9:00 - 9:05
CONFERENCE OPENING

Chairperson:
• Michael Schmela, PHOTON International, Germany
• Brian Murphy, Fulcrum Technologies, USA

9:05 - 9:30
KEYNOTE
• Larry Kazmerski, Department of Energy, USA
»Thin Film PV – No longer an outlier«

9:30 - 10:00
COSTS, PRICES & INVESTMENTS –
SURVIVING THE HARD TIMES
• Ryan Boas, PHOTON Consulting, USA
»Cost & price outlook«
• Steve O'Rourke, Deutsche Bank, USA
»Levelized cost of electricity - thin film vs. c-Si«

10:00 - 11:15
PERFORMANCE: TALES FROM LAB AND FIELD
• Forrest Collins, Juwi Solar, USA
»Performance of thin-film power plants«
• Mark McLanahan, Fotowatio Renewable Ventures, USA
»When thin film is the preferred technology choice for PV power plants – view from a project developer«
• Irena Blatnik, TÜV Rheinland, Germany
»Testing TF modules for certification«
• Martina Siebmanns, PHOTON Lab, Germany
»Results from PHOTON's 2009 module tests«

11:15 - 11:35
Coffee-Break

11:35 - 13:00
TECHNOLOGY: CHOOSING THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT
TO SCALE BIG AT LOW COST
• Chris Eberspacher, Applied Materials, USA
»Silicon thin film equipment for largest module sizes«
• Chris O'Brien, Oerlikon, USA
»High-efficiency silicon thin-film module lines«
• Ruurd Boomsma, Energosolar, Hungary
»Low-cost production lines for amorphous silicon modules«
• Michael Liehr, Leybold Optics, Germany
»A new micromorph silicon thin-film turnkey line concept«
• Peter Fath, Centrotherm Photovoltaics, Germany
»Case study: Results from the world's first turnkey CIGS line«

13:00 - 14:00
Lunch

14:00 - 15:30
THIN-FILM COMPANIES HEADING FOR
TERAWATT-HOUR MODULE MANUFACTURING I
• Paul Wormser, Sharp, Japan
»Micromorph«
• Sicco Westra, SunFilm, Germany
»Micromorph«
• Liyou Yang, Chint Solar (Astronergy), China
»A-Si/micromorph«
• Huashan Wang, Hu Shengming, Trony, China
»A-Si«

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee-Break

16:00 - 17:30
THIN-FILM COMPANIES HEADING FOR
TERAWATT-HOUR MODULE MANUFACTURING II
• Cyril Saidah, QS, China
»A-Si«
• David Chu, Hong Kong
»A-Si«
• Michael Bauer, Q-Cells, Germany
»CIGS & CdTe«
• Russ Kanjorski, Abound, USA
»CdTe«

17:30 - 18:15
EXECUTIVE PANEL:
»Thin film's role in the big solar power generation game«
• Sunil Gupta, Morgan Stanley, Singapore
• Michael Rogol, PHOTON Consulting, USA
• Eric Peeters, Dow Corning, USA
• Liyou Yang, Chint Solar (Astronergy), China