GOVgreen 2011 Announces Conference Sessions and Speakers

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Sep 15, 2011, 02:32 ET

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The second annual GOVgreen Conference and Exposition brings government and business together to learn how to transform green government policies into actionable plans. Through 25 conference sessions, four lunch-and-learn roundtables and exhibitor technical presentations, attendees get practical information on how to implement and manage green programs and identify and purchase sustainable products. The conference program is available at www.GOVgreen.org/conference/program-at-a-glance and will also be available as an eBook on September 20.

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The 2011 program is organized into four practical tracks:

Procurement, Contracting and Financing
Measuring, Tracking and Reporting
Policies, Planning and Implementation
Workplace and Workforce

Within these tracks, sessions focus on Energy/Climate; Water/Wastewater; Facilities/Infrastructure; Transportation/Fuels and Behavior/Culture.

"Our goal this year is to provide government stakeholders with the tools and techniques they need to comply with the mandates of Executive Order 13514," says Ann Seltz, president of the Center for Environmental Innovation and Leadership, sponsor of GOVgreen. "Based on attendee feedback from last year, we made some significant changes in the structure of our programming as well as the exhibit floor."

"Attendees told us they wanted more in-depth sessions, more information from private sector green projects and additional time to spend on the exhibit floor," says Seltz. In response, GOVgreen 2011 will provide 25 educational sessions that can earn learning credits from AIA and USGBC, lunch-and-learn roundtable discussions on the exhibit floor, and offer additional exhibit hall hours. CEIL's GOVgreen 2011 is free to government and military, and the exhibit floor is free to all.

Confirmed federal and military speakers include the following:


Dr. Katharine Jacobs, Assistant Director, Climate Adaptation and Assessment, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy	Ralph Connor, Director, Office of Real Property and Utilization, General Services Administration
Rear Admiral David W. Titley, Oceanographer and Navigator of the Navy, Director, Maritime Domain Awareness and Space Lieutenant	Marguerite Downey, Manager of Administrative Policy, Department of Transportation
Olga M. Dominguez, Assistant Administrator for Infrastructure and Administration, NASA	Bill Griffiths, Transportation Branch Chief, Smithsonian Institute
Dr. Richard Moss, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Lab/University of Maryland	Jerry Zekert, Chief of Master Planning Team, US Army Corps of Engineers
Mark A. Gilbertson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Real Property and Site Support, Department of Energy	Andrea Kuhn, Senior Planner, US Army Corps of Engineers
Jim Sullivan, Director of Office of Asset Enterprise Management, Department of Veterans Affairs	Michael Bryan, Naval Facilities Engineering Command
Keith Welch, Chief of Sustainable Installations, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense	Mark Sanchez, US Air Force
Stacey Hirata, Installation Support COP, US Army Corps of Engineers	Stephen P. Anderson, US Marine Corps HQ
Brodi Fontenot, Assistant Secretary for Administration, Department of Transportation	Ryan Orndorff, Natural Resources Specialist, US Marine Corps HQ
Robert Goo, Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds, Environmental Protection Agency	Andrew Essreg, Sustainability Integration Specialist, US Postal Service
Margaret Davidson, Director of Coastal Services Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	Steven Hearne, Ecoservices Program Director, Army Environmental Policy Institute
Dr. Rose Grymes, Special Assistant to Associate Director, NASA Ames Research Center	Robert Westby, Laboratory Program Manager, Department of Energy
Dr. Steve Zornzeter, Associate Center Director, NASA Ames Research Center	Lindsey Pruitt, Architect, US Army Corps of Engineers
Michael J. Benik, Director of Center of Operations and Chief Sustainability Officer, NASA Kennedy Space Center	Lance Davis, Office of High Performance Green Buildings, General Service Administration
Joel Walker, Director of Center of Operations and Chief Sustainability Officer, NASA Johnson Space Center	Una Song, Energy Star Division, Environmental Protection Agency
George Finelli, Director of Center of Operations and Chief Sustainability Officer, NASA Langley Research Center

The following is a sample of educational session at GOVgreen:

Procurement, Contracting and Financing

Tools and Resources for Greening the Federal Supply Chain
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing and Labeling
The Small and Green Business

Measuring, Tracking and Reporting

The DOD-Doe Partnership
High Performance Net-Zero Buildings in the Military
Conserving Water, Energy and Money through Water Efficiency Programs

Policies, Planning and Implementation

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at Military Facilities
Clean Powering America's Fleets
Energy Efficiency and Air Quality

Workplace and Workforce

Climate Adaptation: Building Resilient Federal Agencies
Water Infrastructure Initiatives at Federal, State and Local Facilities
Lessons Learned from Space

About CEIL's GOVgreen
GOVgreen Conference and Exposition (November 30 – December 1, 2011, Washington Convention Center) is the one event where government stakeholders connect to learn how to transform green policies into actionable plans and programs in order to achieve the interrelated goals of sustainability in energy, water/wastewater, facilities and transportation. Tracks for 2011 are Procurement, Contracting and Financing; Workplace and Workforce; Policies, Planning and Implementation and Measuring, Tracking and Reporting. GOVgreen's conference program is open to all and free to government and military professionals. The exhibit floor is free to all.

About CEIL
The Center for Environmental Innovation and Leadership (CEIL) is an independent organization designed to facilitate information and education exchange among government stakeholders charged with identifying, specifying, and buying green goods and services and with the vendors, contractors, and consultants that provide green goods and services. CEIL provides an interactive environment for government and industry professionals engaged in green activities that includes educational events, website, podcasts, webcasts, news and a social media. CEIL is the sponsor of GOVgreen Conference and Exposition. Learn more about CEIL at www.CEILeadership.org.

Contact: Ann Seltz, President
Center for Environmental Innovation and Leadership
703-706-8221

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