Dupont Summit 2014 on Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy Issues

View the schedule at a glance. This document contains all the sessions in the program, which are listed below with more detail. Click on each of the sessions within the document, or in the list below, to read the abstracts and biographies of the speakers. Chairs for each session will be provided, except for those sessions that are providing their own Chair or moderator. We want all sessions to have a Chair to introduce the speakers and to moderate the Q&A.

Please note that all sessions in Track 4, except the first one, are individual sessions, and they run for 35 min each with 10 min breaks in between. All other panel sessions run for 1hr 20min with 10 min breaks in between. Also note there is no specific lunch break scheduled. The reason is simply that food will be available continuously throughout the day, thus enhancing the networking environment while also avoiding the gathering of all participants in a single long line at a specific time.

As in previous years, we are ending the program with a lecture in the evening, co-sponsored by the Policy Studies Organization, and organized as part of a Lecture series by the Philosophical Society of Washington. The link to the abstract is at the end of the list of sessions below.

Also as in previous years, Infragard National’s Electro Magnetic Pulse Special Interest Group (EMP SIG) will hold a meeting at the Dupont Summit on Planning Resilience for High Impact-Threats to Critical Infrastructure. Panel discussions will focus on cost-effective ways to mitigate these threats including the use of hardening centralized systems such as the grid and emergency communications, and providing local solutions such as distributed energy systems and communications. Infragard is an FBI sponsored non-profit association of individuals interested in the security of critical infrastructure. Anyone coming to the Dupont Summit is welcome to attend these sessions. If you wish to receive a print copy of the proceedings of this meeting, please register through the link provided above to the EMP SIG portion of the program.