Welcoming

Bruce Bozsum, Chairman of the Mohegan Tribe

Dr. Fred McKinney, President, Connecticut Minority Supplier Development Council, Inc.

Speaker: Nancy Strine, Manager of Financial Assistance Division, USDOT Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization. Short Term Lending Program
USDOT manages the Short-Term Lending Program (STLP) to help DBE’s gain access to financing.  STLP provides certified DBE's and other certified small businesses with short term working capital financing at competitive interest rates for DOT or DOT funded contracts and subcontracts.

Speaker: Ralph Pulver, Regional Underwriting Officer for Contruction Services, Travelers Bond and Financial Products
Ralph serves on the professional development and education
committee of the National Association of Surety Bond Producers where he is also a faculty member for their William J. Angell Surety School. He serves on advisory committee for the Insurance Institute of America’s Associate in Surety and Fidelity Bonding designation program and is recognized by the Institute for contributing to the technical review of their text book material. He also serves as an agent training instructor for the Surety and Fidelity Association of America.

Moderator: Peter G. Curtis, Financial Management "Access to Capital", WGC, LTD

Speaker: Chad McCullough, Turner Construction Company and William Sisson, United Technologies Research Center with Adam Ney, Founder/Managing Director, buildingctgreen.com as Moderator

New building technologies are one of the important ways in which building energy consumption can be reduced, and indeed, technologies are available today to make buildings far more sustainable.  However, there tend to be a variety of barriers that prevent or limit adoption, such as high first cost, unfamiliarity and a reliance on business-as-usual practices, misalignment of costs and benefits among decision makers, and performance and reliability concerns, to name a few.  Lowering these barriers is necessary to increase adoption rates, but incremental change through technology improvement and substitution might be insufficient to solving the energy dilemma.  We also need to look at more radical, potentially far reaching solutions that challenge conventional approaches to the production, delivery, and consumption of energy in buildings. This points to a need to look at integrated systems and combinations of technologies that have the potential to have greater impact.

This panel will come together to attempt to address initiatives and efforts towards these challenging and difficult aspects that require action from people, process, and products

Moderator: Adam Ney, Founder/Managing Director, buildingctgreen.com

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