San Diego's Entrepreneurial Resources: Addressing the Need for Water
Speaker Series
11/18/2010, 05:45pm-08:00pm
Location: IR/PS Robinson Complex, Room 3201
Open to: Public, Students, Alumni
Speaker: Scott Bryan, Director of Operations, Imagine H20
Stuart Crockett, State Manager for Western Australia, Austrade
David Pierce, Programmer Analyst, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Rob Steiner, Co-Founder of WaterSmart Software
An Environmental Policy and Business Forum event
Water scarcity presents a threat to our community. Businesses, from bio-tech to clean tech, will require innovative water strategies, technologies, and policies for their operations. The Environmental Policy and Business Forum is bringing together government/water agency representatives, researchers, water technology companies, and venture capitalists to identify where water technology and policy are headed and how San Diego can become a hub for water innovation.
Click here for information about registration, sponsors, and directions.Moderator
Scott Bryan, Director of Operations, Imagine H20
Scott joined Imagine H2O from Royal Bank of Canada where he served as a financial consultant specializing in sustainable investment strategies for foundations and private investors. Prior to RBC, Scott was a social investment analyst at Piper Jaffray where he assessed environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in the investment process. Scott originally became involved in Imagine H2O as a volunteer via his membership in Full Circle Fund's Energy and Environment Circle. Scott currently serves on the board of Vida Verde Nature Education in Half Moon Bay. He has a B.A. in economics from the Colorado College.
Panelists:
Stuart Crockett, State Manager for Western Australia, Austrade
Stuart came to Austrade with a significant amount of experience in both International and Domestic Business Management. Stuart worked for many years in one of Australia’s leading trading houses as state manager for the Industrial Products Division and was actively involved in many industries including mining, engineering, agriculture and the industrial sector. He gained further experience by taking up the position of state manager for an Australian Agricultural and Industrial manufacturing and distribution company specializing in spray technology and rain water utilization. Stuart has filled the role of General Manager for a scientifically-based company specializing in beneficial microbes for agriculture. The focus of this company was dry land farming in arid and semi-arid environments. This company is a proud Australian start up organization that has now completed successful exports to a number of countries. Since joining Austrade 18 months ago, Stuart has held the role of state manager for Western Australia, and now undertakes the position of trade commissioner for Los Angeles. Stuart currently manages Austrades U.S. Water Strategy and its delivery. Stuart holds a Bachelor of Business in marketing and management and a diploma in export management from the Australian Institute of Export.
David Pierce, Programmer Analyst, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
David Pierce obtained his B.A. in physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, then worked for several years in the memory products division of Intel Corporation before going to graduate school at the University of Washington. He received an M.S. in physical oceanography in 1989, followed by a Ph.D. in 1993. After that, he joined the staff in the Climate Research Division of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he has worked on such problems as El Nino prediction, understanding climate variability in the North Pacific, and global climate change. Dr. Pierce is an author on 45 papers in the peer-reviewed literature, and was a contributing author to the fourth IPCC climate assessment report, which was a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel peace prize.
Rob Steiner, Co-Founder of WaterSmart Software
Rob Steiner is currently a co-founder of WaterSmart Software, a water efficiency venture based in San Diego and San Francisco whose mission is to help water utilities make it easier for their residential customers to save water and save money. Rob is also a special projects manager at Summit Global Management, a San Diego-based water investment firm where he is focused on linking Summit's specific water strategies to the wider universe of investment opportunities in global water markets. Prior to joining the private sector, Rob was an officer in the U.S. Public Health Service and served within the Department of Health and Human Services. Rob holds a master's degree in public health from George Washington University, with a concentration in global health policy, and a B.S. from the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan.
Additional Information
Registration
The evening includes an hors d’oeuvres reception, and registration is required:
Non-students; business and community members: $15 registration fee. Non-students, register here through our secured registration page.
Student admission is free:
IR/PS students register at IRPSCAREERS.
Non-IR/PS students contact David Robertson at darobertson@ucsd.edu.
The forum is a presentation of Net Impact, the Environmental Policy and Business Forum, and IR/PS.
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Please contact David Robertson at (858) 534-1104 for more information.
