Full Agenda

8.50am Chairman’s welcoming and opening speech

Dana C. Olson, Research Scientist, NREL

• Where exactly is the OPV market? And where can you expect to see it go in the next 2-5 years?
• Hear how the current policy, economic, and other market conditions are combining to create opportunities for Organic PV currently and in the future
• Discover the dominant competitive strategies being employed by technology promoters and understand how the approaches of the leading players differ, and the key trends in this space

Moderator

Dana C. Olson, Research Scientist, NREL

Katherine Derbyshire, Analyst, Nanomarkets
Johanna Schmidtke, Senior Analyst, Lux research
Paula Mints, Senior Analyst, Navigant consulting

Mary Boone, Director of Market Development, Plextronics inc

• Hear the very latest in OPV stability breakthroughs and gain a realistic forecast of expected lifetime capabilities in the next 12 months
• Understand the advances that still need to be made in order to reach an acceptable lifetime for OPV
• Evaluate who’s doing the most cutting edge work in this area, and understand who will be blazing the trail in 2009 and beyond!

Moderator

David S. Germack, Polymers Division, Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Julia W. P. Hsu, Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
Eitan Zeira, Director of Electronic Printing Technologies, Konarka

Kion Norrman, Senior Scientist, Solar energy programme, Riso DTUUniversity of Denmark – DTU
Bernard Kippelen, Associate Director, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics

11.00am: Coffee Break

• Hear the very latest on the OPV efficiency breakthroughs and what to expect in the next 12 – 18 months
• Understand the steps that need to be taken in order to drive OPV efficiency to 8% at module level
• Discover new and improved molecules that absorb more of the solar spectrum, are better matched to the acceptor molecules, and have optimized light-absorbing layer structure, that have the potential of reaching 20% efficiency

Moderator

Dr. Moritz Riede, head of the organic solar cell group, Institute for Applied Photo Physics

Dana C. Olson, Research Scientist, NREL
Zheng  Xu , Ph.D, Senior Researcher, Solarmer
Max Shtein, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Tom Aernouts, Senior Scientist, Team leader Organic PhotoVoltaics, IMEC

• Your opportunity to get exclusive insight into the very latest OPV breakthroughs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Discover the importance of interfaces in bulk heterojunction OPV devices for: methods of characterizing interfacial chemistry and orientation, the impact of interface character on device performance, and the role of interfaces in active layer degradation
• Hear exclusive results from the Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics team at NIST highlighting their use of thin film transistors, near edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy, and spectroscopic ellipsometry

David S. Germack, Polymers Division, Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology

1.00pm: Lunch

• Your opportunity to hear an exclusive demonstration of the products already in use by Konarka
• Hear an in-depth review of the process of printed OPV technology
• Evaluate and analyze the most applicable market segments for Organic Photovoltaic technology and stay one step ahead of the curve

Eitan Zeira, Director of Electronic Printing Technologies, Konarka

• Understand the very latest development in new materials that promise higher efficiencies for OPV
• Understanding intrinsic degradation to extend the lifetime of organic photovoltaics
• Exclusive demonstration of cutting edge ink technology for scalable, commercially-relevant coating processes

Mary Boone, Director of Market Development, Plextronics inc

• Gain an exclusive insight into the development of Flexible Organic Solar Modules at Fraunhofer ISE
• Evaluate and analzye the latest breakthroughs in long-term stability of Organic Solar Cells
• Hear the latest developments in the identification of degradation mechanisms by means of impedance spectroscopy

Dr. Uli Wuerfel, Department Materials Research and Applied Optics, Fraunhofer ISE

• Gain an exclusive insight into IMEC's (Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre)  role in the Organic Photovoltaic landscape
• Hear about IMEC’s groundbreaking work into Improving efficiency of OPV through the use of multijunction architectures
• Evaluate and analyze IMEC’s latest research into OPV lifetime as well as future predictions and prospects

Tom Aernouts, Senior Scientist,Team leader Organic PhotoVoltaics, IMEC

• Learn what factors will most determine success in the current market
• From R&D to commercial product, understand the crucial partnerships you need to make and where to get the funding you need
• From first round, second round, project finance to government/stimulus grant understand what money is available to you, and how to get your hands on it

Moderator:

Johanna Schmidtke, Senior Analyst, Lux research

John Bartlett, Financial Analyst, Department of Energy
Andrew Friendly, Partner, Advanced Technology Ventures
Alan G. Brown Ph.D, Executive Director, Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center

• Employing TOF-SIMS and XPS to study chemical degradation in polymer solar cells

• Localization of places in the device that are degraded by water and oxygen

• Quantitative comparison of water and oxygen induced degradation

Kion Norrman, Senior Scientist, Solar energy programme, Riso DTU

6pm-8pm – Organic Photovoltaic industry drinks party

8.30am Registration opens

• Evaluate the most promising emerging applications and markets for OPV technology and gain an understanding of “When” they are likely to become a reality.
• Understand the potential market opportunity for OPV within the emerging BIPV industry as well as building and construction products, from windows to paints and cladding
• Understand which emerging applications and markets you should be leveraging now for maximum ROI

Paula Mints, Senior Analyst, Navigant Consulting

Exclusive evaluation of actual performance and reliability product testing data for Organic PV

• Exclusive evaluation of actual performance and reliability data from an Organic PV module
• Analyze a performance assessment and evaluation of an actual Thin Film PV system – including data on yield potential and losses
• how this data can give us an insight into Organic PV’s long term stability as well as an understanding of it’s future product potential!

Julia W. P. Hsu, Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories

• Discover how Metal oxides can be leveraged to improve both performance and lifetime through their use in many different applications in OPV devices.

• Hear how NREL are actively researching Indium tin oxide (ITO) alternatives that could help to enhance device performance and lifetime as well as reduce the materials and processing costs of future OPV technologies.

• Evaluate and analyze the use of metal oxides as selective hole or electron transport layers (HTL/ETL) in OPV devices to enhance device performance and stability

Dana C. Olson, Research Scientist, NREL

• Evaluate and analyze the advantages of Vacuum Processing in the development of Organic Solar Cells
• Hear the latest developments in optimizing the device morphology and optics for blend layers
• Accurate device characterization of efficient solar cells

Dr. Moritz Riede, head of the organic solar cell group, Institute for Applied Photo Physics

11.00am: Coffee Break

• Benefit from a comprehensive guide to organisations that can help you with the certification process as well as a full brief on NREL capabilities
• Understand exactly what is involved in securing the certificates you need and take practical advice from the lab on how to prepare for durability assessment
• Take away an exclusive overview of key findings across testing operations at NREL and an assessment of where OPV operators are most likely to find big technological gains

Keith Emery, Device Performance, Research staff, NREL

• Evaluate and analyze the very latest polymer development and how this can produce high efficiencies for OPV cells
• Gain an exclusive insight into Solarmers latest developments including translucent solar cells
• Evaluate the most promising emerging applications and markets for OPV technology and gain an understanding of “When” they are likely to become a reality.

Zheng Xu, Ph.D, Senior Researcher, Solarmer

• Discover new transparent conductors and electrical requirements for large area scaling of organic photovoltaics cells
• Modeling resistive power losses in organic solar cells
• Evaluate and analyze new barrier coatings and packaging technology for organic solar cells 

Bernard Kippelen, Associate Director, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics

1.00pm: Lunch

• Evaluate and analyze the potential advantages and shortcomings of organic compounds for scalable energy harvesting
• Understand the core fundamentals of organic solar cell design as well as their operation and efficiency limits
• Learn about new novel, fiber-based organic solar cells as well as an exclusive look at some prototypes and an understanding of it’s future potential

Max Shtein, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan

• Hear about FACESS goal to develop economically viable solar cells on a large scale for mass production to achieve a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of up to 2.5% 
• Learn how this will require selection, modification and up-scaling of suitable solar cell materials, effective patterning technologies, development of the printing processes and improved encapsulation technologies.
• Evaluate and analyze the major technological challenges and solutions for roll-to-roll manufacturing will be summarised and gain an insight into the development and experimental results of new roll-to-roll techniques

Jukka Hast, Senior Research Scientist, VTT Technical research centre of Finland

• Materials and printing techologies
• Electrical and optical properties of current colllecting grids
• Outlook

Ronn Andriessen PhD, Program Manager Printing & OPV, Holst Centre / TNO