SAIC Hosts Energy Summit

Reuters
Oct 28, 2009

SAIC Hosts Energy Summit Addressing Green Jobs and a Vision for Climate Change Solutions

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 4,000 of the nation's top energy decision-makers will meet in Washington, D.C. at the 32nd World Energy Engineering Congress (WEEC), Nov. 4-6, 2009 to address green jobs, climate change and the impact of new energy policies.

The event, hosted for the second consecutive year exclusively by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI), will feature Robert F. Kennedy Jr., environmental activist and attorney, who will speak on "A Vision for Energy Independence, Jobs and National Wealth." The WEEC is presented by the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), a nonprofit professional organization of 11,000 members, in cooperation with the Alliance to Save Energy.

More than 240 presentations and 350 booths make the WEEC the largest energy management and renewable energy forum in the nation for the commercial, institutional, government and industrial marketplace.

Featured speakers include Joseph W. Craver III, SAIC group president, and C. Kyle Simpson, policy director, Brownstein, Farber and Shreck, LLP. Ira Magaziner, chairman of the Clinton Climate Initiative, will be the featured keynote luncheon speaker on Friday, Nov. 6. The topic of his presentation will be "Combating Climate Change."

The Conference includes sessions developed by industry leading organizations including:

-- Smart Grid developed by the Electric Power Research Institute -- Green Jobs developed by SAIC -- Challenges Facing Renewable Energy developed by the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)

-- How to Leverage Energy Policy and Regulatory Change developed by the Alliance to Save Energy