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Creating Personal Plans for the Coming Decades

Two concurrent sessions:

TRACK A: Peak Oil: Train The Trainers
Robert Hirsch, lead author of the famous 2005 report to DOE on the "Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, and Risk Management" offers some thoughts on how to effectively present the topic of peak oil to others. Attendees will receive a set of his powerpoint slides for their use and dissemination in their own presentations.

Moderator: Debbie Cook, ASPO-USA Board of Directors
Presented by Robert Hirsch, Senior Energy Advisor, MISI

TRACK B: Charting a Sustainable Future ( Part 1 of 2 )
Moderator: Dave Bowden, Executive Director, ASPO-USA

• Pat Murphy, Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions
  "Sustainability of Passive Buildings and Shared Transit"
• Jason Bradford, Managing Partner of Vital Farmland LP
  "Sustainable Farming"
  
• David Wann, author, Affluenza, Superbia
  "Building Sustainable Communities"

Three concurrent Sessions

TRACK A: Analyses from The Oil Drum
Moderator: Kyle Saunders ("Professor Goose")

• Gail Tverberg, Writer, The Oil Drum
  "What's Ahead? Two Scenarios"
  
• David Murphy, Lead Researcher, EROI Institute
  "Recent Advances in EROI Research"
  
• Jeff Vail, Associate, Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP
  "The Renewables Gap"
  
• Brian Maschhoff, Contributor, The Oil Drum
  "More Saudi Oil? Really?"
  
• Rembrandt Koppelaar, Contributor, The Oil Drum
  "Oil Megaprojects: A Quarterly Approach"

TRACK B: Charting a Sustainable Future ( Part 2 of 2 )
Moderator: Dave Bowden, Executive Director, ASPO-USA

• Pat Murphy, Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions
  "Sustainability of Passive Buildings and Shared Transit"
  
• Jason Bradford, Managing Partner of Vital Farmland LP
  "Sustainable Farming"
• David Wann, author, Affluenza, Superbia
  "Building Sustainable Communities"

TRACK C: International Perspectives ( Part 1 of 2 )
Moderator: Dick Lawrence, Board member, co-founder, ASPO-USA

• Kjell Aleklett, President, ASPO International, Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden
  "The Peak of the Oil Age"
  
• Feng Lianyong, Professor, School of Business Administration in the University of Petroleum 
  "Progress of the Peak Oil Debate in China"
• Daniel Gomez, President, ASPO Spain
  "Renewable Energy in Spain - Update"
  
• Carlos Rossi, Venezuelan Hydrocarbon Association
  "Making the Energy Transition from Peak Oil"

Three concurrent sessions:

TRACK A: Energy and Investment
Moderator: Jim Hansen, Independent Financial Consultant

• Richard Vodra, Vice President, Spire Investment Partners
  "Personal Planning for the post-peak world - thoughts from the ASPO workshop"
  
• Byron King, Editor, Whiskey & Gunpowder
  "We're Not Surrounded. We're Just Defending on Every Front"
  
• Tom Konrad, CFA-Analyst, AltEnergyStocks.com,
  "Stock Selection for the coming Era of Peak Oil and Climate Change"
  
• Allen Stevens, Denver Branch Manager, Stifel-Nicolaus
  "Macroeconomic Overview of Peak Oil: The 5 Ds"
  
• Nate Hagens, Editor, The Oil Drum
  "Why We Invest: Some Foundational Tenets"

TRACK B: North American Energy System Vulnerabilities
Moderator: Sally Odland, ASPO-USA Advisory Board

• Jeffrey Brown, Independent petroleum geologist
  "Are We in the Early Stages of a Permanent Net Oil Export Crisis?"
  
• Rick Munroe, Energy Security Analyst, National Farmers Union of Canada
  "Government plans for liquid fuel emergencies"
  
• Scott Pugh, US Department of Homeland Security
  "Protecting America's Electric Grid"

TRACK C: International Perspectives ( Part 2 of 2 )
Moderator: Dick Lawrence, Board member, co-founder, ASPO-USA

• Paul Sears, Systems Research Analyst, Natural Resources Canada
  "Reducing Canada's Energy and CO2 Footprint"
• Hannes Kunz, President, IIER, Zurich
  "Economic Scenarios for an Age of Declining EROIs"
  
• Bengt Söderbergh, Global Energy Systems
  "Coming European Gas Crisis? - Future Supply from Norway and Russia"
  

Three concurrent sessions:

TRACK A: Stalking the Wild Taboo: The Missing Discussions About Population and Energy
"Thoughts From Richard Lamm, an Interview With Albert Bartlett, and a Conversation With Both"
Moderator: John Theobald, UC Oil Forum, University of California, Davis

• Hon. Richard Lamm, former Governor of Colorado, Co-Director of the Institute for Public Policy Studies, University of Denver
  
• Albert Bartlett, Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado, Boulder

TRACK B: Connecting Peak Oil and the Recession
Moderator: Robert Hirsch, Senior Energy Advisor, MISI

• Terry Backer, State Representative, State of Connecticut
  "Promoting Sound Energy Policy in Cash-Crunched Governments"
  
• Steven Kopits,
 Managing Director, Douglas-Westwood LLC, New York 
  "A Peak Oil Recession"
  
• Nate Hagens, Editor, The Oil Drum
  "Abstract Energy Gain and the Permanent Recession"

TRACK C: Climate Change: Three Views
Moderator: Randy Udall, Energy Analyst & Co-Founder, ASPO-USA

• Heidi VanGenderen, Team Leader, Natural Gas and Sustainable Energy Initiative, Worldwatch Institute
  "The Politics and Policy of Climate Change."
  
• Chuck Kutscher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  "The Urgency of Climate Change and the Potential for Renewable Energy"
  
• Susan Capalbo, Chair, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics,
  Oregon State University
  "Economic Dimensions of Carbon Sequestration: How Does It Stack Up?"
  

Super Giant Pre-Salt Petroleum Systems recently discovered in Offshore Greater Campos Basin, Brazil

Marcio Rocha Mello, President HRT Petroleum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
Introduced by Vince Matthews, Director, Colorado Geological Survey

Video interview clip from Sadad al-Husseini, oil consultant, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Kjell Aleklett, President, ASPO International, Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden
Steve Andrews, Senior Analyst & Co-Founder, ASPO-USA
Mayor John Hickenlooper, Denver, Colorado

Video Welcome to Conference Attendees from ASPO Founder Colin Campbell

Moderator: Steve Andrews, Senior Analyst & Co-Founder, ASPO-USA

• Randy Udall, Energy Analyst & Co-Founder, ASPO-USA
  “Overview Remarks on the Future of Oil Supply”
• Chris Skrebowski, Energy Institute in London, Editor of Petroleum Review
  "Two years remission for financial bad conduct"
• Jeremy Gilbert, Barrelmore, Ltd., formerly BP Chief Petroleum Engineer
  "Why won't they listen to us?"

Question & Answer

Moderator: Randy Udall, Energy Analyst & Co-Founder, ASPO-USA

• Peter A. Dea, President & CEO, Cirque Resources LP
  "Abundant Natural Gas Supply, An American Treasure"
• Arthur Berman, Director, Labyrinth Consulting Services, Inc.
  "Cautionary Lessons from the Barnett Shale"
• Edward Warner, Founder, Expedition Oil Company
  "No Guts, No Glory: The Discovery of Jonah Field"

Question & Answer

Presentation of M.K. Hubbert and Whipple awards

The Nexus of Energy, the Economy and Politics
Kevin Phillips, Commentator and Author of Bad Money

Moderator: Steven Kopits, Managing Director, Douglas-Westwood LLC, New York

• Adam Robinson, Vice President, RBS Sempra Commodities,
  "Oil and The Great Recession; Physical Reality or Investor Fantasy?"
• Dave Cohen, ASPO Writer and Analyst
  "The Aftermath of the Great Recession"
• Eric Janszen, Investor and founder of the website iTulip.com,
  “Debtor Nations Dream of Deflation”

Question and Answer ( including Kevin Phillips )

Moderator: John Theobald, UC Oil Forum, University of California, Davis

• Peter Maass, Author Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil, Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine
  "Crude and Confusing: Why Oil Is Harder to Write About Than Any War I Covered"
• Lisa Margonelli, Author, Oil On The Brain, New America Foundation
  "Predictable Pitfalls: How We Fail To Cover Energy Policy And Alternative Energy... And Why It Matters"
  
• Richard Heinberg, Author, Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis,
  Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute
  "Report from the Front: A Peak Oil Educator Reflects on What's Worked and What Hasn't"

Question and Answer

Matthew Simmons, Simmons & Company International
"ASPO In Its 7th Year: Accomplishments, Frustrations & Failures"

Video interview clip from Sadad al-Husseini, oil consultant, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

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Kjell Aleklett, President, ASPO International, Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden
Steve Andrews, Senior Analyst & Co-Founder, ASPO-USA

Moderator: Kjell Aleklett, President, ASPO International, Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden

• Ray Leonard, CEO and President, Hyperdynamics Corp; former VP of Exploration, Kuwait Energy
  "Prospects for ME-OPEC and Russian Oil & Gas"
  
• Simon Ratcliffe, Energy Advisor, Department for International Development, Government of the United Kingdom
  "Oil in Africa and the National Transportation Masterplan in South Africa - an ASPO South Africa case study"
• Michael Rodgers, PFC Energy Partner based in Asia; senior member PFC Upstream and Gas practice
  "China: Energy Supply & Demand in the 21st Century"

Question and Answer

Moderator: Dick Lawrence, Board member, co-founder, ASPO-USA

• RoseAnne Franco, South America Senior Analyst, PFC Energy
  "Outlook for Oil & Gas in South America"
• David Shields, journalist and author of the book Pemex: The Oil Reform
  "Outlook for Mexican oil production"
  
• Vince Matthews, Director, Colorado Geological Survey
  "World Mineral-Fuel Demand and Security"

Question and Answer

Alternative Transportation Energy - A Major Game Changer or Overrated Strategic Option?
Tom Petrie, Founder, Petrie, Parkman, Inc. / Merrill Lynch

Moderator: Debbie Cook, ASPO-USA Board of Directors

• Michael Webber, Associate Director, Center for International Energy & Environmental Policy, University of Texas, Austin
  "Thirst for Power: The Global Nexus of Energy & Water"
  
• Jason Bradford, Managing Partner of Vital Farmland LP
  "Food Policy and a Resilient Food System"
• Jeff Dunn, Government Affairs Analyst, Southern California Association of Governments
  "Making Sausage: The Evolution of a Bill."

Question and Answer

Moderator: Sally Odland, ASPO-USA Advisory Board

• Robert Hirsch, Senior Energy Advisor, MISI
  "Some Random Thoughts"
• Ken Eklund, Writerguy, Alternate Reality Game Creator
  "World Without Oil: Crowdsourcing our way out of oil addiction" 
• Chris Martenson, Creator, The Crash Course
  "Laying the Foundations for True Prosperity" 

Question and Answer

Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, Jr.

Nate Hagens, Editor, The Oil Drum "Chicken Little at A Crossroads"