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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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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