Recently confirmed experts include Jeff Broin, CEO of POET, Andy Palmer, Senior Vice President of Nissan, Anil Srivastava, Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Executive Officer of AREVA Renewables, and Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank, April 4-7, 2011.

NEW YORK, March 31 – With this year’s Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit less than one week away, the thought-provoking agenda and list of influential speakers continues to grow, providing an unrivalled opportunity to connect with investors, executives, and policy-makers. The Summit, to be held April 4-7, 2011 in New York City, will bring together around 400 industry leaders from across the world, delivering an interactive and inspiring program.

The theme of the conference is Innovate, Generate, Intergrate, with day one of the Summit focusing on "Driving Innovation". The US Department of Energy will highlight key research it is funding directly and via its national laboratories. The Obama administration's efforts to foster clean energy entrepreneurial activity will also be a focus during a talk from Karina L. Edmonds, who coordinates technology transfer for the DOE.

Day two hones in on the economics of clean energy, taking a closer look at the current costs of generating it cleanly. Also on the agenda: the role that policy-makers will play in fostering economic development and job growth in clean energy. Day three examines how clean energy is shedding the label "alternative" and moving into the mainstream. Topics will include looking at how cities, transport systems, and electricity grids will have to change in order to keep pace, and what sort of regulation will be needed to ensure energy markets can respond to the unprecedented level demands on them.

On the fourth day, Thursday, April 7, Bloomberg New Energy Finance will hold its first ever Roundtable Day on Energy Access & Climate Change in association with UN-Energy. The event, which will take place at the Central Park Boathouse, will now include an additional panel on scaling up investment in developing countries to be co-hosted by the World Economic Forum. The discussion will highlight some of the lessons learned through the Critical Mass Initiative - a collaboration of WEF and PwC, in partnership with the UN Foundation and the International Finance Corporation - regarding project and programmatic approaches to scaling up low-carbon infrastructure investment and the role of "investment-grade" policy as catalyst for private investment.

Roundtable Day will also feature an interactive panel that connects participants to the second Clean Energy Ministerial in the United Arab Emirates. Ministers will give a read-out of the meeting, highlight progress achieved, and contextualize it within the discussions and subsequent findings that day from the Summit.

Drawing on thought leadership from key figures in industry, academia and policy, the list of recently confirmed speakers for the Summit now includes World Bank President Robert Zoellick, Nissan SVP Andy Palmer, POET CEO Jeff Broin and AREVA Renewables Senior Vice President & Chief Executive Officer Anil Srivastava. Speakers already announced for the event include:

• Dan Arvizu, Director of the National Renewable Energy Lab
• James Cameron, Vice Chairman, Climate Change Capital
• Margaret Catley-Carlson, Chair of the Global Water Partnership
• Charles "Chad" O. Holliday, Jr., Chairman, Bank of America
• Bjorn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist" and "Cool It"
• Michael G. Morris, Chairman/CEO, American Electric Power
• Rick Needham, Director Green Business Opportunities, Google
• Dominic Waughrey, Senior Director and Head of Environmental Initiatives, World Economic Forum
• Former Senator Tim Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation

"The Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit has established itself as the leading annual discussion forum for decision makers in the clean energy and carbon sectors," said Michael Liebreich, Summit Chairman and head of Bloomberg New Energy Finance. "This year we've pulled together an exceptional line-up of speakers and an insightful agenda to ignite conversations within the community."

Partnered with Bloomberg New Energy Finance in supporting the Summit is AREVA, Bank of America and Lockheed Martin. Also supporting the event as industry partners is BP, Ernst & Young, Hudson Clean Energy, and Nissan.