The 2013 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit Starts Today

Your tax dollars at work and who knows, something magical* may come of it.

The summit is rather a big deal in some circles. We'll be coming back to this over the next three days-tomorrow they have a Fireside Chat with Elon Musk and Steven Chu, PhD.
From the website:

Monday Agenda  
February 25, 2013

12:00-12:15 p.m.

Summit Kickoff

Potomac A

12:15-12:30 p.m.

ARPA-E Leadership Welcome

Potomac A

12:30-12:50 p.m.

Keynote Presentation - Dr. Hans Rosling

Potomac A

Technology Discussions with ARPA-E Program Directors
1:00-1:45 p.m.	Future of Electricity Dr. Mark Johnson, Program Director, ARPA-E Dr. Howard Branz, Program Director, ARPA-E Dr. Timothy Heidel, Assistant Program Director, ARPA-E Dr. Karma Sawyer, Assistant Program Director, ARPA-E	Potomac A
	Future of Materials Dr. John Lemmon, Program Director, ARPA-E Dr. James Klausner, Program Director, ARPA-E Dr. Elizabeth Santori, Fellow, ARPA-E Dr. Amul Tevar, Fellow, ARPA-E	Potomac C
	Future of Transportation Dr. Dane Boysen, Program Director, ARPA-E Dr. Ilan Gur, Program Director, ARPA-E Dr. Ping Liu, Program Director, ARPA-E Dr. Bradley Zamft, Fellow, ARPA-E	Potomac 2
	Future of Fuels Dr. Jonathan Burbaum, Program Director, ARPA-E Dr. Robert Conrado, Senior Fellow, ARPA-E Dr. Ramon Gonzalez, Program Director, ARPA-E Dr. William Regan, Fellow, ARPA-E Dr. Bryan Willson, Program Director, ARPA-E

...MUCH, MUCH MORE

*Arthur C.Clarke's three laws:

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.