SOLARCON INDIA-2013

11:30 - 12:00 Inaugural Keynote Dr. Harish Hande - Managing Director, SELCO and Ramon Magsaysay Awardee 12:00 - 12:30 Inaugural Keynote The Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC) Innovative Pathways toward Supply Chain Collaboration Prof. Pradeep Haldar Professor, SUNY at Albany & COO/CTO of US PV Manufacturing Consortium Download Presentation: Keynote Presentation (2MB PDF; Password protected) 14:00 15:00 JNNSM Phase - 2 (2013-2017) Policy Initiatives and Implementation - Industry Interaction Address by: Shri. Tarun Kapoor, IAS, Jt. Secretary, MNRE Download Presentation (553KB PDF; Password protected)

Implementation Perspectives by: Dr. Ashvini Kumar, Director, Solar Energy Corporation of India Download Presentation (603KB PDF; Password protected)

15:15 - 16:30

CEO Panel Assessing the Indian Solar Market - Development Prospects and Problems - the big picture CEO panel -CEO panel - Sponsored by Enerparc Moderated by Dr. Arunabha Ghosh, CEEW; Dr. Arul Shanmugasundram, Tata Power Solar; Basant Jain, Mahindra Solar

Business; Pashupathy Gopalan, SunEdison; Prasanth Sakhamuri, HHV; Stefan Mller, Enerparc; Sujoy Ghosh, First Solar; 17:00 - 17:30 Trends in Solar Cell and Module Technology Prof. Dr. Roland Schindler, Executive Director, Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems Download Presentation (2MB PDF; Password protected) 17:45 - 18:15 Silicon Solar Cell Research Progress at UNSW Prof. Richard Corkish, Head, School of PV and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW, Australia & COO, Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics Download Presentation (4MB PDF; Password protected) 19:00 Onwards Networking Dinner Sponsored by Jinko Solar

Friday, August 2, 2013 09:30 - 11:00 Role of States in PV Market Growth in India Panel discussion moderated by Santosh Kamath, KPMG - Kartikeya Misra, IAS, AP-NDCL; Manu Karan, SunEdison; Paramita Sahoo; Welspun; SK Prabhakar, KREDL; Venkat Konakandla, Solar Semiconductor; Vish Iyer, Sterling Wilson 11:30 - 13:00 Financing Solar Issues, Options, Perspectives Abhilakh Singh, IREDA; Gaurav Sood, Solairedirect; Narsi Santhanam, Energy Alternatives India; SJ Vijay, Salmon Leap Associates; Arunavo Mukerjee, Tata Cleantech; Session chair: Vineeth Vijayaraghavan, Panchabuta Download Abhilakh Singh Presentation (3MB PDF; Password

protected) Download Arunavo Mukerjee Presentation (669KB PDF; Password protected) Download Gaurav Sood Presentation (692KB PDF; Password protected) Download SJ Vijay Presentation (645KB PDF; Password protected) 14:15 - 15:30 Balancing PV Supply and Demand in India: Re-invigorating Indian Manufacturing Panel Discussion moderated by Ivan Saha, Vikram Solar; Dr. Kaushik J. Vaidya, Applied Materials; Rajaram Pai, Dupont; Rajesh Singh, Renewsys; Dr. VSG Rao, Lanco Solar; Ravi Raghavan, Solar Semiconductor Download Dr. Kaushik J. Vaidya Presentation (1MB PDF; Password protected) Download Rajaram Pai Presentation (560KB PDF; Password protected) 16:00 - 17:00 Opportunities for Independent Power Producers under Indias REC Mechanism Panel discussion moderated by Vishal Pandya, REConnect; Rajat Sud, Atria Power; Ravi Khanna, Aditya Birla Group; Krishna Revankar, Emmvee Solar; Vikalp Mundra, M&B Switchgears 17:15 - 18:15 Rooftop Solar: The Next Big Market Driver in India Presentations from Akash, PanelClaw; Anmol Jaggi, Gensol; Krishna Revankar, Emmvee Solar, Nimish Jain, Jinko Solar Download Akash Presentation (2MB PDF; Password protected) Download Anmol Jaggi Presentation (1.5MB PDF; Password protected) Download Krishna Revankar Presentation (1.5MB PDF; Password

protected) Download Nimish Jain Presentation (2.8MB PDF; Password protected) Saturday, August 3, 2013 09:30 - 11:00 Perspectives on Building a Complete Solar PV eco-system in India Panel discussion moderated by Dr. Ashok Das, SunMoksha; Ashwin Gambhir, Prayas Energy Group; Chockalingam Muthiah; Prof. Juzer Vasi, NCPRE-IIT-Bombay, Manasij Kar, Enerplus; Vasudev Kalkundri, Syndicate Bank; Venkat Rajaraman, Solarsis; Download Prof. Juzer Vasi Presentation (2MB PDF; Password protected) 11:00 - 11:30 Keynote Talk Fundamental and Applied R&D for Advancing PV at NREL and the Solar Energy Research Institute for India and the US (SERIIUS) by Dr. Bill Tumas, Materials & Chemical Science and Technology Directorate, US-NREL Download Dr. Bill Tumas Presentation (3.5MB PDF; Password protected) 12:00 - 13:30 Structures, Safety, Performance & Reliability of PV Installations David Wissoker, Spire Solar, Hariharaputhiran, Tata Steel; Himamsu Popuri, Nuevosol; Dr. O.S. Sastry, SEC; Sanjay Chandra, Citel; Vaman Kuber, NCPRE Download David Wissoker Presentation (1.5MB PDF; Password protected) Download Hariharaputhiran Presentation (569KB PDF; Password protected)

Download Himamsu Popuri Presentation (3.8MB PDF; Password protected) Download Sanjay Chandra Presentation (1.7MB PDF; Password protected) Download Vaman Kuber Presentation (3.7MB PDF; Password protected) 14:30 - 15:30 Energy Conversion, Storage and Efficiency Presentations from Giancarlo Chiapparoli, Bonfiglioli; Manoj Pande, Statcon, Dr. Priya Ranjan Mishra, Philips; Anurag Garg, Schneider Electric Download Giancarlo Chiapparoli Presentation (1.3MB PDF; Password protected) Download Manoj Pande Presentation (3.7MB PDF; Password protected) Download Dr. Priya Ranjan Mishra Presentation (1.4MB PDF; Password protected)

FinancingSolarIssues,Options,Perspectives: Abhilakh Singh; Gaurav Sood, Solairedirect, Narsi Santhanam, Energy Alternatives India; SJ Vijay, Salmon Leap Associates; Arunavo Mukherjee, Tata Cleantech Capital; Session chair: Vineeth Vijayaraghavan, Panchabuta

AbhilakhSingh:

He is a Graduate in Electrical Engineering and MS in Consultancy Management and Member of Institution of Engineers and Fellow Member of IETE. He has experience in Renewable Energy specifically in wind & solar projects financing for 20 years. Currently he is Deputy General Manager and heading Solar & IT Divisions of IREDA. His additional responsibilities are Management Representative for ISO 9001 and Transparency Officer under RTI. Prior to joining IREDA, he was working in Quality Control and Environment Engineering with STQC, Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India. GauravSood Gaurav Sood, is the Managing Director of Solairedirect India. He was the first employee in India and has been instrumental in establishing Solairedirect amongst the leading Solar Photovoltaic IPPs and EPC companies in India. He is MB A in Finance & Marketing and M. Tech. in Renewable energy and brings the rare mix of technical and business acumen to the table. NarsiSanthanam Narasimhan co-founded Energy Alternatives India in 2008 and has led it to become the leading research and consulting organization for Indian renewable energy. He also co-founded Oilgae in 2006. Oilgae is today the global leader for industry research and business intelligence for the algae biofuels industry, and its research and reports have been used by Fortune 500 companies and global research organizations. He has extensive experience in understanding renewable energy markets and strategic levers for success in these markets. His work in the previous 15 years has spanned market and industry research, product management and international sales, and strategic consulting.

VineethVijayaraghavan Vineeth Vijayaraghavan is the founding editor of Panchabuta, one of India's leading Renewable Energy and Cleantech Industry focused information and intelligence provider. As the editor, Vinee th covers the sector with the intent to bring to the local and global audience, news, insightful analysis and commentary in this space. Prior to initiating Panchabuta, he was consultant to project developers in the field of thermal energy for projects in South Tamil Nadu. Structures, Safety, Performance & Reliability of PV Installations: David Wissoker, Spire Solar; Hariharaputhiran, Tata Steel; Himamsu Popuri, Nuevosol; Dr. O.S. Sastry, SEC; Sanjay Chandra, Citel; Vaman Kuber, NCPRE

David Wissoker: Mr. David Wissoker has an M.Sc in Electrical Engineering, worked for Ministry of Defence R&D, worked for Electro-optics companies, graphic arts, Laser Technology industry and semiconduc tor business. Later he joined Spire Corporation as Vice President, Sales responsible for Asian region. HariharaPuthiran: H.Hariharaputhiran has a Masters degree in Structural Engineering and currently working in Tata Steel and looking after Business development of the product - Tata Structures in South India. HimansuPopuri: Himamsu Popuri is the CEO of Nuevosol Energy Pvt. Ltd. Nuevosol Energy designs, sup plies and installs module mounting structures for solar PV power plants. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras and has also completed his Master of Technology, Intelligent Manufacturing from IIT Madras. His other major interests include Optimization, Operations Research, Financial Management and Marketing.

Dr.OSSastry: OS Sastry is currently working as senior scientist at Solar Energy Centre under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, government of India. He is a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in physics from IIT, New Delhi. He has executed a number of prestigious international projects which includes an Indo-US, Indo-Japan and Indo-UK projects and responsible for establishment of comprehensive test facilities and test beds for long term performance study of PV modules. He also is an accomplished technical expert for technical auditing testing laboratories for PV modules and systems. SanjayChandra: Sanjay Chandra is the Managing Director of Citel India, a subsidiary of Citel France in India. Citel is a multinational with presence in over 50 countries worldwide. Alumni of IIM Ahmedabad and ESSEC Business School, France Mr Chandra has 25 years+ exposure with industry in India and lately in the solar PV industry. VamanKuber: Vaman Kuber is currently working with National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education (NCPRE) at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in development of training programs, industry outreach and PV project studies. He also advises PV power developers and systems integrators in development of large size PV power plants, both rooftop and utility scale. Over the last 4 years, he has developed innovative solar systems solutions, consulting in solar power systems design, integration, testing and monitoring for off-grid, grid-support and on-grid applications in India. He has managed solar cell process, test and characterization equipment design and implementation projects in PV research laboratories at ANU and UNSW, Australia for 8 years. Balancing PV supply and demand in India: Re-invigorating Indian Manufacturing: Panel Discussion moderated by Ivan Saha, Vikram Solar; Dr. Kaushik J. Vaidya, Applied Materials; Rajaram Pai, Dupont; Rajesh Singh, Renewsys; Dr. VSG Rao, Lanco Solar; Ravi Raghavan, Solar Semiconductor

KaushikVaidya:

Kaushik is currently Director of Engineering and Technology at Applied Materials Energy and Environmental Solutions (EES) group. He has been working with Applied Materials for 13+ years and has total ~20 year work experience. He is working on developing equipment, technology to enable low cost and reliable renewable energy products based on crystalline Silicon solar cell. Kaushik has B.Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Ph.D. in Materials from University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition to Applied Materials, Kaushik has worked at General Electric (GE) India Technology Center, Bloom Energy, and has done 2 year post doc at University of Minnesota. RajaramPai:

Rajaram Pai is the Business Leader, DuPont Electronics & Communications and Photovoltaic (PV) Solutions, South Asia. He has extensive experience in the PV industry. Prior to joining DuPont, Mr. Pai worked at Moser Baer Solar wherein he worked in senior management positions across Sales & Marketing, Operations and Projects.

Apart from the solar sector, Mr. Pai has served over 10 years in various management roles at IBM, Delphi Corporation and Titan Industries. He is a Post Graduate from the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow and a Mechanical Engineer from Mangalore University. RajeshSingh:

Rajesh Singh is a Polymer & Packaging Technologist with Master in Business Administration Degree. He is presently working with RenewSys at the capacity of General Manager Operations.. He has 20years of experience in Flexible Packaging and Solar Industry through various functions Research & Development, Manufacturing, Business Development, Project Management and Operations. VSGangadharRao:

Dr. Gangadhara Rao is presently Chief Operating Officer (COO) Manufacturing at Lanco Solar. Dr. Rao has done his Masters in Engineering from IIT-Kanpur and Doctorate from I.I.T., Bombay. He has more than 20 years of industrial experience, in areas like Product Development, Project Execution and Manufacturing in speciality chemical process industries. During the last 5-years he was associated with the design, engineering, installation and commissioning of Mono-silane and Polysilicon manufacturing plants and the PV value chain, in China and South Korea.

RaviRaghavan:

Ravi is the CEO of the Solar Semiconductor. Ravi has worked for over 25 years in manufacturing industry. He has worked with Electrical industry major - Crompton Greaves, French Engineering giant Alsthom, and in his previous assignment with world compressor major Tecumseh Products Company (a 2 billion USD, MNC), where he has served as Global Director Business Process and Vice President, Strategy (Asia), Head of Operations and subsequently as Managing Director of Tecumseh India. SOLARCON India 2013 brings together the entire supply chain with a focus on PV manufacturing, production and technology and attracts equipment and materials suppliers; cell and module manufacturers; balance of systems (BOS) suppliers (inverters, batteries, tracking and mounting systems, integrators); distributors and project developers; academia and research; utility-scale developers and government. Industry leaders look to SOLARCON India to source the products, technologies, and solutions they need to meet the demand created by the Jawaharlal National Solar Mission, and the State solar policies and opportunities arising from Renewable Energy Certification and Renewable Purchase Obligations. SOLARCON India is the event of choice for the solar industry in India and is your best opportunity to benefit from and influence the direction of Indias solar market. This best -in-class exhibition attracts highly-focused visitors from across the Indian solar manufacturing supply chain. Secure a booth at SOLARCON India 2013 and network with more than 4,000 national and international trade visitors. Gain brand exposure and meet real buyers with purchasing authority.

 Discover new trends and products in the industry as well as tap into the full spectrum of solar professionals. Forge links with local partners in the Indian marketplace. Reach out to the growing solar markets in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamilnadu. The SOLARCON Difference: SOLARCON India is presented by SEMI India. SEMI India works year-round for the solar industry, guided by industry leaders in India and works to promote the best interests of the industry. In turn, SEMI India is supported by its parent company SEMI, the international trade association with global reach. Key Topics include: Identifying the key issues on which to report. Transparency and accountability. Developing priorities through stakeholder engagement. International reporting standards. Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Tools and strategies to deliver an effective sustainability message. Tailoring reporting solutions to meet a companys unique needs. Measuring and reporting on community investment. Reporting CSR activities to key stakeholders. Developing an effective communications plan. Case studies of successful reporting strategies. The fourth edition of Indias premiere solar energy focused event with the theme 'The Promise of Affordable Solar Power in India: Unraveling the Bottlenecks and Identifying Solutions 'kick-started in Bangalore this morning.