PHOTON's 7th PV Investors Conference

NAVIGATING THROUGH THE TURMOIL OF LOW PROFITS AND A SCATTERED DEMAND ENVIRONMENT  

Conference outline:

Solar companies have suffered severely over the last few months – with strongly decreasing profits, huge competition, and a rollercoaster ride in demand that first led to gigantic inventories and full warehouses but also to supply bottlenecks at the end of the year when demand suddenly went through the roof. With many traditional PV markets cutting financial incentives to levels that will make investments hardly profitable soon, many analysts anticipate a solid first half of the year – but what comes afterwards?

As every year, PHOTON’s PV Investors Conference will have major PV companies, investors and market analysts discuss supply, demand, costs and profits for the global solar sector.

Topics covered:

• Leading stock-listed PV producers  business views.
• Project finance and equity markets.  
• Demand in top markets and emerging markets – views of international integrators and project developers.  
• Analysts’ demand, supply and price forecasts.
• Executive panel discussion.

Target group:

PHOTON's annual PV Investors Conference addresses executives, and sales and marketing experts from solar companies, as well as analysts and investors, and other industries looking into entering the solar business.

Andel's Hotel Berlin
Landsberger Allee 106
10369 Berlin
Germany

March 27, 2012

Registration: 8 am, start: 9 am,
End: approx. 6 pm

Ticket: € 480
(€ 430 for PHOTON International and PHOTON Profi subscribers)

Discounts:

10% with ticket purchase before December 31, 2011

5% with ticket purchase before March 5, 2012

€ 100 when buying tickets for two or more PHOTON Europe conferences

PROGRAM

TIME	INVITED SPEAKER, ORGANIZATION TOPIC
9:00 - 9:10	CONFERENCE OPENING   Chairpersons:   Michael Schmela, PHOTON International, Germany   Götz Fischbeck, GF Consulting, Germany
9:10 - 9:30	Opening Talk   Martin Meyers, PHOTON Consulting, USA "Challenges for the global PV industry"
9:30 - 10:45	TOP GLOBAL PV PRODUCERS – EXECUTIVES' VIEWS ON SUPPLY, DEMAND AND PRICES   Rory Macpherson, Suntech, China   Alden Lee, JA Solar, China   Averaldo Farri, Power-One, Italy
10:45 - 11:15	Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:30	TOP GLOBAL PV MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT PRODUCERS – EXECUTIVES' VIEWS ON SECTOR GROWTH AND COST REDUCTION   Peter Fath, Centrotherm, Germany   Dieter Manz, Manz, Germany   Zhixin Li, JYT, China
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 16:00	BIG MARKETS IN H2/2012 AND BEYOND    Gaëtan Masson, European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA), Belgium "PV in Europe"   Jörg Mayer, Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft (BSW), Germany "Germany"   Averaldo Farri, Gruppo Imprese Fotovoltaiche Italiane (GIFI), Italy "Italy: Transitioning to grid parity – situation and uncertainties"   Bob Gibson, Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA), USA "USA"   Izumi Kaizuka, RTS, Japan "Japan"   Anjan Turlapati, Microsol, India "India"   Dinghuan Shi, Chinese Renewable Energy Society (CRES), China "China"
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00	INVESTORS & INVESTMENTS   Session co-chairperson: Ben Lynch, Cleantech Capital Advisors, UK     Helmut Vorndran, Ventizz, Germany "Why investments in solar are still attractive"   Tim Kallas, Capital Stage, Germany "Investing in large solar parks – the IPP perspective"   Christian Scharrer, Munich RE, Germany "Insuring PV businesses"   Rainer Tölle, BTV Energy Consulting, Liechtenstein "Consolidation and M&A – threat or chance?"
18:00 - 18:30	SELL-SIDE ANALYSTS' PANEL    Jesse Pichel, Jefferies, USA   Ben Lynch, Cleantech Capital Advisors, UK   Götz Fischbeck, GF Consulting, Germany
	Conference program - download here