The GovEnergy workshop and trade show provides effective energy management training to federal employees and government stakeholders. GovEnergy fosters opportunities to further educate and encourage the best application of practices, products, and services as they relate to energy efficiency, renewable energy, and water efficiency within the federal sector.

Under Executive Order 13514, federal agencies are given sustainability goals, requiring improvements to their environmental, energy, and economic performance. Additionally, Executive Order 132423 and EISA 2007 require that federal agencies reduce their energy consumption by 30 percent by 2015. Federal agencies must also abide by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, requiring the reduction of energy consumption per gross square foot annually by 2 percent. In order to meet these goals, the federal government will need to make significant investments in energy conservation products, services, and projects. GovEnergy serves to assist federal employees in identifying ways to meet these requirements.

The Federal Demonstration Partnership is a cooperative initiative among 10 federal agencies and 120 institutional recipients of federal funds for Phase V. The FDP is a program sponsored by the Government, University, Industry Research Roundtable of the National Academies. Its purpose is to reduce the administrative burdens associated with research grants and contracts. The interaction between FDP’s 300 or so university and federal representatives takes place in FDP’s 3 annual meetings and, more extensively, in the many collaborative working groups and task forces that meet often by conference calls in order to develop specific work products.

This event will examine the changing role of the military engineer as recent disasters have highlighted the need for a broader range of engineering skills. Speakers will also discuss the growing involvement of the private sector and its role in sustainment and reconstruction.

Attend this internationally-focused event and network with distinguished representatives from across the NATO alliance. You will have the opportunity to hear from key speakers, take part in interactive forums and engage & discuss integrated engineering solutions and future developments across the military engineering sector. This is an event you do not want to miss!

Hear Keynote addresses from: Lieutenant General David Leakey (Ret’d), EU Military Staff; Major General Michael Eyre, USACE; Major General Daniel Benjamin, Canadian Armed Forces

Our expert speaker line-up includes:

• Colonel Otto Radlmeier, Director, NATO Military Engineering Centre of Excellence
• Colonel Goetynck Frédéric, Commanding Officer, Engineering Battalion 4, Belgian Armed Forces
• Major Simon Le Fevre, Network Manager Civil Infrastructure, CIMIC, Royal Dutch Army
• Major Xavier Thiebaut, School of Engineering, French Armed Forces
• Rod Matthews, Function Manager, Infrastructure and Economic Recovery, Stabilisation Unit, DFID, UK
• Stuart Olden, Senior Systems Engineer, BMT Defence Services

How to Book:
Book online by visiting www.smi-online.co.uk/military-eng6.asp
Alternatively contact Teri Arri on +44 (0) 20 7827 6162 or email: tarri@smi-online.co.uk

What is Community Remote Sensing?
Remote sensing is the sensing or collection of information ‘from a distance’. Community remote sensing is a new field that combines remote sensing with citizen science, social networks, and crowd-sourcing to enhance the data obtained from traditional sources. It includes the collection, calibration, analysis, communication, or application of remotely sensed information by these community means.

IGARSS 2010 will spotlight this emerging field with a plenary session entirely dedicated to the topic, supporting the conference theme “Remote Sensing: Global Vision for Local Action”. During the year leading up to the plenary, the Organizing Committee is identifying and highlighting existing projects that embody the plenary theme. Plenary speakers will be selected from major organizations that reflect public sector, private sector, academia, and NGO perspectives on community remote sensing.

The single-track program will include invited talks from leading experimental and theoretical researchers (confirmed speakers are listed at left), as well as contributed talks, poster presentations, and tutorials selected from abstract submissions. The program includes two banquets, multiple sessions covering a range of topics, and two evening poster sessions.

The q-bio Summer School will precede the conference. It will take place in Los Alamos from July 26 to August 10 – students will then attend the q-bio Conference. The school is intended for researchers new to modeling cellular regulatory systems.

• High Performance Computing / Supercomputing
• Cloud Computing
• Computer Vision
• Flash, HTML 5, WebGL
• Stereoscopic 3D
• Life Sciences
• Medical Imaging
• Raytracing and Hybrid Rendering
• Visual Effects in Film and Broadcast

As the emerging algae industry continues its march toward commercialization, it faces a number of vital decisions about the right path forward: what markets to serve, what commercialization strategies to follow, what business models to adopt, what scale up approaches to implement, what infrastructure to put in place and what collaborative relationships to establish. The Algae World Summit 2010 will address these and other issues currently dominating the industry’s discussions revolving around commercialization and industry building.

The growing worldwide demand for bio-based chemical products offers algae developers an attractive market-entry point. Economic and scale barriers for chemical feedstock are not as daunting as biofuels and the “high value, low volume” value proposition is more attractive. The summit will discuss what types of opportunities exist for algae in the bio-based chemicals market, what paths are available for entry, what challenges need to be overcome to be successful, and what sorts of relationships chemical companies are looking to forge within the algae community.