IPPNY's 2nd Annual NYS Energy and the Environment Showcase

Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Time: 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Location: Troy Hilton Garden Inn (Troy, NY)

Hosted by the Independent Power Producers of New York, Inc.

Want to exhibit this year? Download: EXHIBITOR PROSPECTUS

Welcome to IPPNY's 2nd Annual NYS Energy and the Environment Showcase held at the Hilton Garden Inn Troy & the Rensselaer Banquet & Conference Facility on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. This exciting event will provide an opportunity for attendees to understand the viewpoints of various groups and to engage in a discussion on those issues.

WHY YOU SHOULD EXHIBIT - Your organization is a welcome participant in this two hour event and will be afforded the opportunity to feature your educational materials. As an exhibitor, you will be able to provide participants with the opportunity to learn about your organization's role in the energy industry. In addition, your exhibit will increase a more general awareness regarding energy and environmental policies, legislative and regulatory priorities, and your organization's overall goals related to the energy sector in NYS. The exhibits will be interactive, allowing you to be available to answer questions that public officials, policy makers, and private stakeholders in the energy and environmental fields may have. The resulting marketing opportunities will be plentiful, as you interact with other organizations and consultants. The showcase will provide a unique experience for exhibitors and attendees alike as they exchange, in a social setting, information and ideas that carry the potential to mold the landscape of New York State's energy supply.

EXHIBITOR BENEFITS ALSO WILL INCLUDE:

- Recognition in signage, plasma screen displays, and on our website (www.ippny.org), as well in the printed materials distributed at the Showcase
- A sign with your company's name and logo displayed at your sponsored event/booth
- The opportunity to distribute your promotional materials to the Showcase's attendees - a multitude of business, government, and organization leaders

Sponsorships and vendor booth space are limited. Due to the space restrictions at the Troy Hilton Garden Inn, your spot is not guaranteed in the Energy and the Environment Showcase, until the Showcase Registration form is completed and returned along with payment. So, act now!

Please contact Vanessa LaClair, CMP at 518-436-3749 or email vanessa@ippny.org. Thank you for your interest and participation.

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AGENDA

8:00 to 9:00 AM
Breakfast & Registration

9:00 to 9:15
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Gavin J. Donohue, President & CEO
Independent Power Producers of New York

9:15 to 10:15
Legislative Leadership Update
Hon. George Maziarz
Senator & Chairman
NYS Senate Energy Committee

Hon. Kevin Cahill (invited)
Member of Assembly & Chairman
NYS Assembly Energy Committee

10:15 to 10:45
Inside the Executive Office
Thomas Congdon, Deputy Secretary for Energy
Office of the Governor

10:45 to 11:00
Coffee Break

11:00 to 11:30
Balancing Energy, Environment and Economic Development
Joseph Martens, Commissioner
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation

11:30 to 12:00 PM
New York State & Federal Regulatory Update
Sam Laniado, Principal
Read & Laniado and IPPNY Outside Counsel

12:00 to 1:15
Empowering Energy Innovation & Growth - The Marcellus Shale Debate

Katherine Sinding, Senior Attorney and Deputy Director of the New York Urban Program, Natural Resources Defense Council

Michael Joy, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Oil and Gas Law, SUNY Buffalo Law School and Partner, Biltekoff & Joy, LLP

Moderator: Fred LeBrun, Columnist, Albany Times Union

1:15 to 2:15
Lunch and Keynote Address
Hon. Eric Schneiderman
NYS Attorney General

Eric T. Schneiderman was elected the 65th Attorney General of New York State on November 2, 2010. As Attorney General, Schneiderman is the highest ranking law enforcement officer for the State, responsible for representing New York and its residents in legal matters. Schneiderman has established restoring the public's faith in its public and private sector institutions as key priorities for the Attorney General's office, by focusing on areas including public integrity, economic justice, social justice and environmental protection.

In his first weeks in office, Attorney General Schneiderman has launched an aggressive plan to root out fraud and return money illegally stolen from New York taxpayers at no additional cost to the state. This initiative includes a new "Taxpayer Protection Unit" specifically designed to go after corruption in state contracts, pension fund rip-offs, and large-scale tax cheats. Schneiderman has also bolstered the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which has already recovered millions of dollars to taxpayers under his watch by cracking down on fraud in the Medicaid program. In addition, Schneiderman has repeatedly stood up to powerful interests on behalf of New Yorkers, suing a Pennsylvania power plant emitting dangerous sulphur dioxide into our air, taking on several tobacco companies for illegally selling cigarettes online amid a teen smoking epidemic, and shutting down fake immigration services companies scheming to defraud victims of the Haiti earthquake.

As the state's top law enforcement officer, Attorney General Schneiderman brings with him a wealth of experience, in both the public and private sectors. Before becoming Attorney General, Schneiderman served in the New York State Senate as a leading reformer, and was praised by numerous editorial pages and good government organizations as a rare leader in Albany who stood up to leaders of both parties to reform government and get results for New Yorkers. Among his many legislative accomplishments, Schneiderman passed the most sweeping ethics reforms in a generation, chaired the committee to expel a corrupt senator for the first time in modern history, and passed the toughest law in the nation to root out fraud against taxpayers.

The Attorney General previously spent 15 years in private practice as an attorney, and later as a partner at the firm of Kirkpatrick and Lockhart, where he handled complex litigation. He was also a public interest lawyer for many years, representing taxpayers in historic lawsuits against the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), tenants trying to evict drug dealers from their buildings, and women seeking access to health clinics.

Attorney General Schneiderman graduated from Amherst College in 1977 and Harvard Law School in 1982. He is the proud father of a daughter, Catherine.