Session Title Name Topic THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2014 Attendees: Please BE AT THE CALIFORNIA AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM No later than 8 AM THURSDAY to complete Check-In Check-in at the California Automobile Museum; Breakfast 7:30 – 8:45 am All Participants Check in Optional Purchases: Collection of Convention Papers Sign up for those attending dinner that evening at The Old Spaghetti Factory (no host) Drop off posters if not submitted for printing by SCI ** Continental Breakfast available in the Education Center** 8:50 Welcome Svetlana Hristova, SCI Housekeeping Details. All Convention attendees complete the pre-survey found in the Convention folder. This will be collected before the Keynote presentation begins. 1 9 am Keynote Julie Greene, Executive Director, SCI Introduced by Pat McArdle, SCI 2 9:30 am Solar Cooking Sector: Successes Dr. Ed Pejack 3-min: 1st International Conference, Stockton, 1992 Dr. Paul Funk Presents ‘catalog’ of impact data from global solar cooking projects Grace Magney, (Afghanistan) Successes in Afghanistan (Pat McArdle to provide ppt for Grace) Lineker Phuong, Alexsandra Guerra, Carlotta PhamUC Irvine (USA) Solar Cooking at Night: phase-changing nitrate salts for heat storage 10:20 am 10-minute BREAK 3 10:30 am Sustainable Project Design Dr. Allart Ligtenberg, FAST, Rotary 1. Inclusive integrated approaches with solar cookers and other technologies/ vocations improve economic development and quality of life in Nepal villages. 2. baseline data for fuel wood used in trekking lodges. 3. Lessons learned
Susan Kinne, Grupo Fenix (Nicaragua) Edu-tourism model of Sabana Grande: Lessons learned Dr. Janak Palta McGilligan (India) Empowering young Rural and Tribal women with Solar Cookers: Lessons learned from implementation of two successful models in India Dr. Shyam S. Nandwani (Costa Rica) Solar Food warmers for Educational Centres in Costa Rica 4 11:30 am Funding for the Solar Cooking Sector Jack Garvey, Jr. (USA) Financial Products: Reducing Risk for Solar Cooking Projects Pat McArdle, SCI (USA) Factors that give funders confidence David Whitfield, CEDESOL (Bolivia) Carbon Credits as Accessible Funding: CDM, Gold standard projects Jack Anderson, Kyoto Twist Society (Canada) Carbon Credits as Accessible Funding: Voluntary Carbon Offsets Lunch 12:30 5 1:15 pm Income Generation Jagadeeswara Reddy (India) Concept Of Renewable Energy/Model Village Dr. Pete Schwartz, CalPoly San Luis Obispo (USA) Inexpensive, High Performance Solar Concentrators for less than $0.1 per Watt Edye Kuyper (USA) Solar cooking, women’s empowerment, and and nutrition security Dr. Ajay Chandak (India) Evolution of PRINCE Paneled Concentrating Solar Dish Cookers as DIY Kits 6 2:15 pm Special Topics Rolf Behringer (Germany) Solar Food Preservation
Dr. Catlin Powers, One Earth Designs (China) The global public image of solar cookers: notes from the field 9 5:45 pm Insights from Day 1 Presentations Julie Greene 6 pm GROUP PHOTO at the California Automobile Museum All Charley Cross, Photographer END DAY I 6:15 pm Depart for dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory (optional) 6:30 pm Dinner at The Old Spaghetti 1910 J St, Sacramento, CA 95811 FRIDAY Attendees: Please BE AT THE CALIFORNIA AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM no later than 8 AM FRIDAY 10 8 am Poster Presentations/ Breakfast All Poster Presenters 11 9:30 am Solar Cooking Sector: Challenges Dr. Ajay Chandak (India) Specific solar cooker criteria for prospective users or buyers Dr. Catlin Powers, One Earth Designs (China) The need for a consumer certification for solar cookers Dr. Pia Otte (Norway) Relevant factors for the successful adoption of institutional cookers
Gordon Bauer (USA) Evaluation of usage and fuel savings of solar ovens in Nicaragua 12 10:30 am Standards, Testing and Certification (Part I) Dr. William Bradley, Western New England University (USA) Reciprocal Optical Test for Measuring Solar Cooker Performance Bernhard Müller (Germany)/Faustine (Kenya) Water Boiling Test for solar cookers Dr. Ajay Chandak, PRINCE (India) Development of Universal Standards for Solar Cookers for Use at Test Centers 11:20 am 10-minute BREAK 13 11:30 am Standards, Testing and Certification (Part II) Dr. Chandak/Dr. Funk ASAE -581 Standards: updates Dr. Paul Funk, SCInet (USA) ISO TAG: Solar cookers and safety standards for cookstoves Dr. Michael Nicholas, University of California, Davis (USA) Solar Cooking in the Digital Age: Opportunities for Cooking with and Testing Solar Ovens Using Microcontrollers Lunch 12:30 pm 14 1:15 pm Discussion and Decision: Solar Cooker Standards All
15 2:30 pm First Working Group All 16 3:45 pm Collaboration for the Solar Cooking Sector Tom Sponheim, SCI/Paul Hedrick, SCI SCInet Wiki Dr. Catlin Powers “How I Solar”: concept presentation Dr. Pia Otte Mapping global impact data for solar cooking: a case study Julie Greene, SCI (USA) SCInet: Where do we go from here? Participation and organizational models 17 4:45 Open Forum Patricia McArdle, SCI 5:15 Dinner 18 6:15 pm Second Working Group All 19 7:15 pm Concluding Remarks: The Future We Envision Honey Walters, President, SCI/Julie Greene, SCI (USA) 8 pm END DAY II SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2014 SACRAMENTO SOLAR COOKING FESTIVAL, WILLIAM LAND PARK, SACRAMENTO (corner of Freeport and Sutterville) CHEFS ARRIVE TO SET UP BETWEEN 8 AND 9 AM 10 am – 3 pm Public solar cooking demonstrations SCInet Convention attendees and Sacramento region solar cooks SOLAR CHEFS TAKE DOWN OVENS AND COMPLETE CLEAN UP BY 3:30 PM