IDEFS 2010: Transform energy vulnerability into military advantage

With Armed Forces all over the world fast-tracking energy and fuel security and sustainability up the military agenda, make sure that you attend IDEFS 2010 to meet senior officers and high ranking defence agency representatives to examine solutions for military energy and fuel challenges.

Attend IDEFS 2010 and you'll join a tri-service, senior level gathering of leaders in both military and industry. Through in-depth briefings, discussions (and through valuable informal networking time) you'll examine creative solutions and technologies that have the potential to drive true energy security & sustainability at home and on the front line.

If you're a senior military strategist responsible for responding to governmental climate change imperatives, managing military cost restrictions or delivering secure energy and fuel resources to front line operations - then IDEFS 2010 is the must-attend event of the year.

For SVPs and senior energy and fuels decision-makers in industry, attending IDEFS 2010 gives access to the latest project specs and to a high profile speaker faculty representing major international military agencies and services. Make sure you know how the military are assessing investments in energy and fuels in the next few years. Don't miss the opportunity to hear first-hand about new demands and requirements for platforms and installations.

Must-Attend Sessions Include:

• Learn how Col Bob Charette is delivering improvements to expeditinoary energy useage within the USMC 
• Find out how to reduce fuel supply-line vulnerability - join the session headed by Dr Imre Gyuk of the DoE and Dr Vic Ramdass, Director of the Logistics Innovation Agency 
• Examine how Capt James Brown, director of the USN Coordination Office and Col Paul Roege of ARCIC Energy Office, are reduction energy consumption right across their operations
• Tackle the issue of energy reduction in permanent infrastructure with Joe Sikes, Director for Housing and Competitive Sourcing, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (I&E)
• Get the latest tested-strategies for collaborating with other military agencies and partners to reduce fuel vulnerability: Join RADM Mark Heinrich, Commander, Fleet & Industrial Supply Centres, USN as he facilitates a discussion between DESC and the three service petroleum agencies
• Make sure you take a look at the full program for more details...

Make sure you examine the main conference program to udnerstand more about the level of briefings and the type of information that you'll gain access to. Also - don't forget to take a look at the speaker list - combine this with the agenda and your business case for attending is complete.

***IDEFS 2010 venue now confirmed as Marriott Tyson's Corner - book now to sign up for the shuttle bus from the Pentagon***

Unmissable briefings from 55+ Senior Military & Civilian Speakers:

The speaker faculty has been carefully selected to represent both front line and domestic energy and fuel strategy.

The conference is international in focus, and this is represented in the international speaker faculty, representing all military services and key defense agencies.

Don't miss key panels such as a discussion around DoD energy strategy with:

The Honorable Katherine Hammack, Assistant Secretary of the Army, Installations and Environment
The Honorable Jackalyne Pfannenstiel, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Energy, Installations and Environment
Debra Tune, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Installations, Environment and Logistics

For the full speaker line up, take a look here.

Who's attending IDEFS 2010?

You'll join the who's who of military energy and fuel security at IDEFS 2010.

Quite simply, there is nowhere else that you can gain access to the international, tri-service and agency expertise that you'll engage with at the conference.

If you play a key role in energy security, whether directly, or through purchasing, contracting, engineering, logistics or R&D, you need to make sure you’re at IDEFS 2010.

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Benefits of attending

IDEFS 2010 examines mission-critical military energy challenges, from the assessment of true fuel costs, building truly sustainable front-line energy sources, domestic smart grids to soldier fuel cell technology. 

And don't forget, the context for this information is tri-service - learning from a range of international experiences.
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