Date: Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Time: 11:00 am EDT

Today’s photovoltaics (PV) market dynamics are challenging, to say the least, with oversupply and flat demand, but a recovery will come in a few years. When it does, PV companies will need to be ready with next-generation technologies that drive down $/W, as there is not much more blood that can be squeezed from today’s cost stone. Most major cell and module manufacturers as well as large materials companies are investing in the development of next-generation PV technologies that raise efficiency, disrupt current materials stacks, and drive up profit margins, but the battle is only just beginning. A future generation of PV technologies are emerging that offer both low $/W and are easy to scale using substantially existing PV infrastructure. In particular, this webinar will focus on:

• Disruptive materials and cell designs
• Innovations that stand to change the cost equations for PV cell and module manufacturing tomorrow
• Hyped technology unlikely to reach commercialization

Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Time: 11:00 am EDT

As the automotive industry evolves in the face of increasingly strict fuel economy and emission standards, a variety of emerging technologies transform the automotive landscape. Novel materials, vehicles, and fuels rapidly scale up in markets across the globe backed by multinational OEMs like Toyota and GM, materials companies like 3M and DuPont, and oil & gas companies like Shell and BP. These innovations – including material light weighting, plug in electric vehicles, compressed natural gas vehicles, and cellulosic ethanol – are competitive in terms of cost, fuel economy, and government support and often complimentary. Here, we will examine both incremental technical improvements and novel emerging technologies across our Advanced Materials, Electric Vehicles, and Alternative Fuels Intelligence domains to map out the future of the automotive industry in various geographies, and for the spectrum of stakeholders in the value chain.

Specifically, we will look at:

• Advanced lightweight structural metals and composites
• Electric vehicles, plug in hybrids, micro-hybrids
• Compressed natural gas, hydrogen, cellulosic ethanol, renewable diesel