Six hundred business leaders, investors, environmentalists and policy-makers will gather at the Ceres annual conference, Igniting Innovation, Scaling Sustainability, May 11-12 at Oakland's Marriott City Center to accelerate the transition to a sustainable economy while tackling thorny issues, such as natural gas 'fracking,' water scarcity and how to finance the huge market for energy efficiency retrofits.

For the full conference agenda see: www.ceres.org/conferences/program

Plenaries and workshops include:

• Collaborators or competitors? Advancing clean energy in the U.S. and China
  
• Accelerating pickup of electric vehicles
  
• Natural gas: Friend or foe?
  
• Cracking the energy efficiency financing challenge
  
• Water matters: Case studies in corporate water risk management

Leading conference speakers include:

• R. James Woolsey, Chairman of Woolsey Partners LLC and a Venture Partner with Lux Capital Management, and Former CIA Director
  
• Mary Nichols, Chairman, California Air Resources Board
  
• Jon Krahulik, Managing Director, Global Head of Clean Technology Investment, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
  
• Dr. Jiang Lin, Senior Vice President and Director, China Sustainable Energy Program, The Energy Foundation
  
• Hannah Jones, Vice President, Sustainable Business and Innovation, Nike
  
• Mindy Lubber, President, Ceres
  
• Thomas Steyer, Founder, Senior Managing Member, Co-Managing Partner, Farallon Capital Management LLC
  
• Dr. Zhengrong Shi, Chairman of the Board of Directors, CEO, Suntech
  
• Bill Green, Macquarie Capital Funds
  
• John Anderson, President, CEO, Levi & Strauss Co.

TO PARTICIPATE: The conference will be held May 11 and 12 at the Marriott City Center in Oakland. Contact Meg Wilcox at wilcox@ceres.org or 617-319-6457 (cell) to obtain a press pass.

CONTACT: For more information, or to arrange one-on-one interviews with conference speakers, contact Meg Wilcox, Ceres, (617) 319-6457 (cell) or wilcox@ceres.org or Peyton Fleming, Ceres, (617) 733-6660 (cell) or fleming@ceres.org

Ceres leads a national coalition of investors, environmental groups and other public interest organizations that works with companies to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change. For more information, visit www.ceres.org.

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