| VLAB Emerging Business Forum: Integrating the Clean Tech Value Chain
Linking Research, Businesses, Venture Capitalists, Service Providers and Government Stimulus
Location
Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, 3175 Hanover Street, Palo Alto
Event Description:
Today’s Clean Tech environment is top of mind in the world and especially the USA. Every address given by federal and local officials have “clean energy” as a pillar. Our traditional energy providers have been large utilities and corporate entities that have primarily based their economic models on oil and fossil fuel. Now the factors of oil price and scarcity, global climate impact, and energy independence set the stage for diversification. An entrepreneurial approach to solving this problem creates and enables diversification. The challenge is not a lack of ideas or exuberance but constructing and connecting a value chain that will accelerate the formulation, funding, adoption, and wide spread implementation of technologies and methods to build the “clean energy” pillar we need.
Join us is in an interactive ½ day session of discussion and ideas from representatives of clean tech emerging businesses, VC’s, labs, universities, and service providers about building the value chain from all sources to enter the clean energy market. Pre-register online for $40 and on-site registration for $50. Deadline for registration is April 16 at noon.
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Agenda
8:30 Registration, Continental Breakfast and Networking
9:00 Welcome and Thank You
9:10 Keynote Speaker: Winston Hickox, Chair of the California Market Advisory Committee
9:30 Panel One: Market and Offering, Current Position and Background, Challenges
- Moderator – Dan Lankford – WavePoint Ventures
- Chuck Horrell – VP of Engineering – Advanced Transit Dynamics
- Dennis Murphy, VP Business Development – GroundSource Geo – CTO Winner 2008
- Mohit Singh, Founder – Seeo Inc.
- PR Yu, CEO – Solar for Life 3
- Fraser Murison Smith, CEO – ElectraDrive – CTO Winner 2008
10:30 Morning Break
10:45 Panel Two: Clean Tech Value Collaborations: Investments & Trends, Collaborations & Advice for Start Ups
- Moderator – Douglas Park, DYP Advisors, Inc.
- Elias Blawie, Partner – Cooley Godward
- Lee Cooper – PG&E Emerging Technologies
- Stefan Heuser, CEO – Siemens Technology to Business (TTB)
- TBD – Stanford University Professor
- TBD – Lawrence Berkeley Labs
11:45 Thank Yous, Close and Additional Networking Until 12:30
- EBF Clean Energy Forum Directions
- Facilitating Clean Tech Value Chain Integration
Bios
Winston Hickox, Keynote Speaker
Winston Hickox is Chair of the California Market Advisory Committee, which supports the implementation of the state’s first-in-the-nation comprehensive greenhouse gas reduction program. Hickox is former secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency, instrumental in the enactment of legislation requiring new greenhouse gas emission standards for cars. He also established the Environmental Protection Indicators for California and led the implementation of Environmental Justice legislation in the state.
Since July 2004, he has been employed by the California Public Employees’ Retirement System as a senior portfolio manager and has assisted with the design and implementation of a series of environmental investment initiatives, including investments in clean technology and other investment initiatives focused on the impacts of climate change. Hickox currently serves on the Sacramento County Employees’ Retirement System Board, as well as on the boards of the California League of Conservation Voters, Audubon California and the Sustainable Conservation Board. He received a bachelor’s degree in business administration at Cal State University, Sacramento, and an MBA from Golden Gate University.
For more information:
To find out more about VLAB’s Emerging Business Track, and the three teams associated with that track – clean, green/life science and high tech – visit here.
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We hope that you will join us as we investigate and explore clean energy opportunities ahead. Pre-register online today before the event is sold out.
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