Defense, National Security and Climate Change:
Building Resilience and Identifying Opportunities Related to Water, Energy and Extreme Events

NEW: Final Agenda Announced

Keynote Speakers:
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont)		Honorable Sharon E. Burke Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy Plans and Programs, U.S. Department of Defense		Addison (Tad) Davis, IV Chief Executive Officer, U.S. Army Reserve Command
Dr. Dorothy Robyn Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (I&E), U.S. Department of Defense		Jonathan Pershing Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change, U.S. Department of State

U.S. defense and intelligence communities are increasingly focusing resources on the operational and national security implications of climate change, water and energy. With the most recent quadrennial report identifying climate change as a global destabilizing force for the first time, an intelligence community assessment related global water security, Executive Order 13514 on sustainability across the Federal agencies, and an uncertain and unstable energy market, the challenges before American defense and national security communities to address water, energy and extreme events related risks and opportunities, as well as establish a leaner, more effective operational force in a down economy.

Program Highlights

• Hear insights from senior Federal officials in the Department of Defense, intelligence organizations and other Federal agencies on existing mandates, operational strategies and opportunities for collaboration
• Participate in roundtable sessions with peers across sectors on topics including:
  • Exploring strategies for addressing water problems (shortages, quality and extreme events) and conducting related vulnerability assessments,
  • Developing clean energy infrastructure throughout installations and forward operations,
  • Identifying new technologies for usage in the theater and in U.S. installations,
  • Overcoming barriers to modernizing facilities management and green design in defense installations,
  • Operationalizing supply chain programs and modernizing procurement paradigms,
  • Stakeholder engagement, external relations, and workforce education/training, and
  • Addressing national security implications both domestic and abroad.
• Examine implications of the recent Global Water Security assessment, Executive Order 13514 and other recent Congressional and Executive mandates on Department of Defense operations and the national security community
• Explore opportunities for cross-sector working groups

Final  Confirmed Speakers for 2012 Workshop

The following speakers are confirmed for the 2012 workshop:

• Michael Aimone – Director, Business Enterprise Integration, ODUSD (AT&L)/I&E(BEI), U.S. Department of Defense
• Michael Berger – Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton
• MajGen Richard Engel (ret.) – Director, Climate Change and State Stability Program, National Intelligence Council
• Paul Faeth – Senior Fellow, CNA
• Tobias Feakin – Director, National Security and Resilience, Royal United Services Institute
• Nancy Gillis – Director, Federal Supply Chain Emissions and Chair, Section 13 Interagency Working Group, U.S. General Services Administration
• William Goran – Engineer Research and Development Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (and Co-Chair of NASA-Army Interagency Forum on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations)
• Michael Hightower – Water for Energy Project Lead, Sandia National Laboratories, U.S. Department of Energy
• Tom Hicks – Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, U.S. Navy
• Alice Hill – Senior Counselor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• Louis Hutchinson, III – Vice President Public Sector, Constellation, an Exelon company
• Richard Kidd – Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army, Energy and Sustainability, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (IE&E), U.S. Army
• Dr. Marc Kodack – Program Manager, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Energy and Sustainability, U.S. Army
• Ann Kosmal – Convener, GSA Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Team, Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings, U.S. General Services Administration
• Kaveh Madani – Assistant Professor, Hydro-Environmental & Energy Systems Analysis Research Group, Department of Civil, Environmental & Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida
• Esther McClure – Arctic, Energy & Environmental Policy Analyst, Strategy Office, OSD Policy, U.S. Department of Defense
• VADM Dennis McGinn (ret.) – President, American Council on Renewable Energy
• William (Bill) J. McQuaid – Senior Program Analyst, Investment Branch, National Security Division, Office of Management and Budget
• Chris Pyke – Director of Research, U.S. Green Building Council
• Rebecca Ranich – Principal, Energy and Resource Management, Deloitte Consulting LLP
• Will Rogers – Bacevich Fellow, Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
• Steve Schneider – Vice President and Chief Solutions Architect, SAIC
• Courtney St. John – Climate Change Affairs Officer, Task Force Climate Change, U.S. Navy
• Scott Stone – Director, Global Environmental Initiatives, Sierra Nevada Corporation
• Maureen Sullivan – Director, Environmental Management, Office of the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (I&E), U.S. Department of Defense
• Kim Toufectis – Master Planning Program Manager, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• Kevin Watson – Manager, Life Cycle Logistics and Supply Chain Management, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Michael Werz – Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

Final Confirmed Roundtable Facilitators

• Blain Collison – Director, Green Power Partnership Program, Climate Protection Partnerships Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Maggie Comstock – Policy Analyst, U.S. Green Building Council
• Tobias Feakin – Director, National Security and Resilience, Royal United Services Institute
• Roger Feldman – Of Counsel, Andrews Kurth LLP
• Tim Ford – Chief Executive Officer, Association of Defense Communities
• Nancy Gillis – Director, Federal Supply Chain Emissions and Chair, Section 13 Interagency Working Group, U.S. General Services Administration
• William Goran – Engineer Research and Development Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (and Co-Chair of NASA-Army Interagency Forum on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations)
• K.C. Healy – Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP
• Christina Hudson – Deputy Division Manager, Sustainability & Strategic Risk Management, SAIC
• Louis Hutchinson, III – Vice President Public Sector, Constellation, an Exelon company
• Casey Johnston – Renewable Energy Program Director, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability USA
• Kaveh Madani – Assistant Professor, Hydro-Environmental & Energy Systems Analysis Research Group, Department of Civil, Environmental & Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida
• Will Rogers – Bacevich Fellow, Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
• Steve Schneider – Vice President and Chief Solutions Architect, SAIC
• Ernie Shea – 25x'25 Project Coordinator, 25x'25 America's Energy Future
• Jessica Shipley – Policy Advisor, British Embassy
• Scott Stone – Director of Global Environmental Initiatives, Sierra Nevada Corporation
• Kevin Watson – Manager, Life Cycle Logistics and Supply Chain Management, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Click here to download
the sponsorship prospectus

Click here to download
the sponsorship application

Please contact
Melissa Lembke
at 202-496-7390 (by email at mlembke@ACCOonline.org)

Venue & Lodging Information

• The program will be held at the Grand Hyatt Washington, DC:
  1000 H Street NW
  Washington, DC 20001
  (202) 582-1234
• A block of rooms has been reserved at a rate of $259 per night
• Click here for online reservations
• Phone reservations:
  Call 1-800-233-1234
  and refer to Assn of Climate Change Officers!

Highlights from ACCO’s 2011 Defense, National Security and Climate Change Workshop

• Keynote speakers included Senator John Warner (ret.), Senator Gary Hart (ret.), Honorable Sharon E. Burke, Honorable Katherine Hammack and Mayor Martin Chaveez
• 30 speakers, 8 program sessions and 12 roundtable discussions
• 110 attendees representing more than 65 organizations
• Click here for recap reports