GoingGreen West 2009:
Greener Pastures
for Global Business
September 14th – 16th, 2009
Cavallo Point, San Francisco, California
Co-Presented by
AlwaysOn, Morgan Stanley,
Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Scientific American
TiE Silicon Valley is proud to be an Affiliate Partner of GoingGreen West 2009. Last year's GoingGreen was the talk of the Greentech Industry, and this year's gathering promises to be even bigger. We strongly encourage you to attend this important event!
As an Affiliate Partner, TiE Silicon Valley is pleased to be able to offer you a 50% discount to GoingGreen West! Click Here to buy your ticket with this special discount!
The third annual GoingGreen West, presented by AlwaysOn, in conjunction with Morgan Stanley, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Scientific American will feature over 700 of the nation’s leading VCs, angels, private equity investors, Greentech executives,
dealmakers, academics, policy makers, thought leaders, strategic partners and traditional and digital press. Over 20,000 webcast viewers from over 100 countries will also tune in and interact with the program.
In today’s challenging economic times, companies cannot afford not to understand the technological, market and political trends affecting the worldwide Greentech industry. Companies that want to win in tomorrow’s super-competitive environment need to see and understand the coming changes and to execute quickly on critical business development opportunities.
AlwaysOn will also honor the GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies and up to 50 technology CEOs will pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in CEO showcase sessions.
CEO Boot Camp opportunities will also bringing together a select group of private company CEOs with the most influential service professionals to provide intensive, hands-on, and interactive sessions to identify and develop better relationships with investors, strategic partners, and the business media.
Don’t miss a critical business development environment where cutting-edge Greentech executives meet the dealmakers, the press and the investors to transform ecosystems and capitalize on incredible opportunities.
See the Agenda Here
Keynotes to include:
Vinod Khosla
Managing General Partner, Khosla Ventures
Ira Ehrenpreis
General Partner, Technology Partners
R. James Woolsey
Venture Partner, Vantage Point
Panels to include:
Renewables at Scale
Which renewables sources of energy can deliver significant portions of energy?
Water & Wastewater
Delivering abundant water to eight billion people - strategic opportunities and game changing technologies.
Terawatts of Solar
Solar power technologies – scaling, financing and integration and a look at market leaders.
The Water Grid & Water Markets
Can water become as fungible as energy, bought and sold on a grid and traded on a market – Technology drivers versus financing and market drivers.
Designing the Urban Age
How to upgrade and establish next generation green infrastructure for eight billion people; transportation, energy, water, agriculture, waste management? Technology change and financing opportunities.
Clean Conventional Energy
Can Oil, Gas, Coal, Nuclear, Hydroelectric be clean and sustainable?
Innovative Lighting - A Brilliant Idea
Modern lighting has one of the lowest capital costs versus efficiency impact Market leaders and technological tradeoffs in CFC, HID, LED and other emerging technologies.
Carbon Based Greentech Financing
Will renewable energy projects find investment funds via carbon taxes or carbon emission auctions, or directly as carbon offset projects? Will carbon become a new currency, reflating the global economy?
Smart Sustainable Automobiles
Car designs of the future: extended range electric vehicles with onboard ICE generators, all electric quick-charge vehicles, EVs with battery-swap capabilities, clean biodiesels and more.
Green Agriculture & Aquaculture
How does Greentech intersect with agriculture and aquaculture - Genomics, herbicides and pesticides; Models and technologies in high-yield sustainable farming.
The Omniscient Energy Grid - Meters, Storage, and Markets
Transformations to the energy grid – unprecedented opportunities inside and outside the meter for information access, energy storage and energy management
Marketing Green, When is Green Green?
Who is marketing green, why and how are they green, and what is green?
Materials Science & Green Manufacturing
The impact of advanced materials on resource sustainability, and retooling manufacturing and construction to become cleaner and more efficient.
Biochemicals, Bioplastics, Biofuel
Cellulosic ethanol, algae biodiesel and high-yield fuel crops - facilitating a move into biochemicals and bioplastics, and what are the technologies and companies leading this advance?
Navigating the Green Beltway
How will funds from Washington get allocated for Greentech, how do entrepreneurs find this money, what sectors and on what terms? How will venture firms participate?
Green IT & Sustainability
The optimal balance between increasing energy and water production vs. efficiency- how advanced information technology aids in balancing and the key technologies and companies.
Financing the Green Revolution
Financing models revolutionizing energy, urban infrastructure, transportation, agriculture and water – impact of and access to investment from the government, private investors and major utilities.
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For questions, please contact Michelle Hughes
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Over 70 Speakers including:
Vinod Khosla
Managing General Partner, Khosla Venture
Marianne Wu
Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Ray Lane
Managing Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Peter Williams
CTO, Big Green Innovations, IBM
Mark Fischetti
Board of Editors, Scientific American
Bonnie Nixon
Director Environmental Sustainability, Hewlett Packard
Ginny Orndorff
CEO, Evolutionary Genomics
Paul Wilbur
CEO, Aptera Inc.
Click here for the complete list of speakers and panelists you'll see at AlwaysOn's GoingGreen West '09
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