Call for Papers

We are pleased to invite you to submit your topic ideas for the first DR-Expo, October 16-17, 2007.

Event focused on DR

Many buildings today are monitored and controlled by some form of building automation system whose purpose is twofold: firstly, to provide a comfortable, secure and productive built environment to owners and occupants, and secondly, to manage energy consumption. Most of the focus to date is on the former. The lack of emphasis on the latter is driven by cheap and abundant energy in most of the North American markets. This is now changing, and building automation is front and center in being able to affect energy cost significantly through DR.

Using technology currently available, a more sophisticated and valuable DR can be implemented, especially when leveraging building automation and control systems. Such DR implementation can be noninvasive and sensitive to environmental concerns of climate change.

The DR-Expo is focused on educating building owners and building automation integrators of the value of DR today.

2007 Topics

• Case studies on successful DR
• How to Implement DR
• Standards for Scalable DR
• Key DR Technologies
• DR Products & Solutions Uncovered
• Best Practice DR

Presentations

Presentations are 10- to 30-minute long depending on subject. Sessions may be panel discussions with short 5-minute presentations made by each panelists followed by moderated Q&A and discussions for a balance view on the topic.

Presentations should be written with a strong technical content bias and commercial and application benefit. Papers and proposals of a marketing and sales nature are not appropriate for this venue and will not be accepted.

LCD projectors will be available, and a standard presentation template will be provided.

Speaker Policy

DR-Expo has a non-commercialization policy for presentations. The objective of presentations is to educate, discuss and debate and not to sell products or services. Session moderators, track leaders and Clasma Events have responsibility to ensure speakers adhere to this policy.

Clasma has a policy to provide complimentary conference registration to valid contributors to the event, the determination of validity is in the hands of the moderator, track leader and Clasma Events Inc.

Review Process

Papers will be reviewed by Clasma Events, its advisors and strategic partners. Applicants will be accepted or rejected with status notification by email.

Publication & Rights

Clasma Events Inc. requires publication rights to accepted papers, including the publication of the audio proceedings as well as publication and reproduction rights to any video filmed during the presentations. These rights are non-exclusive. Copyright ownership is retained by the author.

What to Submit

Please send an email to anto@clasma.com with the following:

• Mark the Subject “DR-Expo”
• Provide name, title, affiliation and contact details of the speaker
• Provide a 100 word bio of the speaker
• Provide a title for the paper (100 characters max)
• Provide a 100-200 word abstract of the paper
• Type of presentation; educational, discussion, perspective, application stories, etc.
• If necessary, provide administrator’s contact details