Keynote Event
"Energy Technology and Policy-Beyond the Rhetoric"
Sunday, November 14
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Convention Centre West, Level 1, Ballroom C

There is a growing sense of urgency to address global energy challenges. Energy technology options and policy issues are more complicated than ever in today's rapidly changing world. ASME invites you to the Keynote event of the 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exhibition - where a dynamic, engaging panel of leading thinkers and practitioners representing a cross section of the energy sector will discuss issues and opportunities for the engineering community. Join us as we go beyond the rhetoric and probe the global energy grand challenge.

		Moderator: Llewellyn King Llewellyn King is the creator, executive producer and host of "White House Chronicle," a weekly news and public affairs show, airing on more than 200 PBS, public, educational and governmental access and commercial television stations; Voice of America Television; and Sirius XM Radio. He also writes a weekly column for the Hearst-New York Times Syndicate. King was the founding editor in chief and publisher of The Energy Daily. It was the flagship of his King Publishing Group, whose other award-winning titles included Defense Week, New Technology Week and Navy News & Undersea Technology. He sold the company in 2006. King's insightful reporting and analysis of energy led to frequent guest spots on television news shows, including NBC's "Meet the Press" and "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS. While living in London, King worked as an executive for The Daily Mirror Group, a reporter for Associated Newspapers, and a news writer for BBC and ITN. After moving to the United States, King worked as an editor and reporter for many top newspapers, including The New York Herald Tribune, The Baltimore News-American, The Washington Daily News and The Washington Post. While working at The Washington Post, he headed the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. A stint at McGraw-Hill's Nucleonics Week led to his starting The Energy Daily. King has given more than 2,000 speeches. He continues to be an in-demand and erudite commentator on energy, foreign affairs, Congress and the White House, small business, science and technology, and the media. He has organized more than 1,000 conferences on issues ranging from nuclear energy to landmine removal to Social Security to campaign finance. King holds an honorary doctorate in engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.
Meet the Panel
		Donald P. McConnell President, Battelle Energy Technology Battelle Corporate Senior Vice President Don McConnell is corporate senior vice president of Battelle and president of Battelle Energy Technology, one of Battelle's four major global businesses. McConnell directs the development of five principal lines of energy business focusing on near-zero emission hydrocarbon conversion, carbon management solutions, sustainable energy, energy infrastructure and nuclear fuel cycle solutions. These businesses serve the energy industry and collaborate in energy research with the National Laboratories Battelle manages or co-manages for the U.S. Department of Energy. McConnell currently serves as a senior member of the board of governors and the energy review committee for the six national laboratories that Battelle manages or co-manages for the DOE. He is also responsible for integrating initiatives across these labs with a special focus on energy initiatives and commercial business operations. McConnell earned a B.S. in Aeronautics & Astronautics and an M.S. in Engineering & Mechanics from New York University and has received a doctorate honoris causa for his leadership in higher education.
		Kip Morison, P.E. Chief Technology Officer BC Hydro, Vancouver, Canada Kip Morison, P.E., has over 30 years of experience in the electric utility business and is currently the chief technology officer for BC Hydro in Vancouver, Canada. He holds a Masters degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto. From 1979 to 1992, he worked for Ontario Hydro in Toronto as a transmission system planner specializing in advanced stability and control of power systems. In 1993, he relocated to Vancouver to become the director of Power System Technologies at Powertech Labs, the technology subsidiary of BC Hydro, where he managed a business unit providing international consulting services in the field of power system design, operation, technology innovation, and equipment testing. In 2008, he joined the British Columbia Transmission Corporation (BCTC) as manager of Long Term Planning and Research & Development. With the merger of BCTC and BC Hydro in 2010, he became the chief technology officer for BC Hydro. A member of IEEE and the International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE), Morison is a registered professional engineer in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario.
		John M. Reilly, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Center for Environmental Policy Research John Reilly is a Co-Director of the MIT Joint Program and is an energy, environmental, and agricultural economist. His research is focused on understanding the role of human activities as a contributor to global environmental change and the effects of environmental change on society and the economy. A key element of his work is the integration of economic models of the global economy as it represents human activity with models of biophysical systems including the ocean, atmosphere, and terrestrial vegetation. By understanding the complex interactions of human society with our planet, the goal is to aid in the design of policies that can effectively limit the contribution of human activity to environmental change, to facilitate adaptation to unavoidable change, and to understand the consequences of the deployment of large scale energy systems that will be needed to meet growing energy needs.
		Karen A. Thole, Ph.D. Department Head of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering The Pennsylvania State University Dr. Karen A. Thole is the head of the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. She holds two degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. After receiving her PhD, she spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Karslruhe in Germany. Her academic career began in 1994 when she became an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1999, she accepted a position in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Virginia Tech where she was promoted to Professor in 2003. She was appointed as the Department Head at Penn State in 2006. Dr. Thole's areas of expertise are heat transfer and fluid mechanics specializing in gas turbine heat transfer. She has co-authored more than 120 peer-reviewed papers and has advised over 35 graduate dissertations and theses. She is an active member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering serving as the Vice Chair for the Mechanical Engineering Department Heads Executive Committee and as a member of the Committee on Honors. She also serves on the Board of Directors for both the Center for Education and the International Gas Turbine Institute.