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Opening Plenary: Climate Change, Economic and Carbon Pricing Overview This was the opening plenary of the May 5th conference, “Making Climate Change Policy Work in Difficult Economic Times. PowerPoint presentations by these and other conference speakers will be available at http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/greenjobs/climatechange.shtml Opening remarks: Carol Zabin, UC Berkeley Labor Center Art Pulaski, California Labor Federation Bob Balgenorth, State Building and Construction Trades Council Opening Plenary Moderator: Andrea Buffa, UC Berkeley Labor Center Opening Plenary Speakers: Payal Parekh, International Rivers Dan Kammen, UC Berkeley Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory Holmes Hummel, 2008 Congressional Science Fellow Sponsor details: This event was sponsored by the UC Berkeley Labor Center with Apollo Alliance, California Labor Federation's Workforce and Economic Development Program, California State Building and Construction Trades Council, Don Vial Center on Employment in the Green Economy, Energy Foundation, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, and Western Climate Advocates Network (WeCAN). Funding was provided by the Energy Foundation, French American Charitable Trust, and Pacific Gas and Electric.

Morning Workshop: Common issues for labor and environmental justice groups This was one of the morning workshops offered as part of the May 5th conference, “Making Climate Change Policy Work in Difficult Economic Times. PowerPoint presentations by these and other conference speakers will be available at http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/greenjobs/climatechange.shtml Moderator: Rachel Morello-Frosch, UC Berkeley Speakers: Lisa Hoyos, AFL-CIO Nia Robinson, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative Erin Rogers, Union of Concerned Scientists Miya Yoshitani, Asian Pacific Environmental Network Sponsor details: This event was sponsored by the UC Berkeley Labor Center with Apollo Alliance, California Labor Federation's Workforce and Economic Development Program, California State Building and Construction Trades Council, Don Vial Center on Employment in the Green Economy, Energy Foundation, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, and Western Climate Advocates Network (WeCAN). Funding was provided by the Energy Foundation, French American Charitable Trust, and Pacific Gas and Electric.  

Keynote Address: Making Climate Change Policy Work Conference Introduction of Speaker:  Cheryl Brown, UC Berkeley Labor Center Speaker: Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California Manuel Pastor is Professor of Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, where he also serves as Director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) at U.S.C.’s Center for Sustainable Cities and as Co-Director of U.S.C.'s Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII). Founding director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he holds an economics Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Sponsor details: This event was sponsored by the UC Berkeley Labor Center with Apollo Alliance, California Labor Federation's Workforce and Economic Development Program, California State Building and Construction Trades Council, Don Vial Center on Employment in the Green Economy, Energy Foundation, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, and Western Climate Advocates Network (WeCAN). Funding was provided by the Energy Foundation, French American Charitable Trust, and Pacific Gas and Electric.

Afternoon Plenary: Economic Impact of Carbon Pricing Policies This was the afternoon plenary of the May 5th conference, “Making Climate Change Policy Work in Difficult Economic Times. PowerPoint presentations by these and other conference speakers will be available at http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/greenjobs/climatechange.shtml Moderator: Jim Beno, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Speakers: Kate Gordon, Apollo Alliance Carol Zabin, UC Berkeley Labor Center Jeff Rickert, AFL-CIO Green Jobs Center David Roland-Holst, UC Berkeley Agricultural and Resources Economics Department Sponsor details: This event was sponsored by the UC Berkeley Labor Center with Apollo Alliance, California Labor Federation's Workforce and Economic Development Program, California State Building and Construction Trades Council, Don Vial Center on Employment in the Green Economy, Energy Foundation, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, and Western Climate Advocates Network (WeCAN). Funding was provided by the Energy Foundation, French American Charitable Trust, and Pacific Gas and Electric.

Afternoon Workshop: Carbon revenues   This was one of the afternoon workshops offered as part of the May 5th conference, “Making Climate Change Policy Work in Difficult Economic Times. PowerPoint presentations by these and other conference speakers will be available at http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/greenjobs/climatechange.shtml Moderator: Carla Din, Apollo Alliance Speakers: Chris Busch, Center for Resource Solutions K.C. Bishop, Chevron Corporation Rafael Aguilera, Verde Group Tim Rainey, California Labor Federation Workforce and Economic Development Program Sponsor details: This event was sponsored by the UC Berkeley Labor Center with Apollo Alliance, California Labor Federation's Workforce and Economic Development Program, California State Building and Construction Trades Council, Don Vial Center on Employment in the Green Economy, Energy Foundation, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, and Western Climate Advocates Network (WeCAN). Funding was provided by the Energy Foundation, French American Charitable Trust, and Pacific Gas and Electric.

Closing Plenary: Where Do We Go From Here?   This was the closing plenary of the May 5th conference, “Making Climate Change Policy Work in Difficult Economic Times. PowerPoint presentations by these and other conference speakers will be available at http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/greenjobs/climatechange.shtml Moderator: Barbara Byrd- Oregon AFL-CIO Speakers: Virgil Welch-California Air Resources Board Vivian Buckingham-Ceres Dave Foster-Blue-Green Alliance Sponsor details: This event was sponsored by the UC Berkeley Labor Center with Apollo Alliance, California Labor Federation's Workforce and Economic Development Program, California State Building and Construction Trades Council, Don Vial Center on Employment in the Green Economy, Energy Foundation, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, and Western Climate Advocates Network (WeCAN). Funding was provided by the Energy Foundation, French American Charitable Trust, and Pacific Gas and Electric.

Richard A. Newton Distinguished Innovator Lecture (in IEOR 171 Organizational Leadership & Teamwork) Speaker: Kim Polese With commentary from: Jerry Fiddler, Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology Executive-in-Residence and founder, Wind River Systems As CEO of SpikeSource, Kim Polese is responsible for guiding the company’s business vision: enabling businesses to harness the power of open source as a flexible, reliable and cost-effective solution for business-critical needs. Prior to SpikeSource, Kim cofounded Marimba in 1996, and as President and CEO she led the company to profitability and a successful public offering. She then served as Chairman until Marimba’s acquisition by BMC Software in April 2004. Before cofounding Marimba, Kim worked at Sun Microsystems and was the original product manager for Java, leading its launch in March 1995. Prior to Java, Kim worked in Sun’s software division on object-oriented development environments. Previously, she worked at Intellicorp, Inc., helping Fortune 500 firms implement expert systems. Kim earned a Bachelor’s degree in Biophysics from U.C. Berkeley and studied Computer Science at the University of Washington, Seattle. Kim serves on the board of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, a coalition of executives working to improve the economy, health and quality of life for all citizens of the region through advocacy on major public policy issues. Kim also serves on the board of the Global Security Institute and the University of California President’s Board on Science and Innovation. She is a Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Engineered Innovation.

Mitch Kapor Chair, Open Source Applications Foundation

Kirsten Tobey and Kristin Richmond Founders, Revolution Foods Kristin Groos Richmond, Founder and CEO, served as the Vice President of Programs and Development at RISE, a nonprofit organization dedicated to recruiting and retaining outstanding teachers in public schools nationwide. During her tenure at RISE, she worked with over 50 charter and district schools and expanded the program from the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles and Chicago. Kristin worked at Leadership Public Schools in San Francisco where she redesigned the food service program at four public high schools. Kristin co-founded a special education school in East Africa and began her career as an investment banker at Citigroup in NYC. She has a BS from Boston College and an MBA from UC Berkeley. Kirsten Saenz Tobey, Founder and COO, began her career as a teacher and coordinator of experiential education programs at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts as well as with Amigos de las Americas in Ecuador. During college, she ran children’s garden education programs in California and Rhode Island, where she enjoyed helping children to connect with the source of their food. Her passion for sustainability and community health led her to run a public health campaign for Earthjustice. She managed a study abroad program for the School for Field Studies in Mexico where she worked with college students to study the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the fishing industry. During graduate school, she worked with the United Nations Hunger Task Force to evaluate the scalability of school feeding programs in Ghana and with the McDonald's Corporation to incorporate social and environmental responsibility into the supply chain. Kirsten has an AB from Brown University and an MBA from UC Berkeley

New poetry from experimental poet, Caroline Bergvall.  

Shai Agassi Founder and CEO   Shai Agassi is the founder and CEO of Better Place, a company focused on the early 21st century’s biggest challenge - a scalable and sustainable personal transportation system. In this role, Agassi works directly with governments, finance, automobile manufacturers and technology companies to install, scale, and operate a regional and global infrastructure necessary for electronic vehicles.

Welcome and Opening Remarks Stuart Gabriel, UCLA Michael Schill, UCLA John Quigley, UC Berkeley Panel 1:  The Crisis in Finance Markets Karl E. Case, Wellesley College, Moderator "Why are the Cycles in Homes and Consumer Durables So Similar?" Edward Leamer, UCLA "Policies To Deal With the Implosion in the Mortgage Market" Robert Shiller, Yale University Discussants: Brad DeLong, UC Berkeley Robert Hall, Stanford University James Wilcox, UC Berkeley

On the Future of Mortgage Finance in the United States Chairman Ben Bernanke (via satellite) Federal Reserve Board of Governors  

A California Policy Perspective on the Financial Crisis Darrell Steinberg, President Pro Tem.-elect, California State Senate Larry Rosenthal, UC Berkeley, Moderator Panel 2:  Demography and Geography of Foreclosures Robert Edelstein, UC Berkeley, Moderator   "House Prices, Interest Rates, and the Mortgage Market Meltdown" Chris Mayer, Columbia University   "Subprime Mortgages, Foreclosures, and Urban Neighborhoods" Paul Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston   Discussants: Mark Garmaise, UCLA Walter Torous, UCLA Alexei Tchistyi, UC Berkeley  

Panel 3:  The Regulatory Frontier Michael Schill, UCLA, Moderator "Three Mortgage Innovations for Enhancing the American Mortgage Market and Promoting Financial Stability" Diana Hancock and Wayne Passmore, Federal Reserve Board of Governors "Regulating the Investment Banks and GSEs After the Subprime Crisis" Dwight Jaffee, UC Berkeley Discussants: Richard Green, USC Richard Roll, UCLA Lawrence White, NYU  

Welcome and Opening Remarks Stuart Gabriel, UCLA John Quigley, UC Berkeley The Policy Maker's Perspective on the Financial Meltdown and the Economy Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Stuart Gabriel, UCLA, Moderator The Future of the Housing Finance System Nancy Wallace, UC Berkeley, Moderator Panelists: Brad Blackwell, Wells Fargo Bank John Krainer, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Paul Leonard, Center for Responsible Lending Paul Jablansky, 400 Capital Management LLC

Are Government Agencies Up To The Task? Anthony Downs, Brookings Institution, Moderator Panelists: Robert Van Order, University of Michigan Susan Wachter, University of Pennsylvania John Weicher, Hudson Institute Susan Woodward, Sand Hill Econometrics

Mike A Horton President, Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder Mike Horton co-founded Crossbow Technology and has served as its President & CEO, and a Board Member, since inception. Horton has led Crossbow from its founding product line of digital MEMS accelerometers and tilt sensors to its current market leading position in smart sensor technology. Horton has closed $25 Million in venture financing for the company, including investments from Cisco Systems and Intel Corporation. He has co-authored four issued patents, and he has co-authored another four pending patents. Horton was named one of the Top 100 Innovators in the MIT Technology Review and was named one of The Top 50 Movers and Shakers in high technology by Electronic Business Magazine. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering.

Tom Byers is a professor at Stanford University where he focuses on technology entrepreneurship education. He is founder and a faculty director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), which serves as the entrepreneurship center for the engineering school. STVP includes the Mayfield Fellows work/study program, Educators Corner website of teaching resources, and a set of global Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education conferences. Tom is also a faculty director of the AEA/Stanford Executive Institute, a general management program for technology executives. Tom is co-author of a popular textbook called "Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise" published by McGraw-Hill. Tom also holds visiting professor appointments at the London Business School and University College London. Tom holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and an MBA from UC Berkeley. He also earned a PhD in Business Administration (Management Science) at UC Berkeley.

Ram Shriram started Sherpalo in January, 2000, with the goal of applying his wealth of operating and company building experience to promising early stage ventures. As a technology industry insider for over 25 years he has worked in companies large and small across all functional areas and through fluctuating business cycles. He is always eager to roll up his sleeves and work closely with founding teams on the challenging issues that confront and sometimes confound early stage ventures.

Dean Drako President and CEO As president and CEO, Dean Drako is responsible for overall corporate strategic direction and product development. Prior to founding Barracuda Networks in 2002, Dean was founder, president and CEO of Velosel Corporation, where he successfully closed two rounds of venture financing. Dean hired his replacement so he could pursue his battle against spam at Barracuda Networks. Prior to Velosel, Dean founded Boldfish, a leading provider of enterprise messaging solutions that was acquired by Siebel Systems in 2003. Before Boldfish, Dean was founder, president and CEO of Design Acceleration, Inc. (DAI), maker of superior design analysis and verification tools, which was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 1998. He has served as an entrepreneur in residence for SoftBank Venture Capital as well as vice president of product engineering at the 3DO Company. Dean holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Four years ago, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences alumni James Hong (BS '95) and Jim Young (BS '94, MS '97) were drinking beer in their apartment and talking about, what else, girls. Jim commented that he thought a girl they recently met was a "perfect 10." That discussion led to a half-joking plan to launch a Web site where visitors could submit their photos for other people to rate from one to ten. A few days later, HOTorNOT.com went online and quickly became one of the, well, hottest sites on the Web. Mentions in Entertainment Weekly and People followed, along with a Webby Award and Hong and Young's appearance on the Sally Jesse Raphael Show. Since then, undeniably addictive HOTorNOT and its parent company Eight Days Inc. have expanded into a multi-million dollar online dating service with more than 600,000 active members. Meanwhile, the number of user-submitted photos to the rating site have topped 13 million.

This conference seeks to examine these critical questions in an expansive way, drawing together scholars from a number of different subfields in political science as well By bringing together former government officials, leading legal scholars and political scientists with a range of backgrounds and perspectives, this conference hopes to present a systematic, balanced analysis of the proper place of the president in the political system. The conference itself will examine what role the courts, Congress, and the public have played in checking presidential actions historically, and what role they should play in the Iraq War and beyond in a world where the opponent in a military conflict may not be a sovereign state. We plan to move the debate over presidential power well beyond the conventional discussion of whether we have an "imperial presidency." This conference will include: Three panels, luncheon speaker, and keynote panel.   Featured Speakers: Jon Cohen, Director of Polling, Washington Post; John Podesta, CEO, Center for American Progress & former White House Chief of Staff (1998-2001); Ken Mehlman, Managing Director & Head of Global Public Affairs, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co and former White House Director of Public Affairs, 2001-04 Speakers: Matthew Baum, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government; Adam Berinsky, MIT; John Mueller, Ohio State University; Louis Fisher, Law Library of the Library of Congress; Jack Rakove, Stanford University; John Yoo, UC Berkeley School of Law; Philip C. Bobbitt, Columbia Law School; William Howell, University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy; Stephen Krasner, Stanford University; Stephen Skowronek, Yale University; Christopher Edley, Dean, UC Berkeley School of Law Panelist/Discussants: Gary Jacobson, UC San Diego; Gordon Silverstein, UC Berkeley Chair: Terri Bimes, UC Berkeley Chair: Jesse Choper, UC Berkeley School of Law Chair: Daniel Farber, UC Berkeley School of Law

This conference seeks to examine these critical questions in an expansive way, drawing together scholars from a number of different subfields in political science as well By bringing together former government officials, leading legal scholars and political scientists with a range of backgrounds and perspectives, this conference hopes to present a systematic, balanced analysis of the proper place of the president in the political system. The conference itself will examine what role the courts, Congress, and the public have played in checking presidential actions historically, and what role they should play in the Iraq War and beyond in a world where the opponent in a military conflict may not be a sovereign state. We plan to move the debate over presidential power well beyond the conventional discussion of whether we have an "imperial presidency." This conference will include: Three panels, luncheon speaker, and keynote panel.   Featured Speakers: Jon Cohen, Director of Polling, Washington Post; John Podesta, CEO, Center for American Progress & former White House Chief of Staff (1998-2001); Ken Mehlman, Managing Director & Head of Global Public Affairs, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co and former White House Director of Public Affairs, 2001-04 Speakers: Matthew Baum, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government; Adam Berinsky, MIT; John Mueller, Ohio State University; Louis Fisher, Law Library of the Library of Congress; Jack Rakove, Stanford University; John Yoo, UC Berkeley School of Law; Philip C. Bobbitt, Columbia Law School; William Howell, University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy; Stephen Krasner, Stanford University; Stephen Skowronek, Yale University; Christopher Edley, Dean, UC Berkeley School of Law Panelist/Discussants: Gary Jacobson, UC San Diego; Gordon Silverstein, UC Berkeley Chair: Terri Bimes, UC Berkeley Chair: Jesse Choper, UC Berkeley School of Law Chair: Daniel Farber, UC Berkeley School of Law

This conference seeks to examine these critical questions in an expansive way, drawing together scholars from a number of different subfields in political science as well By bringing together former government officials, leading legal scholars and political scientists with a range of backgrounds and perspectives, this conference hopes to present a systematic, balanced analysis of the proper place of the president in the political system. The conference itself will examine what role the courts, Congress, and the public have played in checking presidential actions historically, and what role they should play in the Iraq War and beyond in a world where the opponent in a military conflict may not be a sovereign state. We plan to move the debate over presidential power well beyond the conventional discussion of whether we have an "imperial presidency." This conference will include: Three panels, luncheon speaker, and keynote panel.   Featured Speakers: Jon Cohen, Director of Polling, Washington Post; John Podesta, CEO, Center for American Progress & former White House Chief of Staff (1998-2001); Ken Mehlman, Managing Director & Head of Global Public Affairs, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co and former White House Director of Public Affairs, 2001-04 Speakers: Matthew Baum, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government; Adam Berinsky, MIT; John Mueller, Ohio State University; Louis Fisher, Law Library of the Library of Congress; Jack Rakove, Stanford University; John Yoo, UC Berkeley School of Law; Philip C. Bobbitt, Columbia Law School; William Howell, University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy; Stephen Krasner, Stanford University; Stephen Skowronek, Yale University; Christopher Edley, Dean, UC Berkeley School of Law Panelist/Discussants: Gary Jacobson, UC San Diego; Gordon Silverstein, UC Berkeley Chair: Terri Bimes, UC Berkeley Chair: Jesse Choper, UC Berkeley School of Law Chair: Daniel Farber, UC Berkeley School of Law

This conference seeks to examine these critical questions in an expansive way, drawing together scholars from a number of different subfields in political science as well By bringing together former government officials, leading legal scholars and political scientists with a range of backgrounds and perspectives, this conference hopes to present a systematic, balanced analysis of the proper place of the president in the political system. The conference itself will examine what role the courts, Congress, and the public have played in checking presidential actions historically, and what role they should play in the Iraq War and beyond in a world where the opponent in a military conflict may not be a sovereign state. We plan to move the debate over presidential power well beyond the conventional discussion of whether we have an "imperial presidency." This conference will include: Three panels, luncheon speaker, and keynote panel.   Featured Speakers: Jon Cohen, Director of Polling, Washington Post; John Podesta, CEO, Center for American Progress & former White House Chief of Staff (1998-2001); Ken Mehlman, Managing Director & Head of Global Public Affairs, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co and former White House Director of Public Affairs, 2001-04 Speakers: Matthew Baum, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government; Adam Berinsky, MIT; John Mueller, Ohio State University; Louis Fisher, Law Library of the Library of Congress; Jack Rakove, Stanford University; John Yoo, UC Berkeley School of Law; Philip C. Bobbitt, Columbia Law School; William Howell, University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy; Stephen Krasner, Stanford University; Stephen Skowronek, Yale University; Christopher Edley, Dean, UC Berkeley School of Law Panelist/Discussants: Gary Jacobson, UC San Diego; Gordon Silverstein, UC Berkeley Chair: Terri Bimes, UC Berkeley Chair: Jesse Choper, UC Berkeley School of Law Chair: Daniel Farber, UC Berkeley School of Law

Bambi Francisco is a former syndicated columnist and correspondent for Dow Jones MarketWatch. She covered Internet trends and investments across the public and private sectors. Her newsletter subscriber base reached more than 400,000 subscribers. She started her career at MarketWatch in 1999, as Internet editor and morning business anchor for KPIX, a CBS affiliate. At the time, MarketWatch was owned by CBS. In 2001, Bambi was named to the "blue-chip" financial reporting all-star team by The Journal of Financial Reporters, the leading organization for the business news industry. Adweek named her one of the top ten most influential journalists on the Web. She left MarketWatch in April 2007 to manage her internet startup, vator.tv, full-time. Concerns were expressed by management regarding conflicts of interest concerning her ownership of the venture during her employment at MarketWatch. Among the most-interesting articles she wrote at MarketWatch was one on her three-week trek to Nepal. It eloquently illustrated how hiking in the Himalayas was similar to watching the rise and fall of the Internet bubble.

Will Price Chief Executive Officer,  Widgetbox Prior to joining Widgetbox, Will was a Managing Director at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Will played a key role in the firm’s investments in Move Networks, Replay Solutions, Mulesource, Star Analytics, Hubpages, Widgetbox, Kwiry, Infopia and SlideRocket. Prior to joining Hummer Winblad, Will was a Senior Vice President with Pequot Ventures, where he focused on investments in information technology. Previously, Will served as CEO and COO of several software start-ups. He has also worked with the Boston Consulting Group, Infinity Financial Technology and Morgan Stanley. Will graduated from Harvard College and earned his M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University where he graduated at the top of his class.

Enjoy new poetry from Berkeley's celebrated "Poet Professors," including C.S. Giscombe, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Geoffrey G. O'Brien and John Shoptaw.    

Welcome & Opening Address Thomas C. Leonard is University Librarian and a Professor in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He has chaired the Academic Freedom and the Library Committees of the Academic Senate, as well as co-chaired the Digital Library Advisory Committee. Leonard is active on the state and national levels and is currently serving as Vice President/President-Elect of the Association of Research Libraries. George W. Breslauer serves as UC Berkeley's Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost. In 1971, Professor Breslauer joined the faculty of the Department of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley, as a specialist on Soviet politics and foreign relations. Professor Breslauer is the author or editor of 12 books on Soviet and Russian politics and foreign relations, most recently Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders (Cambridge University Press, 2002)