Global Photovoltaic Conference 2018 will be held at Kimdaejung Convention Center, Gwangju, Korea during March 14-16, 2018. The main goal of the conference is to provide a well-organized international forum to review and stimulate the progress in photovoltaics. The conference will cover the entire range of photovoltaics from materials to systems as well as the non-technological realms such as market development and policies.
Keynote Speaker
John Byrne President, Foundation for Renewable Energy and Environment
Major Career and Education
2012-present
Chairman of the Board and President, Foundation for the Renewable Energy and Environment
1984-present
Director, Center of Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware
2009-present
Distinguished Professor of Energy and Climate Policy, University of Delaware
2011-present
Distinguished Professor, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST)
1992-present
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change*
* IPCC was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
Plenary Speaker
Yoshio Ohshita / Toyota Technological Institute
Armin Aberle / SERIS/ National University of Singapore
David B. Mitzi / Duke University
Kyu Soon Shin / Dongjin Semichen Co., Ltd.
Hiroshi Segawa / The University of Tokyo
Jeehwan Kim / MIT
Masafumi Yamaguchi / Toyota Technological Institute
Christof Erban / Director R&D Sunovation Produktion GmbH
Invited Speaker
Silicon solar cells and materials (CSi)
Noritaka Usami / Nagoya University
HyunShik Cho / LG Electronics
Hae-Seok Lee / Korea University
Se-Young Seo / Hanwha Q Cell
II-VI & chalcogenide compound based cells and materials (CiS)
Yu-Lun Chueh / National Tsing Hua University
Jiang Tang / Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Charlotte Platzer Björkman / Uppsala Univeristy
Takahiro Wada / Ryukoku University
Negar Naghavi / CNRS
Yun Seog Lee / Seoul National University
Xiaojing Hao / The University of New South Wales
Jae Ho Yun / Korea Institute of Energy Research
Organic, Dye-sensitized Perovskite (ODP)
Aung Ko Ko Kyaw / Southern University of Science and Technology
Kyungkon Kim / Ewha Womans University
Sang Hyuk Im / Korea University
Bumjoon Kim / KAIST
Yibing Cheng / Monash University
Seong Sik Shin / Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology
Hyunjung Shin / Sungkyunkwan University
Satoshi Uchida / The University of Tokyo
Gerko Oskam / Cinvestav-IPN
Chi Hwan Han / Korea Institute of Energy Research
Ashraful Islam / NIMS
Hybrid photovoltaic (HPV)
Won Jun Jo / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Moonsub Shim / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rupesh S. Devan / Discipline of Metallurgy Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS) Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI)
Jong Su Kim / Yeungnam University
III-V compound based concentrator and space PV systems (GaP)