Keynote Speaker
Peter Scott is the Executive Director of BURN Design Lab and the CEO of BURN Manufacturing Co. Peter created BURN Design Lab and BURN Manufacturing Co to design and manufacture high quality clean burning cookstoves. BURN is currently developing a factory in East Africa that will produce 3 million stoves in the next 10 years. Peter Scott’s work has been featured in CNN, Entrepreneur, the New Yorker and he was recently chosen as one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s 100 Top Global thinkers of 2010. In 2006 his work was honored with an Ashden Award for supporting local producers in Southern Africa to create highly profitable institutional stove businesses. In Malawi these producers have sold over 2 million dollars in institutional stoves in the last 6 years. He has worked with a number of partners such as Aprovecho Research Center, German Technical Cooperation, Nature Conservancy, USAID, World Vision, The Paradigm Project, ETHOS, EWB, and Mercy Corps.
Plenary Panelists
Dean Still, Executive Director Aprovecho Research Center
Peter Scott, Executive Director BURN Design Lab
Barry Wheeler, Executive Director CREATE!
Break-out Panelists
Elly Grogan, Stove Team International
Nancy Hughes, Executive Director Stove Team International
Sam Bentson, Aprovecho Research Lab Director
Evin Shenkin, PhD Candidate Carbon Offset Issues
Derrick Hindery, Assistant Professor in International Studies and Geography at the University of Oregon
James Walugembe, PhD Candidate
Ron Severson, Co-Director of Maple Microdevelopment and Senior Instructor of Business
Stella Strother-Blood, Institutional Stove Solutions
Matt O’Hearn, International Business Professor
Gustavo Pena, Cookstove Factory Owner from El Salvador
Nick Moses, InStove R&D Engineer
