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Speakers SXSW ECO Margery A. Moore Dan Morash Deb Nelson Director EHS Strategic Alliances, Founder, CALIFORNIA SAFE SOIL LLC Executive Director, SOCIAL VENTURE BLOOMBERG BNA With his brother Dave, Dan founded California Safe Soil to develop a proprietary technology to recycle supermarket organics into high nutrient soil. A former energy and infrastructure investment banker, he has experience with both large Wall Street and boutique firms. Dan received his MBA from the Tuck school at Dartmouth College and his BA from Yale. Startup Showcase: Greentech TUE, 10/8 10:45AM, LEVEL 1, Ballroom BC Margery Moore is Director of Environmental Strategic Alliances for Bloomberg-BNA. She works with a global network of organizations to develop environmental and sustainability software systems that help many different types of corporations meet their compliance, and beyond compliance, requirements. In her spare time she runs The Institute for Sustainability Education & Action. SXSW Eco Social Innovation Case Study Challenge WED, 10/9 12:00PM, LEVEL 3, MR 8C Awakening the Hope: Dialogue on Climate Change WED, 10/9 4:30PM, LEVEL 3, MR 8AB Rob Moore Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL Rob Moore joined NRDC in May 2013 as a Senior Policy Analyst and leads the water and climate team which identifies and addresses water-related impacts resulting from a warming climate. Prior to joining NRDC, Rob was the executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York, New York State's main watchdog for environmental policy-making. Water Resources: Understanding Water Challenges and Solutions Presented by Bloomberg BNA TUE, 10/8 12:00PM, LEVEL 3, MR 9C Deb Morrison NETWORK For the past 12 years, Deb has lead SVN, an organization of 600 business leaders, impact investors and social entrepreneurs who are leveraging the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. She has a BA in English from Northwestern and an MBA in marketing and management strategy from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Putting a Network to Work TUE, 10/8 3:15PM, LEVEL 3, MR 10AB Teacher, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT Dr Jason Newland BOULDER Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Medical Director of Patient Safety and Systems Reliability, CHIL- Deb works with teachers to improve classroom equity, primarily within science education contexts. She also works with scientists to figure out effective methods of providing education outreach to teachers for their specific content context, primarily in earth systems science and life sciences. Climate Justice: Science, Advocacy and Equity WED, 10/9 10:45AM, LEVEL 3, MR 8AB Amit Narayan CEO, AUTOGRID Dr. Amit Narayan is Founder and CEO of AutoGrid, Inc. He previously served as VP of Products at Magma Design Automation. Dr. Narayan holds a B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur and PhD from UC Berkeley. He has published over 25 papers about design automation and holds seven US patents. How to Save Power: Information or Automation? MON, 10/7 12:00PM, LEVEL 3, MR 5ABC The Soft Grid: Next-Gen Electric Power Grids TUE, 10/8 4:30PM, LEVEL 3, MR 9AB 100 SXSW Eco | October 7-9, 2013 | sxsweco.com DREN'S MERCY HOSPITALS & CLINICS Dr. Newland obtained his BS in pre-professional studies at the University of Notre Dame in 1996 and medical degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 2000. He completed a pediatric residency at the University of Nebraska/Creighton Medical Centers in 2003 and a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 2006. Fighting Superbugs on the Farm to Save Antibiotics MON, 10/7 10:45AM, LEVEL 3, MR 5ABC Ted Nordhaus Chairman, BREAKTHROUGH INSTITUTE Ted Nordhaus is an American author, environmental policyexpert and the chairman of The Breakthrough Institute. He was listed in TIME magazine's Heroes of the Environment (2008), winner of the 2008 Green Book Award, co-editor of Love Your Monsters and co-author of Break Through (Houghton Mifflin 2007) and The Death of Environmentalism (2004). Pandora's Pathway: The Road to a Nuclear Future TUE, 10/8 12:00PM, LEVEL 3, MR 9AB