSION DESCRIPTION: Understanding and overcoming issues, complications, and challenges can ease the pain of the contracting process. Discuss today's toughest contracting challenges and share lessons learned and tricks-of-the-trade to improve energy project contracting. |
| SESSION TIME & LOCATION: Monday, Room: 230/231 | SESSION TITLE: Project Planning: Explore Why Many Energy Projects get Mired in Lengthy Planning and Procurement Delays and Avoid Them PRESENTERS:
| TRACK: GovEnergy Roundtable SESSION INTENT: Gain insight into the common pitfalls that delay energy projects from both the public- and private-sector. SESSION DESCRIPTION: This discussion will focus on the most common issues that delay energy projects. Gain insights into the consequences experienced by both project developers and contracting entities. Learn how each side's issues delay projects and explore ways to avoid them. |
| SESSION TIME & LOCATION: Monday, Room: 230/231 | SESSION TITLE: Policy and Regulation: Sharing Your Thoughts with Congress PRESENTERS:
| TRACK: GovEnergy Roundtable SESSION INTENT: Share policy obstacles to achieving your energy goals and find potential solutions. SESSION DESCRIPTION: Compliance with energy-related mandates is often challenging amid burdens of existing regulation or policy. Discuss these hurdles and share ideas on how Congress and the President can help lessen them. |
| SESSION TIME & LOCATION: Tuesday, Room: 230/231 | SESSION TITLE: Financing: Identifying the Unique Risks of Financing Energy Projects, and How They Can be Reduced PRESENTERS:
| TRACK: GovEnergy Roundtable SESSION INTENT: Examine the distinctive risks associated with financing energy projects and how to mitigate them. SESSION DESCRIPTION: Financing energy projects, particularly those that involve renewable energy, carry unique risks. Explore these risks and learn how to mitigate them to obtain funding for your project. Share your perspective and listen to energy managers, lawyers, financiers, and developers. |
| SESSION TIME & LOCATION: Tuesday, Room: 230/231 | SESSION TITLE: Legal: Resolving Problematic Language and Overcoming Authority Constraints in Energy Contracts PRESENTERS:
| TRACK: GovEnergy Roundtable SESSION INTENT: Discuss the legal obstacles faced in energy project execution and find ways to move forward without getting mired in ambiguity. SESSION DESCRIPTION: Seize the opportunity to participate in this facilitated legal working group. Engage in a lively discussion of energy's hot topics and bring your own ideas and issues to the table. This no-speaker session will address subjects important to attendees. You do not have to be a lawyer to attend. |
| SESSION TIME & LOCATION: Tuesday, Room: 230/231 | SESSION TITLE: Energy Security: How to Strategically Balance the Four Interdependent Factors of Installation Energy-Related Sustainability PRESENTERS:
| TRACK: GovEnergy Roundtable SESSION INTENT: Learn about efficiency, emissions, resiliency, and affordability to enhance your mission's effectiveness. SESSION DESCRIPTION: The business case for your energy program cannot be made on efficiency alone. Find out how to capture the fully burdened cost of installation and explore costs associated with delivery, asset optimization, and operation and maintenance. Identify mission, organization, funding, and other barriers to achieving this balance. |
| SESSION TIME & LOCATION: Tuesday, Room: 230/231 | SESSION TITLE: Water: Implementing Successful Water Projects When Water is "Free" PRESENTERS:
| TRACK: GovEnergy Roundtable SESSION INTENT: Discover how to make water projects more attractive by revealing their financial viability. SESSION DESCRIPTION: Making the financial case for incorporating water projects into your energy reduction portfolio can be tough. Share your own innovative strategies of presenting water-saving solutions to your agency and get soaked with plenty of ideas from others. Discuss the state of water consumption today with an outlook of influencing the future. |
| SESSION TIME & LOCATION: Wednesday, Room: 230/231 | SESSION TITLE: Behavior: Noting and Leveraging Factors that Motivate People Act on Energy and Sustainability PRESENTERS:
| TRACK: GovEnergy Roundtable SESSION INTENT: Understand the factors that motivate people to act and leverage those to motivate federal workers around energy and sustainability. SESSION DESCRIPTION: Factors such as purpose, challenge, disturbance, and avoidance can be used to motivate people or dissuade them from certain actions. Discuss how to use these factors to motivate people to adopt behaviors that reduce energy consumption and improve sustainability. |
| SESSION TIME & LOCATION: Wednesday, Room: 230/231 | SESSION TITLE: Cyber Security: Maintaining a Secure Environment Amid the Convergence of Energy Management and Information Technology (IT) PRESENTERS:
| TRACK: GovEnergy Roundtable SESSION INTENT: Determine how to maintain a secure cyber environment amid the convergence of energy management and IT. SESSION DESCRIPTION: Energy and IT have are increasingly intertwined as we become reliant on devices and systems that are more intelligent, responsive, manageable, and accessible. While making our facilities more efficient and sustainable, they have also created new vulnerabilities. We'll share lessons learned and best practices to maintain a secure cyber environment amid this convergence. |