| Day | Time | Event | Speaker Name | Presentation Title | Organization |
| Tues. 9/11 | 8:00 | Check in and Continental Breakfast | |||
| Tues. | 9:00 | Welcoming Remarks | Bo Walkely | AWEC 2012 Welcoming Statement from NIA | National Institute of Aerospace, Interim VP Research and Program Development |
| Tues. | 9:10 | Keynote Speaker 1 | Dr. Cristina Archer | AWE: Progress since publication of the Global Assessment of High-Altitude Wind Power in 2009 | University of Delaware |
| Tues. | 9:30 | Company Presenter 1 | Wolbert Allaart | Ampyx Power:Airborne wind energy, from vision to reality | Ampyx Power, Netherlands |
| Tues. | 9:50 | Company Presenter 2 | Ben Glass | Altaeros Energies: From Prototype to Commercialization | Altaeros Energies, Massachusetts |
| Tues. | 10:10 | Company Presenter 3 | Daniel Gelbaum | Sky WindPower: Autonomous Power Producing Flight in Controlled Outdoor Environment | Sky WindPower, California |
| Tues. | 10:30 | Tea & Coffee | Sponsored by: AWEC | ||
| Tues. | 10:40 | Company Presenter 4 | Andy Stough | Practical Application of Ground Gen Systems: Challenges and Opportunities | Windlift, North Carolina |
| Tues. | 11:00 | High Altitude Wind: | Dr. Ken Caldeira | Geophysical Limits to Global Wind Power | Carnegie Institute of Science, CA |
| Tues. | 11:20 | Wind Resource | Dr. Cristina Archer | Global distributions and temporal variations of low-level winds for Airborne Wind Energy applications | University of Delaware |
| Tues. | 11:40 | AWEC 2012 | Award Presentation | The Airborne Wind Energy Consortium | |
| Tues. | 12:00 | Lunch | |||
| Tues. | 1:00 | Keynote Speaker 2 | Dr. Chris Purvis | AWE Power Plant Project Development Considerations | Wind & Solar Power Project Developer, CA |
| Tues. | 1:30 | AWES Research 1 | Patrick McGarey | High Altitude Turbine Survey: Students Measure Airfoil Performance on a High Altitude Balloon | Arizona State University |
| Tues. | 1:50 | AWES Research 2 | Dr. Andrew Wagner | First Experimental Results on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for a Kite Launching Carousel | KU Leuven, Belgium |
| Tues. | 2:10 | AWES Research 3 | Dr. Lorenzo Fagiano | A small-scale research prototype for the control of airborne wind energy generators with flexible wings: design and experimental results | Politecnico di Torino, Italy and University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| Tues. | 2:30 | Tea, Coffee, Snacks | Sponsored by: AWEC | ||
| Tues. | 2:50 | Thank You Sponsors! | Michael Wagner | Recognition of Sponsors | NIA & Sponosrs |
| Tues. | 3:00 | AWEC 2013 | Guido Luetsch | Announcement of AWEC 2013 venue and dates | Germany |
| Tues. | 3:10 | Company Presenter 5 | Guido Luetsch | NTS - Airborne Wind Energy on track(s) | NTS Energie-und Transportsysteme, Germany |
| Tues. | 3:30 | Company Presenter 6 | Dr. Alexander Bormann | The EnerKite 30 kW mobile AWEC - from demonstration to utilization. | Enerkite, Germany |
| Tues. | 3:50 | Company Presenter 7 | Dr. Corwin Hardam | Innovations in Onboard Generation | Makani Power, California |
| Tues. | 4:10 | Day 1 Wrap up | AWEC Director TBD | ||
| Tues. | 4:20 | Walk to & Tour VASC | Virginia Air and Space Center | Sponsored by: VASC | |
| Tues. | 5:00 | Free time | |||
| Tues. | 6:30 | Networking Reception to 7:15 | Latitude 37 lounge Crowne Plaza Hotel | Complimentary Beverage Courtesy of NIA | Sponsored by: The National Institute of Aersospace |
| Tues. | 7:30 | Sigma Series Lecture at VASC | Dr. Steven M. Sliwa | Aeronautical Entrepreneuring with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles | Sponsored by: Virginia Air & Space Center and NASA Langley Research Center |
| Tues. | Consider IMAX movie | VASC | on your own | ||
| Day | Time | Event | Speaker Name | Presentation Title | Organization |
| Weds 9/12 | 7:30 | Continental Breakfast & Late Checkin | |||
| Weds. | 8:30 | Keynote Speaker 3 | Dr. Qamar Shams | Instrumentation Systems for Safe Operation of Airborne Wind Energy Systems | NASA, Langley Research Center |
| Weds. | 9:00 | Company Presenter 8 | Rob Creighton | Economics of Mobile AWE for Distributed Power Generation | Windlift, North Carolina |
| Weds. | 9:20 | Company Presenter 9 | Alden Woodrow | Developing utility scale wind power projects: economic realities | Makani Power, California |
| Weds. | 9:40 | Modeling | Dr. Cristina Archer | Geographical and seasonal variability of the global “practical” wind power potential | University of Delaware |
| Weds. | 10:00 | Tea & Coffee | Sponsored by: AWEC | ||
| Weds. | 10:20 | Keynote Speaker 4 | Randall Strom | Tethered High Altitude Wind Turbine and Range Safety at Wallops Flight Facility | NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops Flight Facility |
| Weds. | 10:40 | AWES Research 4 | Dr. Jamey Jacob, PE | Design and Testing of Inflatable Structures for AWE | Oklahoma State University |
| Weds. | 11:00 | AWES Research 5 | David Janke | EnerKite Network - Interdisciplinary technology in research & development | Beuth Hochschule für Technik, Berlin, Germany collaborating with Enerkite |
| Weds. | 11:20 | AWES Research 6 | Christine Lewis with PJ Shepard | Where might AWES fly over Minnesota and Nevada? GIS-based Suitability Analysis | California State University, Chico collaborating with Sky WindPower |
| Weds. | 11:40 | Offshore weather | Bryan Fabbri | Chesapeake Light Tower Meteorological Research | Science Systems and Applications, Inc., VA |
| Weds. | 12:00 | Lunch | |||
| Weds. | 1:00 | Keynote Speaker 5 | Mason Inman | Energy High in the Sky: Expert Perspectives on Barriers to Airborne Wind Energy Systems | Near Zero |
| Weds. | 1:30 | Wind Resource | Dr. Mark Jacobson | Saturation Wind Power Potential and its Implications for Wind Energy | Stanford University, California |
| Weds. | 1:50 | Company Presenter 10 | Dr. Richard Ruiterkamp | Certification of PowerPlane systems | Ampyx Power, Netherlands |
| Weds. | 2:10 | FAA | FAA AWES Rule Update & NextGen Airspace | ||
| Weds. | 2:30 | Tea, Coffee, Snacks | Sponsored by: AWEC | ||
| Weds. | 2:50 | Workshop | AWES Airspace Strategy - sharing across continents | ||
| Weds. | 3:30 | Workshop | Government Advocacy | ||
| Weds. | 4:00 | Closing Remarks | AWEC Chairman | ||
| Weds. | 5:00 | END of networking | time in hotel ballrooom |
Ticket Prices: (US Dollars)
Students $135
Academia $350
Presenter $350
AWEC $350
General $450
No refund for cancellations after August 24th.
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Questions? Contact the organizers:
Airborne Wind Energy Consortium: PJ pj@aweconsortium.org
National Institute of Aerospace: Michael Wagner michael.wagner@nianet.org or (757) 325 6922
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