The sixth SNEC PV Power Expo, held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre in China, will open on May 16. The three-day event has once again broken records, with 2,200 exhibitors from five continents displaying their latest products in the 200,000 square-meter exhibition space, according to conference organizers.
Keynote speakers at the conference include Prof. Martin Green, executive research director of the ARC Photovoltaics Center of Excellence at the University of New South Wales in Australia. Green has been called ‘the father of modern photovoltaics.’
Other speakers include Reinhold Buttgereit, secretary-general of the European Photovoltaic Industry Association; Rhone A. Resch, chairman and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association; Dr. Charles Gay, president of Applied Solar and Applied Materials Inc.; and Prof. Makoto Konagai, chairman of the Japan Solar Energy Society and professor of the Tokyo Institute of Technology.